Unit 411: Managing Business Facilitie

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Institute of Business Administration Unit 411: Managing Business Facilities By Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman Candidate number: 0753 IAM Membership number: 10085890 Submitted to: Sayeed Shaha Date: 08/03/2012 Introduction In simple terms, facilities manager takes care of the facilities that support the smooth running of a business or day to day activities of an organisation. Facilities manager deal with the non-core interests of an organisation and helps the coordination between business and its surroundings. The role of a facilities manager includes property management, maintaining health and safety procedure, managing utilities, services etc. Thus Cotts, Roper and Pavant (2010) stated that facility management is an inter-disciplinary undertaking involving the non-core activities in business process. Facility management does not only include a designated facilities manager, but its stakeholders are many. Dabson (2008) identified FM stakeholders as follows: • Corporate customers • Employees • Shareholders and creditors • Community and society • Government So facilities manager is the person central to all facilities management activities and thus can also be called as the coordinator of the stakeholders of facility management. My Role as a facilities manager Barrett and Baldry (2003) stated facilities management as, 'an integrated approach to operating, maintaining, improving and adapting the buildings and infrastructure of an organisation in order to create an environment that strongly supports the primary objectives of that organisation’. According to British standard BS 8536 (2010) facility management is performed during the operational phase of a facility or building’s life cycle, which normally extends over many decades. It represents a continuous process of service provision to support the owner’s core business
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