Caught in the middle: The role of the Facilities Manager in organisational energy use
Caught in the middle: The role of the Facilities Manager in organisational energy use
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夹在中间：设施经理在组织能源使用中的角色
DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2015.06.014
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
9
通讯作者：
A. Spence
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文献类型：
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作者：
M. Goulden;A. Spence
这项研究分析了设施经理[FM]在组织能源管理中的关键角色。这是基于这样一种观点，即网络中的“中间”代理人可以成为社会技术变革的重要杠杆。这项研究展示了FM对工作场所能源消耗的巨大影响，同时确定了一些限制其机构和行动能力的因素。这些问题包括满足员工对舒适度的期望的需求；缺乏高级管理层的支持；以及资源短缺。在这些挑战的背后，这项研究确定了三种不同的能源理由--也就是概念框架--它们由不同的组织行为者群体部署。协调这些有时相互矛盾的理由的挑战导致了一幅在局外人看来可能非常不理性的能源管理图景。论文最后考虑了政策制定者如何应用这些见解来支持工作场所的能源削减。
This study analyses the role of the Facilities Manager [FM] as a key actor in organisational energy management. This builds on the idea that ‘middle’ agents in networks can be an important lever for socio-technical change. The study demonstrates the considerable impact the FM can have on workplace energy consumption, whilst identifying a number of factors that constrain their agency and capacity to act. These include demands to meet workforce expectations of comfort; a lack of support from senior management; and a shortage of resources. Underlying these challenges, the study identifies three different energy rationales – that is to say conceptual frameworks – which are deployed by different groups of organisational actors. The challenges of reconciling these at-times-contradictory rationales results in a picture of energy management which to the outsider can appear highly irrational. The paper concludes with a consideration of how policy makers can apply these insights to support energy reduction in workplaces.