Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Facility management is an effective form of organizational changes that support the orientation of \nthe organization on core business activities. At present, at the time of financial crisis, the \napplication of FM is used the most since it provides savings in operating costs of organization. The \nmost common form of FM application is outsourcing. Outsourcing is understood as a modern trend \nof management and also the changes which serve to transfer support activities of a company on \nan external provider. Practical utilization and application of outsourcing is frequent and very popular \nin many industries of all developed countries since it brings a lot of positive effects. Wood \nprocessing industry in Slovakia is influenced by the economic crisis causing stagnation in the \nconstruction industry and decrease in the customer demand for construction, woodwork and \nfurniture products. Many companies are looking for different forms of cost savings and recently \nmore companies have increasingly used the possibilities of outsourcing. The authors present the \nresults of the questionnaire research aimed at the use of outsourcing within the chosen sample of \nwoodworking industry companies in Slovakia. It focuses on the area of outsourcing FM with the use \nof correlation analysis lining the dependencies of the chosen questions. Within the article there is \nalso the presentation of the proposal for partial methodology of evaluation for economical \neffectiveness of the potential outsourcing use which within the ABC calculation methodology \nsuggests implementing conceptual schemes such as criterion outsourcing costs, transaction costs \nand costs savings. The authors also present the suggestions for general methodology of \noutsourcing FM implementation project which includes analysis of outsourcing opportunities and \nthreats in this area of business, definition for service supplier requirements, selection of providers, \ncontracting the conditions for the contract relationship and the management of the transonic \nphases of the outsourcing relationship.
Authors: Milota Vetráková, Marek Potkány, Miloš Hitka
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2183051939