Required skills and abilities of facility manager on strategic level of managing in Slovak companies

Economic Annals-ХХI: Volume 149, Issue 3-4(1), Pages: 55-59

Citation information:
Potkany, M., & Stachova, K. (2015). Required skills and abilities of facility manager on strategic level of managing in Slovak companies. Economic Annals-XXI, 3-4(1), 55-59. https://ea21journal.world/index.php/ea-v149-13/

Marek Potkany
PhD (Economics),
Associate Professor,
Technical University in Zvolen
24 T. G. Masaryk Str., Zvolen, 960 53, Slovak Republic
potkany@tuzvo.sk

Katarina Stachova
PhD (Economics),
Lecturer,
School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava
16 Furdekov Str., Bratislava 5, 851 04, Slovak Republic
katarina.stachova@vsemvs.sk

Required skills and abilities of facility manager on strategic level of managing in Slovak companies

Abstract: Facility management is in the conditions of Slovak companies, despite significant progress, still in the phase of finding its importance and comprehensive utilization. In the practice has still not achieved the position, what it holds from the terms of the benefits, which can offer within the coordination of the management system of supporting business processes. The basic precondition for the successful use is the definition of job position for facility manager. The purpose of this paper is to present the importance of facility management in the context of job position for facility manager at the strategic level of management with a proposal of workplace description and specification of the requirements for this work place. Because many Slovaks businesses still have not processed materials for job position of the facility manager, the present suggestions, due to the growth of interest in the use of facility management, may be helpful for successful progress in this field of management.

Keywords: Facility Management; Facility Manager; Requirements

JEL Classification: M10; M19

Acknowledgement. This paper represents a partial result of the grant task of the project VEGA No. 1/0268/13, «Perspective use of facility management for the increased competition of forestry and woodworking enterprises in the context of outsourcing principles» and project VEGA No. 1/0890/14 Stochastic Modeling of Decision-making Processes in Motivating Human Potential.

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Received 10.02.2015