facilities management (outsourcing for a university)

Facilities Management

Introduction to the

The will describe the concept of outsourcing and how it is used by a number of companies in to reduce their costs and various other benefits that they receive from outsourcing . The will use various sources in to support the viewpoints that will be discussed in the . All the sources will be appended in the APA format at the end of the

What is Outsourcing

Outsourcing entered the business world in the 1980s and often refers to the delegation of non-core operations from internal production

to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation . The decision to outsource is often made in the interest of lowering firm costs , redirecting or conserving energy directed at the competencies of a particular business , or to make more efficient use of worldwide labor capital , technology and resources (Wikipedia , 2007

Outsourcing has been taken up by a number of companies because it allows the companies to concentrate on the core work that that they do rather than the support activities that they also need to keep in mind when working . The outsourcing allows the companies to work upon the core competencies that they hold

Outsourcing is a way of allowing those people who are competent to do such work while the others do the work that they are competent for . For example , look at the value chain of a company as has been displayed below

Looking at the picture , it can be seen that the firm infrastructure and the human resource management are two of the support activities of the company . In to keep these activities to a minimum and concentrate on the production of the company , outsourcing would be used . This would allow the company to concentrate more on the core activities rather than the support ones

Any manufacturing company would prefer outsourcing its call center or its human resource management work because there are a number of complications that they need to deal with already in production and if they take up a lot of time in the support activities then there would be an imbalance between activities and the company would not be able to deliver to the customers on time

Outsourcing for a University

There are a number of people who believe that outsourcing can also work on universities where the universities can think of ways where the operations can be shifted from the university staff to the outsourced company . This would allow the university to carry on with its core competencies and allow the other outsourced company to worry about the support activities

The University will consider outsourcing of operating units or functions currently performed by University staff where such outsourcing could improve efficiency and effectiveness and allow the University to dedicate itself to its core mission of teaching , research , community service and the administrative support of that mission (University of Alberta , 2002

This university would like to work on the research and the teaching...