Abstract
Space management has been widely examined in commercial facilities, educational facilities, and hospitals but not in China's institutional care facilities. Poor spatial arrangements, such as wasted space, dysfunctionality, and environment mismanagement, are increasing; in turn, the occupancy rate is decreasing due to residential dissatisfaction. To address these problems, this paper's objective is to explore the space management goals (SMGs) in institutional care facilities in China. Systematic literature analysis was adopted to set SMGs' principles, to identify nine theoretical SMGs, and to develop the conceptual model of SMGs for institutional care facilities. A total of 19 intensive interviews were conducted with stakeholders in seven institutional care facilities to collect data for qualitative analysis. The qualitative evidence was analyzed through open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. As a result, six major categories as well as their interrelationships were put forward to visualize the path diagram for exploring SMGs in China's institutional care facilities. Furthermore, seven expected SMGs that were explored from qualitative evidence were confirmed as China's SMGs in institutional care facilities by a validation test. Finally, a gap analysis among theoretical SMGs and China's SMGs provided recommendations for implementing space management in China's institutional care facilities.
Highlights
Space management is considered an important segment of facility management [1]
Stakeholders’ opinions were incorporated into the validation matrix (Table 6); principles being satisfied in each space management goal were marked “√”; this illustrated that each expected space management goals (SMGs) satisfied both principle 1 and principle 2
All expected SMGs were confirmed as SMGs for institutional care facilities in China
Summary
Space management is considered an important segment of facility management [1]. Space management practices focused on optimizing the use of the existing space and reducing the maintenance operations cost [2]. Best et al explain that effective space management is a major source of value optimization because space is a very expensive and scarce resource in organizations [3]. Space management has been practiced in several industries including educational facilities, healthcare facilities, and commercial facilities [4, 5]. The study of space management in institutional care facilities is limited [6]. What is the scale of this facility (including beds and square meter)?. Can you tell us whether there a rent fee or a property depreciation fee?.
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