OUTSOURCING OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT

Facility management is an effective form of organizational changes that support the core business orientation into main activities of the organization. At present, at the time of financial crisis is the application of facility management most timely even though it provides savings in operating costs of organization and their optimization. The most common form of application facility management is outsourcing. Outsourcing is understood as a modern trend of management and also the changes which serves to transfer support activities of a company on an external provider. Practical utilization and application of outsourcing is frequent and very popular in many industries of all developed countries since it brings a lot of positive effects. The outsourcing of facility management includes not only technical management and administration of buildings but also maintenance, special inspection, services, educational and catering activities, emergency and energy services. The main aim of this paper is to present a basic project for the proposal of facility management outsourcing, whose main task is to reduce the operating costs of a company. The paper also presents partial results of the research concerning on outsourcing utilization in companies of wood processing industry in Slovakia with the focus on the area of outsourcing of facility management. . Keywords Facility management, outsourcing, wood processing industry, changes JEL Classification L69, M21, M29