Entry requirements

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

The course belongs to the main field of Real Estate Science at the level of 1-60 credits and is mandatory for the bachelor's degree in Real Estate Science - Specialization in Real Estate Management.

The course belongs to the main field of Business Administration at the level of 1-60 credits

The course is mandatory for the bachelor's degree in Real Estate Science - Specialization in Real Estate Management,

Course contents

Facility management is to operate, maintain, improve, and adapt the buildings and infrastructure of an organisation by integrating people, place, process, services and technology to support the primary objectives of the organisation. Facility management is important to the success of organisations facing rapid changes driven by digital technology and sustainability.

The aim of the course is to provide students with concepts, frameworks, theories, and practical methods to understand facility management from an organisational perspective. The course also helps student to gain knowledge and capability to address business and societal challenges of sustainability in facility management.

The course is structured in three modules.

Module 1: Fundamentals of facility management as a supportive function in organisations. This module introduces what facility management is about including the roles, functions, and strategies of facility management.

Module 2: Essentials of organisational process and stakeholder interactions for facility management. This module introduces organisational theories including organisation management, stakeholder management, change and innovation management. It helps to understand the organisation of facility management.

Module 3: A case-based seminar for applying the theoretical knowledge to conduct management analysis and develop operational solutions of facility management in an organisation for sustainability.

The course also introduces and discusses academic research and trends in facility management and organisation.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
1. account for the concepts, frameworks, theories, and perspectives about facility management, organisational process and stakeholder relations for facility management from both practice and research perspective

Skills and abilities
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
2. analyse facility management practices and identify related organisational challenges by applying theoretical knowledge in facility management and organisation
3. develop organisational solutions for sustainable facility management by scientific methods

Ability to evaluate and approach
After completing the course, the student shall be able to:
4. examine and critically evaluate organisational solutions and related challenges in facility management by applying theoretical knowledge and scientific methods

Learning activities

The course is carried out in the form of blended learning, which means that the student independently takes part in course material and activities both before, during and after scheduled activities and works with tasks both independently and in collaboration with others.

Assessment

Individual examination, 5 credits (A-E, F) (Learning outcomes: 1, 2)

Group based seminar including written and oral presentation/reporting 2,5 credits (Pass/Not pass) (Learning outcomes: 2, 3, 4)

To pass the course in its entirety, a passing grade is required for each examination. The final grade (A-E) for the course is determined by the grade on Individual examination.

Course literature

• Atkin, B. L. & Brooks, A. (latest edition). Total Facility Management. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Robbins, S. & Judge, T. A. (latest addition). Essentials of Organizational Behavior. Pearson

Additional literature will be provided electronically.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.