Strategic local government corporate property management: a human dimension

Recent management initiatives in both local government and corporate property management contain an inherent human factor. Initiatives range from those contained in 'New Public Management' with its general adoption of private sector approaches; specific local government initiatives such as Best Value and the servicebalanced approach to facilities performance; and private sector property management practices such as Joroff's 5 levels of evolution in Corporate Real Estate management (CREM), and Corporate Infrastructure Resources. Within each of these initiatives are several dimensions---physical, financial, strategic, process, political and human. This paper teases out the human dimension contained in each initiative as an argument for a new epistemology. Several possible methods of enquiry are proposed to provide this new basis of knowledge for strategic local government property management, and as a future field of research.