People and organisations: the hidden energy resource

Abstract

This article is about the social management of environmental energy, as opposed to its technical management which is what the term ‘energy management’ is generally taken to mean. In other words, how do you get people, particularly those who occupy buildings, to use energy sensibly and efficiently? The title of the article has an intentional ambiguity. Organisational experts use the term ‘energy’ to refer to human rather than environmental energy. So another way of phrasing the question is: How can we use human energy to save environmental energy?

Citation

Ellis, P. (1987), "People and organisations: the hidden energy resource", Facilities, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006392