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Crunching through the gears of employee engagement

Lesley Giles, Director of the Work Foundation, unpacks an effective and comprehensive employee engagement strategy

Human ResourcesResearchEmployee EngagementHealthcare
Lancaster University Management School

Highly illogical, Captain

Star Trek’s Mr Spock would often give his Enterprise shipmates a look of both sympathy and superiority whenever he believed they were allowing their emotions to rule over…

Organisational behaviourEconomic growthManagement
Lancaster University Management School

How to build a brand for your business that stands out?

Tzvete Doncheta offers some key advice on building a business identity that goes beyond brand recognition

strategyMarketingEntrepreneurshipDifferentiation
University of Leicester School of Business

From the ‘squeezed middle’ to the ‘magnificent Middle Market’

Anthony Carey argues that the time has come to recognise the unique strengths of medium-sized businesses.

ProductivityDifferentiation

Mapping the customer journey with a new digital marketing model

A new model for consumer engagement is shaking up digital marketing

DigitalMarketing
Staffordshire Business School

Getting back to work after stress, anxiety or depression: Practical Guidance for SMEs

Researchers from Kingston Business School propose six steps to help employees, business owners and managers navigate through the return to work process.

Mental HealthEmploymentWellbeing
Kingston University, Kingston Business School,
Loughborough University School of Business and Economics

Churn, change and the importance of upskilling

There are few things on which Britain’s major political parties agree, but one point on which an unusually firm consensus has emerged of late is the need for companies to…

University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Business School

Innovation or experience – or both?

Many small businesses are innovators. Some are born out of incremental innovation, which improves on existing products or practices, while others are born out of radical…

University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Business School

Category Management – The 3Cs: The Commercials

This is the 3rd of three blogs that describe the fundamentals all businesses need to grow a profitable business. Having covered the Consumer and the Competitors we move on to…

Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School

The value of small businesses is not all about profit

Should business be all about profit? This used to be a no-brainer, but as we mark the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers  whilst figureheads like the Archbishop…

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