In the latest blog in our Voices from the Micro Business blog series, Katherine Jones, our PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Richard Thickpenny from Ashley Community Housing, an award-winning social enterprise providing a range of support for refugees, BAME & migrant individuals, discuss the need to establish networking groups for business support provision for […]
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Ethnic minority businesses play a vital role in economy, yet rarely receive the recognition they deserve. They contribute a £25 billion to the UK economy and recent research by the Centre for Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship found they are more innovative and more likely to export than their non-EMB counterparts. The UK economy will need the
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Technology has been shown to help improve a firm’s productivity. However, the slow rate of technology adoption across many UK businesses could be impacting their performance. Our colleagues at the Productivity Institute have just launched their Digital Opportunity Survey, which provides organisations with a digital prescription plan to explore how they improve their performance through
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In this podcast , Gill Dix, head of policy at Acas, and guest speakers Richard Saundry, from the University of Sheffield and the PrOPEL hub, and Peter Urwin, from the University of Westminster, look at new research commissioned by Acas on the cost of conflict to UK workplaces. Conflict is an inevitable part of life,
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PrOPEL Hub Knowledge Exchange Fellow Dr Helen Fitzhugh shares details of her and colleagues’ research as part of Norwich Business School and in collaboration with Norwich Good Economy Commission to improve the experience of work as employers build back after COVID-19 and shares how firms interested in sharing their experiences can get involved. The Good Jobs
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At our upcoming International Research Seminar, learn from Alex Bryson how Human Resource Management be used to enhance productivity in the public sector?
Human Resource Management in the Public Sector: Does it work? Read More »
In the first of the PrOPEL Hub’s International Research Series chaired by Professor Colin Lindsay, leading academics Professor Jari Hakanen and Dr Janne Kaltiainen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health discuss the impact of the rise of homeworking and teleworking on employee experience and wellbeing. Professor Jari Hakanen and Dr Janne Kaltiainen focus on
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Boosting productivity is the greatest economic challenge facing the UK. Productivity is crucial to long-term economic prosperity and household income growth. Yet there is no fully agreed understanding of the factors behind the UK’s ‘productivity puzzle’- the unexplained decline in national productivity in comparison both to historical trends and relative to our key competitors. Within
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Professor Colin Lindsay of Strathclyde Business School looks at recent evidence on the impact of downsizing on employees, priorities for HR practice and implications for workplace innovation. The UK Government’s furlough arrangements will end in their current form in the coming weeks, and despite additional support being promised by ministers, the latest employer survey data
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For this webinar, the PrOPEL Hub joins the CIPD to discuss the importance of employee wellbeing in the workplace and how to ensure the cost-effectiveness of wellbeing solutions. Considering the wellbeing of your staff is key to being a good employer and a successful organisation. Wellbeing contributes to staff engagement, it helps with retention and
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