News
2012
Kent Business School hosts Engaging Workplaces for a Sustainable Future Conference
17 December 2012,
On 17th December 2012, Prof Katie Truss held a conference at the University of Kent in collaboration with Engage for Success The aim of the Conference is to stimulate debate and discussion around how engagement can contribute to sustainable organisational performance.
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Kent Business School delivers business growth workshops for ambitious owner-managers of SMEs
Kent Business School Press
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13/14 November 2012,
In October and November 2012 the University of Kent’s Business School delivered a series of taster workshops across Kent for over 50 ambitious owner-managers of Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Through these workshops, attendees heard about the ten characteristics of successful SMEs (known as ‘The BIG Ten’) and applied these characteristics to their own businesses through action learning with other like-minded business owners:
‘I was pleased to establish that I was not the only individual that is struggling with the workload and mountain of objectives, and I came away feeling a lot more positive and that I was not alone’.
Jacquie Agnew, Owner-Manager, Frock-a-licious Ltd
The workshops also provided a unique opportunity to learn about Kent Business School’s Business Improvement and Growth (BIG) Journey, the only research-led growth programme for ambitious owner-managers in the UK. This programme has been designed to help business owner and managers realise a better future for themselves and their business.
The Kent Business School has already helped over 500 owner-managers achieve their aspirations for sustained profitable growth and these workshops were an opportunity to further share the School’s business growth knowledge and expertise. These workshops are informed by the Promoting Sustainable Performance programme; an ongoing rigorous research programme with SMEs across the region led by the Centre for Employment, Competitiveness and Growth at the Kent Business School.
To find out more please visit our website or contact Dr Simon Raby, Head of SME Partnerships by email S.O.Raby@kent.ac.uk
Kent Business School hosts Diversity Management Workshop
Kent Business School Press
12 November 2012,
Kent Business School hosted the 'Democratising Diversity Management in Europe - Future research directions and challenges' workshop on Monday 12 November 2012.
This workshop was organised by Dr Jawad Syed and jointly sponsored by the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Gender, Race and Diversity in Organizations (Special Interest Group) and Kent Business School. Its aim was to develop future research and practices of diversity management in the light of multi-level, intersectional and other non-mainstream approaches.
More information below:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/ecg/news-events/EURAM.html
If you would like to attend the whole event (or an individual session) please contact James Turpin.
Dr Mark Gilman at the 35th ISBE Conference in Dublin
Kent Business School Press
6-9th November 2012,
Dr Mark Gilman attended the 35th ISBE Conference in Dublin to review the highest quality new research on small business and entrepreneurship, and partake in stimulating debates and discussions.
More information below:
http://www.isbe.org.uk/ISBE2012Dublin
Dr Mark Gilman and Dr Simon Raby deliver a Performance and Growth workshop at the 4th International Workshop on Innovation & Performance Management in Beijing, China
Kent Business School Press
19 October 2012,
KBS at the 4th International Workshop on Innovation and Performance Management in Beijing.
This high-profile research event took place on 19-20th, October 2012 at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Prof. Paul Phillips, Dr. Vinh Sum Chau and Simon Raby joined Mark Gilman as invited speakers during his session.
For more information please see: http://iwpm2012eng.csp.escience.cn
The Centre for Employment, Competitiveness and Growth featured in Kent Staff Magazine
Kent Business School Press
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17 October 2012
The Centre for Employment, Competitiveness and Growth is featured in the University of Kent's October 2012 issue of the Kent Staff magazine.
The main ‘feature’ of the magazine, on pages 6-7, is focused on Kent Business School's successful BIG Journey programme.
If you would like to read the whole article please download Kent Staff Magazine.
Employee Engagement, Organisational Performance and Individual Well-being: Exploring the Evidence, Developing the Theory
Kent Business School Press
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13 February 2012
Employee engagement: Outcomes and Impact
The final seminar in the ESRC seminar series: Employee Engagement, Organisational Performance and Individual Wellbeing: Exploring the Evidence, Developing the Theory, will take place at the University of Kent's Medway campus on 17th April 2012.
We will be linking in with the work of the Employee Engagement Taskforce. Professor Paul Sparrow of Lancaster University will be one of our keynote speakers, and we will be holding a doctoral students' workshop on 16th April.
For further information see the event listing.
New Human Resource Management Textbooks
Kent Business School Press
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23 January 2012
Two Human Resource Management textbooks have been published this month with authors from Kent Business School:
Strategic Human Resource Management by Katie Truss, David Mankin and Clare Kelliher (OUP)
Professor Katie Truss commented, “I and my co-authors David Mankin and Clare Kelliher were inspired to write this new textbook because we couldn’t find a book that we felt addressed the topic of Human Resource Management at a purely strategic level but was also accessible and readable. The book is aimed at final year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying Strategic Human Resource Management, and explains the main theoretical frameworks, together with the key strategic Human Resource Management imperatives, illustrated by a wide range of contemporary case studies. Final year undergraduate Human Resource Management students at the Business School’s Medway campus have already had the opportunity to use some of the chapters as part of their core reading material, and have given us some very positive feedback.’
Professor Katie Truss is Head of the Kent Business School at Medway and Director of Studies, Postgraduate Certificate in Employee Engagement
Further details are available at http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199583065.do?keyword=Strategic+HRM&sortby=bestMatches where the book is available for purchase.
Human Resource Management in a Global Context, Jawad Syed and Robin Kramar (Palgrave)
This textbook is for anyone who wants to understand and engage critically with Human Resource Management in a globalized world. The text covers the basic principles of Human Resource Management, whilst exposing students to real world issues facing managers on a daily basis with a range of international case studies.
Dr Jawad Syed is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Kent Business School, University of Kent.
Further details are available at
www.palgrave.com/business/kramarandsyed/about/special.html where the book is available for purchase.