Alison Baines talked to Diana Lamplugh about the Susie Lamplugh Trust she launched in memory of her daughter, the London estate agent who disappeared last summer while showing an…
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Alison Baines talked to Diana Lamplugh about the Susie Lamplugh Trust she launched in memory of her daughter, the London estate agent who disappeared last summer while showing an empty house to a man posing as a potential buyer. The Susie Lamplugh Trust aims to raise money for action research to develop a training pack for men and women employees, designed to make men and women more aware of the signals each gives out and how they are interpreted.
Janice Miles, Operational Services Manager of St John's Hospital, Aylesbury Vale Health Authority, is the first winner of the International Management College from Buckingham MBA…
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Janice Miles, Operational Services Manager of St John's Hospital, Aylesbury Vale Health Authority, is the first winner of the International Management College from Buckingham MBA sponsorship through Women in Management Review. She spoke to Alison Baines about doing an MBA.
In the autumn a woman's fancy lightly turns to—working abroad? They do if they are prompted by recent memories of exotic foreign parts, contrasting with the gloom of la rentŕee…
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In the autumn a woman's fancy lightly turns to—working abroad? They do if they are prompted by recent memories of exotic foreign parts, contrasting with the gloom of la rentŕee. The expatriate life is not only the province of fast‐stream executives in international companies. As some of the women Alison Baines talks to below show, it can be a leg‐up in career terms. Here she outlines some of the issues involved in exporting your skills.
Sees many supervisory and managerial jobs attained by women as theresult of luck. Looks at the role of career planning in establishing astructured approach to personal…
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Sees many supervisory and managerial jobs attained by women as the result of luck. Looks at the role of career planning in establishing a structured approach to personal development; links this to the growing requirement for a career break in order to start a family, noting changing attitudes among male colleagues in encouraging such a break. Detects the emergence of greater risk‐taking among younger women and discusses the relevance of career planning to this new generation.
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‘We have lived through historic days and perhaps we are turning over a new page in the history of the women's movement,’ said Fausta desHormes, head of the European Commission's…
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‘We have lived through historic days and perhaps we are turning over a new page in the history of the women's movement,’ said Fausta desHormes, head of the European Commission's Women's Information Service. She was speaking in the closing moments of the Fourth Colloquium of European Women's Organizations, arranged by the EEC and hosted by the Fawcett Society, the first to be held in Britain. The conference attracted women from all the member nations, between them representing 50 million other women, to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Parliament Square in London in November 1987, and the event which inspired Fausta desHormes' comment was a resolution calling for a new lobby for women's organizations.
Responses to the Gallup poll on support for the women's movement, reported in the last issue, reflected women's ambivalence to women's organizations compared with men's less…
A challenge to complacency … A major study A Challenge to Complacency has revealed that whilst employers collectively agree that Britain under‐trains its workforce, top managers…
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A challenge to complacency … A major study A Challenge to Complacency has revealed that whilst employers collectively agree that Britain under‐trains its workforce, top managers individually do not consider they need to do more training in their own firms. This is an attitude which some might regard as reflecting confidence, but which the research team describes as reflecting complacency. Commissioned by the Manpower Services Commission and National Economic Development Office the study, which was carried out by Coopers & Lybrand Associates, examined the scope for encouraging companies to invest more in vocational education and training. It revealed that:
The concept of the Women Returners' Network is to be wholeheartedly welcomed. Any organization that facilitates women returning to the workplace must be worthwhile. As a recent…
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The concept of the Women Returners' Network is to be wholeheartedly welcomed. Any organization that facilitates women returning to the workplace must be worthwhile. As a recent returner, it was with excitement and enthusiasm that I attended its first public conference. I listened with interest and approval to speeches telling me how large organizations have moved to accommodate professional women who have broken their careers. The main speakers were noteworthy for their success in their chosen careers—among them were the most senior woman in the Civil Service and a woman surgeon—and I will certainly point them out to my daughter as examples of women who have achieved in life.
Eric Emerson, Gyles Glover, Sue Turner, Rob Greig, Chris Hatton, Susannah Baines, Alison Copeland, Felicity Evison, Hazel Roberts, Janet Robertson and Victoria Welch
The purpose of this paper is to describe the first 15 months of operation of an innovative specialist national public health observatory for intellectual disability.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the first 15 months of operation of an innovative specialist national public health observatory for intellectual disability.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper provides a narrative account of aims and achievements of the service.
Findings
In the first 15 months of operation the observatory has: made available to those involved in commissioning health and social care services, a wealth of information on the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities; identified specific improvements that could viably be made to increase the quality of future information; and begun working with local agencies to support them in making the best use of the available information.
Originality/value
People with intellectual disabilities experience significant health inequalities. This paper describes an innovative approach to helping local agencies make the best use of available information in order to commission services that may reduce these inequalities.
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Christopher Pich, Guja Armannsdottir, Dianne Dean, Louise Spry and Varsha Jain
There are explicit calls for research devoted to how political actors present their brand to the electorate and how this is interpreted. Responding to this, the purpose of this…
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Purpose
There are explicit calls for research devoted to how political actors present their brand to the electorate and how this is interpreted. Responding to this, the purpose of this paper is to build an understanding of how political brand messages and values are received and aligned with voter expectations, which in turn shapes the consistency of a political brand.
Design/methodology/approach
Using an interpretivist perspective, this two-stage approach first focuses on semi-structured interviews with internal stakeholders of the UK Conservative Party and second uses focus group discussions with external stakeholders (voters) of age 18-24 years. Data was collected between 1 December 2014 and 6 May 2015.
Findings
The findings suggest that the UK Conservative brand had recovered from the “nasty party” reputation. Further, the Conservative brand was perceived as credible, trustworthy and responsible, with positive associations of “economic competence”. However, while the nasty party imagery has declined, the UK Conservative brand continues to face challenges particularly in terms of longstanding negative associations perceived by both internal and external markets.
Research limitations/implications
It must be acknowledged that all research methods have their own limitations, and acknowledging these will strengthen the ability to draw conclusions. In this study, for example, due to time constraints during the election campaign period, 7 participants supported stage one of the study and 25 participants supported stage two of the study. However, participants from stage one of the study represented all three elements of the UK Conservative Party (Parliamentary, Professional and Voluntary). In addition, the elite interviews were longer in duration and this provided a greater opportunity to capture detailed stories of their life experiences and how this affected their brand relationship. Similarly, participants for stage two focussed on young voters of age 18-24 years, a segment actively targeted by the UK Conservative Party.
Practical implications
The brand alignment framework can help practitioners illuminate components of the political brand and how it is interpreted by the electorate. The increasing polarisation in politics has made this a vital area for study, as we see need to understand if, how or why citizens are persuaded by a more polarised brand message. There are also social media issues for the political brand which can distort the carefully constructed brand. There are opportunities to evaluate and operationalize this framework in other political contexts.
Originality/value
The brand alignment model extends current branding theory first by building on an understanding of the complexities of creating brand meaning, second, by operationalizing differences between the brand and how it is interpreted by the electorate, finally, by identifying if internal divisions within the political party pose a threat to the consistency of the brand.