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Shop Floor: Short-termism, employee ownership and Public trust in businesses post-Brexit

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: Short-termism, employee ownership and Public trust in businesses post-Brexit
This week, we’ve heard all about short-termism among companies; but what about employees? Nick Peters finds out with Kate Cooper from the Institute of Leadership and Management. Nick learns about why employee ownership is a great way for owners of a successful business to realise some of their investment but stay involved, and produce a massive boost to workforce morale. with Simon Mounsey from Agilisys. Nick and Alan Leaman, CEO at Management Consultancies Association, discuss public trust in business and politics post-Brexit. And have you ever wondered about the job of comments moderator on a web site? Nick finds out how it’s done from Arax Poshtvar is a member of the comments moderation team at the Guardian.

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Marketing Watch: The Marketing of Food and Bloggers

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Marketing Watch

Marketing Watch: The Marketing of Food and Bloggers
Nick Peters focuses on the marketing of food with Arwa Mahdawi, writer and brand strategist, about the figure of Edward Bernays and his pioneering role in marketing which changed a nation’s diet. Nick and Paul Miller, of Vuelio, look at bloggers and how thousands are able to turn their talent into an income.
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Arwa Mahdawi, Paul Miller


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Morning Money: Do female entrepreneurs in the UK lag behind the US?

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Morning Money: Do female entrepreneurs in the UK lag behind the US?
Yasmina Siadatan, businesswoman and former Apprentice winner, spoke to Nick Peters ahead of the IoD Women as Leaders Conference. At the conference, Yasmina will be speaking about how UK female entrepreneurs lag behind the US, and how businesses will be measured by what positive impact they have on their environment and society.
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Chris Bailey, Yasmina Siadatan


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Shop Floor: The Precariat, Sports Direct, Unions and Employee Passions

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: The Precariat, Sports Direct, Unions and Employee Passions
This week on Shop Floor, in association with the Inspirational Development Group, Nick Peters looks at the role of unions in business with Tony Devlin, National Officer for Unite the Union, and Luke Primarolo, Regional Officer for Unite the Union. Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, discusses zero-hour contracts and the rise of a new social class, the precariat, whose working lives are filled with uncertainty and doubt. Craig Preston, Managing Director at IDG, explains why businesses should nurture their staff's passions in order to learn new skills about leadership and teamwork.
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Tony Devlin, Luke Primarolo, Guy Standing, Craig Preston, Jake Meyer, Giles English


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Marketing Watch: The Art of Summer, Editorial & Commercial Divide and the Worst Advertising Cliches

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Marketing Watch

Marketing Watch: The Art of Summer, Editorial & Commercial Divide and the Worst Advertising Cliches
Nick Peters opens the programme discussing M&S' new summer advert with Brand Consultant Adrian Day, together they look at the company's new approach to recover and grow the M&S clothing brand. Colin Williamson explores how the world of journalist is changing after CityAm's new strategy to tear down the editorial and commercial divide; while Sam Scott, Head of Video at The Drum, explains their latest series, Cliche Killers- a satirical take on the Top 12 cliches in advertising.
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Adrian Day, Colin Williamson, Sam Scott


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Shop Floor: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Unnecessary Admin and Working Environments

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Unnecessary Admin and Working Environments
Shop Floor, in association with the Inspirational Development Group, opens with an insight into the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Lord John Browne, QE Prize Trustees and former Chief Executive of BP, explains what the award represents for the profession and why there needs to be a social change to encourage children to become engineers. Neil Pickering, Industry and Customer Insight Manager at Kronos, analyses how British businesses can avoid wasting over £60 billion a year on unnecessary admin, while Leeson Medhurst, Head of Workplace Consultancy at 360 Workplace, explains why office space can affect a company's productivity.
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Lord John Browne, Neil Pickering, Paul Jackson, Leeson Medhurst


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Shop Floor

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor
In this week's programme, in association with IDG, Nick Peters looks at HR strategies that reward their staff with Ailsa Suttie, Operations Director at CSMA Club, who managed to bring a new and fresh approach to help its workers. Nick Howard, Executive Director at Edelman ENGAGE, explains the lack of trust between staff and their leaders and how the latter can build trust with their workers. Nick also speaks to Scott Stirrett, Executive Director and founder of Venture for Canada, a company that recruits and trains young graduates in start-up businesses. In contrast Andrew MacKensie, Policy and Research Manager at Reed in Partnership discusses their recent report, "Too Poor to Work", which looks at the cost of finding and sustaining work for the long-term unemployed in the UK.
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Ailsa Suttie, Nick Howard, Scott Stirrett, Andrew MacKensie


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Shop Floor: Open Culture

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: Open Culture
Shop Floor with Nick Peters talking with Daniel Tenner about how businesses built on an Open Culture can generate enthusiasm, commitment and profits. And how his own business, Grant Tree, has flourished as a result.
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Daniel Tenner


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Shop Floor: The Secret Campsite

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: The Secret Campsite
Nick Peters looks into the idea of living to work rather then working to live, by talking to a man who decided to leave his workplace 9-5 to set up his own company doing what he loves.
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Tim Bullen


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Shop Floor: Contract Law

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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: Contract Law
Nick Peters talks to Robin Williams from RW Law, about employers and employees rights when it comes to the hiring and firing process.
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Robin Williams


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