The Yorkshire, Humber and North East Productivity Forum, led by its lead academic partner, Sheffield University Management School, has created an event to bring together business leaders, HR professionals, policymakers and academics, to discuss how good people management practises can contribute to improvements in firms’ productivity and employee wellbeing.
The event will be run as part of National Productivity Week, an initiative led by The Productivity Institute. The Productivity Institute is a UK wide research organisation, funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), that promotes the importance of productivity by addressing specific regional productivity challenges and identifying emerging opportunities.
Attendees will be able to participate in an interactive industry expert panel debate, exploring the relationship between productivity and people management practices. They will also be able to hear about how the practices of innovative ‘best practice’ firms from across the region have enhanced their business performance.
In addition, the event will discuss how skill needs within the region are changing and what employers, policy makers and others might do to support skills development, increase training activity and promote ‘good work’.
The event will be a great chance to network with key regional business leaders, HR professionals, policy makers, academics and business support agencies and gain insights into The Productivity Institute's latest research on productivity and skills in Yorkshire, the Humber and North East.
I’m very excited about this event, which will place the important topic of good people management practices centre stage and bring stakeholders together to discuss future skill requirements in the region and how the challenge of increasing productivity growth might be met.
Professor Jason Heyes
Head of Centre for Decent Work and Academic Lead for the Forum