National Productivity Week
Â鶹Íø Business School is proud to support National Productivity Week 2023.
A week-long series of events, seminars, conferences and panel discussions has been launched to raise awareness of and offer solutions to addressing the UK’s productivity challenges.
National Productivity Week has been organised by The Productivity Institute, the ESRC funded research body of which Â鶹Íø is one of nine partner institutions.
It will run from November 27 to December 1 and bring together academia, business leaders, policymakers and thinktanks to share insights and provide solutions for tackling productivity slowdown in the UK.
The Northern Ireland Regional Productivity Forum, led by Â鶹Íø, has organised an event as part of the week - 'Delivering business and economic growth in Northern Ireland'. This event will feature the launch of the 2023 NI Productivity Dashboard, alongside presenting findings from the NI Management Survey.
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The Productivity Agenda
It will also see The Productivity Institute launch the UK’s first Productivity Agenda, a 10-chapter report written by academics from Â鶹Íø Business School, and the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge, Cardiff, Kings College London and Warwick, among others. This will highlight nine key areas policymakers need to focus on to address productivity growth in the UK.
- Business drivers of productivity
The Productivity Institute has identified 5 key drivers of productivity and there are a number of our services that can help businesses with a number of these.
Innovation –Our Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can help businesses innovate. Find out more here.
Worker skills, engagement and well-being and Management competencies – skills and training are major enablers for firms to become more productive and we know that there is a link between productive firms and management practices.
- Productivity research
Â鶹Íø Business School academics have produced a wide range of research relating to productivity. Some highlights include:
Northern Ireland’s productivity performance has persistently been the worst of any UK region. This is despite having the apparent benefit of subnational industrial policy since the 1920s. Can institutions – through the interaction between business and local policymakers – explain this longstanding productivity gap?
This dashboard, produced for the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum, measures how Northern Ireland performs across key drivers of productivity, relative to the UK average and other regions, and over time. It highlights where barriers to productivity growth exist, their severity, and whether progress is being made to address them.