The Employer Brand ®: Bringing the Best of Brand Management to People at Work [Hardcover]

"...This is not just an eloquent brand management and marketing text but one of the wisest management books in the past five years." (Independent on Sunday, 20th November 2005)

"...the authors offer an intellectual framework, a fresh focus and a stimulating guide...this book is an impressive wake–up call..." (People Management, 10th November 2005)

"...packed with insight and alarming statistics, it will also prove a great tool for any HR professional..." (Strategic HR Review, 1st November 2005)

"...useful for HR professionals, managers interested in bringing the concept of ′living the brand′ to the company, and graduates seeking guidance on the kind of company to work for." (The Marketer (CIM), Jan 06)

"...provides inspirational insights into the rationale for employer brand management." (Personnel Today, 17th Jan 06)

"...easy to read and very useful as it contains great case studies and useful tips on how to build coherent brand framework from the start." (Personnel Today, April 2006)

"...interesting insights..." (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, June 2006)

"...not just an eloquent brand management...text but one of the wisest management books in the past five years." (Independent on Sunday, 20th November 2005)

"...the authors offer an intellectual framework, a fresh focus and a stimulating guide...an impressive wake–up call..." (People Management, 10th November 2005)

"...packed with insight and alarming statistics, it will also prove a great tool for any HR professional..." (Strategic HR Review, 1st November 2005)

"...useful for HR professionals, managers...and graduates seeking guidance on the kind of company to work for." (The Marketer (CIM), Jan 06)

"...provides inspirational insights into the rationale for employer brand management." (Personnel Today, 17th Jan 06)

"...easy to read ... very useful ... contains great case studies and useful tips on how to build coherent brand framework ..." (Personnel Today, April 2006)

"...interesting insights..." (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, June 2006)

"...packed with insight and alarming statistics, it will also prove a great tool for any HR professional..."

"...provides inspirational insights into the rationale for employer brand management."

Levels of ′employer brand awareness′ are rising fast across Europe, North America and Asia–Pacific, as leading companies realise that skilled, motivated employees are as vital to their commercial success as profitable customers and apply the principles of branding to their own organization. Starting with a review of the pressures which have generated current interest in employer branding, this definitive book goes on to look at the historical roots of brand management and the practical steps necessary to achieve employer brand management success – including the business case, research, positioning, implementation, management and measurement. Case studies of big–name employer brand stories include Tesco, Wal–Mart, British Airways and Prêt a Manger.

This book explains why employer branding has become such a hot topic over recent years, and provides the first comprehensive guide to developing and managing this critical business asset.

Your most important brand relationship is unlikely to be your choice of breakfast cereal, car or even football team, but the brand you work for: your employer brand.

 How people feel about their employer brand is increasingly critical to business success or failure. Leading companies realise its importance in attracting and engaging the people they need to succeed. They also recognise that creating a positive brand experience for employees requires the same degree of focus, care and coherence that has long characterised effective management of the customer brand experience.

 Written by the creator of the Employer Brand concept and one of its most experienced practitioners, this book provides an inspirational and practical guide to the subject. Whether you are in senior line management, HR, marketing or internal communications, you will discover how managing your employer brand more effectively can improve your performance.

Simon Barrow and Richard Mosley are colleagues in the London based management consultancy People in Business, whose work with senior managers to improve their organisation’s performance is driven by the thinking in this book.
Simon Barrow was a brand manager at Best Foods (now Unilever) and Colgate–Palmolive before becoming CEO of an advertising agency within the Charles Barker Group, where his growing involvement with HR sparked his creation of the Employer Brand concept and subsequent research with London Business School.
Richard Mosley has been involved in brand strategy development and implementation for nearly twenty years, including eight years with WPP’s marketing consultancy Added Value where he led the internal marketing practice.
Both authors share a belief in the need for marketing and HR to work together more effectively, especially in businesses which rely on people to deliver the customer brand experience.
People in Business’s recent clients include BP, British Airways, Hiscox, John Lewis, Man Investments and Unilever.