Pictured above: Professor Chris Edger
One of Birmingham City University's newest senior appointments,
Professor Chris Edger, has scooped a top prize in the Personnel
Today Awards.
Professor Edger and his team were nominated for the 'HR Impact
of the Year' Award prior to his joining the University. Previously
he was the Group HR, Service and Productivity director at Mitchells
& Butler, which has 42,000 employees and brands such as
Harvester, Toby, All bar One and Browns.
Included in the award submission was the impact of training and
development schemes at line management and retail staff level which
have contributed to higher levels of stability, productivity,
service and performance. Over the past year M&B has
developed in conjunction with the University ground breaking
programmes such as the Post-Graduate Certificate, diploma and
masters in Multi-Unit Leadership aimed at increasing line
management capabilities.
M&B beat other short-listed candidates Boots, Santander,
McDonalds and 3M to the prize which was presented on Tuesday 30
November at the Mayfair Hilton.
Professor Edger joined the University's Birmingham City Business
School (BCBS) in July as Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership and is
attached to the University's Centre for Leadership and Management.
He is the first of two 'Professors of Practice' who are helping to
develop and shape BCBS as a leading practice-based business
school.
On learning of the success Professor Edger said: "This is a
wonderful way to mark my first six months at BCBS.
"Currently M&B has six cohorts at the Business School,
totalling over 100 unit and area managers, taking either the
Certificate or the Diploma in Multi-Unit Leadership. New
clients from the leisure and retail sectors will be starting on the
programme next year: further announcements will follow
shortly!"