The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's presents the Access the expert seminar series. The first event in the series will be presented by our experts from Queen's Management School.

This is an online seminar for a very limited number of delegates to access the expertise of Queen’s academics. We encourage discussion and participation to ensure an engaging and worthwhile session for all.

Access the Expert: Propelling Productivity in Northern Ireland: Why Management Matters

Can better management practices solve Northern Ireland’s poor productivity performance?

Professor John Turner and Dr David Jordan have been exploring the reasons why Northern Ireland has the lowest productivity of any UK region. Their research, undertaken for The Productivity Institute, highlights a number of factors. These include economic structure, peripherality, human capital, innovation, policy, and political institutions. However, an emerging explanation is the role of management in local firms.

This webinar will delve deeper into why management matters. How important are management practices for productivity? What does best practice look like? Does Northern Ireland possess a managerial skills gap? Attendees will have the opportunity to provide their perspective on these questions, and get a first look at how the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum’s new survey of management practices aims to provide new evidence.

As part of the preparation for the webinar, and to facilitate the discussion of why management matters, we would ask for attendees to please complete the NI Management Practices Survey beforehand, which only takes 15 minutes.

The survey is available at http://go.qub.ac.uk/NIManagementSurvey2022

Our Speakers

Professor John Turner

John is the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum lead. John's research focuses on the long-run evolution and development of banking, banking crises, bubbles, and financial markets. He’s an award-winning author, has held several distinguished visiting positions at the Bank of England and Harvard Business School and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018.

Dr David Jordan

David is the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum contact. David’s research focuses on regional and public economics, including the economics of devolution. He is a Research Associate at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History, and an Associate Fellow of the Queen’s University Institute of Irish Studies.