Att attrahera och motivera medarbetare : Varumärket som ett strategiskt verktyg

Since Brand Management and Marketing in theory mainly been focusing on the consumer market, our main purpose of this essay is to analyze how a brand also can be appealing to the labour market, to attract and engage employees. Keywords attached to our essay are, brands, recruitment, Human Resource management, theories of motivation, corporate identity, employer branding and internal marketing. The study is based on a qualitative research. Our main reason for choosing this research was to get a closer insight for the phenomen and to establish a major understanding for the subject. To get a better knowledge and to answer and fulfil our purpose we have chosen to complete eight interviews, of whom six respondents representing Service firms. To get a more general and additional insight of this phenomen we have chosen to interview two consultants with professional knowledge in traditional marketing and employer branding. The last two chapters involve the analysis and the conclusion. From our analysis it appears that the brand is seen as an important tool to investigate and control over in order to attract and retain employees. What also turned up was that the employer to a higher degree may use the values connected to the brand to create a more attractive place of work. In our final chapter we discuss the issues similar to the theory section. To get a deeper insight and for further reading we would like to refer the reader to this chapter