Syftet med vår undersökning var att undersöka hur väl fastighetsmäklarföretag lyckats skapa en medvetenhet, acceptans och engagemang för företagets varumärke hos sina anställda. Vi har i studien även studerat organisationskulturens roll i byggandet av ’corporate identity’. Vår undersökning har skett genom en kvalitativ metod och med halvstrukturerade intervjuer. Vi har intervjuat tolv aktiva fastighetsmäklare som tillhör olika organisationer inom mäklarbranschen. Detta gjordes för att samla in data om mäklarnas uppfattning och upplevelser kring varumärket och andra faktorer som påverkar deras syn på sitt företags varumärke. Från det insamlade materialet hittade vi nyckelord som sedan användes för att identifiera mönster och likheter mellan respondenternas svar. Samtliga respondenter beskrev att deras företag arbetade internt med företagets varumärke. Dock varierade metoderna och resultatet för att skapa engagemang och medvetenhet för varumärket och dess önskade värden hos de anställda och inom organisationskulturen. Vissa företag har lyckats bättre med detta och i de organisationer fann vi bidragande faktorer som förstärkte de anställdas engagemang för varumärket. I dessa organisationer fanns introduktionsutbildning för nyanställda, de hade kontinuerlig säljträning och de uppmuntrade de anställda att ge feedback till organisationen. Detta skapade ett engagemang för företagets varumärke och dess önskade värden. Vi fann också indicier till samband mellan den interna marknadsföringen och de anställdas uppfattning om sina kollegor. De organisationer som hade en mer aktiv intern marknadsföring ansågs också arbetskamraterna i större utsträckning vara viktigare. Vi tror att vår studie kan öka förståelsen för hur företag i praktiken kan arbeta med intern marknadsföring som en metod för att få de anställda engagerade till företagets varumärke. Vi anser att än mer forskning om förhållandet mellan intern marknadsföring och organisationskultur kan hjälpa företag att effektivisera sitt interna arbete. / The purpose of this paper was to examine in what extent companies in the real estate business managed to create awareness, acceptance and commitment to the brand with their employees. This study also looked at the role of organizational culture in building corporate identity. This thesis is based on a qualitative study where data have been collected through semi-structured interviews. We have interviewed twelve active working real estate agents from different firms within the business. To gather information, about the real estate agents’ perceptions and experiences about the brand and other factors that influence their view of the brand, we used semi-structured interviews. We found keywords from our data that we used to identify patterns and similarities between the respondents. We found that the companies that our respondents worked for managed to internalize their brand in their employees. However, the methods and results varied between the firms, in their achievement of commitment and awareness of the brand, and it ́s desired values, in the organizational culture. Some of the firms have come further in their work to strengthen their employees commitment to the brand and we found factors that were similar for those firms. These organizations had introduction training for their new employees, sales training on a regular basis and encouraged their employees to give feedback to the organization. This created commitment to the company and it ́s brand. There were also connections between the internal marketing and the way the employees perceive their colleges. In organizations with a more active internal marketing were colleagues more important. Our study shows that companies who work actively with internal marketing and internalizing their brand within the organization can achieve employees that are committed to the brand. We believe our study can help to raise the understanding how companies can, in practice, apply internal marketing as a method to get committed employees. We think that more research in the field between organizational culture and internal marketing can help companies to improve their internal work.

Abstract A useful tool for companies to use in their differentiation process is proposed to be employee branding. Employee branding is developed and put forth by the management with the main task to formulate the brands vision and values, and communicate them to the employees. To promote the employee engagement and their relationship with the company, corporate storytelling can be applied, with is an internal communication that strengthens the internal rumour and values that represent the brand. Since engagement and motivation is important factors when creating a strong employee brand, there is a need for further research on how corporate storytelling is used by companies to influence employee engagement and motivation, as corporate storytelling leads to deeper commitment among employees. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how companies use corporate storytelling to influence their employee branding. Methodology The authors conducted a qualitative case study on how the retail organization Boomerang. The empirical material was collected thru semi-structured interviews with Boomerangs management and employees. Conclusion The conclusion shows that the employees prefers when corporate storytelling and various communication is put in context, this because it’s easier for the employees to understand. Boomerang seems to understand the importance of working with images and texts to develop an understanding of the brand and the corporate story they represent. It can be concluded that the informal internal sources have greater impact on the employees, this may be because the informal internal sources is put more in context to their work, rather the more formal internal sources. There is a need for better balance in the use of corporate storytelling, between the sources and what is stated in the information. Keywords: Branding, Employee branding, Corporate storytelling, Formal internal messages, Informal internal messages, Psychological contract, Brand commitment.

Bakgrund: Att anställa rätt personal och utbilda dem i varumärkets grunder och värderingar får en allt mer avgörande roll. Konsumenten påverkas av medarbetaren i butik och de är numera företagets viktigaste marknadsföringskanal. Genom att öka medarbetarens motivation och engagemang sprids varumärkets identitet till konsumenten. Struktur och kultur inom organisationen anses vara en framgångsfaktor i arbetet med varumärket samt den långsiktiga relationen till konsumenten. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur ett företags varumärkesidentitet förmedlas genom organisationen ur ett företagsperspektiv, från ledning till medarbetare. Teorier: The Employee Brand: Is Yours an All-Star? av Mangold och Juanquart Miles (2007), Brand Management Through Narrowing the Gap Between Brand Identity and Brand Reputation av de Chernatony (1999), Promotion Mix av Kotler (1994), Impact of Satisfaction with Mandated CRM Use on Employee Service Quality av Hsieh et al. (2012), Identitetsprisma av Kapferer (1997) och Design Thinking av Brown (2008). Metod: En kvalitativ ansats har använts i form av primär- och sekundärdata innehållande djupintervjuer samt semistrukturerade intervjuer med medarbetare på H&M samt H&M:s eget material, “The H&M Way”. Slutsats: I studien framkommer att vikten av en stark företagskultur är viktig för att förmedla varumärkets identitet genom organisationen. Det framkommer även att det finns kunskapsskillnader inom organisationen beroende på vilken position man har, hur länge man arbetat på företaget samt butikens geografiska placering i förhållande till huvudkontoret.

The influence of the marketing department has decreased while marketing can be seen as vital for companies. The purpose of the study was to examine a company without a marketing department. Further, the essay research the usage of internal marketing of the company. Hence the research questions: what are the benefits and disadvantages with removing the marketing department? What impact does internal marketing have on the company? Researchers have claimed that marketing is everything and everything is marketing which touches the theories, internal marketing, part-time marketers, and employee branding. The study has applied a qualitative research method, thenceforth a deductive research method. Four respondents from a company without a marketing department were interviewed. The conclusion showed that internal marketing is applied by the company and the benefits was an increase of influence by the alternate department, improved efficiency and differentiation. The conclusion further showed that it is complicated for a company to exclude the marketing department.

Background:  Making customers loyal to the brand have become a key issue for marketers to achieve since it acts as a major contributor to competitive advantage. The brand image is argued to be the main source for brand loyalty and organizations continuously seeks for ways to achieve brand loyalty through enhancing their image. Employee branding makes it possible for organizations to consistently deliver a desired brand image to the customers, through its employees, and it could therefore be of importance to explore the relationship between employee branding and brand loyalty.  Research questions: RQ1: How does the organization’s management communicate its desired brand image to the employees? RQ2: How do the various sources of messages contribute to employees’ knowledge of the desired brand image? RQ3: How do the various sources of messages contribute to the upholding of the psychological contract between the employees and the organization? RQ4: How does the image projected by employees influence brand loyal customers? Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between an organization’s employee branding and brand loyalty. Methodology: Conducted as a single embedded case study, semi-structured interviews Conclusion: The empirical investigation revealed that employee branding activities could strengthen customers’ loyalty towards the brand. Employee branding therefore influence customers’ satisfaction, commitment, trust, and identification to the brand.

In the field of municipal services there are a wide range of aspects a small community must consider, especially considering that the circumstances in which a municipality operate continuously are changing. The changes include, for example, migration, individual lifestyles, the political governance and environment. Especially the latter might have a big impact on a town based on tourism such as Borgholm. We particularly have taken an interest for how this might affect the internal branding and internal brand communication of Borgholm municipality. Through our research we have found that Borgholm municipality in no particular extent is working with living the brand or any similar concepts. Also, we have found that the success of the internal branding of the organization in a great extent depend on the individuals of the different branches of the municipality’s work rather than on a coherent communication structure which reaches the whole organization.

<p><strong>Title: </strong>The internal attractiveness<strong> </strong>of the sales position within ABB Sweden<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>What is the cause of the low internal applicants for the sales position at ABB?<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To identify why there are so few internal applicants for the sales position at ABB.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a survey was conducted amongst the employees of ABB. The target groups were sales managers, sellers and other employees. The result from the survey where then analyzed based on the theory chapter. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A GAP-analysis showed a difference in the attitude towards the sales position at ABB. These differences were of type one and type four. Furthermore the study showed that internal marketing should be made to strengthen the sales positions awareness and status. Finally the study showed that many of the employees experienced a high degree of job satisfaction and that this could be disseminated with the help of employee branding.</p> / <p><strong>Titel: </strong>Interna attraktiviteten hos säljtjänsten inom ABB Sverige<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Problem:</strong> Vad är anledning till att de interna medarbetarna inom ABB inte söker till säljtjänsten?</p><p><strong>Syfte:</strong> Att identifiera varför ABB har så få internansökningar till säljtjänster.</p><p><strong>Metod:</strong> För att uppnå undersökningens syfte gjordes en enkätundersökning bland ABB:s medarbetare. Målgruppen var säljchefer, säljare och övriga medarbetare inom ABB. På insamlad data från enkätundersökningen genomfördes en analys utifrån studiens teoriavsnitt.</p><p><strong>Slutsats: </strong>En GAP-analys visade att det fanns en skillnad i attityderna till säljtjänsten inom ABB. Dessa var av typ ett och typ fyra. Vidare fann studien att internmarknadsföringsåtgärder bör sättas in för att stärka tjänstens välkändhet samt status. Slutligen fann studien att många av de anställda upplevde en hög grad av arbetstillfredsställelse och att denna kunde spridas vidare med hjälp av employee branding.</p>

Title: The internal attractiveness of the sales position within ABB Sweden Problem: What is the cause of the low internal applicants for the sales position at ABB? Purpose: To identify why there are so few internal applicants for the sales position at ABB. Method: In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a survey was conducted amongst the employees of ABB. The target groups were sales managers, sellers and other employees. The result from the survey where then analyzed based on the theory chapter. Conclusion: A GAP-analysis showed a difference in the attitude towards the sales position at ABB. These differences were of type one and type four. Furthermore the study showed that internal marketing should be made to strengthen the sales positions awareness and status. Finally the study showed that many of the employees experienced a high degree of job satisfaction and that this could be disseminated with the help of employee branding. / Titel: Interna attraktiviteten hos säljtjänsten inom ABB Sverige Problem: Vad är anledning till att de interna medarbetarna inom ABB inte söker till säljtjänsten? Syfte: Att identifiera varför ABB har så få internansökningar till säljtjänster. Metod: För att uppnå undersökningens syfte gjordes en enkätundersökning bland ABB:s medarbetare. Målgruppen var säljchefer, säljare och övriga medarbetare inom ABB. På insamlad data från enkätundersökningen genomfördes en analys utifrån studiens teoriavsnitt. Slutsats: En GAP-analys visade att det fanns en skillnad i attityderna till säljtjänsten inom ABB. Dessa var av typ ett och typ fyra. Vidare fann studien att internmarknadsföringsåtgärder bör sättas in för att stärka tjänstens välkändhet samt status. Slutligen fann studien att många av de anställda upplevde en hög grad av arbetstillfredsställelse och att denna kunde spridas vidare med hjälp av employee branding.

This bachelor thesis in business administration investigates the employee branding process of Company X in order to gain an understanding of how the company works with and can utilize this as an efficient tool. Recent research shows that Swedish companies that focus on building their brands are more profitable than companies that do not. Furthermore, re- search show that relationship building is an increasingly important area of marketing, which means that employees have a key role in creating a brand through the relationships they build. As Company X to some extent relies on relationship building in a multi- stakeholder environment, where pharmaceutical companies traditionally have competed through innovation, employee branding could be used as a competitive advantage for Company X. The process of employee branding is used to align employee’s internal view of the com- pany brand with the desired brand image in order to make the employees project it consis- tently. According to the theories used, the key drivers to successful employee branding are, through consistent communication, (1) ascertaining employee knowledge of the desired brand image and (2) making sure employees want to project this image through an upheld psychological contract. This investigation therefore covers how Company X works with the process of employee branding, how employees perceive what the management wants to communicate and any potential discrepancies between management and employee views. From a qualitative and interpretative approach, four interviews have been conducted with the top management at Company X and a survey has then been distributed to employees with customer contact at the company. The findings show that Company X has successfully implemented its values in the minds of employees, but lacks a clear focus on building its brand. Therefore, while the psycho- logical contract in general is found to be upheld, to a high extent, the knowledge of the de- sired brand image does not seem to be at a satisfactory level.

Problem: Rebranding in the services is a recent trend, which brings focus to the impor-tance of the employees in this process. Their attitudes, perceptions and views need to be considered by the management when creating the internal communication strategy related to the rebranding in order to direct the employees to the desired brand image. This raises the problem as how employees perceive the management`s rebranding efforts. Purpose: This study aims to focus on how rebranding is executed and communicated in-ternally to the employees of the company. It is interesting to find out how the employees evaluate the communication strategy that the management implements and how they perceive the new image of the company. In order to get insight to the internal rebranding process the correlation between the perceived image by the employees and the components of the internal communication strategy is presented. Methodology: The empirical approach is a case study of the Bulgarian telecommunication company Vivacom. The research includes two interviews with the management of the company and a questionnaire based on the interviews and the relevant literature, which was sent to the employees of the company. Moreover, company`s documentation and website were used to complement the information. Conclusions: The results helped us identify the decisions that the management made re-garding the rebranding and the internal communication. The quantitative data indicated the relatively positive attitudes and views of the employees for the management`s rebranding efforts. They also showed good knowledge and awareness of the new brand elements.