Samspelet mellan varumärke och medarbetarnas föreställningar : En uppsats om hur Hemköps medarbetare ser på den interna varumärkeshanteringen

Sammanfattning: This paper observes intern branding and the relation between coworker and brand. It is a mapping study that investigates relations, variables and other factors that affect the integration between coworkers and brand, how they relate to each other. In terms of doing the study, the food chain Hemköp has participated for interviews. Store managers and team managers have been interviewed in different stores around Stockholm. The idea of the study comes from the lack of intern branding and that most literature and research focus on the external perspective, aimed at the costumer. Some researchers mean that it's time to rethink, it's time to look at the corporate brand as the main integrated factor that bring customer, coworker and corporate together. These researchers suppose that the future for an organization is based on how the corporate brand is integrated within the organization. If the corporate doesn’t work on the inside, it will not, in the long term, work on the outside. It requires loyal employees, a distinct communication and an integrated link between the corporate vision, coworker’s culture and customer’s image of the brand. Hemköps’s coworkers indicate within several areas that the intern brand is well operated, and their strategies can be straightened by the researcher’s theories. Hemköp has several loyal employees, excellent tools and planning for a well-functioning internal communication. There are some gaps that needs to be restructured, including how to get employees to stay and develop within the company.