NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR UK plc

As employees return to work after the Christmas break, many will be hoping to keep to their New Year’s Resolutions. High on the list will be working off the festive flab with a new fitness regime at the gym. But, according to the UK’s leading network of business researchers, it isn’t just individuals who need to make some big changes if they are to have a fitter 2006. UK firms, too, should adopt six New Year’s Resolutions if they want to beat off the challenge of overseas rivals and close the productivity gap with other leading industrial nations. That’s the message from the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), the UK’s research initiative on management. AIM has grouped six important research findings into a 2006 wish list for British management. Each resolution is backed by a major research project led by one of the UK’s leading business academics. These include professors