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Live Webinar January 8th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)

Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

What Managers Do—and Can Do Better

Managing is important for anyone affected by its practice, which means not just managers, but everyone. We all need to understand it better, in order that it be practiced better.

In this program, Henry Mintzberg explores the characteristics, contents, and varieties of managers, as well as the conundrums they face and how they become effective.

These insights are based upon his observations of 29 different managers, from business, government, and nonprofits, working in diverse settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra.

What he saw led him to develop a new model of management, one firmly grounded in his conclusion that management is not a profession or a science. As he writes, “It is a practice, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.”

Mintzberg will offer a compelling discussion of some of the inescapable conundrums of managing:

  • Why most organizations are overled and undermanaged
  • Is social media, email, the Internet, etc., helping or hindering managers from doing their jobs?
  • A framework of managerial effectiveness that includes five “managerial mindsets”

Presenter: Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, at McGill University in Montreal. Mintzberg is perhaps best known for his work on organizational forms—identifying five types of organization: simple structure; machine bureaucracy; professional bureaucracy; the divisionalized form; and the adhocracy.

He is also credited with advancing the idea of emergent strategy—the idea that effective strategy emerges from conversations within an organization rather than being imposed from on high. Henry is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and l’Ordre national du Quebec.

Henry Mintzberg is the author or coauthor of 15 books, including:

For more information on his activities, visit www.mintzberg.org

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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