Re-organisation of the Management Group
Plans are in hand to re-organise the way in which the Management Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers supports the needs of members who have an interest in consulting. Under previous arrangements a separate sub-group dealt with consultants’ interests, and reported to the Management Group Board. Proposals to be put to the October meeting of the Management Group Board would see the interests of consultants dealt with at the main Management Group Board and events (  RSS feed )sub-committee, thus integrating consultants’ activities more closely with other activities of the Management Group. The mission of the management group is also to be reviewed and amended as appropriate to reflect this change.
If the proposal is approved by the Board it would also include a greater representation of consultants on it. It is envisaged that new Board members would represent the interests of consulting businesses from the smallest to the largest. The Chair of the Management Group would continue to represent consultants’ interests at the Technical Strategy Board.
An important part of the Management Group’s activities is the consultants database – a register of consultants who are members of the Institution and to which anyone can obtain access to view the listing. As IMechE members the consultants are by default obligated to abide by the Institution’s professional standards. Under the proposed re-organisation one of the urgent actions to be undertaken by the Management Group will also be to ensure that appropriate steps are taken to maximise the accessibility of the database to those interrogating it, and to implement any investment needed for this to be achieved. The Board will also review how to generate greater visibility for the database within the Institution, the engineering community and business at large.
Overall the proposals, if agreed, should result in both better integration of consultants’ interests with the other activities of the Management Group, better support for professional consultants, and also more effective use of the consultants’ database.
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Vision
The resource and network of choice for promoting the art and science of management amongst professional engineers.
Mission - To develop and enhance professional engineers management competence.
- To create forums at which engineers can discuss, meet and contribute to the understanding, development, practice and advancement of management.
- To promote awareness of the special contributions that engineers make to the practice of management.
- To make professional engineers aware of their corporate, social and ethical responsibilities within the community.
Strategy - The Management Group shall organise at least four seminars, the Young Members Conference and a sponsored Management Challenge lecture each year. Once very two years it will present a Management Conference the first of these having taken place in 2005. Elements of the seminars and conferences will reflect the Key Themes established by the IMechE. The organising panels should seek opportunities to work in conjunction with other Divisions and Groups for all events and to gain the support of traditional and commercial co-sponsors. At least one event a year shall be located in the Regions.
- Actively promote the work of the Group through use of the IMechE web site.
- The Consultants’ Committee shall promote and develop the role of IMechE members, who work as consultants, offering technical and management expertise across a wide area of interests. This shall include organising at least two of the seminars noted in (1) and maintaining the consultant’s database.
- Create vehicles for attracting outstanding learned society papers that advance management thinking.
- Develop a Management Group board capable of delivering these strategies and that is representative of the various interests across the IMechE.
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