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International Master program in practicing Management
Posted Date: 13 May 2008 Resource Type: Admissions Category: General
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Posted By: Ramkumar Member Level: Diamond
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The International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM) is a Masters Degree management development program, co-founded by Henry Mintzberg, world-renowned management thinker and author of Managers Not MBAs. The IMPM is unlike any management degree program anywhere and is designed for experienced managers who want to get a better job, but more importantly, want to do a better job.
Built around managerial mindsets, the IMPM focuses on the very essence of what it means to practice management. It is a work-connected program that takes its participants around the globe, not to make them more global, but to make them more worldly.
Read on to find out how this unique degree program can help strengthen your organization – and change how you practice management.
The IMPM approach
Unlike the traditional case-study approach, the IMPM curriculum is designed around the actual experiences and needs of the participating managers and their organizations. Throughout the program, learning takes the form of a constant exchange of ideas and insights, as participants move back and forth between management concepts and their real-life experiences, reflecting upon them individually and together
Breaking down the conventional silos
Most management degree programs offer training in the traditional business silos of marketing, finance, strategy, HR, etc., but little in the actual practice of management. As described in the Harvard Business Review article “Five Minds of a Manager”, by J. Gosling and H. Mintzberg, the IMPM uses a unique approach structured around five managerial mindsets.
Earn a Masters degree while you work
Participants continue to work while they earn a Masters Degree through five two-week modules given over a 16-month period at leading business schools around the world.
Experienced managers are also teachers
The IMPM breaks away from the traditional lecture format, where the professor is considered the expert in the room. Instead, sessions are designed to involve everyone, with a 50-50 rule that gives the managers half the time to spend in conversation with their colleagues, learning from each other’s insights and suggestions.
This ensures that the focus remains on real-life experiences. In fact, these discussions often become much more passionate than they would in normal case studies because participants want to help their colleagues resolve the issue at hand.
Authentically international
The IMPM is not a domestic program with foreign activities, but one truly balanced across different parts of the world and centered in none – so that each location feels both local and foreign. The intention is to create worldly managers, not global ones.
Participants travel to a different campus for each module and spend time immersed in the culture of the host country. While there, they go on field studies to local companies, observe different managerial practices and learn from the divergent insights and perceptions of fellow participants –especially those from the host country.
Given the sharp contrast to Western lifestyle and culture, the India module, in particular, has been a life-changing experience for many managers from Europe and North America. By the same token, Asian and Indian participants are profoundly impacted by similar contrasts when they attend the modules held on campuses in the West.
Worldwide campus. The medium is the message.
The IMPM is as Asian as it is European or North American, offering participants an authentically cross-cultural experience.
No one academic institution drives the program. Instead, it is a balanced partnership among faculty and business schools in 6 countries. Although each module is separate and distinct, and reflects the culture and business practices of the host country, they are all linked by the faculty from beginning to end.
The need for worldly – not global – managers
The IMPM is international, but it is not meant to be “global”, which suggests conformist. To be worldly, as the Oxford Dictionary defines it, is to be “experienced in life, sophisticated, practical.” The IMPM focuses the world around the manager: from a political, social, legal standpoint – to explore different perspectives and gain a true appreciation of other perspectives. Why impose conformity when we can benefit from diversity?
Ventures
Participants develop a “Venture,” an individual program-long project focused on bringing about change in their own work environment. This approach involves active learning, which encourages participants to probe a company issue that would otherwise not have been addressed or would have been dealt with differently if not for the IMPM. As a final step, participants are asked to take a look inward and reflect on their ability to affect change, as well as on their company’s ability to accept it.
Tutoring in its truest form
Tutoring is a key component of this program and is fashioned after the British system of learning, where the faculty works closely with participants. This approach personalizes and sustains the learning process by encouraging participants to apply what they learn to their day-to-day activities.
Selected faculty members are involved in both IMPM design and delivery, each taking responsibility for a small tutorial group (typically about five participants from the same company, where possible). The tutorial groups meet during and between the modules, which gives them the opportunity to track and share personal development, as well as discuss all aspects of the program, including their Venture projects.
Managerial exchange – or shadowing
In addition to the five two-week modules, participants spend a week on an exchange at the office of another participant in another country. They often do not speak the local language, so when they observe their co-participant at work, the focus turns on the process of management, rather than on its content.
Participants then prepare a paper, detailing and reflecting upon their observations.
This shadowing process is considered one of the most enriching experiences of the program, as the benefit is twofold. Participants not only receive constructive feedback after being closely observed in their own environment, but gain insight into how they themselves work by watching another manager in action.
Schedules, Fees, Application
Schedules - Next IMPM Starts April 2008
Next IMPM - Cycle 13 Schedule:
Module 1 Lancaster Tuesday, April 8 to Saturday, April 19, 2008
Module 2 McGill Sunday, September 21 to Thursday, October 2, 2008
Module 3 IIM Bangalore Sunday, January 11 to Thursday, January 22, 2009
Module 4 Japan & Korea Wednesday, May 27 to Monday, June 8, 2009
Module 5 INSEAD Sunday, September 6 to Saturday, September 19, 2009
Current IMPM - Cycle 12 Schedule:
Module 1 Lancaster Tuesday, April 17 to Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Module 2 McGill Friday, September 7 to Friday, September 21, 2007
Module 3 IIM Bangalore Sunday, January 13 to Friday, January 25, 2008
Module 4 Japan & Korea Wednesday, May 28 to Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Module 5 INSEAD Sunday, September 21 at 2pm to Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Degree workshop is on Sunday October 5.
Participants will be free to leave from the morning of Tuesday, October 7.
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Fees & Guidelines
Late applications will be considered.
Special Offer!
Register a company group of 4 participants and a 5th participant can attend for free!
Program Cost and Payment Schedule
Tuition fee
US$55,000 per participant, covering all instruction during the five modules; required books and other pedagogical materials including self-learning materials; and tutoring and other intermodular support.
Tuition is exclusive of travel and living expenses (see below).
Payment Schedule
An initial payment of US$35,000 per applicant is required to reserve a place in Cycle Thirteen.
The initial payment is due by January 15, 2008.
The balance of US$20,000 is due on January 1, 2009.
Degree fee
For participants choosing to complete the Masters Degree requirements, a charge of US$ 6,750 will be made to cover the cost of registration fees, ongoing assessment and supervision of the final paper. This amount is due on October 1 of the year in which participants begin their major paper (For Cycle Thirteen, the degree fee is due on October 1, 2009). Companies will advise IMPM whether the degree fee should be billed to the participant or to the company.
Travel
To be arranged and paid for by the participants or their companies.
Living Expenses
The cost of local board and lodging will be billed to the companies at cost and is expected to be approximately US$13,000. This amount includes hotel accommodation, group meals and local transport for excursions.
Participants are responsible for personal expenses such as certain non-group meals, telephone calls, laundry, etc.
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Application to the IMPM Program
Admission Policies
Reservations and Application Process – Company Reservations and Individual Applicants
Companies wishing to reserve places on the IMPM are requested to:
I. Send an email to impm@embanet.com with the number of places the company wishes to reserve.
II. Ask their candidates to submit the application pack which includes the 3 items below.
Individual applicants submit the application pack only:
(1) The Application Form which can be submitted:
a) Electronically, by completing the online application form Application for Admission
b) By fax, complete the Word version of the form and fax it to:
+44 1524 510760, attention: Colette Webb
c) By mail, to:
Colette Webb, IMPM Program Manager
IMPM, c/o Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, UK.
(2) A passport-sized photo emailed as a jpeg to impm@embanet.com or sent by post.
(3) A business card with full job title and contact details emailed to impm@embanet.com.
Applications should be received no later than March 1, 2008.
Candidates must meet the admission and performance requirements of the Program. The application for the Masters Degree is a separate process and degree candidates must be accepted by the University itself. (See the section on Degree Requirements.)
Accepted Applicants
All successful individual and company applicants will receive i) confirmation of acceptance; ii) an invoice for the first fee payment of US$35,000 and iii) further program information and degree registration procedures.
There are a limited number of places available per Cycle. Placements are reserved only upon receipt of the initial payment of US$35,000 per applicant. Please note that places cannot be guaranteed without this payment.
Substitutions
In cases where a registered candidate cannot attend the Program, companies may substitute another person prior to the start of the first module, subject to that person's meeting all admission and performance requirements. No substitutions may be made after the Program begins.
Cancellations
US$30,000 is refundable should a participant withdraw before the start of the program. Because there are a fixed number of places per Cycle (on which we base our budgeting), companies will be responsible for payment of the full amount of the tuition fee for participants who drop out after the start of the first module.
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Admission and Performance Requirements
Selection of Participants
This is a demanding Masters Degree program with ambitious goals. Its success depends on the quality and motivation of the participants. Suggested criteria for selecting candidates are:
Managers over the age of 35, in senior functional or general management positions, for whom a future role in senior management is envisaged.
Individuals who are enthusiastic about participating in a innovative endeavor and have a strong interest in living an eclectic international experience.
Candidates who can make a serious commitment to the entire program, who are able to attend all the modules and conscientiously undertake the work between the modules.
People with a working knowledge of English.
See IMPM Participant Profile (PDF)
Commitment
The IMPM requires a high degree of commitment from participants, their sponsoring companies (in particular, the person they report to and those who report to them), and their families. Participants are away from work and home for eleven weeks over a sixteen-month period and must also complete various assignments between modules. While we make every effort to "use work" rather than "make work", the impact of the program on the participants' responsibilities back home should not be underestimated.
Diploma and Certificate
Participants who have satisfactorily completed all the activities and assignments, including full attendance at the five modules, will receive a Diploma of Completion of the International Program in Practicing Management from INSEAD and will also receive a joint Certificate of Attendance in the International Masters Program in Practicing Management from the participating learning institutions.
Masters Degree Requirements
Participants are invited to register for the Masters Degree. All activities and requirements will be identical for degree and non-degree participants, except that degree candidates will submit a major paper after the fifth module. Masters Degrees are offered from Lancaster University (Master of Arts in Practicing Management) and McGill University (Master of Management). Applicants may apply to either school. A complete list of requirements will be provided when applicants are accepted into the IMPM, and will include the following:
Masters Degree applicants must normally have an undergraduate degree from a recognized university; a post-graduate degree is, of course, welcomed. Applicants with an MBA will find the IMPM much different and are also invited to apply. Candidates with no degree but other relevant qualifications may also be eligible.
Applicants will normally have obtained an equivalent minimum of 3.0 grade point average in the North American system, a Second Class Honors Upper Division in the UK system, or the equivalent elsewhere. Two official copies of all transcripts showing the award of a degree and the grades achieved in individual courses are required.
For more details, visit http://www.impm.org/
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