We are happy to announce that we continue the POST-MBA programme in 2023 with new sessions. The idea behind this programme is to offer to the business community gathered around TEE educational programmes an opportunity to meet again in a structured learning environment, under the close guidance of some of the TEE Executive MBA programme’s teaching staff and experts.
The first edition will take place on the 29th of March. Our special guest, Prof. David COLLINS from Northumbria University, will deliver a workshop on Rethinking Organisational Culture.
About the guest lecturer
David Collins is Professor in Management at Northumbria University. In an academic career that is now in its 34th year, Collins has published significant studies of ‘organizational change’, ‘management fashion’, ‘management consultants’, ‘culture’, ‘storytelling’, ‘management gurus’, and ‘financial regulation’ and has twice been awarded prizes from the British Academy of Management. A lively and very engaging speaker, David also consults with organizations on culture and is widely respected for the interventions he has developed to reveal and explore the storytelling practices that shape our organized existence.
A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Essex, David Collins has worked for a number of leading UK universities. He is, as you will learn, British by birth and Scottish by the grace of God.
What is the topic of this workshop?
It has become commonplace to suggest that the problems and processes of organizational life are at root cultural. Indeed, most courses on management tend to proceed from the understanding that organizations have cultures and that leaders may intervene purposefully in organizations to effect meaningful change in our social relationships.
In this interactive workshop, Professor David Collins will challenge this presumption. Building upon two of his recently published books – Rethinking Organizational Culture and The Emptiness of Business Excellence – David will demonstrate that our understanding of culture or, if you prefer, our appreciation of the social world of the workplace is based upon a denial of how people actually think, feel, act and interact within and beyond the workplace.
Acknowledging that what people think, say, and do is, in truth, central to the theory of management and should be fundamental to the practice of management, Professor Collins will bite the hand that feeds him. Or, perhaps more plainly, he will offer an introduction to ‘organizational culture’ and a number of challenging exercises that are designed to reveal:
- The historical origins of managerial interest in ‘culture’.
- The analytical limitations of those models, which purport to explain workplace cultures.
- The manner in which these models of culture deny the lived experience of working and managing.
- The opportunities for change and renewal which arise when we choose to cultivate a new appreciation of those prosaic, polyphonous, and profane aspects of our organized lives that the academy has, in effect, edited out of the curriculum.
Building from this radical reanalysis of the academic and practitioner literature on culture, Professor Collins will offer a re-view and reanalysis of those organizations which in 1982 were celebrated as exemplars of excellence. In a text designed to observe the 40th anniversary of the first publication of In Search of Excellence, he will demonstrate serious misconduct at the heart of the excellence project including – but not limited to – bribery, corruption, money-laundering, racism, sexism and anti-Semitism. As we shall see, this re-view of the excellence project offers a challenge to the fundamental conceit of the management curriculum – that business success accrues to those who model a value-driven approach to business.
What to expect from this workshop
- 6 hours of face-to-face interaction, from 2 pm to 8 pm
- A networking dinner organised after the workshop
- Meet colleagues from the MBA and other middle-top management leaders from Romania
The TEE Post MBA School does not include assignments, or credits and it is not a formal educational programme, but is the perfect way to bring together like-minded people interested to discuss global issues in a complex environment together with friends and experts.
The workshops are designed for an expert level and we will ground our discussions on the topics studied during the EMBA.
How to register?
Please fill in this form and a member of the TEE team will call you to confirm the registration.
Price
One session cost 120 euros + VAT for the MBA community members. We welcome any executive-level participant from outside of the TEE community to this event for a 200 euros/event +VAT fee.
About 2022 Post-MBA editions
More than 30 participants from the TEE community took part in each of the three editions organised in 2022, where we had as guest lecturers:
- Robert Lewis, an entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in developing consumer healthcare products at major pharmaceutical companies, offering consultant services in innovation, OTC, and digital. He has held senior R&D positions at a number of global companies including Reckitt Benckiser, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer setting up innovation teams, processes and developing new ideas.
- Dr. David Menachof, an Associate Professor in the Department of IT and Operations Management, College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. He previously held the Peter Thompson Chair in Port Logistics and was Director of the Centre for Logistics Research, based at the Logistics Institute at Hull University Business. School.
- Dr. Angela Espinosa, Professor of Systemic Management, a social cybernetician, passionate about communities, social organisations, nature, and sustainability. She has been an international leader in the development of Organizational Cybernetics, a theory for complexity management in organizations pioneered by Professor Stafford Beer.
