Institute of Management expands

Press, 14 December 1983, Page 38

Institute of Management expands

The Canterbury Division of the Institute of Management is expanding its premises to cater for the growth in demand for its classes. About 1350 sq ft of additional training rooms will be added to the institute headquarters in Madras Street. The division’s chief executive, Mr Reg Garters, says that demand for the institute’s courses had snowballed in the last two years. x The institute has 854 individual members and 239 company members. Membership fees for individuals range from $34 to $63 a year. Companies pay from $l3O to $5BO a year. Within the division also are: ® The Institute of Credit and Financial Management. © The Institute of Public Speaking. • The Institute of Management Services. © The Institute of Personnel Management. In the last two years 4500 managers, from foreman level to senior executives, have taken part in the division’s courses. At the top of the list is the four-week advanced management programme, a

live-in course at the Hotel Commodore. The fee for the 1984 course, in July, is $4lOO per person. It is already overbooked. The New Zealand Institute of Management is associated with similar organisations overseas, but Mr Garters believes the Canterbury division is unique in the reliance it places on working executives to lead the courses in their own time. These managers also take a prominent part in the design of the courses. This gives the division the advantage of knowing precisely what the market requires, because it is the managers who use the courses in the development of their staff and organisation. The Canterbury division has a far greater proportion of local management as members than any other management institute division in Australia or New Zealand, says Mr Garters. More women are taking part in the classes, but they are still very much a minority. Their standard of work is generally very high because of the fight they have to achieve supervisory positions, Mr Garters says.