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News,
Background,
Purpose, Methodology, Read More
Highlights
Background
Union
leaders in many of the nations where there are union development projects
conduct their work in the face of substantial obstacles ranging from
political repression, economic stagnation, collapsing or inferior
communication structures, members who have difficulty paying union fees
because of poverty wage levels and companies who try to take advantage of
all of the above. For many unions survival is a feat in itself. However
none of our leaders is satisfied solely with survival as they recognise
that even managing their scarce resources in a better way can help them
build for the future. It is to address these problems that UNI set up the
Leadership and Management and Technology Transfer (LMTT) programme.
Purpose
UNI’s Development & Regions’ Department (DRD) has accumulated
extensive international experience, designs products and programmes,
monitors developments and conducts evaluations of results, based on more
than a decade of fundamental work in the above areas.
Having developed “A Leader’s Manual”, a practical training
guide to leading and managing trade unions in the 21st century
and UNIConnect,
a membership management computer programme, it continues to apply
Organisational and Institutional Development techniques including
Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Information Technology to its own
development as well as sharing them with affiliates and regional
structures to ensure that UNI as a whole attains a level of continuous
improvement in its operations.
With the continuous support of affiliates and funding organisations, LMTT
now carries out regular regional seminars for top union leaders, officers
and trainers, providing them with Leadership and Management training on
union development as well as on applied information technology focusing on
membership growth. Together with strengthening top leadership teams from
eight unions at a time, these seminars help develop networks of expertise
which through the use of Web sites like this benefit unions throughout the
world.
Methodology
The Leadership and Management programme consists of regional forums,
each comprising three workshops in one regional activity. The strategy of
the programme is a first workshop which gathers top union leaders and
officers to discuss state-of-the-art leadership and management skills,
principles and techniques applied to trade unions in the 21st century.
This workshop focuses on membership growth through a review of techniques
such as strategic planning, institutional development, design, planning
and execution of strategic plans, and project management. The
second workshop is dedicated to training the trainers on practical
operational techniques to implement the results of workshop 1. The
third workshop focuses on IT and in particular on UNIConnect,
the online membership management programme.
These regional seminars motivate participants to join the Internet
knowledge-sharing network on membership growth and union development, now
under construction.
Read more
about leadership and management
schools and issues:
http://www.imd.ch
- The International Institute for Management
Development, IMD, is one of the world’s leading business schools with
over 50 years’ experience in developing the leadership capabilities of
international business executives at every stage of their careers. The school
campus is located in Switzerland, Europe and offers executive education
programs for top management development.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm
- MIT Sloan
School of Management is a business school at and of MIT, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The website offers OpenCourseWare, OCW, a
free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and
self-learners around the world. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/
. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and
education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's
values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
Harvard
Business Online | Newsletters
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/newsletters/news-hmu_home.jhtml
Examples of Management
Schools on the web Africa,
Asia,
Europe,
Latin America
DRD is
currently working with Acumanage
on the Leadership, Management and Technology
Transfer Projects and on other Management questions.
The
current results of DRD’s work and that of the many who collaborate with
us are now at your fingertips through this Web site. Much of the
information is generic and can be applied to small and large unions and
organisational environments. Of essential importance is the correlation
between good leadership and good management of Trade Unions and the
appropriate and effective use of technology.
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