100 Managers

In an initiative to ensure its future development, IEI is training 100 executives based on the latest concepts of managerial training

Train competent managers and everything else will follow. High-power managers and aggressive executives are becoming increasingly hard to find and of course, increasingly expensive. Aware of these facts, Integrated Electronics Industries (IEI) recently launched a program to train 100 executives based on the latest concepts of managerial training.
The program intends to boost the comprehensive management skills of the country’s leading electronic industries conglomerate with a view to quantitative and qualitative requirements and development plans of IEI. Qualified attendants have been chosen from among 500 candidates to later fill in posts within the IEI group. To be held in the three forms of self-study, part-time and full-time, the program aims to both develop managers and train new executives.
Courses to be offered will focus on knowledge of management, development of managerial skills, character, vision and professional aspects of management. Direct learning, action learning and social learning mechanisms are stipulated to guide candidates through seminars, workshops, on-the-job training and real-life situations. According to IEI academic board and training committees, the program is a product of months-long endeavor for tailor-making a combination of theoretical and practical courses based on the group’s demands.
A ceremony was held in IEI auditorium on January 26, 2000 to open the program. The event was attended by Defense Minister Fleet Admiral Shamkhani, IEI managing director V. Ghafarian, chairman of Industrial Management Organization S. J. Marashi and a number of top IEI executives.
Addressing the ceremony, Marashi elaborated on the management aspects in Iran and the world, saying that development of attitude, knowledge and organized experience were fundamentals of management programs in the country. He referred to the role of managers as recognizing the new arrangements of globalization and renovating the structures of work place. He called for Iranian organizations to establish new management concepts in their fields of specialty and not remain as mere consumers of management literature. Marashi further continued by stressing the need for creating a network of supply and demand for managers through precise training courses and concluded by praising IEI for its initiative to turn from a user of managers into a supplier of skilled managers.
IEI managing director Ghafarian was the next speaker who briefed the audience with a report on the philosophy behind the program and various training courses involved. He pointed to the decreasing significance of labor, capital and raw materials against the increasing importance of management in today’s world. Capturing opportunities, creating a network of efficient people in and out of the organization and using that network to achieve strategic goals were highlights of Mr. Ghafarian’s address in characterizing management skills. IEI managing director closed his speech by stressing on modeling methods of the program to allow building characters of future managers.
Defense Minister Fleet Admiral Shamkhani was the last speaker of the ceremony. He noted that an organization would inevitably be aged and outdated unless it actively assumed a forward-looking approach. The Defense Minister underlined the necessities of executive management in the Islamic Republic of Iran and criticized managers who hamper the growth of their organization by setting excessive rules and objectives. Especially in the Third World countries, he emphasized, most managers ignore the fact that they should be able to manage even their superiors. Shamkhani remarked that every executive must be accustomed to making decisions only based on solid reasons and thorough thinking, avoiding delay and hesitation. The defense minister closed his statements by wishing IEI success in its new endeavor.