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9.4 Centre for Management Education, Norwegian Institute of
The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) has nine engineering departments, one of them is the Department for Economics and Industrial Management. The students here become graduate engineers with a curriculum in technical, adminis
trative and economic subjects. This department consists of the Division of
Organisation and Work Science, the Division of Economics and the Centre for Management Education (ULA-NTH). Through this Centre the academic staff in the divisions give lectures at management courses. The Centre got its present name in 1980, it was established in 1961 as Administrative Continuing Education. The Centre of Management Education has a small academic staff, but it draws upon the departments for lecturers in different courses and programmes. All programmes of ULA-NTH offer optional examinations for the participants.
9.4.1 EEU courses in management
The EEU courses are certified continuing education, with optional examinations, developed and held by the academic staff in the departments of the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Most of the EEU courses are technical or technical
administrative, in 1990 three courses are relevant for managers. The EEU courses usually have two meetings of ane week each for fifteen to thirty participants.
The EEU course "Business Development" has been held for more than five years to help experienced graduate engineers working as managers in firms with changing environments. The themes are: Strategic management and planning, Organisational development and participation, Innovation planning and development of creativity.
Four lecturers come from the Institute, ten lecturers are managers from different trades with experience of "change management" in large and small firms. In addition to group work and exercises, the participants do project work based on their own firm in the ane month period between the course meetings.
Another EEU course "TEK.NO - Management in Technological Environments"
is for "younger graduate engineers, or those going from primarily technical tasks to more administrative tasks". The Centre for Management Education is responsible.
This is an introductory course, with numerous themes: Production management, Material administration and logistics, Project administration, Quality management, Safety, Creativity and innovation, Organising of work and organisation develop
ment, Personnel management and development, Working in groups, Communica
tion, Conflict salving, Agreements and labour legislation. For graduate engineers it is positive that the course combines technical-administrative themes and inter
personal skills. The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) has competence in technical-administrative subjects and access to a network of graduate engineers which private training agencies do not have.
9.4.2 Joint venture programmes
In the EEU course "International Marketing of Products, Services and Systems", the Norwegian Institute of Technology cooperates with the Norwegian Institute of Export, a foundation of the Export Council of Norway. The course is for "graduated engineers, sales engineers and others working in international marketing". The
lecturers come from many export-oriented firms and institutions. The participants have to present their own firm 's international marketing. In 1991 the course will be re-named "Management Programme for International Business Development". This is a four week course and one week is used to visit a leading management school and selected industrial sites in another European country.
Another joint venture is the "Nordic Management of Technology Programme", a three week programme for engineers in high-leve! positions in business, research, etc. The partners are ULA and the technological research foundation SINTEF in Norway and corresponding institutes or centres in Denrnark, Sweden and Finland.
9.4.3 Seminars in administration and management
The Centre for Management Education (ULA) is responsible for these seminars which are long programmes. Toere are no examinations in these prograrnrnes, unlike the EEU courses. But like the EEU courses in management, they are process oriented and do not consist of just lectures.
The "Seminar in Industrial Administration" (SIA) meets four times for two to three weeks during the autumn, in total six weeks. The seminar has long traditions, in 1990 it was held for the 32nd time. The objective is to increase managers' competence in running a technological enterprise, and to develop their competence in leading the future development of such organisations. The themes covered are broad: Management, Decision Processes, Strategic Management, Organisation Theories, Personnel Management, Technology Management, Project Organisation, Financial Control and Financing, Production Management, Marketing, Industrial Law, Society and Politics. An important part is an individual project related to the participant's work organisation.
The "Seminar for Public Administration" (SAOF) is shorter than the industrial one, meeting twice for one week in the spring. In 1990 it was held for the 15th time. This is not continuing education primarily for graduale engineers. The participants come from state-, county- and municipal administration all over the country, including politicians. Alternatives are management programmes by the public employers' federations (chapter 7). The themes covered are: The Adminis
trative Unit as an Organisation, Cooperation between Administration and Politicians in the Decision Process, The Administrative Unit and External Environment, Economic Planning, Organisational Development, Management, Working Environment, Codetermination, Creativity and Change. Between the course meetings there is project work to be done.