From Managing for Quality and Productivity to Managing for Global Sustainability—the Continuing Evolution of Quality Management

Jim Stoner

James Stoner

F. Werner

Frank Werner

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Goal of the Workshop

The goal of the workshop is to provide participants with insights, ideas, and tools that will enable them to build upon their knowledge of managing for quality and productivity and to extend their contributions into the domain of managing for global sustainability.  This goal will be pursued by

  1. framing the currently evolving management practices as the transitioning from one management technology or system to another,
  2. providing participants with some experience in inquiring into what this transition might look like,
  3. offering tools of managing for global sustainability to the participants so they can add the new tools to their existing tools for managing for quality and productivity,
  4. exploring and contrasting the tools for managing for quality and productivity with the tools for managing for global sustainability,
  5. providing opportunities for participants and presenters to establish relationships that will support further collaborative inquiry into this domain, and
  6. assisting the presenters in gaining new insights into both this way of framing the issues of moving toward global sustainability and the implications of attempting to do so. 

This workshop builds on a session conducted by Frank, Jim, and Projaal Dutta, Director of Sustainability Initiatives for the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, at last year=s Ott Conference, and a session conducted by Frank and Jim at the Eastern Academy of Management – International 2009 conference on Managing in a Global Economy XIII, “Management Challenges for a New World,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Outline of the Workshop

  1. What is global sustainability?
    1. Development, environment, social justice issues
    2. Importance of and opportunities from addressing global sustainability
  1. The evolution of the worldwide quality revolution
    1. Framing management as a technology – three stages
    2. Exploring stage 2 – managing for quality and productivity—the management system that would exist if we fully brought into being all of the implications of the quality revolution
    3. Exploring stage 3 – managing for global sustainability—what a management system related to the need for global sustainability might look like
  1. The current transformation – from stage 2 to stage 3
    1. Dimensions that might distinguish the new management technology of managing for global sustainability from the stage 2 management technology of managing for quality and productivity
    2. Exploring the new tools for managing for global sustainability (and the ones not yet developed but that may need to be developed)
    3. Exploring the similarities and differences between managing for quality and managing for global sustainability and the tools used by each.
  2. Conclusion and next steps
    1. Reflections on learning's
    2. Next steps for each of us

Presenter 1

James A.F. Stoner
Professor of Management Systems
Fordham University
Schools of Business

Jim is Professor of Management Systems at Fordham University=s Schools of Business. He joined Fordham in 1975 and currently holds the “James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Sustainability.”  That chair was established originally as the James A.F. Stoner Chair in Quality Leadership in his honor by the Fordham G BA alumnus, Brent Martini, and Brent's father, Robert Martini.  He received his B.S. in Engineering Science from Antioch College and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Industrial Management from MIT.

Before joining Fordham he was a research associate at MIT, a consultant with and to Arthur D. Little, an instructor at the Arthur D. Little Management Education Institute, and Associate Professor of Management at Columbia University.  He was Project Development Officer, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and has served as a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Bell Labs, Bergen Brunswig Corporation, the Juran Institute, and other companies and institutions.

Jim=s research and teaching are in the areas of leading and managing for global sustainability; designing and creating for-profit enterprises that contribute to global sustainability; management, spirituality and organizational excellence; creating excellent teams; ontological inquiry; and personal and organizational transformation.

His honors and awards include Professor Honorario, Universidad Católica Santo Domingo, DR; Profesor Distinque, Asociación Domínica de Profesionales en Administración, Inc.; the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence, Fordham University (twice); and Honorific Visiting Professor, Universidad de Ricardo Palma, Lima, Perú.  He received the award for best paper in management education from the Academy of Management in 1991.

Jim is a prolific author with many books and refereed papers.  Among his most recent books are Modern Financial Managing–Continuity and Change, 3rd edition, 2007  and Fundamentals of Financial Managing, 2nd edition, 2008 (both with Frank Werner). Frank and Jim have written five other books reporting their research on the impact of changing management systems on financial management activities.  With Charles Wankel, Jim has co-edited four recent books: Management Education for Global Sustainability, June, 2009; Innovative Approaches to Global Sustainability, 2008; Global Sustainability Initiatives: New Models and New Approaches, 2008; and Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty, 2007.

Presenter 2

Frank M. Werner,
Associate Professor of Finance
Fordham University
Schools of Business

Frank is Associate Professor of Finance at Fordham University=s Schools of Business.  He joined Fordham in 1977.  He received A.B. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Before joining Fordham he was Senior Contracts Administrator at Grumman Corporation and Assistant to the Vice President of Finance at Grumman Data Systems Corporation.  He has served as a consultant to Citigroup, Con Edison, JPMorgan Chase, Lazard Frères, and Swiss Bank Corporation as well as various airlines.  Since 1991 he has been a member of the international faculty of the International Air Transport Association and he is regularly quoted by the media on airline finance and management.

Frank’s research and teaching is in the areas of the appropriate goal for the for-profit firm, and designing and creating for-profit enterprises that contribute to global sustainability.

His honors and awards include the College of Business Administration Outstanding Teacher Award, Fordham University; the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence, Fordham University (twice); and the Stanley Fuchs Award for impact on students, Fordham University.

Frank’s recent publications include Modern Financial Managing–Continuity and Change, 3rd edition, 2007; Fundamentals of Financial Managing, 2nd edition, 2008 (both with Jim Stoner); and a business-themed novel, The Amazing Journey of Adam Smith, 2008.  Frank and Jim have written five other books reporting their research on the impact of changing management systems on financial management activities, and he is the author of chapters in books on airline finance and quality management (several with Jim Stoner)

Date and Time

October 9, 2009
Registration......................... 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Welcome.............................. 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Morning Session ................ 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Lunch & Ott award ........... 12:00 N -- 1:00PM
 Afternoon Session............. 1:00 PM— 4:00 PM

Location

Fordham University, Graduate School of Business
113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

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To be determined

Fee

$295 per person (includes light breakfast, refreshments, lunch, and materials)
Discounts for three or more from the same company are available

Registration

Mr. William I. Martin
Customized Management Systems, Ltd.
18-65 211 St Suite 2F
Bayside, NY 11360-1814
By Phone/Fax: (718) 631-2375
Email: register@metro-asq.org