The Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN) was established in 1993 with the aim of fostering management development

Management Development

Management Development is best described as the process from which managers learn and improve their skills not only to benefit themselves but also their employing organizations....

 and management education development in CEE

Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe is a term describing former communist states in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90. In scholarly literature the abbreviations CEE or CEEC are often used for this concept...

 region. By now, its membership has grown far beyond the CEE region, including over 185 members (business school

Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...

s, universities, management development centers, national, regional and international associations, corporation

Corporation

A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...

s and individuals) from 43 countries, including from Western Europe

Western Europe

Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...

, both Americas, and Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

.

Activities

The main activities of the association include educational programs for faculty and staff of management development institutions (such as IMTA - International Management Teachers Academy and Program Management Seminar ), International Quality Accreditation , international conferences, promoting case writing and use of case method

Case method

The case method is a teaching approach that consists in presenting the students with a case, putting them in the role of a decision maker facing a problem...

 in management education in CEE, fostering international cooperation and joint projects between its member institutions, etc.

Collaboration

CEEMAN has collaboration with the EMBA council

EMBA council

The Executive MBA Council was formed in 1981 to accredit schools of business offering EMBA worldwide. The council was form with the assistance of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International accreditation....

 (Executive MBA Council) , European Foundation for Management Development

European Foundation for Management Development

The European Foundation for Management Development is an international membership organization, based in Brussels, Belgium. Europe's largest network association in the field of management development, it has over 700 member organizations from academia, business, public service and consultancy in...

 (EFMD) , Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide. The first accreditations took place in 1919. The stated mission is to advance quality management education worldwide through accreditation and thought leadership. It is regarded...

(AASCB International), and a number of other international and regional management development associations .

CEEMAN is a Steering Committee member of PRME - Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative and is leading its Working Group on Poverty as a Challenge to Management Education .

In 2009, CEEMAN, in cooperation with TMK Lab company from Slovenia and IEDC-Bled School of Management , established Challenge Future - a global youth think tank and competition on innovation and sustainability. The project offers various possibilities for engagement for youth in competitions and specialized contests on issues related to sustainability, discussion groups, action teams, or local university-based chapters, and by 2011 has attracted close to 18,000 members from 200 countries.

Since 1998, the Association is organizing an international Case Writing Competition , since 2007 - in cooperation with Emerald, an independent publisher of global research and CEEMAN partner .

Accreditation

Established in 1998, the International Quality Accreditation (IQA)http://www.ceeman.org/pages/en/accreditation.html focuses on addressing the needs of management schools. CEEMAN revamped its IQA accreditation scheme in 2007 with new assessment procedures to encourage schools to focus on the delivery and development of quality educational products within their specific environment and context .

External links

• http://www.cladea.org/noticias/2010/05/entrevista_ceeman/
• http://www.iedp.com/IEDP_Exec-ed-accreditation