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Online MBA Infosession: Management Attributes for a VUCA World

Mar 13-2021   



Topic: Management Attributes for a VUCA World

Time & Date: March 13th, 2021, Beijing Time (GMT+8)

 

Agenda:

19:30-20:00 The PKU-UCL MBA Program Introduction

20:00-21:00 Taster Lecture by Professor Alan Parkinson, UCL School of Management, University College London

21:00-21:15 Q & A

 

This session’s focus is the challenges facing managers as they aspire to implement effective management in a world increasingly VUCA in nature: volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous.

This VUCA world reflects the phenomena of globalisation, technological change, and new organizational structures, demanding of managers evolving and new attributes. In that context this session identifies and explores the nature of the attributes managers require to be ‘a successful manager’. In particular, it sets considerations against the need for effective management to engender resilience in the face of unexpected and extreme turbulence in the business and economic landscape. Such attributes may develop naturally through management experience but may often require engineered evolution through professional development and engagement with programmes of formal study.

 

About the speaker

Professor Alan Parkinson

Alan is Professor of Financial Education at University College London (UCL) where he is School Deputy Director (Education) in UCL School of Management, and Lead of the Finance, Accounting and Economics Teaching Team. He is a qualified accountant, with a Doctorate in Education (Theme: Accounting Education), two Masters degrees (Administration, and Early Modern History) and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate. He is Visiting Professor at Ecole des Ponts in Paris, and a Faculty Adviser at Harvard Medical School. He is very much involved in the UCL MBA at Peking University. He is Deputy Director of the online MSc Professional Accountancy at University of London. He is Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at University of London. In 2018 he was awarded UK Public Sector Accountancy Lecturer of the Year by PQ magazine. Alan’s research interests focus on Curriculum Evaluation, Performance Measurement in Accounting Education, Historical Perspectives on Business, and Technology Applications within Education. He presents regularly at national and international Education-related conferences and workshops, winning a number of awards, and publishes in scholarship journals, and in textbooks. Alan likes all sport (especially football – soccer – and travels the emotional roller coaster journey accompanying the life and times of a Tottenham Hotspur FC supporter), reading, and travel. He thinks smiling is a particularly good hobby.

Online MBA Infosession: Management Attributes for a VUCA World

Mar 13-2021   



Topic: Management Attributes for a VUCA World

Time & Date: March 13th, 2021, Beijing Time (GMT+8)

 

Agenda:

19:30-20:00 The PKU-UCL MBA Program Introduction

20:00-21:00 Taster Lecture by Professor Alan Parkinson, UCL School of Management, University College London

21:00-21:15 Q & A

 

This session’s focus is the challenges facing managers as they aspire to implement effective management in a world increasingly VUCA in nature: volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous.

This VUCA world reflects the phenomena of globalisation, technological change, and new organizational structures, demanding of managers evolving and new attributes. In that context this session identifies and explores the nature of the attributes managers require to be ‘a successful manager’. In particular, it sets considerations against the need for effective management to engender resilience in the face of unexpected and extreme turbulence in the business and economic landscape. Such attributes may develop naturally through management experience but may often require engineered evolution through professional development and engagement with programmes of formal study.

 

About the speaker

Professor Alan Parkinson

Alan is Professor of Financial Education at University College London (UCL) where he is School Deputy Director (Education) in UCL School of Management, and Lead of the Finance, Accounting and Economics Teaching Team. He is a qualified accountant, with a Doctorate in Education (Theme: Accounting Education), two Masters degrees (Administration, and Early Modern History) and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate. He is Visiting Professor at Ecole des Ponts in Paris, and a Faculty Adviser at Harvard Medical School. He is very much involved in the UCL MBA at Peking University. He is Deputy Director of the online MSc Professional Accountancy at University of London. He is Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at University of London. In 2018 he was awarded UK Public Sector Accountancy Lecturer of the Year by PQ magazine. Alan’s research interests focus on Curriculum Evaluation, Performance Measurement in Accounting Education, Historical Perspectives on Business, and Technology Applications within Education. He presents regularly at national and international Education-related conferences and workshops, winning a number of awards, and publishes in scholarship journals, and in textbooks. Alan likes all sport (especially football – soccer – and travels the emotional roller coaster journey accompanying the life and times of a Tottenham Hotspur FC supporter), reading, and travel. He thinks smiling is a particularly good hobby.