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Ten 85% scholarships to faculty and ten to doctoral students for year-long PDP program
Participation includes the PDP, the Executive Symposium on November 15th and year-long access to the Society's new on-line professional development program including the Novus Management System e-learning modules    (Event fee: $2095 CAD;  Fee after scholarship:  $314.25 plus 5% tax.  You will need to cover your own transportation, accommodation and two dinners. Perhaps your university will help.)

• PDP web page
• PDP downloadable brochure in pdf
• PDP registration
• Executive Symposium web page (The Symposium is included in the PDP registration - additional detail here)
• Executive Symposium downloadable brochure in pdf
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• Those who may have read about or experienced Requisite Organization (RO) - based organization design and management applied in an organization and been intrigued by its potential implications.
• Possess an undergraduate or masters degree in a field that has a science base - such as engineering, medicine, IT, or a field that uses scientific method to develop univocally defined concepts and consensus around those concepts.
• Full or part-time position in a management, public administration or organization studies program - preference given to those teaching in executive MBA programs for mature students already in management positions and in doctoral programs
• Experience as a manager of managers - that is at Director level and above
• Experience in consulting to general managers on strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and organization design or in other specialties as RO concepts are known to enhance most types of interventions. -- for doctoral students an aspiration for a career that includes consulting to general managers.
• Opportunity to include requisite organization concepts in your teaching and/or research.
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• Complete the registration -  PDP registration
• Email - Mailto:KenShepard@GlobalRO.org to briefly describe your interests in attending and to arrange a telephone interview.  Dr. Shepard's skypename is kenshepard. His phone is +1-416-463=0423

• Review the new on-line learning program without charge till November 12, 2012

• Learn requisite organization design and management concepts on line. Year-long access to the Society's new on-line professional development program including the Novus Management System e-learning modules

• Review an extensive library on Organization Design - based on requisite organization concepts on the Society's web site.
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• Organization Design, Levels of Work Complexity and Human Capability:  Executive Guide - by Ken Shepard, Editor
• Requisite Organization - Annotated Bibliography, Fifth Edition by Ken Craddock

• We have just created two open discussion groups on LinkedIn that may be of interest to Academics interesting in teaching and researching using RO concepts

• Teaching Requisite Organization
• Researching Requisite Organization
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Requisite Organization includes science-based concepts of levels of work complexity and levels of human capability using a work-centric language that greatly improves design of the strategy itself and then the structure, systems, staffing, and compensation to implement that strategy.  RO:

• Helps to accurately etermine the level of work complexity required to implement a desired business strategy and to define the optimal number of organizational levels.
• Improves clarity in defining roles, accountabilities and authorities to build effective vertical and cross-functional relationships.
• Improves staffing success rate by fitting the level of human capability to that required by the role.
• Guides designing level-appropriate systems and work processes.
• Enables a greatly simplified and efficient compensation system based on levels of work complexity.
• Helps align a diverse array management initiatives and projects.

• Academics who also consulted using work-levels and accountability concepts.

• Elliott Jaques, founding head of  Brunel Institute for Organizational and Social Studies BIOSS, consulted over 10 years to the UK National Health Service, wrote Stratified System Theory and went on to consult for more than 15 years to the US Army, 10 years to CRA and their 25 business units, Commonwealth Aluminum and many others.
• David Billis who wrote Organization Design - The Work Levels Approach with Ralph Rowbottom also at BIOSS went on to major applications of the concepts at Unilever, Tesco, and BG-Group

• Requisite organization related productivity in academia.  The Fifth Edition of the Annotated Bibliography gathers in one place more than 50 years of studies on R.O. theory and application. It includes over 2,400 research studies directly on the theory (including 90 PhDs) and over 1,600 related studies.
• Deans of Business schools

• Dr. Jerry L. Gray, first completed a doctoral internship at the Glacier Institute of Management and then taught RO in management courses at the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba during his entire teaching career where he long served as Dean.
• Dr. Larry Tapp, Dean of the Business School at the University of Western Ontario, not only taught a highly popular course on governance but widely consulted to corporate boards using RO concepts.

• While producing a world conference in Buenos Aires, we identified 26 individuals teaching RO concepts in their courses at various Argentine universities.
• Dr. James G Hunt, The Paul Whitford Horn Professor of Management, former department chair, and Director for the Institute of Leadership Research atTexas Tech University also consulted extensively with the US Army Research Institute and is the author of Leadership: A New Synthesis - proposing levels of work as a new framework for leadership research.

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