IMTA - International Management Teachers Academy

CEEMAN’s IMTA (International Management Teachers Academy) program provides a unique opportunity for young faculty to improve their teaching skills, methods, and materials, and includes teaching using cases, case writing, course design, curricula development, and performance evaluation and feedback to students. The program is also designed to improve competences and skills integral to specific managerial disciplines, and provides input essential in other areas of a faculty member’s professional life, such as consulting, institution development and administration, and social responsibility.

According to post-program feedback received by IMTA participants and their institutions, the effects of the program go far beyond individual professional career development. Its benefits also include an impact on the participants’ institutions and their respective stakeholders.

The most frequently stated program results are:

• improved educational skills 
• development of new teaching materials
• new research project and doctoral thesis leads
• student (customer) satisfaction
• international case competition awards to IMTA alumni 
• greater international cooperation, faculty networking, and exchange

IMTA is an intensive and highly interactive two-week program with a well-balanced focus on general and discipline-specific aspects of management education. Week 1 focuses on common issues related to general aspects of management education, with special emphasis on the case method and project work. It also deals with the skills required in the multiple roles of faculty. Innovations in management development are discussed in the context of IT, project-based education, and the integration of the arts, culture, and science.

Week 2 is structured into four disciplinary tracks: 

• Strategic Management
• Marketing
• Finance
• Leadership and Change Management

where participants can focus on requirements and opportunities more specific to their particular disciplines. Pre-program individual preparation and in-program lectures and discussions, individual preparation, small group discussions and teamwork, case discussions, simulations, role-play, presentations, and other work methods position IMTA participants at the center of the learning process.