Tuesday, April 15, 2014

ARI-PBBM Integrated Training and Conference 2014 - Day Seven

Day Seven

After an interesting leadership discourse in Cambridge University, we traveled to Manchester City for the next event: International Conference on Governance and Strategic Management (ICGSM) 2014.  The two day conference is to be held  at the Manchester Conference Centre,  On the first day of the conference, there were slots for four "honorary lectures" on (i) Governance Policies of the WTO, (ii) Leadership and Governance in Change Management, (iii) Integrity in the Public Sector: Progression for Enhancement and (iv) "The Desire for Money is the Root of All Evils";  three concurrent sessions on (i) Corporate Governance & Public Sector Management, (ii) Strategic Management, Business and Finance, and (iii) Financial Criminology and Ethics.  In the afternoon, Ms Katrina A. Prentice gave another leadership Talk on "Enhancing Networking Skills in the Global Cross Culture Setting".  Meanwhile, the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Tan Sri Prof Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar and a few other researchers from the Accounting Research Institute (ARI) traveled to Teesside University to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
 At Teesside University, the group members were greeted by top officials of the university.  The MOU was effectively signed by the two vice chancellors later in the afternoon.  In the evening, conference dinner for participants was hosted by PBBM and the guest of honour being the deputy chairman, Tan Sri Prof Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar.