Professional & Managerial Staff 
2nd World Conference
8-9 November 2004
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Professionals and Managers: Working without frontiers
Draft Program

Monday, 08 November  

10.00 – 12.30

UNI P&MS Steering Committee/Drafting Committee

12.30 – 13.15

Lunch for Steering Committee members

13.30 – 14.00

Opening

 

  • John Vines, President P&MS World Committee
  • Philip Jennings, UNI General Secretary

14.00 – 14.45

Report on activities
  • Gerhard Rohde, Head of UNI P&MS

General debate, Q&A

14.45 -15.15

Tea break

15.15 – 17.00

Professional and managerial staff in the global network economy

Presentation of the background report

  • G. Rohde, UNI

Offshore outsourcing: OECD study

  • Desirée Van Welsum, OECD, France

Boeing a global company – challenge for engineers

  • Charles Bofferding, SPEEA, USA

IT and BPO services in India: organising IT professionals

  • Amar N.H., ITPF India

General debate, Q&A

17.00-17.30

Tea Break

17.30 – 18.45

Employability and Adaptability of P&MS

How unions in Europe help the employability and adaptability of P&MS

  • Jean-Paul Bouchet, CFDT-Cadres, France; President UNI Europa P&MS Committee

Unions responsible for members’ careers, not just their jobs

  • Adrian Askew, Connect, UK

Supporting employability of professionals through  e-learning

  • Magnus Midtbö, FLT, Norway

Maintaining the value of older professionals

  • Ib Oustrup, IDA, Denmark

18.45 –19.15

Presentation of P&MS web pages

18.45 – 19.15

Drafting Committee

19.15

Reception hosted by UNI

Tuesday, 09 November

 

 

09.00-10.30

Quality of leadership in the network economy: the work of the Nordic P&MS

  • Lone Petersen, FSU, Denmark

The African Network for P&MS (French)

  • Pierre-Louis Mouangue, SYNACOM, Cameroun

Trade union rights for P&MS: APRO and Singapore

  • John de Payva, SMWWU, Singapore

P&MS work in Brazil and UNI Americas

  • Agamenon Oliveira, FISENGE, Brazil

10.30-11.00

Tea break

11.00-12.30

Knowledge management: how to pass on tacit knowledge

  • Christer Forslund, SIF, Sweden

Professional Ethics for Engineers

  • Ilona Mäenpää,IL, Finland

Performance appraisals and pay for P&MS

  • Agnes Tolmie, UNIFI, UK

12.30-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

Organising and servicing P&MS

Interest groups – a way to reach out to P&MS

  • Dina Affenzeller, GPA, Austria

Organising freelance professionals in the Netherlands

  • Martin Spanjers, FNV Zelfstandige Bondgenoten,

Combining Organising and Servicing: Approaches for P&MS [PPT]  [PDF]

  • John Vines, President P&MS World Committee

15.30 – 16.00

Tea break

16.00 – 17.00

UNI Passport: where do we stand – where do we go

Introduction: G. Rohde

17.00 – 17.30

Priorities for future work – commitments by affiliates – commitments by UNI
[English] [French]

Elections

17.30

End of the 2nd UNI P&MS World Conference

17.45

Preparatory meeting for 4th Engineer World Conference

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