GIMPA to train Anglogold managers

THE Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has entered into a customised training partnership with AngloGold Ashanti, a mining company, to train senior managers for AngloGold.
The programme, which involves participants from some mining fields in Ghana, Mali and Guinea, was designed jointly by GIMPA and AngloGold to respond to changing trends in leadership and management, particularly in the mining sector.
Launching the partnership, as well as welcome the first batch of participants in the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership and Management programme, the Rector of GIMPA, Prof Yaw Agyeman Badu, said it was no longer relevant for workers to just go for further studies.
He explained that “training in our tertiary institutions must be industry specific to satisfy the demands and needs of the particular industry involved”.
Prof Agyeman Badu said the customised modular training was designed to meet the manpower needs of AngloGold Ashanti and was a modification of GIMPA’s own Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration for its particular needs.
He said the course would deepen participants’ understanding of the changing operational environment and its implications for supervisors and managers of AngloGold Ashanti.
According to the Co-ordinator of the programme, Mrs Victoria Kumbour, its main objective was to equip middle-level managers of AngloGold with the necessary management and administrative skills, as well as develop in them the right attitude to increase organisational performance.
She called for co-operation on the part of participants during the period of their stay, as GIMPA had already put in place the needed environment for academic work.
The Head of Human Resource, West Africa Region of AngloGold Ashanti, Gops Modise, told the Daily Graphic that the reason for the partnership with GIMPA was to equip and rebuild the capacity of AngloGold staff to meet the demands of the mining industry.
He said the programme was also part of the process of preparing the middle-level staff to take up leadership roles in the company in the future.
“This is also part of our new strategic plan to drive the company forward, with particular focus on its human resource base,” he said.
“We need the right people with the right skills to achieve our objectives,” he added.
The second component of the strategy, he said, was to build the needed business framework with the right management tool to position the company as a world-class mining company.