Contact: William Riley, (304) 293-7885
DDI Gives $125,000 for WVU China Center
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Development Dimensions International Inc., an international human resource consulting firm, is giving a $125,000 grant to the Center for Chinese Business at West Virginia University to hold workshops in China and sponsor one Chinese participant per year for three years in the Shanghai Municipal Government Executive Education Program in Morgantown.
DDI is recognized as one of the world's leading human resources companies with 75 offices around the world. They are the only major human resource provider in the world to address and fully integrate the three areas essential to high involvement: organizational change consulting, assessment and selection, and training and development. There are people working for more than 16,000 organizations around the world that have used human resource programs from DDI. More than 400 of the Fortune 500 companies are DDI clients.
William B. Riley, director of the Center of Chinese Business states "We are very pleased to have a company of the caliber of DDI join us in supporting our China initiatives. The grant will allow the Center to expand its highly successful International Academy of Management Excellence." This Academy is a collaboration between the municipal governments of Shanghai and Tianjin in the Peoples Republic of China, West Virginia University, and several major U.S. companies to provides management training to high level government and business leaders in China. The next series of workshops will be in June and focus on human resources management
The grant will also help support the Shanghai and Tianjin Municipal Government Executive Education Program which has been attended by more than 40 senior Chinese officials since its inception in 1994. Participants in the program spend six months in Morgantown taking classes in management, finance, business strategy, and free market economics. The program also includes corporate visits to companies in the region and a corporate seminar series.
The Center is a unit within WVU's College of Business and Economics. Besides executive education and research, the Center assists companies in developing business opportunities in China through market research, trade missions, and prospect identification.
For more information about the Center, contact Riley at (304) 293-7885 or visit the web site at www.wvu.edu/~colbe/serve/china/index.htm
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