The Outstanding Achievement in Management Award

Recognizes executives who have created a climate that permits industrial engineering techniques to be used with outstanding results.

Eligibility:

• IIE members and non-members. Members of the IIE Board of Trustees and Honors Steering Committee are ineligible.
• Recipients are usually a president, vice president, or board chairman with the line responsibility in an industrial, governmental, or educational enterprise and who can be held accountable for the stimulation of a climate that permits industrial engineering to be used with outstanding results.
• In special situations where a staff executive has strong influence on operating policy, a senior staff executive may be the recipient of this award. This individual would normally be of staff vice presidential level or the equivalent in governmental or educational institutions.
• The nominee for this award must have held their current position for at least five years.
• In making this award, IIE is indirectly honoring a business, government, or education institution, and consideration is given to the role the institution has had in exhibiting the techniques associated with the manager.

Criteria:

• Not more than one award a year is usually given.
• Nominee’s specific achievements must be described, including results.

Nomination process:

• Complete and return the nomination form.
• There is a 10-page limit to each nomination, not including references.

Judging:

This award is judged by the Honors Steering Committee.