The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) has been in the forefront of promoting management excellence.
MAP has presented the “MAP Management Man of the Year” award for the past four and a half decades to recognize outstanding achievements of any individual, whether MAP member or not, for attaining unquestioned distinction in the practice of management and for contributing to the country’s progress.
The “MAP Management Man of the Year” has only been conferred 35 times in the 44-year history of the award.
The criteria for the award include the following:
1. Integrity, prestige and distinction in the business community.
2. High qualities as a manager exemplified in his leadership, vision, decisiveness, fairness and firmness in dealing with people.
3. Exceptional ability for performing his managerial functions under exceptional conditions, such as creating and managing a new enterprise, reorganizing and reorienting an existing enterprise, turning around a moribund company considering the difficulties of the times.
4. Active and continuous management at top level of a private business or industrial enterprise, or a government institution for a significant length of time, and in a manner highly deserving of the recognition and commendation of MAP by reason of his contribution to the advancement of management as a career in the Philippines.
5. Contribution to reshaping national values and orientation.
6. Effective service and tangible contribution to nationwide professional, social, civic or charitable undertakings through personal initiative.
7. The organization under his stewardship must have exhibited consistent exemplary performance and achieved stability under the highest standards of business ethics and practice.
8. The organization must be an entity operating in the Philippines and the business must have contributed substantially to the growth and development of the Philippine economy.
The search for “MAP Management Man of the Year” involves a tedious process.
Nominations are generated from the membership, with the help of the MMY Search Committee.
The nominees then go through a rigid screening by the MMY Judging Committee which, as provided for in the MAP by-laws, is composed of selected past presidents and past awardees. With the exception of the chair and the vice chair, the names of the members of the MMY Judging Committee are not announced until such time that the search process has been completed.
To ensure a wide search of potential awardees, the MAP board of governors has institutionalized a MMY Search Committee, headed by MAP’s immediate past president, to identify and propose nominees for the Award. The MMY judging committee serves as the board of judges that chose the most deserving candidate for this year.
This year’s awardee is the 35th recipient of the award.
MAP has selected Erramon I. Aboitiz, president and CEO of Aboitiz Equity Ventures and Aboitiz Power Corp., as the “MAP Management Man of the Year 2011” awardee.
Aboitiz was chosen for the following:
1. Being a model of management excellence and dedication in the transformation of a regional business group into a geographically and technologically diversified conglomerate with operations in power, banking, food, transportation, property development and construction;
2. Their conglomerate’s contributions to national development notably in efficient power generation, job creation and income generation;
3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in education, healthcare, enterprise development and environment thereby uplifting quality of life in many communities, true to the Group mission of “helping people help themselves”;
4. His role in the formulation and implementation of professional management practices in the context of a family-owned enterprise, showing an example for other families and entrepreneurs; and
5. Serving as an exemplary practitioner of good corporate governance, characterized by integrity, honesty, fairness, transparency, and accountability in his management career.
The roster of “MAP Management Man of the Year” awardees include: Washington Z. SyCip (1967), Geronimo Z. Velasco (1977), Henry A. Brimo (1978), Jose M. Soriano (1979), Cesar E.A. Virata (1981), Jaime V. Ongpin and Vicente T. Paterno (1982), Dante G. Santos (1983), Cesar A. Buenaventura and Roberto T. Villanueva (1985), Jaime Zobel de Ayala (1987), Ramon V. del Rosario, Sr. (1988), Jose B. Fernandez, Jr. (1989), Raul T. Concepcion (1990), Oscar J. Hilado (1991), Alfonso T. Yuchengco (1992), Juan B. Santos (1994), David M. Consunji and Rizalino S. Navarro (1996), Gabriel C. Singson (1998), Delfin L. Lazaro and Henry Sy Sr. (1999), Oscar M. Lopez (2000), Tony Tan Caktiong (2002), Jesus P. Tambunting (2003), Rafael B. Buenaventura (2004), Manuel V. Pangilinan (2005), George S. K. Ty and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (2006), Jose L. Cuisia Jr. (2007), Antonino T. Aquino and Jesus P. Estanislao (2009), and Lilia B. de Lima and Ramon R. del Rosario, Jr. (2010).
The awarding ceremony will be held on Nov. 21, 2011, Monday, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Rigodon Ballroom of The Peninsula Manila.
For inquiries, contact MAP Executive Director Arnold P. Salvador via telephone 7511149 to 52 or e-mail map@globelines.com.ph, or visit the MAP website map.org.ph.