Members come from all sectors, both public and private, and all levels of responsibility.
Increasingly seen as the authoritative voice of managers, the IM s mission is to promote the art and science of management. Its work and resources are devoted to ensuring that managers, at all levels and in all disciplines, continually develop their full potential to achieve success for themselves and for the businesses in which they manage. As the driving force behind developing best practice, the IM offers members a unique range of services and benefits including access to and advice on management training and development programmes, the largest management information centre in Europe, a range of professional journals and publications as well as networking opportunities. The major reason behind these moves was that the problems of wartime logistics had shown that management was an activity which should be distinguished from functional operations. Although there were professional bodies representing functional activities, there was no clearing house for general management thinking and for the promotion and development of better management.