CIPM Sri Lanka – the Nation’s leader in human resource management, held the inauguration ceremony of the 6th Annual Research Symposium ‘Glocalization of HRM Practices for Business Resilience’ recently in hybrid mode with local and international participants, including Guest of Honor Johnny C. Taylor Jr – President & CEO SHRM USA, Keynote speaker Professor of HRM & Asia Studies, Monash Business School, Australia – Fang Lee Cooke together with local and international participants joining the Symposium hosts Jayantha Amerasinghe – President CIPM, Ken Vijayakumar – Vice President CIPM, Chris Obeysekera – CEO CIPM, Conference Chair – Prof Prasadini Gamage, Dilanjani Weerathunga – Conference secretary, G Weeratunga – Director, Professional & Academic Affairs, Himali Dassanayake – Director Operations, and Kamani Perera – Manager, Research, at the CIPM head office “HR House” in Colombo 5 via web technology. A very successful pre-symposium workshop on research methodology was conducted on the 25th of May by veteran researcher Dr. Ananda Jayawardene, Senior Lecturer/consultant, Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, which is a new feature to enrich the standard of the Symposium. The inauguration ceremony was followed by a full day of eye-opening research presentations, and technical and panel discussions on the 26th of May. The CIPM Research Symposium is organized by CIPM Standing Committee on Applied Research and Knowledge Centre under the guidance of President CIPM Sri Lanka.
Following the welcome speech delivered by the Symposium Chair, addressing the Symposium, CIPM Sri Lanka President – Jayantha Amerasinghe said that the amount of primary or applied research conducted in Sri Lanka is very minimal. “Since research is very important to get a first-hand and in-depth view of practical issues pertaining to human resource management, very early in my tenure as President, I requested that an R&D unit be set up at CIPM to add value to our understanding of HR leading to a deeper appreciation of the intricacies involved in managing and motivating people in these unprecedented times. Our aim is to be the leading center in bringing research to the forefront in this country and to be the differentiator in the market,” he said and added that CIPM would be strengthening the research unit in the coming years.
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