IPM organizes Business Leaders’ Forum 2013

The Business Leaders’ Forum 2013, organized by the institute of Personnel Management (IPM) will be held from April 4, at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo. The theme for this year’s forum is, ‘Integrating human resource management across disciplines.’

This year’s panel comprises crème de la crème of Sri Lanka’s management, bringing together expertise from the different industry sectors of the country, Managing Director and CEO, Chemanex PLC, M. Preethi Jayawardena; Director and CEO, Watawala Plantations PLC, Dr. Dan Seevaratnam; and Head of Group Human Resources Hayleys Group PLC, Sunil Dissanayake. The forum will be moderated by Senior Faculty Member, Management Consultant Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr Ajantha Dharmasiri.

The Business Leader’s Forum is an annual event organised by the IPM focusing on the business needs of the hour – mainly opportune and pertinent topics related to management and HR in terms of organisational growth, strategies and competitiveness. This year’s forum topic spotlights the importance of a symbiosis between the different disciplines within an organisation to work towards a joint effort in achieving the goals of the organisation.

The different disciplines within an organisation are interconnected thereby benefiting through mutual support. That in return strengthens the organisation. The human resource management (HRM) focus is on the people aspect of all disciplines, thus providing support to all the departments. And all managers within the organisation play a significant role as a manager of ‘people’, necessitating all managers of all departments to play contributing roles as HR managers.

In an extremely competitive globalised economy, success of the organisation depends on the smooth functioning of its inner mechanism, which makes the proper integration of HRM across disciplines vital in sustaining a business. The chosen topic, as well as the contributions towards the discussion from a panel of experienced business gurus of the country, will be of much interest to all business leaders and managers.