From left: Indika Kaluarachchige, Vice President CIPM Ken Vijayakumar, President CIPM Jayantha Amarasinghe, Chairperson on the Symposium Prof. Prasadini Gamage

CIPM Sri Lanka – the nation’s leader in human resource management, announced the successful completion of its 5th CIPM International Research Symposium on HRM 2021 via virtual platforms, recently providing a unique forum for scholarly contributions towards the advancement of the national and global HR fraternity.

Organized by the CIPM Standing Committee on Applied Research and Knowledge Centre, this year’s theme was ’Global Crises and Future of Work’ with special emphasis on the effectiveness of HRM practices in the performance of private, public, and NGO sector organizations locally and internationally. 

The Research Symposium also provided a unique forum for HR practitioners, researchers, faculty, and students to present their scholarly contributions on contemporary HR issues to disseminate and recognize their research findings.

President CIPM Sri Lanka Jayantha Amarasinghe, Chief Guest of the Symposium, Senior Prof. SampathAmaratunge, Chairman, University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka, Keynote Speaker, Dr. AquilBusrai, CEO, AquilBusrai Consulting, India, Prof. (Dr.) Prasadini Gamage and Indika Kaluarachchige were grace the occasion.

The symposium comprised an inaugural session, panel discussion, technical sessions were encompassing seven tracks, a case study session, and a valedictory session. 

Several well-known HRM practitioners, academics, national and international HRM researchers, and the CIPM EX-CO contributed to the dynamic sessions. 

A record 400 plus attendees participated in the symposium. Technical sessions were chaired by Dr. Richard Wickramaratne, Prof. T. Mangaleswaran, Prof. H. M. A. Herath, Prof. Sivalogadasan, Prof. SusimaWeligamage, Prof Aruna Shantha Gamage and Prof. Kumudini Dissanayake and were co-chaired by Dr. Lasanthika Sajeevanie, Dr. Padmini Jayasekera, Dr. Jayarani Ramawickrama, Dr. Kumudu Jayawardena, Dr. Yogarajah Nanthagopan, Dr. Sheshika Kariyapperuma and Dr. Ruwan Abeysekera. Case study session was Chaired by Janaka Kumarasinghe and Co-Chaired by Ken Vijayakumar and Priyantha Ranasinghe. Prof. Prasadini Gamage chaired the valedictory session, and winners of the Best Paper and the Best Presenter were announced under each track.

Notably, the Symposium’s published its conference proceedings which comprised over 500 pages, including 47 research papers, a Case study book with success stories of seven leading companies during the pandemic and the Journal of HRM Perspectives of CIPM. 

Commenting on the success of the event, CIPM President, Mr. JayanthaAmarasinghesaid, “The 5th CIPM International Research Symposium on HRM 2021 has successfully turned a new page in CIPM/IPM history especially during the pandemic by concluding a great scholarly event not only for the academic world but also adding foods for the brain creating and sharing knowledge for the betterment of the national and global HR fraternity. The hard work of our Standing Committee must be commended.”