Hony IPM membership for HRM contribution

The Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) conferred Honorary Membership on three eminent personalities for their contribution to the development of Human Resource Management (HRM) at the IPM Awards 2006 at the BMICH.

Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe, Moksevi R. Prelis and Franklyn Amarasinghe were conferred honorary membership at the ceremony.

Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Open University of Sri Lanka, Moksevi R. Prelis, Chairman SME Bank and Franklyn Amarasinghe, former Director General Employers' Federation of Sri Lanka have rendered yeomen service in the field of (HRM) locally and internationally.

The enrolment of the three distinguished personalities will not only add colour but also value to the IPM. This institute is extremely happy and proud to have such resourceful personnel who will make a difference in organisational and leadership activities of business institutes in the country, President IPM, Daya Bollegala said.

Today human resource's is equally important as capital for organisational growth. In the past it was capital and investment that were important for corporate success.

Bollegala said "Without human resource management no organisation could achieve what it wants. There is a limit to what machines could do. However much machines are advanced and sophisticated, they cannot outdo human intellect. Therefore, human intelligence is far superior to any instrument in the world".

The IPM has been training and developing leadership and entrepreneurial skills of people to be innovative, dynamic and productive for over four decades in the country. The institute will continue to do so for the welfare of the community and development of the country at large, Bollegala said.

Minister of Education, Susil Premajayantha said "The IPM has trained and developed the much needed human resource for the development of the economy and the country for the past four decades. The country is appreciative of the invaluable services rendered by IPM to the growth of organisations both in leadership and entrepreneurial skills and in particular for the success of corporate institutes.

Over 1,000 students who were trained at the IPM in Human Resource Management received certificates at the ceremony.