Conference to discuss Asian HR practices

National HRD Network to hold meet in Bangalore

A conference on human resources practices is being organised by the National Human Resources Development Network in Bangalore. The 3-day conference, Emerging Asia - an HR Agenda, will be held from October 19-21.

Since Asia is being touted as the "continent of the millennium", the theme was decided to explore the human resource development practices in Asia derived out of diverse socio-economic and cultural factors, said an organiser at the National Human Resources Development Network.

The agenda of the conference will centre around the way the 21st century workforce will be organised in the Asian perspective. In the context of the trend of going global initiated by pharmaceutical companies, the conference will dwell on the potential of Indian corporates.

Lynda Gratton, from the London Business School and John Sullivan, from the San Francisco State University are some of the academicians invited for the conference. The 3-day event is also expected to attract over 100 B-Schools students form premier institutes. The membership fee for the conference is Rs 8,500.

IBM, Honeywell, Shell International, Hewlett-Packard Asia are some of the companies that are going to be represented at the conference. Several public sector undertakings are also expected to attend.

The conference is expected to attract over 800 executives from 400 companies across Asia. Individuals will be felicitated with National HRD Awards for contribution in human resources.

The agenda items for the event include examining the economic, business and cultural trends in Asia, studying the changing profile of the 21st century workforce and its implications for organisations, building organisational capability in the area of leadership bandwidth, exploring the role of human resources in corporate governance and highlighting areas such as managing diversity in workplace.

The National Human Resource Development Network is an association of professionals founded in 1985, for promoting the human resource development activities.

It is a non-profit organisation operating to develop human resources through education, training, research and experience sharing.