Laugfs wins Silver for HR excellence at SLITAD Awards

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Laugfs Petroleum has won the Silver Award at the prestigious SLITAD People Development Awards 2014 for demonstrating high standards of human resource development which have contributed to the rapid growth of the company.

From left: Assistant Manager HRD Ranga Hewagamage, LAUGFS Petroleum Senior Operations Executive Lasantha Bandara, LAUGFS Petroleum Chief Executive Officer Mahesh Weerasena, LAUGFS Petroleum Consultant J.H. Pathmasiri, Group General Manager HRD Hector Perera, LAUGFS Petroleum Senior Operation Manager N.P. Mallikarachchi, Executive HRD Tharanga Pathirathna, Manager HRD Prasadi Wijayadasa, Assistant Manager HRD Ayodhya Arunamali and Executive HRD Dhanushka Samarasinghe The award is testament to the consideration given by Laugfs Petroleum to the value of people engagement and the involvement of employees in designing and defining its roadmap to the future. This strategy has allowed employee empowerment and motivation with bottom to top communication and recognition and reward through streamlined and transparent performance evaluations. Laugfs Petroleum emerged with impressive results from the evaluation process which considered several important areas of Human Resources. These included business strategy, people management strategy, management effectiveness, learning and development strategy and initiatives, leadership and management strategy, recognition and rewarding of employees, involvement and empowerment of employees, performance measurement and commitment to continuous improvement. SLITAD People Development Awards is a unique awards program which recognises and celebrates outstanding achievements in the sphere of Human Resource Development. The Awards are organised annually by the Sri Lanka Institute of Training and Development (SLITAD), a leading Human Resource institute in the country, and are designed to evaluate companies’ performances in the area of people development and training. The awards show attracted an enthusiastic response this year with a large number of public and private sector organisations applying for honours.