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The Management Club is to have Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri speak on ‘Engaging Employees for Enterprise Excellence on 30 September at Galadari Hotel from 7:30-8:15 p.m. He will focus on how to strengthen the Employee Engagement in order to ensure enterprise excellence.
Prof. Ajantha S. Dharmasiri is the Director and the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He also serves as an adjunct Professor in International Human Resource Management at the Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, USA.
He has over two decades of both private and public sector working experience in diverse environments including Unilever and Nestle. He has engaged in consultancies in more than 14 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He serves in the Boards of National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Citizens Development Bank (CDB) and the Association of Management Development Institutions of South Asia (AMDISA). He was also a member of the governing council of the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM), Sri Lanka.
He is a Commonwealth AMDISA Doctoral Fellow and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management, UK as well.
As an academic scholar, he has presented research papers at international conferences in more than 10 cities in Asia, America, Australia and Europe. He has published articles in local and foreign journals, and is also an author of six books. He has won many accolades including gold medals for best papers in two international management conferences, and in 2010, the platinum award by the Alumni of the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIMA) for outstanding academic contribution. He recently won the prestigious IPM Lifetime Gold Award 2014, the highest honour for an HR professional in Sri Lanka.
He is a fellow member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Training and Development (SLITAD). He also functions as a certified Peer Reviewer of the South Asian Quality System (SAQS) and an advisor to the Old Royalists’ HR Professional Association (ORHRPRA).
Prof. Dharmasiri likes to identify himself as one who transitioned from being an ‘Engineer of Electrical’ to an ‘Engineer of Hearts and Minds’.
Confirm your participation before 29 September by calling the Management Club Secretariat on 5860000 to avoid disappointment due to limited seating. This incidentally will be a ticketed event at Rs. 500.
