National Recognition Awarded by IPM to Outstanding People, Managers in Diverse Fields – People Leader Awards 2015

IPM Sri Lanka, the nation’s leader in Human Resource Management, is poised to deliver yet another ‘first-of-it’s kind’ award programme for individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Human Resources while being employed in diverse fields. IPM Sri Lanka People Leaders’ Awards is a national level initiative spearheaded by IPM to recognise Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering and IT professionals for the delivery of successful and superior people management practices in their respective industries.

This distinctive awards programme which was created in 2014 has now been expanded to include the fields of IT and Engineering for the year 2015, in order to acknowledge individuals who have made exceptional headway in leading and managing people in those fields. One could go so far as to even quote that the IPM Sri Lanka People Leaders’ Awards are the only awards in Sri Lanka that attempt to recognise and reward individuals who have made HR ‘real’ in their chosen fields to effect superior business performance and sustainability through the practical application of successful human resource management.

Elaborating on this, Ajith R. de Costa who is the IPM Sri Lanka People Leaders’ Awards Chairman, states “IPM’s mandate is to raise the professional standards in Human Resource Management and Development, and as such this oneof-a-kind Awards programme aims to recognize individuals who have excelled in managing people while achieving their industry specific or department related objectives. I believe that the Line Managers are also HR Managers and therefore we must endeavour to recognize those managers who have applied the theoretical aspects of HRM in a practical way to affect business success”.

Established under an Act of Parliament in 1976, IPM has become the leading authority on Human Resources in Sri Lanka, making significant contributions to the development and nurturing of the Human Resource Management profession.