‘HR Challenge’: Newest book on HR issues published

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The newest book on HR published in Sri Lanka was launched as the first publication of its kind by the Institute of Personnel Management Sri Lanka, at the recently concluded National HR Conference. It is titled, ‘HR Challenge: Dynamics of value creation and competitiveness through people’ and was co-edited by the late Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe and Dr. Ajantha Dharmasiri.

HR Challenge contains a compilation of twelve research papers that attempt to address how HR can contribute to organisational success. It covers a wide array of topics covering both strategic as well as operational aspects of HRM. It contains people related problems and prospects in organisations, in grasping reality, in moving beyond mere rhetoric. As the late Prof. Sudatta said, “This book is intended to critically review selected aspects of HR where one might find that the dearth of literature is a constraint for generating further discussion and exploring knowledge on the issues in focus.” In writing the Foreword, Professor Neal M. Ashkanasy of the University of Queensland has stated that “this publication, as intended, will pave the way for greater academic and practitioner discussion and dialogue on ways of building a knowledge base in strategic human resource management in Sri Lanka that addresses both contemporary and country specific issues.”