Asia-Pacific region has witnessed dramatic growth in recent decades and several Asian economies have emerged and are emerging as major economic powers. Though their key response is to adapt to global trends that are predominantly Western in origin, countries in the region have blended their people management practices to suit their own culture and value systems. The conference at IIM Lucknowas Noida campus aspires to capture the evolution of some of the unique practices, examine how strategic goals were achieved through people management during the growth and the strategies being adopted during the current economic slowdown.

The plenary session will focus on issues like aConvergence or Divergence: A key issue in International Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Regiona, aSources of Indiansa Shifting Modes of Behavioura, aManaging Diversity in India and Chinaa and aWork-life Balance and Diversity Management: A New trend of the Japanese HRM and Public Policya.

The subsequent discussions will be on topics like aStrategic HR Evolutionsa, aLeadership Perspectives: Moving towards the Futurea, aGlobal Competitiveness through HR interventionsa, aManaging Across Diversitiesa, aProductivity, Restructuring and HRMa and aNGO Strategies for Development through peoplea. Around 40 papers will be presented at the conference by participants on various topics.

The academic partcipants at the International Conference will be Dr Devi Singh, Director, IIM Lucknow, Dr Peter J Dowling, Professor of International Business, School of Marketing & International Business, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Prof Jai BP Sinha, Professor of Psychology & Management, ASSERT Institute of Management Studies, Patna; Prof Fang Lee Cooke (Ph.D, MCIPD), Professor of HRM and Chinese Studies, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and Prof Kazuo Takada Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

The industry and government participation at the conference include corporate executives like Dr JJ Irani, Director Tata Sons and Chairman BoG at IIM Lucknow; Dr Anadi Pande, Vice President, HRM, Corporate Strategy and Planning, Hero Honda Ltd.; Mr Subodh Bhargava, Chairman, Tata Communication Ltd.; Mr P Rajendran, Director and Chief Operating Officer, NIIT; Dr Amiya Chandra, Deputy Commissioner, MCD, Delhi; Ms Seema Arora, Principal Counsellor and Head, CII, among others.