Also Prof. Opatha participated as the Chief Guest for the Evening Session at this memorable and prestigious event of the University. Further he delivered the convocation address. He was requested to deliver the address based on his own life experiences. Reflecting on certain experiences of his life which may be useful for graduates and others he presented them in terms of 10 lessons. His full convocation address has been made available in his site of the Research Gate of the USJ Web.

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Key features of the book include the following:

1. Chapter objectives and summary
2. Real-life examples
3. Instruments developed by the author to measure various OB constructs
4. Vignettes and their analyses
5. Review questions
6. Activities (Cases, Critical incidents, and Skill builders)
7. Glossary

The book is an essential reference to everyone who wishes to become an appropriate management professional in any field.

The above picture shows Prof.Opatha presenting the book to Vice Chancellor Prof.Sampath Amaratunge.

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The book titled 鈥淓nhancing Your Personal Q鈥� written by Senior Prof. H.H.D.N.P. Opatha of USJ (as the main author) and Associate Prof. Lim Kong Teong of University Utara Malaysia was selected as the Best Book under The General/Common Book (Motivational) Category of the National Book Award 2015 awarded by the National Book Development Foundation, Malaysia. The reward ceremony was held 25/11/2015 at Putra World Trade Centre, KL. The Director of UUM Press represented the authors to receive the award. Above pictures show some moments, the book, the certificate, and the trophy of the relevant event.

The book is a simplified pioneering innovative book about how to enhance Personal Quality (PQ) which is the totality of positive attributes a person must possess in order to achieve success and progress of success at work and personal life. PQ is a sine qua non to generate professionals who will not engage in frauds, corruptions, evil conflicts, assassinations, assaults, retaliations and wars and who will contribute to alleviate the plight. The book was designed to provide a systematic and rational understanding of PQ, both conceptual and application-oriented understanding. It focuses on personal character, personal management and personal key success factors which are the three dimensions of PQ. The book is an essential reference to everyone who wishes to become an appropriate professional in any field.

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The Award was officially announced at the Eastern Academy of Management Annual聽Meeting, May 6 – 9, 201S, and was presented in front of the entire Academy at the Friday聽Presidential Luncheon on May 8, 2015 in Philadelphia.

Since Organization Management Journal, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, is the official聽journal of the prestigious Eastern Academy of Management the outstanding research article award聽is recognized as a great honour in the global academic community.

Dr. S Dhammika W Jayawardena is s Senior Lecturer at at 91传媒.

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Prof. Opatha developed and published a definition of Human Resource Management in 1995 as 鈥渢he efficient and effective utilization of Human Resources in order to achieve goals of an organization鈥�. Any manager in any organization needs various resources to achieve goals of the organization. Among all, Human Resource is the most unique, because it has unique characteristics which are missing from all other resources.

Human resource is something alive and animate, while all the other resources are inanimate.聽 It has the ability to think, feel, act and react, to organize in to groups or trade unions, influenced by the wage and has creativity & innovation. The human resource is the resource that establishes the objectives and mission of the organization. The human resource has the ability of making decisions regarding all the other resources. Therefore it is very unique, very important, critical, more interesting, dynamic field and of course now a popular field.

As traditional perspective of Human Resource Management is concerned, 聽it has certain functions such as job design , job analysis, Human Resource planning, recruitment , selection, hiring, induction, perform evaluation, training and development, carrier management, 聽incentives management, welfare management, management of employee movements, management of employee discipline, management of employee grievances, labour relations and etc.

Professor Opatha is a Senior Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management (HRM) and his聽current research interests are concerned on how to develop & enhance the morality of employees. One of his research concerns about how to avoid presenteeism. Presenteeism is a serious modern problem in the context of Human Resource Management.聽 Presenteeism means, the tendency to be present at work even when employees are not supposed to come and work. For instance, when employees are sick, they still come to work while being sick. Studies have shown that it is a serious problem because cost of presenteeism exceeds the cost of absenteeism.

Another one of his current research areas is work-family balance. Especially how to create and enhance work-family balance among dual career couples.

Green Human Resource management is another one of his specific area of research. It鈥檚 about how to enhance 鈥済reening鈥� within employees, especially towards achieving sustainable development of the organization.

– Binoy Abeywickrama

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