Air Asia: Behind the Scenes

Our visit to Air Asia was to formally invite the Group Head of the People Department, Encik Adzhar Ibrahim for our industrial colloquium on 18th October 2013. While there, we were fortunate to be given a tour of the facility. It is amazing to see how Tony Fernandes restructured the working culture to suit the low cost tagline. There are no big offices for the top management, nor there specific meeting rooms for discussions. The employees seem to be discussing everywhere. Very interesting indeed.

The Industrial Colloquium - Mr Roshan Thiran

This year, the department is going to have an international seminar at the Palace of the Golden Horses from 18-20 October. We have decided to create a difference this time by having an industrial colloquium as well entitled Transformational Challenges in Corporate Malaysia. So today, our team went to meet one of our panel speakers, Mr Roshan Thiran, Director of Operations for the STAR Media Group. At the moment, he leads all aspects of managing and growing the STAR Media Group’s operations, which includes its media businesses in Print, Radio, TV, Digital, Events and Training. He is going to share his views and input on leadership issues.

Research Module on FELDA New Generation Development

Ramadhan is already here. But the work goes on. The latest is the workshop held in Residence, Uniten to come up with the research module of the new generation in FELDA. The workshop will end on Saturday, 13 July 2013. Although fasting, everybody looks alert and motivated to finish up the report. The project has been going one for a year now.

FEP Research Proposal Workshop

From one workshop to another. This was the FEP Research Proposal Workshop conducted at the Royale Bintang from 4 to 7 July 2013. The performances of lecturers are partially determined by the ability to secure grants. This workshop is seen as very important to the rating of the faculty. A combination of panel discussion and group discussion were done with the help of top researchers from the faculty.

HR Talk on Pay Structure

Last two days, a HR Talk on Pay Structure was done by Ms Eunice H L Lee. She has more than 30 years of experience in human resources and has extensive background in Human Resource Strategic Planning, Operations and Training and Development. In addition, she has held positions of Senior Group General Manager, Human Resources of public listed organization and Head of Human Resources of a conglomerate. It was a closed session with about 25 attendees only. I hope more industrial captains will be willing to come in to share their expertise and knowledge with our students - full time and part time, for the benefits of our nation.