The Rivers State branch of Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) will on Friday host the South South zonal conference of the professional body in Port Harcourt.
The State chairman of CIPM, Mr Henry Umuakpor, in a telephone chat with The Tide, yesterday, said the conference was aimed at improving the practice and performance of human resources personnel in different organisations.
Unuakpor said that the theme: “HR:Inside Out” was meant to equip personnel managers with better knowledge on human resources resulting in improved services to the country.
“We can assume people know, but for sure not everybody knows it well enough. We are bringing very highly qualified individuals in the human resources practice to handle the papers and answer the questions for better understanding and improved performance in our organisations, he said.”
According to him, the conference will provide participants with “collaboration programmes,, connections and better opportunities for organisations that require to train their staff for productive performance”.
He called on the human resources personnel in the South South zone to utilise the opportunity provided by the conference to better their skills and knowledge in their chosen profession.
According to the chairman, “the conference will bisect HR, what it should be and the skill a personnel manager should have and how the skills should benefit others and the state at large.