THE NATIONAL Organised by:

HUMAN RESOURCES
SUMMIT 2004
“Rethinking HR in the Epoch of Change and Discontinuity”
16-17 August 2004 ~ Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

“Every organisation has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.” – Peter Drucker

About the Summit

As rethinking guru Rowan Gibson puts it – linear thinking is useless in a non-linear world – HR professionals are
today faced with a new imperative to radically rethink work, jobs, talent, people management and simply the
fundamental role of HR if their organisations were to keep pace with the changing times and stay ahead of the curve.
Forces of change – new business imperatives, disruptive technologies, complexity, globalisation, liberalisation of
markets and human mobility, demographics, work-life needs – are unequivocally real that industries can be wiped
out or created overnight. It is in such challenging times, where nothing will remain constant except change, that the
importance of human capital as the most valuable asset in any organisation today is by no means an overstatement.

Rethinking HR is not optional. It is an imperative, and will clearly make the difference between organisations that
will succeed in the 21st century and those that will become footnotes in the history books of business. This has
obvious and significantly profound implications for the HR department in every organisation. Rather than busying
themselves merely with policies, regulations, hiring and firing, employee comfort, compensation and generic
training initiatives, HR professionals in the epoch of change and discontinuity must constantly strive to build and
strengthen the unique set of organisational capabilities, through the organisation’s human capital, that give the
company its competitive advantage. When most people still think of HR as a stodgy old personnel department with
policies that have continued since time immemorial, forward-thinking and successful organisations are taking HR
seriously by rethinking HR’s role with the conviction that HR can really add value and deliver results in a more
strategic role.

Towards this end, the National Human Resources Summit 2004, now in its fifth annual edition and built on the
foundations of remarkably successful past Summits, is intended to provide an opportunity for organisational policy
makers, top echelon of corporate management, heads of human resource, human resource managers and
practitioners, human resource consultants and professionals, and legal advisers to converge to discuss strategic
issues and key challenges reshaping the development of human resources in Malaysia. As Malaysian organisations
today prepare to drive off the road and on to the unfamiliar terrain that lies ahead, it becomes clear that they are
going to require a new kind of human capital vehicle, some very different driving skills and a whole new sense of
direction. This Summit is where we shall rethink the non-linear direction in which HR in the 21st century should be
heading.

Benefits of participation

• Learn to rethink the role of HR and its key practices in your organisation.
• Gain a broader and more precise perspective on crucial and key HR issues in Malaysia.
• Obtain insights on managing and leading people and captivate the most current trends in HR.
• Hear from leading HR experts and practitioners the cutting-edge approaches and best practices that lead to
successful human capital management and development.
• Identify the potential problems and pitfalls surrounding human capital management.
• Learn how to implement successful and effective HR strategies.
• Opportunity for an interchange of breakthrough ideas that would be useful for the human capital in your
organisation.
• Forge new business contacts through interaction and networking with fellow Summit participants.

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Who should attend

• Managing directors, chief executives and senior • Legal advisers

managers • Human resource or employee/employer
• Corporate policy makers and planning managers associations
• Heads and directors of human resource • Corporate philanthropists
• Human resource managers and executives • Operations and benchmarking managers
• Recruitment and training managers • Human resource application software
• Human resource and management consultants professionals
• Change specialists

from across all industries, and anyone who is interested to know more about human capital management and
development in Malaysia.

Participants in past Summits

Some of the participants in our past editions of the National Human Resources Summit:

ABN AMRO Bank Hwang-DBS Securities Penang Port Commission

Accenture IJM Corporation PeopleSoft
Adecco Infineon Technologies Pernas International Holdings
Affin Bank INTI College Perodua
AirAsia JEN Group Petronas
Alam Flora KL Kepong Philip Morris
Alliance Bank Kontena Nasional PKNS
Allianz KPMG Consulting Port of Tanjung Pelepas
AmBank Group LOFSA PricewaterhouseCoopers
Bank Negara Malaysia Malaysia Airlines Proton
Bank of China Malaysia Airlines Academy Public Bank
Bank Simpanan Nasional Malaysia Airports Holdings Public Services Department
Berjaya Group Malaysia Building Society Resorts World
Bumiputra-Commerce Bank Malaysian Rubber Board RHB Bank
Bursa Malaysia (formerly KLSE) MAS Kargo Road Builder Holdings
Cahya Mata Sarawak Matsushita Industries Corp. Samsung Electronics
Celcom Mavcap Sime Darby
Citibank Maybank SIRIM
Diethelm MBf Finance SP Setia
DiGi Telecommunications MESDAQ Standard Chartered Bank
Dow Corning Ministry of Defence Sunway Group
DRB-HICOM Ministry of Health Telekom Malaysia
Electrolux Home Appliances Ministry of Human Resources Tenaga Nasional
ExxonMobil MRCB Unilever
Gamuda Multi-Purpose Insurance Universiti Sains Malaysia
General Electric Nippon Oil Exploration Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Golden Hope Plantations OSK Holdings University of Malaya
HeiTech Padu Paramount Corporation Worldwide Holdings
Hong Leong Bank Penang Development Corp. Wyeth

About ASLI
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business partnerships. ASLI’s mission is to help organisations enhance leadership and strategic capabilities through
the interchange of ideas, information and knowledge. Towards that end, ASLI continuously engages in the research
and implementation of strategic leadership programmes, publications, conference, CEO Membership forums, and
international bilateral business missions. ASLI’s events have been addressed by Heads of State, Prime Ministers,
Senior Cabinet Ministers, captains of industry and prominent strategic thinkers to discuss issues of strategic
importance to governments and businesses. ASLI has, over the years, organised high level programmes focusing on
bilateral business partnerships in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Britain,
Germany, China and South Africa. All net proceeds from ASLI’s programmes are donated to the non-profit ASLI
Foundation. ASLI is also the Malaysian Secretariat of various bilateral business councils.