{"id":8006,"date":"2022-11-27T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2022-12-30T23:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:13:52","slug":"guest-lecture-on-world-employment-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/guest-lecture-on-world-employment-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture on World Employment Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cHuman resource isn\u2019t a thing we do, it\u2019s the thing that runs our business\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; _Steve Wynne_<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employment trends have been changing over time due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and many other reasons. Sri Lanka, as a developing country, and due to several other factors, it is important to be aware of the changes happening in the labor market in the Asia-Pacific region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To give a sound understanding in the labour market trends, the Department of Business Economics, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce organized a guest lecture on the topic of \u201c<strong>World Employment Trends (With Particular reference to Asia-Pacific)\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lecture which was conducted by Dr. Miguel Sanchez Martinez (Economist) of the International Labour Organization, was successfully held on 27<sup>th<\/sup> November 2022 from 1.00 pm onwards. This expert session managed to open a productive discussion for the students to reflect upon and improve on their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lecture was mainly conducted for the third-year undergraduates of the Departments of Business Economics and Human Resource Management as a part of the course BEC 3347: Labour Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"8008\" src=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128-255x143.png 255w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"8007\" src=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133-255x143.png 255w, https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-133.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHuman resource isn\u2019t a thing we do, it\u2019s the thing that runs our business\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; _Steve Wynne_ Employment trends have been changing over time due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and many other reasons. Sri Lanka, as a developing country, and due to several other factors, it is important to be aware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,38,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizcon","category-e-notice-board","category-image-gallery","category-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-128.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7odTZ-258","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}