9.30
am - 10.30 am
Session E1
Human Resource Interest Group (HURIG)
Managing Human Capital in the Perfect Economic Storm
The last 12 months of economic downturn
has been one of the most severe in the past few decades. Coupled
with H1N1 in the last few
months, this scenario can be aptly described as the perfect economic
storm. It has been a uphill task for businesses to manage in such
economic storm, especially in managing one of their key assets -
human capital. We look at some of the manpower initiatives made available
to organizations to help them manage the economic storm and more
importantly, to prepare their human capital for the next upturn.
Low Peck Kem, is Director, People Matters Department, responsible
for HR, Organization Development, Operations, Information and Facilities
management and Emergency Preparedness at the Ministry of Manpower.
She is also Project Director, National HR Capability Building, focused
on building Singapore into the leading HR centre of Asia. Prior to
joining the civil service, Ms Low was Vice President, HR for Avago
Technologies Asia, supporting a 5000 strong regional workforce. She
was previously HR Director for Agilent Technologies, supporting Singapore,
Philippines and Thailand. Ms Low also serves outside of MOM on the
Community Chest Fund Raising Committee SHARE and numerous other voluntary
organisations.