Malin Rangana

Japanese Culture and its Impact on Japan HR Practices: An Overview As a company exposed to global, regional, and local markets on a daily basis, ChapmanCG has a unique position in the market to facilitate harmonisation across these three levels of business management. The following article focuses on a local market that can often be in dissonance to regional and global HR philosophies: Japan. 
What You See Sometimes Isn’t What You Get Having lived and worked in Japan for almost a decade, I’m now married to a Japanese, have learned enough Japanese to read a newspaper, and yet still feel that I've grasped just the tip of the iceberg in terms of understanding Japanese culture. As a case in point, I want to share a story about one of my ex-coworkers, and a good friend for whom I had a lot of respect. This colleague was dedicated, always hungry to improve himself professionally, and extremely well organised. He was one of those people who had a place for everythi...

Sri Lanka tops South Asia in human development Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 09:45 Political Sri Lanka has maintained its high ranking in human development. But the country’s performance in terms of average annual human development index (HDI) growth rate during 1990-2014 was lower than many other South Asian countries. These findings are among the highlights of the Global Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) here on Thursday. Sri Lanka has been placed at the 73rd rank with an HDI value of 0.757. In the previous year’s report, it occupied the 74th place. Since the end of the civil war in 2009, the country’s rank went up by five. The report, which studied a total of 188 countries and territories, has determined the HDI values by assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development—a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. According to the report that has been prepared on the ba...