CII to Organise Kerala IR Summit 2019

Kochi: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising KERALA IR SUMMIT 2019 with the theme "Ease of Doing Business through Harmonious Employment Relations" on 17 January 2019 at The Gateway Hotel, Kochi from 0930 Hrs to 1730Hrs.

Industrial Relations Climate in Kerala has been a topic of debate throughout the history of the State. But inspite of this, the tremendous progress Kerala has made in all aspects of Human Development Index is highly commendable.

Kerala Industrial Relations Summit 2019 is designed to promote best practices in Industrial Relations by facilitating engagement between industrial relations and human resource professionals of various industries. The summit will also provide key insights into Kerala Work Culture and address the foremost challenges faced by the HR and IR fraternity today.

The objective of the summit is to generate ideas for establishing a positive work culture and projecting the same to the outside world. This summit would serve as the common platform for HR & IR Professionals across the industry to share the best IR practices and learn from experiences and insights of highly successful corporates as to how they have shaped their IR strategy to meet not just the needs of the day, but also to prepare themselves for the upcoming challenges.

The summit is to sensitise, discuss and debate on how HR & IR can work towards attracting, sustaining and developing the needed talent in line with their corporate strategies. The summit would look into strategical development of IR in the work to manage situation under stress and crisis, initiate and manage change, build a sense of commitment, ownership and belongingness and meet the performance standards expected. Considering the diverse nature of Gen Y (Millennials) that is entering the Indian industry, a discussion on addressing the aspiration of Gen Y would also be held.

There will be deliberations by Government officials, CEO's, Industry Experts, Senior HR & IR Professionals, researchers and academicians on the following topics:

  • Constructive Suggestions to improve HR & IR Climate in Kerala 
  • Industrial Relations in other States of India - a Learning Model for Kerala 
  • Managing Millennials - Challenges & opportunities 

The program would include case studies and keynote address by prominent Business leaders, Economists, CEO's and Industrial Relation Peers across India.