Academic Week Reflection

Academic week, a compulsory activity for business administration students, talks are given by well-known and successful persons in our society. In order to lets us have different experience to the academic week and widen our vision in the business world, topics of academic week will be changed every year. For this year, ‘Enterprises Development A challenge for Sustainability’ give us an opportunity to understand the importance of sustainability to a firm. Attending three talks in this academic week, besides learning new knowledge and knowing creative ideas form the speakers, I realize that the talks are related to our course and may help us to discover more in our studies other than the materials given by the lecture. Especially the talks in Tuesday, given by Mr. Ip Ka Po and Mr. Bernard Charnwut Chan respectively, inspired me to have a further study the relationship between the sustainability of a company and the human resources management.

Ip Ka Po was about the crisis management of his company, and he did mention that the situation of ATV and the solutions of solving the problems of late salary payment to the employees. He said that the board of directors in ATV lend money to the employees in order to minimize the impact of Salary arrears. When he mention this part in his talk, it was hard for me to understand the reason behind this decision, as the directors have no legal responsibility to pay employees by their own saving. After further thinking about this action, I realize that employees is one of the crucial element in a company. Also in the perspective of human resources management, lending money to employees in a good action for increasing employee