Speaker
Title
Learning, Engagement, and Positive Aging among Retirees: Implications for Organizational Strategies
Outline
Kumudinei Dissanayake is a Professor at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her major field of study is Business Administration, and her research interests include generational change and workforce ageing in organizations, post-retirement engagement and human resource strategies, and business model innovation in enterprises. She has held several administrative and editorial positions at the university. She has authored several books in her area of specialization and published research papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters and book reviews. In her current research project, she will explore the role of experiential learning in post-retirement engagement, with the aim of generating insights to help design strategies that promote positive ageing among the retired workforce. In this introductory seminar, she will introduce herself, elaborate on the project details and the deliverables, and outline directions for future research in her current research area.
Speaker’s Bio
Kumudinei Dissanayake is a professor in the Department of Management and Organization Studies, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She teaches Organization Theory, Organizational Change and Development, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods. She obtained her first degree [Bachelor of Commerce (Special) degree] and her Master of Business Administration [MBA] from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She also earned her MBA and Doctoral degree from Meiji University, Japan, under the Japanese Government Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Monbukagakusho). She has received research training in Australia under the Australian Leadership Awards, and has worked as a visiting research scholar at the Institute of Developing Economies and the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training. She has served as Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor-in-Chief of the Colombo Business Journal. In addition, she has been a member of the editorial boards of the University of Colombo Review and the Colombo Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. Her current research interests include generational changes and workforce ageing in organizations, post- retirement engagement and human resource strategies, and business model innovation among women entrepreneurs. She has served as the Head of the Department of Management and Organization Studies and as the Coordinator of MPhil/PhD program, and several Master’s degree program, at the Faculty of Management and Finance and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Currently, she serves as the Director of Studies of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.
Caretaker
Tomohiro Machikita (CSEAS)