Calendar 2001–02

Research Institutes and Centres 89 The Asia-Pacific Institute of Business Tel.: 2609 7428 Fax.: 2603 5136 E-mail: apib@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/apib The Asia-Pacific Institute of Business (APIB) was established in 1990. Its overall objective is to assist managers and companies in meeting challenges of the future and to enhance the growth and prosperity of Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region through training, consultancy and research activities, which include: • Promoting and coordinating management training programmes for business executives at various levels. Senior executive programmes focus on strategy formulation and leadership skills while middle management programmes emphasize the development and refinement of core skills in functional areas of business management. Tailor-made in-house programmes are also provided to meet the specific needs of individual companies. • Coordinating and conducting research on major issues and problems which confront managers in the Asia-Pacific region. • Providing consultancy services for individual businesses. • Publishing working papers and sponsoring symposia and conferences so as to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between managers and researchers. The institute’s activities are governed by a management board comprising senior members of the University. The board sets the institute’s agenda and direction to ensure that its activities are geared to meeting the critical needs of the business community. Assessment and Training Centre Tel.: 2609 6009 E-mail: atc-cuhk@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.atc.cuhk.edu.hk The Assessment and Training Centre (ATC) is a collaboration between the faculty members in the Faculty of Business Administration and the Department of Psychology. (For further details, please refer to the relevant entry under ‘Faculty and Departmental Research/Consultancy Units’ on p.99.) It is a dynamic consulting institute specializing in management and business psychology and its mission is to assist organizations in enhancing effectiveness and gaining competitive advantages through the development of human resource systems, management practices and employee competencies. The ATC assists organizations in, among other things, establishing performance management systems, assessing employee attributes such as Chinese personality and leadership competence, selecting employees, developing conflict resolution skills, building teams, conducting various types of organizational surveys, and training employees in various managerial and leadership skills. The assessment tools used by the ATC range from traditional paper-and-pencil inventories to assessment centres and have been proven to be academically valid. The ATC caters to the needs of individual organizations by using expert teams to work closely with clients. Organizations may choose to have the training conducted on site or to use the modern facilities of the centre.