The Caribbean Institute for Human Resource Management (CaIHRM) has advised that several Human Resource Management Associations across the Caribbean region have come together to form a working partnership, while the individual country organizations retain their separate identities and operations. This new entity, referred to as the Caribbean Institute for Human Resource Management (CaIHRM) brings together around a collaborative table, the H.R.
Professional organizations/H.R. Professional Working Groups in the region. The Institute seeks to advance, on a non-profit basis, the interests of the Caribbean Human Resource Management Profession, improve the quality, regulatory oversight (including self regulation), and effectiveness of professional human resource management, promote and develop knowledge of human resource issues through research, exchanges and other means, and the importance of such issues to public and private sector organizations, as well as public policy.
The Institute also aims to agree on H.R. Operating Standards and through CARICOM, provide support for formal recognition in law of the H.R. Profession. The Institute is registered in Jamaica for legal purposes and the Secretariat is also located in Jamaica.
The Institute will be governed by a Board of Directors comprising Senior H.R. Leaders across the region, and run by an officer corp. consisting of President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer. Membership currently includes full membership, as well as appointed observers, across the following countries: Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Maarten and Trinidad and Tobago. It also includes an Associate MemberThe Carib HR Forum, operated by a well-known management strategist Francis Wade.
