We are a national arm that has pioneered education of Human Resource Management in Sri Lanka with notable landmarks: start of Bachelor of Business Management (Human Resource Management) degree in 1995, start of nation's first postgraduate diploma in HRM and Master of Human Resource Management degree, in 2006 and 2010; launching the first HRM journal in 2004 while providing leadership for many innovative events.

Further, we contributed to the development of the Management profession by offering Bachelor of Business Management General (External) Degree Programme for external students commencing from 1999 and Higher Diploma in HRM since 2015. Further, the Department of Human Resource Management gets the credit for organizing the first national summit on People Management with the theme of "arousing a new praxis of people management for creative development" and continue it as the "HR Summit" We dream to shape our future as the "true HR value provider in terms of research, education and consultancies "while, defining our audience in a nontraditional way to include all relevant stakeholders going beyond private and public organization where the demand is created for people management and people development.

Thus, we promise to deliver to be the best choice of industries demand for HRM graduates; the nation's first choice for HRM postgraduate studies; and the cost-effective HR solution provider for organizations. We value our dynamic talents, performing culture and academic leadership as the competitive strengths in the realization of our dream. Our department comprises of professionally qualified academics, with professors, doctorial academies, and academics with Masters qualifications to ensure the quality of teaching and learning activities. With its high caliber delivery, the department could win the award for the most outstanding researcher of the faculty, awarded by the Vice Chancellor in 2014, 2015 and 2016 consecutively and while intended to secure its place in 2018 as the second place.

Together with it's proud to be publicized that the department has earned all the three Vice Chancellor awards for the early career researchers among the faculty in 2018 and first two places in 2019 too. Our curriculum focuses on student development through its course work and extracurricular events. Action Learning projects, industry-based assignments, workshops, and specific skills projects are powerful means that we use to develop students' skills and competencies. AHEAD ( Association of Human Resource Escalation and Development), our students’ arm is the platform for HRM students to plan, organize and implement their activities in organizing Socio Emotional learning ( SEI) projects, Students' talent shows, industry collaborative events and other skill-based students’ activities. Further, our department focuses on fostering and bringing research driven culture among our undergraduates by conducting HRM student research symposium annually, having pioneered to introduce the students’ dissertation into the curriculum in the faculty since 1995.

Besides each year the department offers three gold medals for the highest achievement among students such as for the highest GPA, outstanding performance, and the HR student of the year.