Name: Dr Jone F. Lako

Position: Assistant Lecturer

Discipline: Management and Public Administration

Email: jone.lako@usp.ac.fj

Short Bio: 

An experienced HR executive and academic with extensive hands-on experience in people and teaching management and employment relations principles, philosophies, and practices in developed countries and the Pacific Island region. He greatly improved productivity for executive/corporate managers, the public sector, policymakers, and complete teams. Strong experience in delivering key HR functions, management training, and policy development with teaching experience at USP and the former Productivity Authority of Fiji (now Fiji National University), teaching undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and hands-on competency-based training.

He started his career as a civil servant from the lower hierarchy to middle-level management, where he learned about workplace systems. He gained a lot of public administrative skills in 18 years, including employment relations practices in Fiji, but he also gained commercial and employment relations as a corporate service manager of PAFCO and managed tertiary educational skills at USP.

Spend a year with the Public Employees Union of Fiji as an Industrial Relations Manager, where he rejuvenated his interest in people management skills and encapsulated the ideals of industrial democracy. These industrial exposers made him uniquely experienced in working with the three main actors of employment relations that very few people achieved.