Business Briefs
The Changing Face of the Asheville Area
(Asheville, NC): The next regular meeting of the Western North
Carolina Human Resources Association will be at 12 noon on
Wednesday, July 13, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel in downtown
Asheville.
Guest speaker for the
meeting will be Tom Tveidt, Director of the Asheville Metro Business
Research Center, will speak on “The Changing Face of the Asheville
Area.” The Center is a service of the Asheville Area Chamber of
Commerce, Economic Development Department. It provides economic
information and analysis on the Asheville area to businesses,
government, media, and the public.
Mr. Tveidt is an active
member, guest instructor and board member of the Council for Community
and Economic Research. He is a member of Editorial Review Board for
the journal, Applied Research in Economic Development. His BA in
Economics is from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his
MBA in Finance from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
The program is open to members, students and anyone interested in
learning more about human resource-and management-related issues.
Reservations can be made
by emailing Mike Neely at
mneely@ingles-market.com, or by calling 669-2941, extension 310.
The cost of attend the lunch meeting is $16.00 for member and
students, $20 for nonmembers, and includes lunch (a vegetarian option
is available by request when making reservations).
The Western North Carolina Human
Resources Association is a certified chapter of the Society for Human
Resources Management, and is comprised of human resource and other
professionals from various area businesses and industries.
The purpose of the association is to develop the personnel
function in each participating company by close contact and
cooperation with others in the same field, to facilitate the
dissemination of information of value to human resource professionals
individually and collectively, and to promote positive human relations
principles.
