CONFERENCE: MEANING AND IMPORTANCE

Meaning: To ‘confer’ means to converse, to consult, to discuss. ‘Conference’ means ‘a meeting for the exchange of views and opinions’. Conference can be defined as a meeting of a formal nature of people to solve particular problems, take specific decisions or discuss specific matters’.

Importance: 1) Conference is held to give training to new employees. In such conference employees get information about the organisation.

2) Conference is held by a particular organisation by inviting delegates from other similar concerns, to discuss problems of mutual interest and to exchange views regarding certain policy matters.

3)  Conference brings together specialists, agents and staff for programme planning, informal networking.

4) Conference provides a joint platform for the researchers.

5) Conferences let participants to share their progress, obstacles they face and methods employ to solve them.

6) Conference makes aware students about recent developments not covered in academics, events and obstacles faced on the path of researchers.

7) Conference helps in better performance of the crew as a whole, which boosts productivity, develops better understanding of their related fields and benefits the organisation as a whole.