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The Textile Magazine
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me, have invested over 500 man-hours in discuss-
ing, reviewing and working through the development
plans of each of our talent pool members at the group
level. Their development plans include engagement
with special projects, coaching and mentoring by the
top leadership team, besides attending cutting-edge
functional and behavioural programmes globally that
open the frontiers of their mind and goad them to defy
limitations. That 60% of the total leadership positions
were filled in from our existing talent in 2010-11 vali-
dates the talent honing processes which have laid a
robust leadership pipeline within our group.
Our commitment to employee learning and devel-
opment at all levels is unrelenting. In 2010-11, there
were 30,000 touch points with our learners through
multiple formats of learning. More than 25,000 em-
ployees have been enlisted in e-learning programmes
at Gyanodaya, our Institute of Management Learning.
This year, at Gyanodaya, 200 colleagues at very sen-
ior levels attended specially designed programmes.
They had the opportunity to interact with professors
from leading universities and B-Schools. They were a
great faculty, drawn from universities such as Stanford,
RICE, Michigan and Duke at the global level along
with professors from the IIMs and ISB (Hyderabad).
Our senior managers also derived immense value
from training and learning sessions conducted by
leading consultancies such as the Centre for Creativ-
ity Leadership (CCL), the Hay Group and the Works
Partnership (TWP), among others.
Finally, I am delighted to share with you that our
employees have given a thumping vote of confidence
to our group as the ‘Best Employers’ in India and in
Asia Pacific. The Aditya Birla Group, of which your
company is an integral member, has been declared
as one of the ‘Best Employers’ in India in the Aon
Hewitt Survey conducted recently. We ranked second
from among 200 other Indian organizations who par-
ticipated in the survey. In Asia Pacific, we have been
ranked among the top companies as well. Soon we
hope to attain this stature in the rest of the world too –
wherever we operate.
Our people are our future. With them and the wind
in our sails, we feel buoyant about achieving our
stretch goal of becoming a $65 billion group by 2015.
Your company will play an important role in reaching
this destination.
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human resource management
– As published in the annual report of Grasim Industries for the year 2010-11