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| The Tata Group is on an overdrive to "modernise" its people. Reason: "Companies face bottlenecks if people are not modernised," says R Gopalkrishnan, executive director, Tata Sons. |
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| The slew of HR initiatives that the group has launched to achieve this objective include moving senior managers across group companies, creating forums to share best practices, and giving overseas internships to Tata Administrative Service hires in countries like Singapore and Turkey. |
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| All such initiatives, Gopaplakrishnan said, were meant to address challenges in four areas: cultural integration, globalising the workforce, developing leaders and managing talent. |
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| Government relations and corporate affairs are two areas where the company has moved people from across the group. The group has also struck international alliances for learning and development with IN SEAD, ROSS School of Business in Michigan, Nanyang Technological University, and Singapore Management University among others. |
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| The company is also looking at a "respectful inclusion" of its widely diverse workforce, which includes Indians and an overseas workforce. |
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| "We have also integrated our remuneration structure and aim at providing guidance without being intrusive," says Satish Pradhan, vice president, group HR, Tata Sons Ltd. Hiring foreign interns is one such way by which the company is trying to attain this. According to Pradhan these interns help bring new ideas and new ways of working. |
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| At Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC), the company has undertaken research in areas spanning leadership development, innovation and talent management. It has also been pro-active in creation of academic knowledge. |
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| For instance, the organisation has partnered with Centre for Creative Leadership to undertake leadership research in areas like 'bridging cultural boundaries' and 'understanding the leadership gap'. |
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| Similarly, to enable juniors to gain a practical view of work, the company invites its senior management team to share learnings from their experiences at the workplace in its 'practitioners as teachers' initiative. |
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| To develop the leadership potential of its young workforce, Tata firms have launched Young Leaders Development Programmes. The idea is to overcome the challenge of attrition rather than attract people to work for them. The Tatas want to be an employer of choice. |
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