Vedanta gets Great place to Work certificate
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Hyderabad Vedanta Group, the producer of metals, oil and gas including its business units – Balco, Cairn Oil & Gas, ESL, Hindustan Zinc, Iron Ore Business, TSPL and Vedanta-Jharsuguda has been certified as a great place to work by the renowned Great Place to Work Institute.
The accolade follows Vedanta Group's stellar work culture, which fosters an ecosystem of trust, high-performance culture and imbibes aspects of credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie among its employees. Sunil Duggal, Vedanta Group CEO said, "Vedanta is one of the few organisations in India to be awarded with this coveted certification as a conglomerate, setting a benchmark for others. This bears testimony to our continuous efforts towards being the Best Employer Brand."
Vedanta has institutionalised several best-in-industry people practices in its endeavour to be a people-first organisation, such as Vice-Chairman's Internal Growth Workshop, a robust programme for identifying high potential employees early on in their careers and mentoring them for enhanced roles and responsibilities. This is followed by a structured review mechanism to map their growth and performance.
Over 1,000 leaders have been groomed via this initiative across various businesses. V-Reach (Graduate Development Programme), a programme that seeks to identify and develop young leaders from the graduate employees' cadre and map them to significantly elevated roles. V-Lead (Diversity Development Programme) to identify highly potential women candidates early on and groom them into leadership roles.
Equal opportunity employer – Vedanta's ethos of gender-agnostic job roles have seen the company become India's first to have women as mine managers, a feat of true women empowerment. ACT-UP, a talent identification assessment programme, is conducted company-wide each year through which hundreds of Business Stars and Technical Stars are identified for accelerated career development with customised Individual Development Plans (IDP).
