Big Praise: NTPC recognised as one of the ‘Most Preferred Workplaces of 2022’
By Sukanta Kumar Mohanty
Bhubaneswar, July 2: India’s largest integrated energy conglomerate, NTPC Limited, has been recognized as one of the “Most Preferred Workplaces of 2022” in the premier edition of “Most Preferred Workplaces 2022” organized by Team Marksmen in association with India Today.
The esteemed award was received by Shri Dillip Kumar Patel, Director (HR), Shri Munish Jauhari, RED (West-1), and Sh. Anil Kumar Jadli, GM (HR), at a function held in Mumbai on 1stJuly, 2022.
This award showcases and celebrates organizations which have managed to maximize employee wellbeing, engagementand productivity alongside organizational performance. It highlights organizations which have particularly succeeded in their holistic reorientation of the business landscape and have also seen them create an employee experience that is meaningful, collaborative, and inspiring, simply by putting the needs of employees first and adopting people practices aligned strategically to business and creating a caring, learning and engaging workplace.
This unique industry-led initiative has been informed and driven by insights drawn from an industry-wide, in-depth research and survey conducted by Team Marksmen. Organizations have been appraised on Employee Centricity, Organizational Purpose, Intrapreneurial Ecosystem, Work Flexibility, Diversity and Equality, Growth and Rewards and Social Cohesion
This recognition mirrors NTPC’s unflinching commitment towards achieving excellence in development and management of its Human Resources through continuous process improvement, engagement and learning and development opportunities.
It is because of its progressive and “People before PLF” approach that NTPC has become a preferred workplace and the same is reflected in the awards/recognitions received by it over the years as one of India’s Best Employers. In 2020, NTPC Ltd had come first among Indian PSUs under Forbes List of World’s Best Employer. It was conferred the prestigious CII National HR Excellence Award under ‘Role Model’ Category in March 2021. Importantly, this was only the second time when the award of Role Model had been conferred to any organization. NTPC had also been conferred prestigious SHRM Special Recognition for Learning and Development for the year 2021 at the SHRM India PSE Conclave 2021. Recently, in March 2022, NTPC Limited had been declared the “Dream Employer of the Year” at the 30th Session of the World HRD Congress. NTPC’s efforts to create a future-ready workforce were recognized when NTPC was selected as a 2022 ATD BEST award winner by The Association for Talent Development (ATD), USA. The award recognizes employee talent development practices that affect enterprise-wide success. NTPC has bagged this award for the 5th time on 16th May 2022 at Florida, USA.
NTPC is not only providing power to the country but have also pioneered futuristic and humane policies for welfare of its employees and extended workforce and showed the way for other organizations in the country.
NTPC continuously endeavours to provide a compelling career proposition to its employees with purposeful engagement. Progressive people policies and intervention have facilitated its workforce to be agile and be future ready. Introduction of contemporary Performance Management system with continuous assessment, focussed learning and development initiatives like Harvard Manage Mentor, GPiLearn, Competency Assessments & interventions, Samarth modules for facilitating job rotation, fair and transparent Career Development & Succession Planning System, Talent Management System and a holistic Leadership Development System besides progressive and supportive people policies are few of the levers building the enabling and engaging culture unique to NTPC .
Further, in order to assess and improve its HR practices and policies so that employee engagement levels in the company are consistently high, NTPC refine and revisualize its policies. The awards and recognitions are a testimony that people practices at NTPC are at par with the best companies in the world.
