SOCIALNurturing a Positive Workplace Culture

Tata Chemicals considers its people as a key pillar of its chemistry of sustainable growth. The Company is committed to creating a positive workplace culture, underpinned by empowerment and progression of the employees. The Company is focussed on investing in the welfare, safety and well-being of its people through a purpose-led strategic approach. It is continuously reinventing itself to create a people-friendly environment that promotes greater employee satisfaction and increased productivity.

The Human Resource (HR) policies at Tata Chemicals are powered by concerted efforts to ensure the engagement and welfare of its people. They are structured around programmes that promote the skill development of the employees through innovative practices. The Company continues to invest in equipping them to embrace technological advancements to promote excellence at work.

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Investing in the Right Talent

In line with its growth and expansion plans, Tata Chemicals makes regular investments in attracting the right talent and skill-set to drive its sustainability-led business strategy. Its human resource framework is built around a model designed to create a multi-skilled and productive structure. The focus is on addressing the existing skill gaps, and attracting new and industry-relevant skills in the areas of supply chain and logistics, digitalisation, fermentation, analytics, among others.

Building Managerial Capability

While building a robust future talent pipeline, Tata Chemicals has identified the development of managerial capability as a key focus area for steering its growth plans.

• The Manager Capability Building Programme, called ‘Invest’ and ‘Invest+’ (Increase Value-Enhancing Skills for Tomorrow), was conducted for four batches from India and Magadi, Kenya during FY 2022-23. This was complemented by a bi-monthly learning capsule of articles, videos, podcasts, etc.
• CoachPro for senior leadership team was introduced at various levels, along with a mentoring programme, to enhance the coaching skills of managers. TCE has also developed a ‘myPeople Management Tool Kit’ for people management skills
• About 50 managers globally were recognised as part of the Company’s ‘Katalyst Award Programme’ to acknowledge Role Model People Managers, based on the manager effectiveness score delivered by the employee engagement survey of FY 2021-22

Tata Chemicals India has women working in all the three shifts at its manufacturing sites.

Tata Chemicals reviews its employee structure periodically to align it with the evolving customer needs and aspirations.

Promoting Skills and Diversity

Tata Chemicals has launched targeted programmes to promote the necessary skill-sets for addressing the needs of the transforming business eco-system. It is also driving diversity as a conscious agenda within the organisation.

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Empowering People through Digitalisation

With the phased launch of myWOW (My World of Work) HRMS Oracle platform rolled out across all entities, Tata Chemicals has embarked on an organisation-wide digital transformation journey under the One Tata One Operating Network (OTON). TCL India has completed the first two phases of the programme, including its payroll as well as leave and attendance management processes. It has also piloted an AI-based Chatbot.

The single sign-on-based, mobile-enabled platform provides better user experience to the Company’s multi-generational workforce. It also assists managers with better and more informed team management.

Fostering Employee Well-being

Ensuring the wellness and well-being of its employees is a vital part of Tata Chemicals’ human resource charter. The Company encourages its people to take adequate breaks for rest and rejuvenation. It also undertakes various programmes like yoga sessions, sports day, marathons to ensure their physical and emotional well-being.

• With a strong emphasis on mental health awareness, Tata Chemicals organised counselling at TCE, TCM and India entities during FY 2022-23
• The Employee Assistance Programme, launched two years ago under the umbrella of “We Care”, continued to offer confidential psychological support and other assistance, such as life coaching, emotional and mental wellness support, to India-based employees and their families

Digitalisation of HR operations has helped standardise and automate business processes and workflows. This allows the HR department to spend less time on administrative tasks and more on partnering with stakeholders to add value to the operations.

Enabling a Culture of Inclusion and Motivation

At Tata Chemicals, constant efforts are made to create a culture of inclusion, with focus on embedding a sense of belonging among the employees. Various initiatives and programmes are undertaken to keep the employees engaged, satisfied and motivated.

• The Company is continuously reviewing its people-friendly policies like infant care policy, parental leave, based on feedback and benchmarks with other peer organisations
• In FY 2022-23, an external enterprise-wide employee engagement Xpress survey was conducted with a response rate of 95%
• ‘Leadership Connect’, a platform for members of the Board for interacting with a diverse group of employees in TCL India and Rallis, helps understand the pulse of the employees and the business
• The Company’s managers engage with their teams on a regular basis to review their performance and provide inputs on their areas for improvement

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