Human capital development issues, including training of employees/delivery partners, inter-departmental learning, job up-skilling
Communication issues, gender equality, disability discrimination, conflicting beliefs and generational differences
Talent, recession
Given the fast-paced changes continuously taking place in the business landscape, a future-ready workplace, which can thrive amid the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow, is essential to ensure sustainable growth. Keeping pace with technological advancements, supply chain disruptions, shifting demographics and dynamic economic forces requires an exceptional focus on building on human capital, a key propeller of long-term growth. Structure, climate and capabilities are the three pillars on which we are strategically focussed to make our organisation future-ready.
Governance oversight: Board, Safety, Health, Environment & Sustainability Committee, Nomination & Remuneration Committee
Our efforts to create an empowering work environment for our people are driven by organisational design and automation
Our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is rooted in the ethos of the Tata brand – a testament to our values, culture and reputation as an employer of choice. We remain committed to continuously strengthening this proposition by:
of Graduate Engineers hired from campus were women
women attended the Breakthrough Series
A specially-curated programme in collaboration with the DEI team of the Tata Group and TMTC was created for women employees at our manufacturing locations in India. More than 50 women employees were covered. The programme has two 2 modules – Swabhav and Prabhav.
This programme is designed for the global finance team covering more than 150 employees across all our subsidiaries. This nine-month transformative finance competency development programme, curated in collaboration with TMTC aims to build expertise in the function, a global work culture and inclusive leadership. With cultural assimilation, continuous learning, team building activities, deep dive into inclusion, mentoring and outside-in perspective, the FinX programme has something for everyone across the globe.
Employees in R&D (Intellectual Capital) (
)(FY 2022-23: 239)
Training days per employee (
) (FY 2022-23: 2.2)
Voluntary attrition () (FY 2022-23: 12%)
Employees trained under Leadership/ Managerial Programmes () (FY 2022-23: 26%)
Manpower productivity = PBT*/total employees (FY 2022-23: ₹ 0.59 crore)
Safe work environment, emergency preparedness, digitised reporting
Ensuring containment of safety hazards (behaviour, workplace, process and product), promoting well-being and taking prompt corrective actions to prevent recurrence of any safety-related incidents
Governance oversight: Safety, Health, Environment & Sustainability Committee
We valued health and safety as the cornerstones of our responsible growth proposition. We remain committed to nurturing workplace safety as an imperative for sustainable business development. Led by our Zero Harm aspiration, we are focussed on fostering a culture of safety across the organisation. We endeavour to ensure the highest levels of safety and well-being for our workforce.
We uphold high ethical and safety standards, ensuring employee well-being and Company success
A comprehensive framework guides our actions related to safety, health and environment across all locations.
Safety is embedded in our values, with continuous improvement efforts and world-class HSE practices.
Our two safety principles and ten Golden Rules driving our aspiration for Zero Harm
We have in place a robust and comprehensive Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Management System, aligned with the standards of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001. The system drives the safety and well-being of our employees and contractors. It is embedded with an unwavering commitment for continual improvement in the EHS framework. It is designed to ensure a safe and healthy work environment, while fostering a culture of environmental responsibility.
We have identified safety as an integral part of our value system and leadership commitment as a central facet of our safety management system.
Though we are continuously striving to improve safety in working conditions, we suffered one unfortunate fatal incident related to road/vehicle safety in FY 2023-24. We are committed to preventing the recurrence of such incidents and are focussed on taking strong corrective and preventive actions around road/ vehicle safety.
We believe our occupational health services play a crucial role in identifying and mitigating workplace hazards and risks. We recognise employee health as a pivot of our responsibility ethos and take proactive measures to safeguard it.
We prioritise the quality and accessibility of our occupational health services by ensuring that the services are delivered by qualified healthcare professionals, possessing the relevant certifications and expertise in occupational health. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy and confidentiality of all employee health information. Access to employee health information is restricted to authorised personnel with a legitimate need-to-know basis
Maintaining positive community relations in areas where the Company’s operations have an impact on living conditions
Focus on empowering communities and improving socio-economic status by creating livelihood opportunities, promoting health, well-being and education in a sustainable manner
As a responsible corporate, we have prioritised community development as a key focus area for driving inclusive and sustainable growth. In line with the Tata Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) philosophy, we follow a comprehensive programme framework that is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Governance oversight: Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Our efforts to build and boost economic capital are powered by our initiatives towards promoting the livelihood of farmers and artisans in rural communities.
Farmers’ development and growth is a key CSR outreach area for us, at Tata Chemicals. During the year -
Farmers benefited
Cattle covered under livestock management programmes
Artisans impacted positively
Sales of traditional handicrafts
We remain committed to conserving biodiversity and water as part of our focus on nurturing the environment and preserving it for future generations.
For the past two decades, we have been making extensive investments in biodiversity conservation programmes and through our programme C-SCAPES, which include:
People covered through environmental projects
Mangroves planted
Trees planted
Whale sharks rescued (944 rescued till March 31, 2024)
No. of small and medium water harvesting structures constructed (1,148 constructed till March 31, 2024)
Total water harvested through Jal Dhan (742.5 mcft till March 31, 2024)
As part of our social development thrust, we continue to invest in the areas of healthcare, safe drinking water infrastructure, education & skill development.
Our preventive and curative healthcare programmes continued to support the promotion of health and wellbeing in the communities of our outreach during the year.
Patients provided healthcare services through mobile clinic
Women and adolescent girls treated for low haemoglobin levels
Households covered under Swachh Tarang project
Households covered under Roof Rain Water Harvesting Systems
Through our educational programmes, we made significant strides, towards improving the quality of education, reducing school dropouts and bridging the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) gap in children to achieve age appropriate learning levels. This included
Students supported (NIOS, Navodaya, Scholarships, FLN, LAMP)
Youth provided skill training
Vulnerable populations remain a key target group for us. It is aimed at promoting empowerment, partnerships and equity. Our focus is on driving sustainable groups of such populations, which include Women, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Persons with Disability (PwDs). We support Tata Affirmative Action programme to drive sustainable change among these vulnerable groups and FY 2023-24 witnessed a further scale-up of the same.
Women covered under empowerment programmes
People covered under various Affirmative Action Programmes
Volunteering is a way of life at Tata and is ingrained in the way of functioning in the organisation. Through our year-round volunteering programmes, we encourage and facilitate our employees and family members to engage with communities. In FY 2023-24, employees and their family members enthusiastically participated in various volunteering activities, such as:
No. of Volunteering Hours
Per Capita Volunteering Hours
