August 2, 2009 • 6:26 am 0
I am an avid follower of lists. Out of professional interest as well as a curiosity to find out ” who’s in ” and “who’s out” , I keep a tab on lists to the extent I can. Here’s one you may like: The Best Places to Work in India for 2009 brought to you by the Economic Times in association with the Great Places To Work Institute.
Filed under: Best Employers, Trends , Best Places to Work India, Great Places to Work
June 11, 2009 • 8:28 am 0
The Great Place to Work Institute , India working in collaboration with the Economic Times has announced its list for 2009 . Interestingly, you will find a clutch of organisations across different sectors which have made it into this prestigious list. They cover information technology, consumer products and financial services.
Filed under: Best Employers , employee engagement, Great Places to Work
December 6, 2007 • 12:34 pm 1
I was glad to read in the Economic Times that Wipro has taken a major step in fighting candidates who acquire job positions by falsifying their resumes.
In a move which can benefit industry as a whole, Wipro has started sharing with competitors its database of job applicants who have faked information in their CVs. This is the first such initiative in the Indian IT industry.
IBM India, Infosys and TCS, too, have been quietly dismissing employees who have been caught fabricating their academic or professional backgrounds. In March 2006, the issue became public when Wipro Technologies not just fired some employees for faking their CVs, but also filed police complaints against them.
HR experts say that the manipulation of resumes, especially in collaboration with recruitment agencies, is assuming alarming proportions. They estimate that 15-20 % of resumes have some sort of misrepresentation , subtle or blatant. Inflated salaries, wrong designations and incorrect prior experience are seen as examples of subtle misrepresentation while falsely claiming to have worked for a company is regarded as falling in the blatant category.
Those – and here I would place more of the blame on job consultants – who indulge in such malpractices do not seem to realize that, for their short term gains, they are bringing disrepute, not only to themselves but also to their organisations, the industry and indeed the nation.
Filed under: Best Employers , fake resumes, hiring policies
November 21, 2007 • 4:15 am 1
Dataquest-IDC Survey on the Top Employers for 2007 in India’s high growth BPO industry has the following as the Top 10 :
vCustomer ,ranked 2 in the 2006 survey, has taken the top spot in the list. The list has a balance of pure customer services/call centre companies and broad-based BPOs. It also represents a mixture of large, medium amd small companies with the mid-size ( 1000 – 5000 employees) making up more than 50 % of the full list of 19 companies.
Filed under: Best Employers , Employee Satisfaction, Top BPO Employers
November 14, 2007 • 10:39 am 0
International consultancy firm Mercer ranked Microsoft India at the top of its 15 Best Companies to Work for in India 2007 list. The study was jointly conducted by Mercer with financial magazine Business Today and international market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS).
In a list dominated extensively by technology firms, Microsoft was followed by Mindtree Consulting, Johnson and Johnson and Sapient. Infosys, India’s second-biggest software exporter which topped the list in 2006 slipped to fifth spot this year.
Other companies in the top 10 include iGate (6th), Agilent Technologies, HCL Comnet, Accenture and Dr Reddy’s Labs (10th). The last 5 spots in the Top 15 go to Marriott Hotels India, Covansys India, HCL Infosystems, Godrej Consumer and Honeywell Technology.
FMCG majors J&J and Godrej Consumer, hospitality giant Mariott and pharma major Dr Reddy’s are the only 4 non-IT companies in the list. Mercer said this year’s list include 7 new entrants in the top 15 rankings. Last year’s list had ten firms, but it was increased to 15 this year on the request of participants.
Padmaja Alaganandan, Principal Consultant, Mercer, said, “Clearly, compensation has emerged as a necessary but not sufficient condition for employee engagement. This is good news for companies who are currently facing increasing pressure on margins due to spiralling compensation costs. Companies need to take a good look at jobs that they offer and build in elements of autonomy, challenge and scope for innovation to have a truly ‘engaged’ workforce.”
This year, 129 companies registered for the survey, of which 94 completed all participation formalities. To be eligible, companies must have had a minimum of 200 management or executive level employees in India, and be in existence in India for a minimum of 4 years.
Filed under: Best Employers , best companies, Mercer, Microsoft India
September 27, 2007 • 3:44 am 0
The Indian magazine Dataquest in partnership with IDC publishes their list of the Best Employers in India’s tech companies.
The top 5 rankings for 2007 in their 7th annual survey:-
TCS was also ranked No. 1 last year. RMSI has fallen from rank 2 to rank 4. HCL Infosystems has improved from rank 3 to rank 2. iGate has moved from rank 29 to rank 3. Synechron was not in last year’s list.
Filed under: Best Employers
August 6, 2007 • 3:42 am 0
Hewitt Asociates has announced the Best Employers in Asia for 2007.
The Best Employers in Asia 2007 study was conducted by Hewitt Associates and presented in partnership with The Wall Street Journal Asia .
The study provides a definitive benchmark against which you can measure how effective your organization is in providing a workplace that engages the intellectual and emotional commitment of your employees. While revealing how Asian organizations are achieving a real competitive advantage through their people, the study also indicates where your organization is at on its journey to being an ‘employer of choice’.
6 of the top 20 are from China. The companies from India to feature in the Top 20 were:
Filed under: Best Employers
August 5, 2007 • 4:24 pm 0
Fortune magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies To Work For has the following in the Top 10 slots:
As far as I know, from this list, Google, Network Appliance and Boston Consulting Group have operations in India.
Filed under: Best Employers
December 6, 2006 • 6:53 pm 4
Recently, November 2006, “Business Today” announced the results of their popular survey: “The Best Companies To Work For In India”. The survey was conducted with Mercer and TNS.
The survey ranks:
Company rankings were arrived at based on 4 quadrants:
In comparison to the 2005 rankings, Infosys continued to be No.1 while MindTree climbed from 10 to 2. Infosys is the only company to have featured among the Top 10 in 5 out of the 6 years of the Survey starting from 2001.
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