Adani Group Recognised for Best HR Strategy in Line with Business in Asias Best Employer Brand Award

Aug. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- Adani Group, a global integrated infrastructure player with revenues of over $8 billion for financial year 2012, has received the ‘Best HR strategy in line with business’ award at the 3rd Asia’s Best Employer Brand Awards at the award ceremony held in Singapore recently.  

This award brings recognition to the successful alignment of Adani Group’s HR strategies that helped to achieve an integrated model, well adapted to the challenges of the infrastructure emerging economies.  

“We are honoured to receive this award. It reaffirms our ability to align HR Strategies with the overall vision of our group. The challenges for HR has been to create organisation for new businesses, support overseas acquisition, handle culture diversities, acquire & retain talents for running the new businesses as well as achieving fast growth simultaneously. As the Group entered into new businesses without having relevant experience and expertise, the challenges was to create and build requisite skill sets”, said Mr. P K Panda, Group HR Head at Adani.  

Mr. Panda believes that more and more business opportunities will create multiple career options for employees which always help in attracting and retaining talents. Further, He says – considering the current and future growth & sustainability of our business, as a group, we are channelizing our energy & efforts towards building organisation as well as people capability. Group has recently launched several entrepreneurial and transformational leadership development initiatives.”

The Adani Group employs 11,000 personnel across India, Indonesia and Australia.  The streamlining forms an integral part of its talent management spread across Asia and Australia practice with challenges owing to completely incongruous geographies with diverse cultures in its areas of business i.e. coal mines, power plants and ports.  

Asia's Best Employer Brand Awards 2012, third in the series, is hosted by the Employer Branding Institute, World HRD Congress and Stars of the Industry Group.  The 2012 edition observed participation from over 100 industry stalwarts representing various sectors from more than 20 countries with the likes of NTPC, Infosys, Microsoft, Raymond Ltd., Hindustan Unilever, NTPC, Nokia, Yes Bank etc from India.