Decision makers behind India's Best Employers

Meet the HR managers of India's Best Employers:

Ajoyendra Mukherjee
Vice President and Head, Global HR, TCS

"One of our initiatives is called 'Mpower'. As part of this, we have people managers at our centres and they deal with issues that employees might have." Another initiative, 'Maitree', reaches beyond employees, to their families, bringing them together for a number of cultural events.

Nandita Gurjar
Senior Vice President and Group Head, HR, Infosys

"The important thing about management is to listen. One cannot undermine the power of listening. We also do crowd sourcing of the policies."

Saurabh Govil
Senior V-P at Wipro Technologies

"Simpler agile structures led to very simple roles for the people. They know what roles they have, what objectives they have."

Joji Sekhon Gill
Senior Human Resource Director, Microsoft

The company helps - even encourages - employees to develop skills which may have nothing to do with their work. For instance, Ankur Arora, a Solutions Specialist, has formed a music band with four colleagues. He believes a people-friendly organisation should be able to tell its employees: "You are doing a great job and enjoy your life."

Rajan Dutta
President - corporate HR, Reliance Communications

"We have benchmarked with the best in the industry in each of the 24 HR policies."

D.K. Srivastava
Senior Vice President of Corporate Human Resources, HCL Technologies

Srivastava once walked into a meeting with blood dripping from his hand. He had just attempted a critical catch on the cricket field and split his webbing.

Manoj Biswas (Extreme left)
India head of human resources, Accenture

He insists that all the practices known to modern industry - training, re-skilling, career development, counselling, psychological interviews and psychometric analysis - are practised by the Army. Biswas has 'operationlised' some of those at Accenture and added some unique ones as well - an adoption leave policy on the lines of maternity leave and allowing an employee to donate 'hours of work' to a colleague who needs to be on extended leave because of an emergency.

M.S. Krishnamoorthy
L&T's V-P (Human Resources)

"The company has strong rivals in electrical and automation, from where it can poach good talent. But in engineering and construction and heavy engineering, few do the kind of work we do. So we have to train leaders from within."