7-Aditya Birla Minacs: Training Matters

A perfect score on 3 key areastraining, growth opportunities and compensationdid the trick, and that acted as the key driver for Aditya Birla Minacs to better its last years performance. The companys HR head attributes the good scores on training to its aggressive mapping of employee requirements and delivering it across a blended training model that seemed to have connected well with the employees. The companys training revolves around what it calls the Minacs Talent Management Process framework that addresses the key touch points during the employee lifecycle. Using this framework the company was able to tightly mesh the organizational goals and skilling its employees with the right talent sets leading to higher business results and greater per employee productivity.

The employees prioritizing training in addition to compensation also drives home the point that the industry is slowly changing from a purely compensation driven to expectations on other areas like growth opportunities and acquiring job related skills on a regular basis. In the case of Aditya Birla Minacs, the HR head states that the pro-active training has clearly acted as one key motivator and an employee retention factor.

Interestingly, during FY10, one of the areas that called for attention was training and clearly over FY11 the company has concentrated on talent mining with its framework with 3 key deliverablesto acquire, develop and align.

Yet another sweet spot for the company relates to the employees feeling that they have a robust career progression within the company. Yet again, this parameter also leans on effective training that helps the company identify multiple talent streams, be able to map high achievers, and be able to provide them an effective career path.

While the surveyed sample at Aditya Birla felt that they are paid enough for the work they are doing, they gave lesser scores to salary hikes. Some felt the appraisal system also needed to become more transparent and fair. But the company feels these are perception based comments, and more individualistic.