| Mr. Thomas
Varghese, Head – Pulp Operations, Grasim Industries Ltd.,
gives his views on winning the coveted IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj
National Quality Special Award for performance excellence 2007
in the manufacturing category.
What award did your unit receive recently
and what is the significance of this award?
Grasim (Harihar Polyfibers & Grasiline
Division), Harihar
Unit won the coveted IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality
Special Award for performance excellence 2007 in the manufacturing
category. This is one of the most prestigious and coveted awards
in the manufacturing excellence category in India. It is a matter
of pride that out of 350 manufacturing companies that were in
the fray, Grasim Harihar Unit won the award after passing through
a maze of stringent parameters.
Please elaborate on the initiatives
taken by your unit to get this prestigious award.
The unit won through the unique visioning
exercise carried out with the full involvement of our employees
and drew out in 2004 a strategic action plan for the unit
upto 2008. The initiative involved not just focussing on manufacturing
excellence but also focussing on key initiatives with respect
to customers, suppliers and communities besides having a concerted
performance bias. Hence despite numerous challenges the focus
on other stakeholders coupled with creation of a performance
based culture strengthened by an effective performance management
system helped us achieve this coveted award. In addition enhanced
communication, transparency and large number of people initiatives
has helped us in fostering team work, innovation and a performance
driven culture. We have also taken a number of quality of
life initiatives which has helped focus and create a feeling
of belongingness and commitment amongst our employees both
at the staff and workmen level.
What steps are you likely to take to
upscale your efforts to continue getting recognised for performance
excellence
We are going to continue all the positive
initiatives and in fact identify areas of weakness where we
can further improve at this unit. Our concerted focus would
be on reaching world class level of business excellence through
our constant endeavour and efforts.
The IMC Bajaj Special Award is a recognition
of the World Class Excellence in addition to being short-listed
for the Aditya Birla Groups Platinum WCM Award.
My team at Harihar is still on its way towards
this journey of business excellence and I am sure with some
more efforts we would strive to become one of the highest
performing company in the Indian corporate landscape and ofcourse
be one of the best units within the Aditya Birla Group.
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