Grooming new leaders

Tata Chemicals believes in grooming business leaders for the present and the future. This belief forms the basic philosophy behind the company's induction programme. The programme follows a bottom-top approach that enables new entrants to our company to be trained in a structured manner, giving them in-depth insights to the organisation.

Employees are hired and groomed in batches, which leads to a creation of pool of management talent having the same direction, and providing complementarities with similar skills, attitudes, personalities and values. We believe that this pool will be the answer to any leadership challenge across the organization.

At TCL, we recruit candidates from various disciplines and take them into the system in functions like sales and marketing, finance, HR, operations/SCM, corporate communication, agri-business, etc. This is a dedicated process of selecting, training, grooming and inducting fresh post-graduates that is designed to meet our present and future needs.

The management trainee induction programme at TCL is called FIRST – Focused Innovative Result-oriented Structured Training. The objective of the programme is to facilitate a structured and detailed induction of all the businesses and functions at TCL, which helps familiarise trainees with the company’s systems, products, processes and people. With each passing year, we make innovative changes to FIRST based on experience and feedback.

A unique feature of the FIRST programme is that it provides trainees with challenging cross-functional projects facilitating ‘on the job training’ and gearing them towards becoming successful managers in the future. It facilitates a social and cultural transition from the world of academics to the corporate world.

Please contact corporate_communications@tatachemicals.com for further information.