RIL's talent base, as on March 31, 2011, stands at 22,661 with an average employee age of 41 years.
In FY-11, the Business Transformation initiative created high engagement and excitement amongst the workforce across all levels at RIL. Some key accomplishments on people management front are illustrated below:
Learning & Development
In FY-11, RIL enhanced delivery over the last year by ensuring 1,589,395 man hours of learning activities at its manufacturing divisions. Going forward, RIL will focus on building specialist skills and multiple cadres in the organisation to support its goals and aspirations. Additionally, several thousand man-hours of developmental intervention was undertaken to train the leadership teams on developing the second-line, compensation and benefits, executive coaching, rewards and recognition programmes and interviewing & selection.
Six Sigma deployment in FY-11 was focused on improving process capability & reliability issues as per the needs of individual manufacturing sites. A total of 85 projects were executed leading to financial benefit of Rs. 26 Crore for the year 2010-11.
As a part of Six Sigma deployment process, 9 Reliance Certified Black Belts – Wave 1 (RCBB-1) are working across manufacturing divisions and have, in turn, developed 305 Six Sigma Green Belts in 2009-11. Total project execution by this team led by RCBB-1 for a span of two years is 157 leading to financial benefit of Rs. 69 Crore.
Currently, 19 BMGI/ASQ certified Black belts are working in different sites. Based on the effective deployment of Six Sigma methodology by first wave, new batch for Reliance Certified Black Belt – Wave 2 (RCBB-2) has been launched in January, 2011 for which 11 employees have been selected from manufacturing divisions.
In all 354 Black Belts & Green Belts are associated with Six Sigma projects at different sites. For the success of various Six Sigma projects, 1892 team members and