Maternity Bill Is Not A Dampener On Our Women Hiring: Indegene
Tell me a few anecdotes about the work culture in the company? What can be done to utilise full potential of the employees?
Indegene fosters an entrepreneurial work environment encouraging employees to grow vertically and horizontally enhancing the depth and breadth of experience and domain knowledge. Indegene culture could be evidenced as the personification of the key pillars of the three values of passion, innovation and collaboration.
While there is a well-designed performance management process to discuss on the individual development plans and career aspirations, one of the initiatives under the banner of “Ahead of the Curve” is cross skilling to help individuals expand their skills. The skill repository of individuals is maintained which facilitates in finding the best fit for any project requirement and helps in enhancing job mobility.
Our i-academy(L&D) team is proactive in running various training sessions by assessing business demands along with personalized interventions and thereby bridges the skill gap if any.
What can be done to bring parity in employee appreciation and make them feel comfortable in the workplace?
We have a well-designed reward and recognition programme to recognise employees on reaching professional milestones. Rewards are both behaviour based and outcome based. The behaviour based recognitions are necessarily spot awards and can be given at peer-level however the outcome based awards go through a monthly/quarterly nomination process for awards that have certain predefined criteria which are in-turn connected to our values of passion, innovation and collaboration.
We have an online recognition platform-Aspire wherein the award/recognition citations are displayed along with a leader’s dash board. All recognition certificates are given away to employees during the department townhalls which is extremely motivating and fulfilling for the employees.
What do leaders need to drive the business forward?
The dynamic yet highly regulated nature of this industry demands that our teams are ahead of the curve, advising clients and innovating at the same time. To drive the business forward, leaders need to align their business objectives with the vision of the company and focus on continual improvement through innovations of various kinds and magnitudes.
Our Learning and Development Academy (iAcademy) ensures that individuals are trained and up-skilled to competently and effectively deliver on their responsibilities, while preparing them for higher job roles through structured leadership development programs.
The programmes designed to develop leaders help them hone their skills to manage people, face uncertainty and comfortably tred through ambiguity.
Has maternity bill affected women hiring? What is the diversity ratio?
Indegene’s current workforce comprises 40 percent women with significant representation in managerial and senior leadership roles. The company runs an extensive women networking forum- Diva to help women employees deliver to their career aspirations and at the same time, fulfil their personal and social responsibilities.
The maternity bill reinforces Indegene’s approach for making to be mothers comfortable and recover well before returning full time to work. Indegene assists new mothers with day care facilities, flexi timings, telecommuting, remote work and other such measures to help new moms cope up with additional family responsibilities. The maternity bill is not a dampener on our women hiring.
What has been to retain the top talent in the company? How has the role of HR evolved over the years?
Indegene was set up at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000 and has made six acquisitions over the last five years. Global offices, workforce integration after mergers and acquisitions, and an increasing proportion of millennials in the company brought in challenges. The HR team was quick to innovate and leverage technology to create infrastructure for learning, collaborating, solving and supporting a growing global workforce.
For us, focus on our employees is as important as the transformation we want to deliver to our customers. Our diverse talent includes analysts, management graduates, clinicians, pharma and life science graduates, technologists, creative specialists, domain experts, and business process specialists.
Programs like My Health Matters with a motto of be fit, eat right and stay healthy, IndegeneCares, a personalized employee engagement program focused on helping our employees live an easier and better life, iAcademy, combined with apps developed for fair pay, performance and behavioural measurement, have kept the Indegene employees highly motivated to deliver on the company’s growth ambitions.
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