organizational development in tcs
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ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENTBy : Anandita Singh
Roll No. :C-34
MMS - HR, IInd Year (IIIrd Sem)
Presented To: Mr. Kuldeep Singh Soun
Date: 7/10/2009
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TCS Case Study - The OD Journey
ByVijaya Deepti P H
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
Presented at the conference onOrganization Development by Design- Perspectives & Pragmatics
Organised byIndian Academy for Organizational Development (IAOD)
Sumedhas Academe 1Feb 23-24, 2007
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Flow of presentation• Synopsis.
• Pre OD Scenario.
• OD Interventions.
• Post OD Scenario.
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SynopsisOrganization Development.
At Tata Consultancy Services Limited, (TCSL), OD interventions have been instrumental in:
facilitating change management and bringing about competitive advantage.
redefining the organization’s relationship to its environment, its markets and key stakeholders.
Overview of OD interventions at organizational level.
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Synopsis………. Contd.
Focuses on the relationship within the organization.
Paradigm shift in the cultural perspective.
The structural alignment and commensurate cultural changes to improve the total system.
Result : Relationship and its parts in the context of the larger market environment.
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Pre – od scenario of tcs
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STRENGTHS
In the years 1998-99, TCS had grown into the largest Indian software company.
Racing towards achieving its vision of being global top ten.
On time delivery,
Premier position in the industry in terms of revenues,
Focus on training programs,
Quality initiatives,
Use of good technical tools and procedures and
Encouragement of individual excellence in performance.
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Diagnosed problemsMounting revenue pressures.
Selectivity in projects.
Focus on specialization.
Efforts on Experimentation & Innovation.
Rewards and Recognitions.
Inter group co-ordination & knowledge sharing.
Branding and PR.
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Alignment and AttunementIntegrating and balancing out the four voices:
Voice of Shareholders
Voice of Employee
Voice of Customer
Voice of Technology
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HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT:The Process of Creating
Values
VERTCAL ATTUNEMENT : The Process of Creating Energy
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Organizational Development interventions at TCS
Focus
Strategizing
Valuing
Serving
Energizing
Investing
Improving
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Od interventions
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Overview of InterventionsHuman Process Interventions:• Coaching• Training & Development• Process Consultation• Team Building.
Techno-structural Interventions• Restructuring Organization.• Employee Involvement.• Work Design.
Human resource management interventions• Goal setting.• Performance appraisal.• Reward systems.
Strategic Change Interventions:• Mergers & Acquisitions.• Alliances• Networks.
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OD Interventions
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Individual Interventions:• Third party interventions.• Laboratory Group Training.• Career / life planning.
Group Interventions:• Family Group team building.• Diagnostic team building.• Intergroup .• Organizational mirror.• Process Consultation.
Organization Interventions:• The confrontation meeting.• Survey / Feedback.• Environmental scanning.
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Human process interventions
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Scenario Building WorkshopsInternal organization workshop was conducted with top management for scenario building.
Focused at a larger level, on the “The TCS that can be”.
Aim: To challenge the conventional ways of thinking and to give
shape to the key drivers of change .Realistic listening and dialoguing.Dissemination and communication of the scenarios with
teams.To develop a new language for the organization, consistent
with the envisaged future scenario.
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Contd….Participants: Representatives of senior management.
Theme of Scenarios: The nature of the struggle the organization would go through and etched out realistic possibilities based on present factors.
Factors: Wealth creation Enhanced productivity factors Feeling of being valued Resource allocation and team-work Membership criteria and norms of the group Learning opportunities for individuals and teams
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Personal Growth :How do I walk the journey of self discovery and growth.
Professional Excellence:How do I become a role model and a friend.
Role Enhancement :How do I take up new responsibilities and set new
directions.
Owing TCS Culture: How do I influence culture.
Employee Involvement :How do I enable continuous improvement.
Learning : How do I enable Team learning.
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PROPEL – the case of a large relationship at tcs
Team alignment initiative.
Aim:
To set up a dialogue among associates to reflect , build and channel potent restlessness into a convergent blueprint of responsiveness by redefining desirable role behaviours.
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Stages of propel
•Initiation (Nov 2004 ).
•Conducting awareness sessions (Nov – Dec 2004 ).
•Workshop to share the findings (Jan 2005 ).
•Implementing improvement plan (August 05 – till date).
•Next steps.
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Techno structural
interventions
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Value Cards at the Large Relationship
Devised after the analysis of tensions existing in the four dimensions as represented by Voice of Customer, Shareholders, Employee and Technology.
Used to analyze the problems faced by the relationship in relation to these tensions.
To arrive at workable solutions to the identified problems, within designated timeframes.
Helped to effectively capture and track this through the following steps:1. The situation summary was charted out.
2. Improvement goals, action plans and owners of each plan were identified.
3. Success measures were identified against the dimensions of Valuing, Strategizing, Improving, for each actionable, along with timeframe for closure.
4. Impact was analyzed in terms of short term and long-term actions.
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Improvements through Measurements/ Initiatives: Excellenceat the large relationship (AEP)
The Account excellence program ( AEP ) at the large relationship was modelled on the lines of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award/ Tata Business Excellence Model.
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Touches upon 7 key categories
AEP
Strategic Planning
Customer & Market Focus
Measurement
Analysis & Business Model HR Focus
Process Management & Business Results
Leadership
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Human resource management interventions
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Goal Alignment & Balanced Scorecard
A Teach-Train-Transfer workshop on Goal alignment was conducted, with help from expert OD consultants: To build the context. To think through goal setting at TCS with a
systems perspective to goal alignment. To explore means of institutionalizing goal-oriented
performance management within the organization.
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Balanced ScorecardThe Balanced Scorecard approach was proposed, introducing corporate goals, which touched upon the following: Voice of the Shareholder - Financial Goals e.g.
Wealth creationVector of Technology – Technology Goals e.g.
Quality, Cost, Delivery dimensionsVoice of the Customer – Customer/ Market Goals
e.g. Customer SatisfactionVoice of the Employee – Learning & Development
e.g. Employee Satisfaction
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Balanced Scorecard...Lead to the formulation of career paths in TCS global services, consulting and products, supported by HR processes, tools and support staff.
This structure was designed to enable a fair degree of flexibility in rotating at appropriate levels, provides avenues for individual growth.
Besides, there was an exercise to bring out new role definitions in Human Resources (HR), focusing on alignment, energizing and task facilitation through HR.
Business leaders dialogued to evolve the mission and expectations and further, to design enablers for continuous change, team work, and individual growth.
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Darpan - Reflect and ImproveDarpan – Associate Satisfaction Survey for large relationship.
The Questionnaire to capture associate feedback across 5 categories:Career & Job, Communication, Culture & Pride, Leadership,
Supervisor.
Analysis was done for the overall relationship, as well as individual Business Units within the relationship.
Results shared with the entire team and actionable evolved through a series of camps and confluences.
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Outcomes From Darpan : The Cultural Perspective
ASI increase in Darpan 06 & corresponding increase in CSI.
91 % of the team felt proud of being part of the relationship.
90% of the team felt that they can see the big picture - how their contributions add value to customer.
90% of the team felt that their supervisors are approachable & enable them to do their job better.
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Other od interventions
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Initiatives Deployed
Summary
Nakshaktra Award
Reward and Recognition initiative within the relationship. Awarded to encourage star performers for each month within each Business Unit of the relationship. The unique feature of this initiative is that even team members can nominate their peers.
In Touch
An interaction / mentorship initiative with the lead of the relationship. Any employee can walk in to meet the lead and discuss out any problems/ suggestions for improvement in the relationship.
Toast Master Club/Lets Talk
To enhance personality/communication ability of associates in the relationship .To help them gain confidence through sessions by certified facilitators.
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Initiatives Deployed
Summary
Fun@ Relationship level
Initiated to bring in a spirit of team.To act as a stress buster. There are champions within each unit who drive these fun activities in the relationship.
Open House/ Town halls
The objective was to encourage strategic communication,To discuss the larger vision and achievements at relationship level with all employees across the Business Units. Serves as a platform for recognizing good performers and celebrating milestone achievements.
Walk the talk
A senior associate within the relationship takes any newjoinee to the relationship, on a tour of the facility. The aim of this initiative is to make the new entrant feel valued.This is followed by a simple quiz to check the effectivenessof this initiative.
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Post OD scenario from a culture perspective
Organizational Development interventions have been instrumental in terms of enhancing value to the customer & employee at Tata Consultancy Services.
PROPEL - encouraged sharing of ownership and empowerment to change, as also the sharing of success stories and best practices across the organization.
Valuing of employees was institutionalized through establishing processes that enable and enhance individual performance, and lead to empowered project teams.
Issue based mentoring was facilitated, with camps and confluences as enabling frameworks.
Confluences invested in personal transformation for the employee, camps invested in improving the workspace.
Through Scenario building, a collective transformation of dreams and concerns into response capabilities was envisaged.
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Continuous scanning of environment for opportunities and threats was proactively looked at.
Goal alignment through cascading of Balanced Score Card concept could be achieved organization wide.
There was continuous investment in learning, and an active sharing of knowledge with the aim to convert learning into action.
The focus shifted to adding knowledge through delighting every customer.
The earlier tendency of self-sacrificing hard work was replaced by a shift of focus to teamwork and valuing of the employee.
Helped push self imposed boundaries and limitations through challenging organizational boundaries and limitations constantly.
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conclusionOD interventions at TCS have helped build a culture of fostering systems thinking.
Creating forums for dialogue.
Encouraging leadership at all levels.
For the organization at large, OD helped to reiterate the merits of valuing enquiry, expressing differences, and constantly generating new knowledge.
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