TATA Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered
in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata.
The company gained international recognition after purchasing several global companies.
One of India's largest conglomerates, Tata Group is owned by Tata Sons. It is one of the
biggest and oldest industrial groups in the country, founded 153 years ago in 1868. Each Tata
company operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of
directors and shareholders.
Significant Tata companies and subsidiaries include
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Tata Chemicals, Tata Communications, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Consumer
Products, Tata Elxsi, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Voltas, Tata
Cliq, Titan, Trent (Westside), Indian Hotels Company Limited, TajAir, TATA
AutoComp systems Ltd, Vistara, Croma and Indicash.
Over the past weeks and months, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a significant and
very global challenge that is creating disruption across the world. TATA strongly believe that
all global challenges need global solutions. TATA is engaged with their employees, clients,
partners, public institutions, and community organizations to rise to the occasion. As the
world comes together to fight this, human endeavour and ingenuity will surely prevail over
COVID crisis.
Business sustainability means the only thing – preparing for the future by making the
workforce future-ready. This is where HR plays a pivotal role in leading the change. HR must
work directly towards the success of the business by continuously upgrading skills of the
present workforce on a real-time basis. The HR should develop a recovery strategy for good
companies, while not so good one will have to develop survival strategies.
STRATEGIC APPROACH ADAPTED BY TATA
TATA believes that world of work is going to be very tough for most people for a very long
time in all parts of the world. How companies treat their workforces will become an
increasingly telling differentiator.
TATA says that in this situation of the current health crisis it is time to support "our own
innovativeness", invest in it and "not dismiss something as being too far out but being
something, the company should look at".
Tata has bought a halt to paternalism approach that was used sing long from the Gandhian
era. Perhaps those values will come to be seen as a Post-Covid necessity.
Chandra’s most arresting forecast is that most of TCS’s 450,000 employees will continue to
work from home after Covid. TCS was the only one among all who initiated this approach of
Work from Home for its employees in order to ensure that their employees stay safe and
secure.
Roughly a fifth of TCS’s employees worked from home before the coronavirus — whether
they were based in India, the US, Britain or elsewhere. Chandra says that will rise to three-
quarters of its employees working from home after the coronavirus — and indefinitely. It is
hard to overstate the scale of this shift. “The digital disruption is so significant that most of us
cannot imagine the degree,” Chandra said.
TATA has discovered the importance of our colleagues working in IT. So, they have decided
to send them Fortnum & Mason’s hampers once a week.
One of the particular change that HR has bought into picture is Distance
Learning. They are providing trainings to all the employees inorder to
engage them in the activities , enhance there knowledge and keep them
motivated
Chandra believes the shift to permanent WFH will raise productivity by 25 per cent 
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It will lead to fewer wasted hours commuting
Less money spent on vast office buildings
Greater flexibility to figure out when you can work effectively
According the Economic Times, Tata Group had announced 20% pay cut for the top
management. This is for the first time that the chairman of Tata Sons and CEOs of all
operating companies will take cut in compensation because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting & business
solutions, was the first to declare a pay cut for CEO
The CEOs and MDs of Tata Group such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Trent, Tata
International, Tata Capital, and Voltas will reduce their compensation in the wake of
coronavirus pandemic, executives
The top officials who are close to the development informed that the pay cut would be in
current year bonuses.
Earlier Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran had told ET that each company will analyse
its HR policy, revenue planning, and cash flow management.
The remuneration of the top 15 Tata Group companies CEO rose nearly 11% in FY19 as
compared to FY18. Except TCS, no other unit has published the FY20 annual report.
The CEO of TCS Rajesh Gopinathan’s dropped his remuneration by 16.5% to Rs13.3 crore
from Rs 16.04 crore in the previous financial year.
TATA is calling for a collaborative approach among stakeholders, Tata Motors MD and CEO
Guenter Butschek on Saturday said there are new challenges for the automotive industry in
the restart phase of the economy. "Now that we are in the restart phase, new challenges like
growing virus cases and acute shortage of labour have come up.
Tata Trusts have procured 10 million units of PPE for the safety of frontline healthcare
workers.
Further, Tata Steel through Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) launched a 10-point
CombatCovid19 programme for the communities in and around its operational areas. TSF
has been focusing on addressing the issues of migrant labourers
Other Changes are strategies built by HR in the organization involves
Every employee has to go under the following process before entering the organization
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The employees have to give a regular temperature check before entering the
organization.
every employee has to go under the disinfectant machine after giving the temperature
check
Proper record of leave if a person is taking leave if more than 2 days he/she had to
bring health certificate form the district or covid hospital.
The cafeteria is being sanitized on daily basis.
no one is allowed to leave the organization unless it is urgent and if he /she is going
then they have to follow the same procedure.
Distribution of sanitizer to each and every employee at the entrance gate and a
santizer bottle is also kept at the table of the employees.
Tata Motors reduced half of their employees. These companies are following
government guidelines and safety measures. HR, in addition to handling the business
requirements, is also responsible for managing and apprehensions of their employees.
Top management can play a critical role in helping HR overcomes this by personally
endorsing the use of technology and automation in HR practices.
FUTURISTIC APPROACH
Remote work may become permanent in organizations that they want more of their
onsite employees to continue to work remotely after the pandemic passes. This shift will
come with its HR challenges. The skills that are utilized this time will likely continue to be
built and developed. One of the strengths of the HR professional is building
relationships; the challenges are how to continue to build those relationships as the
nature of work changes, and as the nature of the HR role changes. The problem of
employees due to remote work is that they are stressed because the kids are trying to
get their attention while they are working.