Quotes :
"Growing organisations in any field must constantly
evolve, accept or even seek new ideas, new visions, and
new enthusiasms. "
— JRD Tata, Speech on ‘Completion of 25 years as chairman’
The Life and Times of J R D Tata :
JRD Tata cared greatly for his workers.
In 1956, he initiated a program of closer 'employee association with management' to give workers a stronger voice in the affairs of the company.
He firmly believed in employee welfare and espoused the principles of an eight-hour working day, free medical aid, workers' provident scheme, and workmen's accident compensation schemes,which were later, adopted as statutory requirements in India.
He was also a founding member of the first Governing Body of NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi,India’s first independent economic policy institute established in 1956.
In 1968, he founded Tata Consultancy Services. In 1979, Tata Steel instituted a new practice: a worker being deemed to be "at work" from the moment he leaves home for work till he returns home from work.
This made the company financially liable to the worker for any mishap on the way to and from work.
In 1987, he founded Titan Industries. Jamshedpur was also selected as a UN Global Compact City because of the quality of life, conditions of sanitation, roads and welfare that were offered by Tata Steel.
Books on J R D Tata :
Author : R Gopalakrishnan
Publishers : Penguin (2011)
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