Loyalty is ‘irrelevant’, it’s performance that matters in Wipro

January 22, 2014 12:33 IST

Wipro, Indias third-largest software services company is making a shift in its human resources practice.

While evaluating employees, it will focus more on performance than the tenure of employment.

Though performance has been part of evaluation at Wipro for years, employees tenures at the company also played a role.

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Traditionally, the way our model works is, if you have spent 10 years at the company, you are a delivery manager; if you have spent five, you are a project manager; if you have spent one, you are a rookie. Now, we are saying thats completely irrelevant, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) T K Kurien told Business Standard. What we are doing this year is saying, if you have skills, how many years youve spent at the company doesnt matter.

The company will consider soft and hard skills for assessing performance, to ensure employees are up-to-date with their jobs, Kurien said.

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Today, an employee may be working at the cutting edge of a technology and have great customer interaction skills. But tomorrow, that skill may become redundant. When your skill becomes redundant, your grade will drop.

The new practice, which Kurien expects to bring about a big change at Wipro in two-three years, has already been tried by some of its peers.

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