Answer to Question #311949 in Management for PREMA

Question

Spread across 100 countries and its headquartered in India, Mahindra employs over 2,40,000 people. Tech Mahindra is one of only three Indian companies to be included in the Bloomberg 2020 Gender-Equality Index. They are constantly creating a transparent policy, valuing individual differences. For Tech Mahindra, diversity of every kind is of importance. Be it diversity of one’s nationality or someone’s age, be it about gender, also about thoughts, or their abilities. In fact their constant endeavor is building a workplace that is 'intentionally' varied and diversified in every way possible.

 a. What are the lessons to be learnt from Tech Mahindra Gender-Equality Index?

b. What practices would you recommend other Indian corporate houses to enable change of diversity and sustain it. 

Answer 1

A - The great lesson to be learnt from Mahindra Tech Gender Equality is that when offering employment and job opportunities, it is a crucial thing to consider diversity of people. People's gender, education level, race, religion among other should not be considered but rather the capabilities of the particular candidates.

B - For change of diversity and sustainability, other Indian corporate houses should formulate ways of employing people's based on their capabilities of handling tasks rather than their physical appearance, race, and other affiliations among others.