SKF India has bagged the prestigious ‘Companies with Great Managers’ Award at the 5th Edition of the ‘Great Managers Awards’ 2020 held recently. The Great Managers Awards™ is a People Business initiative, partnered by Economic Times and ET NOW. The program helps identify, recognize and reward organizations with “Great Managers” in India and enables the participant organizations to compare and benchmark themselves and their managers across the industry.
Manish Bhatnagar, Managing Director, SKF India, said: “As innovation leaders, we aim to nurture a culture where curiosity meets execution, thereby building capabilities that impact the future. This award is testament to our strong focus on inculcating a best-in-class work culture to facilitate organizational success and establish SKF India as an innovation hub. 2020 has been an extraordinary year and it is great to work with people in leadership roles who are constantly focusing on driving results, aligning organizations vision, building team effectiveness and enhancing people performance.”
In the individual competition, Supreet Banaji, Principal Engineer, Product Engineering Railways, won the award in the ‘Hunt for Great Managers’ category, and Rucha Upasani, Manager, Talent Management, won the award under ‘Young HR Leader’ award category. The two next generation leadership members of SKF India made it to the top 50 and top 25 lists, among 5000+ and 700+ individual participants respectively.
“We are honoured to receive this recognition, as it recognizes the values with which we work at SKF. We make the choice to care for people every day, and this award is a testament to this belief. Building people leader effectiveness is at the core of our strategy of creating a future workforce to meet the evolving needs of our customers”, said Gautam Kumar, CHRO, and Director – HR, SKF India.