Healthcare and employee care are some of the important things that can employer can provide to its employees. Many private companies, following the practice from Western nations have started providing health and wellness initiatives to its employees. The reasons for the same are many. First and foremost, nothing is more important than the health of a person. Being in good health gives the person the ability to work to his or her full potential.
Dhirubhai Ambani was the first to state on record that he highly values the people who put in their effort in RIL. He’s famously quoted as saying, “My fulfillment lies in the satisfaction of every member of the Reliance family, comprising thousands of workers, managers, business associates and over five million shareholders.” It is this exact philosophy due to which RIL has continuously looked at schemes to make it the best place to work. The company cares for its people, simple as that. It comes as no surprise that the Mukesh Ambani owned behemoth has been awarded recently for one for its programs.
RIL Group won the runner-up award of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in the category ‘Employer with Best Employee Health and Wellness Initiatives’, on September 19, 2013. SHRM’s ‘HR Awards 2013’ are given away at its Annual Conference every year. The conference took place at Hotel Hyatt, Gurgaon this year and was attended by more than 600 senior HR professionals from India and abroad. SHRM is part of the world’s largest professional, not-for-profit Human Resource association and has over 260,000 members in 140 countries. The Award seeks to recognize organizations which understand the linkage of employee health to business productivity and have therefore proactively identified or designed specific health and wellness programs, which support the needs of their employees. The selection process included submission of applications in a defined format. After short listing by the KPMG group, the applicants were required to make presentations to a jury of eminent HR professionals.