The Cream: 25 Best Employers in India

The Hewitt Best Employers in India 2007 study — partnered by The Economic Times — is the largest employee research project and market practice audit in India. The eligibility criteria is that the organisations should have been in business in India for more than two years and employ at least 100 full-time equivalent employees.

The study uses three survey tools:

• An Employee Opinion Survey (EOS) based on Hewitt’s model of Employee Engagement. Statistically valid (90% confidence level, with a confidence interval of +/-5%) samples of employees were surveyed in each participating organisations to identify the percentage of engaged employees.
• The People Practices Inventory (PPI), used to capture data about philosophies, policies, programmes and practices influencing people management; and a CEO questionnaire. Each participating firm’s CEO provided information about the importance of people in the organisation and approach to managing people.
• Post the data collection, Hewitt conducted a detailed onsite audit of a randomly selected 40% of the participating companies to validate the data and ensure credibility. The data, collected and collated by Hewitt Associates, was passed to an independent judging panel.

The selected firms clearly excelled in the criteria identified by the judges as key differentiators: Employee engagement and alignment; opportunities provided to employees, performance differentiation, quality of HR initiatives and diversity.

1. AV Birla group



2. Satyam Computer Services



3. JW Marriott



4. Eureka Forbes



5. Cisco India



6. Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL)



7. Agilent Tech



8. Standard Chartered Bank's wholly-owned BPO arm — Scope



9. TCS



10. Kotak Mahindra Bank



11. Wipro BPO



12. Covansys India Chennai



13. Ajuba International, Bangalore



14. Pantaloon Retail India Ltd Mumbai



15. Text 100 India, Delhi



16. Domino’s Pizza Delhi



17. Ford India Chennai



18. Becton Dickinson Delhi



19. Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt Ltd Mumbai



20. HCL Technologies, BPO services Delhi



21. Dr Reddy's Laboratories Hyderabad



22. J&J Mumbai



23. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Delhi



24. HSBC Mumbai



25. Monsanto

Kinda wonder why Infy and didnt make the cut.

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