Rockwell Automation wins Golden Peacock Award for HR Excellence Award in Engineering Equipment

By OEM Update Editorial April 10, 2020 11:31 am IST

Rockwell Automation India Private Limited has been named as the winner of the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for HR Excellence Award in the Engineering Equipment sector for 2019. Golden Peacock Awards, instituted by the Institute of Directors (IOD), India in 1991, are now regarded as a benchmark of Corporate Excellence worldwide. It has achieved respectability and admiration from the industry as the‘Golden Peacock Awards’, which today receives over 1,000 applications for various awards each year.

“HR Excellence Award” in the Golden Peacock Awards is a major recognition framework to mark successes and accomplishments for the HR fraternity in India. It recognises leading organisations and practitioners in the drive for impactful human capital strategies. It has a robust evaluation process with “Self-Appraisal Report” and provides information for two performance cycles to validate information. The evaluation criteria covered: HR strategy and its linkage with business objective; employee’s physical and mental well-being; change management strategy and success story; talent management strategy and succession planning; effective, creative and proactive people practices; diversity strategy and inclusion agenda; HR communication and branding and developing HR team capabilities.

Hon’ble Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah, Chairman, Institute of Directors and former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India was the Chairman of the Golden Peacock Awards Jury. The Award applications are assessed at three levels by Independent Assessors and finally by a Grand Jury. The award was presented on 4th March 2020 at the 2020 International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and Golden Peacock Awards Ceremony in Mumbai, India. During this event, Dilip Sawhney, Regional Director, Rockwell Automation India shared his perspective on “Corporate Social Responsibility – Stakeholders Perspective on Responsibility, Ethics & Trust”, as one of the speakers at the event. He mentioned about Rockwell’s commitment towards leading with integrity, both at an employee level and as an organisation; and shared about corporate responsibility and sustainability as imperatives to grow the company the right way, and that customers know they can trust Rockwell, and its employees are proud to work for the company.

This recognition is a differentiator for Rockwell Automation in the talent market, in attracting and retaining talent. It gives the company a competitive advantage with employees, customers, suppliers, and partners.