SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2013-15

People Overview Self Managed Teams Mechanisation Safety Overview The Parivartan     Journey Progress on     Roadmap Incident Statistics Robust Governance Standardised     Processes Enhanced Awareness Capability Building Safety Infrastructure Safety Audits Quality Overview Top-down    Accountability Quality by Design Quality Culture     Transformation Quality Assurance Quality     Best Practices All Time Audit     Readiness Availability Overview Strategic Sourcing Risk Management Product    Rationalisation Success stories Environment Overview Roadmap Energy Management Emissions Water Waste Case Study KPIs Community Overview Focus Areas Education Livelihoods Healthcare Infrastructure     Initiatives Creating Change     Makers Productivity Overview Productivity Streams Case Study PACE Update Initiatives Engineering Excellence Overview Digitisation Automation Mechanisation Lean Manufacturing Capital Equipment Strategy Predictive Maintenance Continuous Improvement Overview Continuous     Improvement     at Work Best Practices Annexures GRI Index Acronyms Assurance Statement   Summary Report     TALENT PERFORMANCE DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT We are a 20,372+ strong workforce of diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, age groups, genders, and ethnicities committed to one belief: Good Health Can't Wait. Equal opportunity, diversity, fairness and meritocracy are the guiding principles of our recruitment process. This helps expand our global talent pool, employ differently-abled individuals and improve the gender ratio. To encourage diversity, we pay higher referral bonuses for referring talented differently-abled candidates for a given vacancy. We also have ongoing tie-ups with agencies and NGOs to attract the differently-abled. Dr. Reddy's is an employer of choice for women. We lay special emphasis on helping our female colleagues grow professionally and personally. In the reporting period, we made distinct progress and rolled out enabling policies and programmes to help enhance gender diversity.               Our women employees come from backgrounds as varied as the deepest rural pockets in India to the farthest corners of Europe. They work in roles as diverse as scientists in our labs, operators in our plants and salespeople in the markets. In FY14, we reinforced workforce diversity by hiring 33% women during our campus recruitments. Currently, 15% of our global workforce comprises women, whereas in India, the diversity percentage is 8%. The principles of a diverse and inclusive workplace are also demonstrated in the composition of our Board. It is a mandate at Dr. Reddy's that at least one member of the Board should be a woman.   India Diversity Initiative   To give a boost to our diversity numbers in India, we have undertaken a pragmatic approach called the 'India Diversity Initiative' which is anchored by an apex diversity council and supported by location diversity councils.   We focus on three specific areas:     Hiring:     We conduct 'all women' recruitment drives and also incentivise our external hiring partners for helping to hire women candidates.     Maternity and Family Welfare Support:   Development: Our women employees are entitled to 4+1 months of paid maternity leave, which is a month more than what has been laid down by law. Those who need more time for postpartum care can take three additional months of unpaid leave. Going a step further, we have exempted women on maternity leave from the bell curve during appraisals. For details refer, employee benefits section.   Individual development plans, learning opportunities, customised mentoring programmes, bringing families to visit the workplace etc. are some of the ways we encourage women to grow - within the organisation and also as well-rounded individuals.