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Unit 11: Organisational Change through Performance Management

Job Rotation Notes
In TATA STEEL, job rotation is positioned to give employees developmental experiences.

For officers it helps to......
1. Perform more effectively in their present position.
2. Prepare for positions of greater or different responsibility
3. Support individual professional development by offering a range of learning
Guiding Principles: Job Rotation in Tata Steel

The objective is of developing expertise in management and technology both.
1. Reaching the top layers of the organization will require suffi cient grounding and
experience in both technical and management skills.
2. The Tata Steel Job Rotation system will aim at balancing the needs of the organization
with the strengths and interests of the individual.
The development action plans will capture rotation details for offi cers.
Format-1: Development Plan for Listers

Detailed career plan on the officer’s movement/development with justifi cations, whether
the person is being groomed for a particular leadership position, or is being rotated to

acquire in depth knowledge in the domain area, or is being rotated to a specific group to
develop his business perspective, etc.
Format-2: Development Plan for Others
For others, i.e. potential stars, solid performers, under-performers and strugglers, the
decision will be taken offline by the concerned chief/head along with the respective fi eld

HR. This decisions will be consolidated in a separate format.

The respective field HR and the heads will ensure that approximately 15% offi cers are
rotated/transferred every year.
Rotations to out locations will be an overriding practice in all PC/CCs. All PC/CCs will
recommend around 2% officers for rotations to out locations HR will consolidate and

finalise the rotations to out locations.

Sukhinda
(Orissa)
West
Bokaro Mumbai

Jamdoba
Kolkata Jamshedpur
Dhanbad

Noamundi/ Overseas
Joda
Orrisa/ S.Africa/
Jarkhand Kalinga Corus etc
Nagar/
Chattisgarh
Figure 3: Rotations
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