Airtel Lanka’s HR practices lauded at HRM Awards 2012

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Airtel Lanka was awarded a silver award by the Association of HR Professionals at the recently concluded HRM Awards 2012. At a premier awards ceremony held at the Cinnamon Grand Colombo, Airtel Lanka won this silver award against a contingent of 79 other renowned corporates in the country.

This year’s shortlisted companies were adjudged on areas such as talent supply, leadership and talent management, building capabilities, rewards and recognition and employment relationship etc and winning this accolade brings Airtel Lanka to be amongst the best in terms of its HR practices in Sri Lanka.

“Despite being a young entrant into the telecommunications industry, the fact that in such a short period of time we are able to showcase our global HR best practices is a significant achievement for us. At Airtel we don’t simply give jobs, we give careers with enriching experience that takes years to gain in other organisations. The growth opportunities are tremendous especially with our presence in 20 countries and emerging markets,” said Anouchka Pathirana, Head of HR, Airtel Lanka.

Airtel Lanka is always attentive to its core values and to the needs of its employees. Platforms such as the Gallup employee engagement tool is used extensively to measure, continuously improve and enhance employee engagement.

“The company’s HR policies and strategies focus primarily on facilitating the business whilst ensuring its people agenda remains foremost priority. Whether it is talent acquiring or talent development and engagement, we ensure the most up to date and innovative systems and process are used. Further all our policies are constantly revised and updated to ensure it is current and relevant,” she added.

The HRM Awards 2012 was organised by the Association of HR Professionals in partnership with content partner AON Hewitt India, the largest human resource consulting group in the world and benchmarked Human Resource Management in Sri Lanka with internationally accepted guidelines creating value to participating institutions. The HRM Awards 2012 selected, recognised, and felicitated the best organisations that practice effective HRM methods and techniques both in the private and public sectors.

Bharti Airtel Lanka commenced commercial operations of services in Sri Lanka on 12 January 2009, and was the fastest operator to reach one million customers in Sri Lanka. With its robust network panned out across the country having captured strategic ranking positions across Sri Lanka in less than three years of operations, Airtel has emerged as Sri Lanka’s fastest expanding network.

Ranked amongst the top five mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers, Airtel is registered under the Board of Investment in Sri Lanka, Airtel provides digital mobile services into Sri Lanka which includes voice telephony, voice mail, data services and GSM based services.

The company has also received accreditations such as British Standards Institution’s ISO 27001:2005 and BS 25999 -2:2007 for its continuous efforts towards information security and business continuity. To know more please visit, www.airtel.lk.