Career@Lafarge India

At Lafarge India, we are committed to attracting competent and highly motivated people who love the challenge of working in an environment of continuous learning. We seek people who share our values, work as a winning team, take ownership and strive for excellence.

Career growth opportunities

We provide opportunities at local as well as at International levels that offer both challenges and appropriate rewards. We value our employees and expect them to use their knowledge and skills to work as a team that encourages initiative, fosters innovation, endorses accountability, and promotes integrity.

We are devoted to developing our employees and want our people to be winners both internally and externally. In a company, that is dedicated to create a high performance culture, we set challenging benchmarks for continuous improvement.

Each manager is in charge of developing the career of his team members by assessing their potential and individual contribution to the local business. The recommendations for all major people management decisions, including recruitment, career moves and compensation reviews, are made by the respective N+1 in consultation with HR and the final decisions are taken by the supervisors.

Individual officers are also encouraged to be more willing to relocate and move to cross-functional areas to facilitate the career development process, which in turn helps them develop appreciation and understanding of other functions, a key to an all round career growth.

Specific tools and processes to foster career management:

• Job Description, including each and every task attached to a particular position and its various internal and external interfaces.
• Hay System to evaluate each and every job with respect to various internal and external factors and provide the grade accordingly.
• A streamlined Recruitment process, where internal candidates are always preferred for filling up vacancies
• Annual Performance Appraisal interviews to assess individual potential and development needs and prepare the Individual Development Plans accordingly.
• Regular Career Interviews for performing officers.
• 360 Degree Feedback system for senior level positions.
• Annual O&HR Reviews.
  

Fun @ Workplace

We put in major efforts towards creating a workplace culture that embraces diversity and encourages employees to involve in a variety of activities beyond their work boundaries to build strong bonds amongst themselves. This has been the essence of Fun at Lafarge, which has been supported by a large number of employee engagement initiatives which are already in place.

Individual development

Lafarge India believes in equipping its employees with the capability to operate at  higher levels by striving to provide jobs and assignments, where employees can constantly improve their skills and contribute to business performance in a more meaningful way. This is in line with our priority of developing people and is also one of the key drivers to achieve Group’s ambition,to be the undisputed world leader in building materials. Career Management in Lafarge, is seen as one of the most critical factors instrumental in making it a great place to work.