Virtusa Corporation, a global business consult and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to alter the customer experience, today announced that it has been conferred with the ‘Award for Innovation in Learning’ at the World HRD Congress Best-in-Class Learning and Development Awards at a dazzling ceremony in Mumbai.
The Best-in-Class Learning and Development awards are detained annually to celebrate leading organizations’ who have leveraged learning and development in order to significantly advance workforce yield and performance. The ‘Award for Innovation in Learning’ recognize Virtusa’s Personal Excellence Program and its journey towards suitable an employer of choice.
Speaking on the occasion Dr. R. L. Bhatia, World CSR Day, Founder and World CSR Congress & Project Director – World HRD Congress said, “We are pleased to grant Virtusa with this award for the PEP training they impart as part of the Graduate Talent Program. The training has been successful in embed excellence, validate Virtusa’s commitment towards building a people-centric organization.”
Accepting the award Dr. Murali Padmanabhan, senior director and global head of Learning & Leadership Development, Virtusa Corporation said, “We are honoured to be recognized by the World HRD Congress for our commitment to develop a strong ‘learning culture’ in the organisation. A key tenet in our corporate mantra of ‘People Excellence’ is to provide our people an environment conducive for continuous learning and personal growth. We believe in the power of innovation and empower our people to get higher benchmarks for self and for Virtusa during a strong framework of learning and development.”
As a company whose workforce is 86% millennial, Virtusa has made it a top main concern to create an environment that not only retains millennial employees, but also engage and empowers them to do their best work. Virtusa regularly solicit feedback from team members, uses a infrastructure Framework platform to improve communication between team members and its leadership team, and has built custom inner social networks where Virtusans can interact and collaborate. The company also holds interactive “YamJam” sessions using Yammer and leverages gamification, rewarding team members for their allegiance and hard work.
Over the years, Virtusa has been standard all over the globe with numerous awards for its people practices; some of them being: Stevie American Business Awards, International Business Awards, Britain’s Top Employer Award, Golden Peacock Award and Asia’ Best Employer Brand Award.
