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Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Ar-2 PDF
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Ar-2 PDF
Shashank Shah is based at ABC Constructions[1] is a US$12.8 billion technology, engineering, construction and
School of Business manufacturing company and is one of the largest and most highly respected companies in
Management, India’s private sector[2]. ABC’s operations covered a broad spectrum of industries and thus
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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of it became a recruiting ground for other companies. In the 1990s, as the Indian economy
Higher Learning, became liberalised, talent opportunities outside the company increased. As the company
Anantapur, India. moved away from merit-based promotions, many employees were looking for opportunities
Ajith Sankar R.N. is an outside. The chairman of the company expressed the operational context of ABC’s people
Assistant Professor based
practices, by saying:
at PSG Institute of
Management, Coimbatore, ABC would have grown faster if we had no turmoil on talent; that’s our only limitation, not the market
India. place. I am not taking orders or quoting for new jobs because I don’t know how to deliver in the middle
of all these people going away for lucrative jobs all over the world. Some 70% of the best Indian talent
goes out of India. Out of the balance 30%, 25% goes to non-infrastructure, non-manufacturing-
oriented job opportunities. So, only 5% of the talent is available to us. ABC grabs the best ones and
then, after a year or two, with a golden stamp of ABC, seven out of the 10 leave. So, within three years,
we are back to square one. All I have to do is training and more training[3].
DOI 10.1108/EEMCS-05-2012-0095 VOL. 3 NO. 6 2013, pp. 1-, Q Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 2045-0621 j EMERALD EMERGING MARKETS CASE STUDIES j PAGE 1