HR Practices of Frontier Foundry Steel

1. HR Practices of Frontier Foundry
Steel

3. Introduction to FF steel
• Chief Executive: Noman Wazir
• Director: Zarak khan
• Location: Industrial estate
• Number of employees: more then 200
• In house material testing laboratory.
• Proper drainage systems installed.

4. History
• Incorporated in 1986
• Commercial production of steel bars and steel
ingots June 1988
• 1992 product diversification and expansion
• Increased production 1995
• Product diversification 2001-2004
• Installation of cooling bed 2006
• Weldable steel April 2007

5. Products
• ASTM 706 steel bars
• Wire Rod
• Bailing Hoops
• Deformed Steel Bars

6. Milestones and Achievements
• Enercon award 1992
• National awards 2001,2007,2011
• Amongst top 25 companies of Arabia fast
growth 500+ turkey 2011
• Only PSQCA license holder of seismic resistant
and Weldable Steel Bars ASTM 706

9. HR practices
No written
set of HR
practices
for ff steel
Selection
Training and
development
Motivation
Maintenance
recruitment

10. Recruitment process
Vacancy
job
description
and
specification
Approval Advertise

12. Recruitment sources
• Internal recruitment
• External recruitment
• Employee Referrals

13. Media for recruitment
• Online recruitment
• Newspapers
o Local
o National

14. Third party Recruitment
• Yaldram Securities (Pvt) Ltd

16. SELECTION PROCESS

17. Selection Process
• Lower level staff
• Engineers/ managers
Selected on basis
of referrals
Go through a
selection process

18. Selection process at FF Steel
• Applications are shortlisted/screened as per
criteria.
• Interview calls
• Interviews are conducted by a Panel.
• Final Selection of candidate based on the
nterviews.

19. Selection process at FF Steel
• Basic selection criteria.
• 1) Education
• 2) Past Experience
• 3) Attitude (behavior)

20. Selection (Contd..)
• Education
1. Depends on the job but the candidate for the
higher degree is preferred.
2. Skills maters grades doesn't.

21. Selection (Contd..)
• Attitude (behavior)
• In interview the main thing observed in the
candidate is his attitude towards the job.
• The manager said they have set some basic
criteria for the candidate to select him on the
basis of his attitude towards job.

22. Selection (Contd..)
• Past Experience
• Past experience is highly preferred but in the
relevant field.
• Candidates with multiple skills are hired.

23. Training and Development
• Reema Gul
• Anum Iqbal
• Adnan

24. Training and development
•Job rotations
•Understudy
assignments
On the job
training
•Seminars and lecture
courses
Off the job
training

25. Motivation
FF Steel
Fahad
Zahid
Humayun
Amjad

26. Motivation
Questions asked from HR manager at FF Steel:
I. How you motivate your employees?
II. Scenario (Employee Problem)

27. How we motivate employees?
• We give prizes to employees based on performance.
• We give incentives based on
– Produce more, get more
• Our employees are encouraged by being told
– Do mistakes, and you’ll learn
• Due to our quality motivation practices
– Our employees are competitive

28. Scenario Presented
• Employee has any problem
• Effecting his performance at mill
• How they are motivated in such cases?
• How their morale is developed?

29. Response
• They should submit a leave application
• They will be given paid leaves until the problem is solved
• Depending on the severity of the problem
• Also depends on status of employee

30. Director-Employee Interaction
• Great interaction between Directors and employee
• Directors meet with employees during working hours.
• Ask them how they feel being here.
• Employees share their problems with directors

31. Motivation Statistics
• According to the HR manager of FF Steel
• I’m 100% sure that our 99% of staff is honest and motivated
• Some of our employees switched to other organizations due to some
reasons
• But due to our excellent HR Practices many employees came back even
after 5 years
• Which shows our great HR achievement

32. Motivation
• Monetary benefits
• Accommodation
• Health and safety
• First aid kits
• Help from ceo

35. Maintenance
• Usman Ghani
• Zeeshan
• Sohail

36. Maintenance
• We asked the HR Manager of Ffsteel how do
you maintain your HR staff?

37. Maintenance
• The Answer was we maintain our employee by a
number of ways….like!!
 A thorough performance evaluation followed by
performance appraisal.
 Giving fringe benefits
 Giving good work environment.
 No barrier between the management and workers

38. Maintenance
1. Performance evaluation followed
by Appraisal
• The company’s HR department has designed a
brief evaluation form which is also known as
Annual incremental form.
• The patern of this evaluation form is shown:

39. Evaluation Form
(Annual incremental form)

40. Maintenance (Contd..)
2.Fringe benefits include;
• Free conveyance on the company’s expense
• 24 hours canteen to cater the food needs of
employees
• Arrange various sports events periodically
among the workers.

41. Maintenance (Contd..)
3.Provide Good work environment.
Workers consider their colleagues more like
friends rather then professionals.
Provide breaks between the work so that
employees doesn't get frustrated.

42. Maintenance (Contd..)
4.No barrier between the management and
workers
• the HR manager of the ff steel believes that
the most important thing that retains our
employees is that there is no upward
communication barrier exists
• As mentioned earlier the director is always
available for the employees problems.

43. Maintenance (Contd..)