Wipro is a global IT company that emphasizes learning and development. It spends 1% of revenue on training through programs like Project Readiness for new recruits and Manager Excellence Framework for experienced employees. Wipro aims to be a learning organization by encouraging knowledge sharing and adapting to changes. It has received multiple awards for its learning practices. The company also focuses on social responsibilities through the Azim Premji Foundation, which works to improve education in India.

1. WIPRO AS A
LEARNING
ORGANIZATION
YOGESH SINGLA
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2. CONTENTS
• ABOUT THE COMPANY
• WHAT IS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
• BENEFITS OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION
• WIPRO AS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
• LEARNING AN DEVELOPMENT
• TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
• MAINTAINING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• CONCLUSION /LEARNING

3. ABOUT THE COMPANY
• Wipro Ltd is a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company with
145,000 employees serving over 900 clients in 61 countries
• Mr. Azim Prem ji , the Chairman of Wipro Limited, guided the company through four
decades of diversification and growth to emerge as one of the Indian leaders in the
software industry. From soap to software,
• Wipro today is considered one of the brightest success stories in India. Mr. Azim Premji,
is known as one of the wealthiest (owns 79 % of Wipro) and powerful Indian in the
global sphere.
• The company has set standards in ensuring best in class learning and development
opportunities for its employees. Wipro, has bagged the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD) BEST award on sixth consecutive occasions (most by any
company across the globe), for its learning and development practices.

4. WHAT IS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
• •An organization that learns and encourages learning among its people. It
promotes exchange of information between employees hence creating a
more knowledgeable workforce. This produces a very flexible
organization where people will accept and adapt to new ideas and changes
through a shared vision.
• •A Learning Organization is one in which people at all levels, individuals
and collectively, are continually increasing their capacity to produce
results they really care about."

5. BENEFITS OF LEARNING
ORGANIZATION
• Maintaining levels of innovation and remaining competitive
• Being better placed to respond to external pressures
• Having the knowledge to better link resources to customer needs
• Improving quality of outputs at all level
• Improving corporate image by becoming more people oriented
• Increasing the pace of change within the organization

6. WIPRO AS A LEARNING
ORGANIZATION
• Wipro was a FMCG giant which diversified into the world of Information
Technology. Such is the success of this diversification that people know it
more for information technology and software rather than FMCG.
• These organizations are standing all just because they always kept in touch
with the changes happening around them whether the government policy,
change of taste of people or change in technology. In short we can say that
they followed the method of Systems Thinking

7. LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
ANNUAL RERORT (WIPRO)
• ACME (All round Capability Model of
Excellence) framework was launched, which has
a roadmap for competency development of
employees on 5 axes – Technical, Domain,
Functional, Quality and Behavioral. 19,100
employees were trained in these competencies.
• A new training program called UPSCALE,
involving multiskilling employees around a
cluster of high demand skills, was initiated in the
year. They completed trainings for 19,000
employees in the year

8. • Future Ready program was launched to build awareness on the latest Digital Technologies.
5000+ employees were trained.
• Over 30,000 employees were certified on various technical skills through the Unified
Competency Framework (UCF) during the year, taking the total number of UCF certified
employees to 52,305.
• Online Project Campus’ is a transformational e-learning initiative aimed at developing
essential competencies of potential employees before joining Wipro. This cost effective and
scalable e-learning solution for new hires, has benefitted more than 10,000 new hires.
• Growth Centers for Program Managers, Delivery Manager Academy and a new Career
Framework for Architects are deployed towards capability building of middle managers.
• Manager Engagement Framework introduced to build Manager capability.
• The Distinguished Member of Technical Staff program was introduced in 2014 to identify,
recognize and enable a pool of technical experts and specialists. The selection process for
FY 14-15 concluded with the selection of 8 Distinguished Members and 53 Senior
Members. Additionally, 6 specialists were identified for an enablement program towards
Fellowship

9. LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Our leadership position, focus on training and compensation and fascination with leading-
edge technologies enhances our ability to retain highly skilled personnel. Wipro offers a
world of learning opportunities, including those aimed at up-skilling, cross-skilling or re-
skilling to its employees through a slew of training programs in spheres of technical,
domain, soft skills and leadership aspects. Through our tie-ups with premier institutions
across the globe , we offer higher education/certification programs. 'The Integrated Talent
Management System' provides anytime, anywhere learning.
• We continually strive to provide our employees with competitive and innovative
Compensation& Benefits packages comprising of a combination of salary, stock options,
pension, and health & disability insurance. Measuring our compensation offers against
industry standards, we seek to match or exceed them. We have devised incentive programs
linked to 'business segment performance' as well as 'individual performance' in order to
strike the fair linkage between performance and compensation for each employee.

10. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Wipro spends almost one per cent of its total revenue on training. The company has ten
dedicated state-of-art learning facilities across six cities where 5000 people can be trained
on a given day. These centres impart training in HR, leadership skills, behavioural skills
and cross-culture training. The Talent Transformation Team at Wipro comprises more
than 110 trainers.
TRAINING
PROGRAM FOR
NEW RECRUITS
TRAINING
PROGRAM FOR
EXPERIENCED

11. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Training Program Aimed at new Wipro Recruits
• Project Readiness Program [PRP] The PRP is a 68 day structured induction
training program offered to all campus recruits coming from varied
background (Engineers + Non-engineers) to be trained on essential
behavioral and technical skills that prepare them to work in live customer
projects. E-learning has been introduced in the Induction training for
engineering campus new hires. About 25% of induction training duration has
been adopted in E-Learning mode.

12. TRAINNG AND DEVELOPMENT
Training Programs Aimed at Experienced Professionals (Examples)
• Wipro BPOs SEED academic program The SEED academic program helps employees
enhance their academic capability. The program offers a large spectrum of courses across a
range of subjects in the field of Management and Information Technology. Courses are
imparted via classroom, e-learning and self-study modes and are available in India and
International Locations. A dedicated SEED online portal provides 24*7 access to employees
and program administrators. Since 2004, SEED has enabled over 6000 WBPO employees
shape and transform their careers.
Manager Excellence Framework
• The Manager Excellence Framework was launched in Oct 12. The framework includes a set
of resources available to managers to boost team performance, build process capability and
chart out self-learning & developmental plan. Managers have access to a self-development
feedback survey, workshops, online courses & mentors.

13. MAINTAINING SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
Azim Premji Foundation – Taking education to the masses
Focus to improve the Public Education System in India, beginning with Primary Schools.
The Foundation also includes a University in Bangalore (Azim Premji University)
The goal of Azim Premji University is to develop future leaders in education and development.
The Foundation currently has 800 people spread across the country, most in rural India to help
contribute to the improvement of quality and equity of school education and plans to scale up
to 4,000-5,000 people over the next 5 years.

14. CONCLUSION/LEARNING
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning
organization. But in moving from theory into practice, managers must realize
there's no one-size-fits-all strategy applicable to every company and every
situation, so all ways try to learn new things according to the present trends.
WIPRO BEING A GREAT EXAMPLE.

15. REFRENCES
• http://www.wipro.com/microsite/annualreport/2014-15/learning-
development.html
• http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/azim-premji-foundation-wipro-
philanthrophy/1/192505.html
• http://www.azimpremjifoudnation.org/