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         SUSTAINABILITY REPORT  FY 2023                                                                                                                                     COMMUNITIES           THE PLANET         THE WORKPLACE












         Learning and growing


         Vedanta is deeply committed to                              taking remedial measures. We deploy a wide                Strategic Workforce Planning
         nurturing internal talent, recognizing and                  array of strategies and initiatives for
         retaining exceptional talent and                            workforce management so that employee                     Talent is a key asset and balancing                       The model assesses formal and informal
         promoting deserving individuals to                          potential is recognized, ambitions are                    business needs with employee                              training methods, and rates them against
         higher leadership positions. The                            honoured, and just remuneration and                       expectations requires strategic                           four criteria: Reaction, Learning, Behaviour
         company recognizes the importance of                        benefits are awarded.                                     management. At Vedanta, our human                         and Results.
         having a skilled and knowledgeable                                                                                    resources planning takes an analytical
         workforce, and therefore places strong                                                                                approach that leverages on the tools of                   Job Rotation Adherence: In line with our
         emphasis on competency development.                                                                                   people analytics: strategic workforce                     commitment of making the best
         We have talent development initiatives,                                                                               planning, retention analysis, evaluation of               opportunities available to our internal
         designed to ensure that employees                                                                                     skill gaps and skill transformation.                      talent we provide them with options to
         acquire the necessary knowledge, skills,                                     INR 59.54                                                                                          move into new roles, businesses,
         and attitude to meet present and future                                      million                                  Our structured manpower planning                          functions and locations, which is enabled
         needs of the business. These initiatives                                                                              processes ensure optimum utilization of                   through our job rotation policy.
         span various types of interventions                                          Expenditure on                           human resources (both direct and
         including broad-based and specific                                                                                    indirect) across the organization. We also                Flight Risk Analysis: Retention of key
         learning and development activities,                                         Training and                             do position revalidation against approved                 talent is of the highest priority and we
         assessing gaps in our talent pipeline and                                    Development of                           vacancies from the manpower plan of                       regularly conduct a flight risk analysis for
         evaluating employee satisfaction and                                         Employees                                respective businesses in anticipation of                  this purpose. We use 10+ drivers

                                                                                                                               future separations, including attritions                  impacting attrition such as grade, age,
                                                                                                                               and talent migration to other group                       location, experience etc. and deploy
                                                                                      48,930                                   companies. In our journey to reach the                    internal scoring parameters to rank each
                                                                                                                               global benchmark of productivity, we
                                                                                                                                                                                         employee on their risk of leaving the
                                                                                      number of                                have partnered with reputed third parties                 organization. In FY23, a few of our
                                                                                                                               to achieve our talent management and
                                                                                                                                                                                         businesses conducted a first time ever
                                                                                      employees                                employee productivity goals. To minimize                  engagement survey specifically targeting
                                                                                      upskilled                                attrition risk, some of our businesses                    freshers (<1 year of experience) and
                                                                                                                               have started to create a 3-level                          performed a similar analysis based on
                                                                                                                               succession plan for all critical roles                    their responses.
                                                                                                                               across the organization.
                                                                                                                                                                                         Organizational Network Analysis: We
                                                                                                                               Skill Gap Analysis: To build preparedness                 leverage our strong organizational network
                                                                                                                               into the talent management system, it is                  to amplify our efforts of retaining talent. In
                                                                                                                               essential to understand the current skill                 addition to internal communication tools
                                                                                                                               gaps. We meet this objective by doing a                   like Outlook and Teams, we also offer
                                                                                                                               skill gap analysis, which, in turn, forms the             platforms like V-Excel, prepared in
                                                                                                                               basis of mapping employees to various                     partnership with Korn Ferry, through which
                                                                                                                               roles and assists in the design of                        employees can connect and
                                                                                                                               appropriate learning and development                      interact.Through our data infrastructure
                                                                                                                               interventions to bridge knowledge and                     and practices, we maintain a dynamic
                                                                                                                               capability gaps. We are using the globally                organogram or Management in Place (MIP)
                                                                                                                               recognised Kirk Patrick model to evaluate                 which helps us map the right people to the
                                                                                                                               our training programmes.                                  right roles, and it is regularly updated
                                                                                                                                                                                         whenever necessary.


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