IndianOil is an equal opportunity employer.
- There is no discrimination for employment/growth on the basis of caste, colour, gender, religion or region
- One of the largest employers of Women in the public sector - 7.73% women employees as on 31.3.2007
- Govt. instructions on Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes & Physically Challenged Persons followed scrupulously
- Organisation provides equal opportunity for training and development to different strata of employees. It has been steadily deputing them for trainings outside the organization and has won maximum number of laurels for Women Developments.
- Indian Oil has established a network of seventeen Women's Cells under the aegis of the "Forum of Women in Public Sector" (WIPS) at all Refinery Units/ Regional Offices of the Marketing Division, Pipeline's Regional Offices, R&D Centre and Head Office of Refineries, Pipelines and Marketing Divisions. The Forum of Women in Public Sector functions under the aegis of Standing Conference on Public Enterprises. Each WIPS Cell is steered by a women leader known as WIPS Leader. This Cell functions under the active guidance of Head of Human Resource Department of the Unit / Region concerned. In all, IndianOil has 17 WIPS Cells, which are headed by an organizational level leader known as Apex Level WIPS Leader.
- The company is proud to mention that it encouraged two of its executives to compete for top positions in the forum of professional women at national level called the Forum of Women in Public Sector (WIPS), which functions under aegis of Standing Conference on Public Enterprises (SCOPE) comprising of members from 89 PSUs.
- Courses conducted specially for women employees during 2006-07 are as under:
- Training Programme on "Emotional Intelligence".
- Workshop on Lifestyle Re-engineering for women executives
- Training on "Goal Planning for Women Employees"
- Workshop on Health Management through Meditation
- Training Programme on "Making Mind your Best Friend"
- Finance Management for Women Employees
- Lecture on Diet and Diet Control
- Seminar on Balancing Professional and Home Life
- Seminar on "Safety at Home"
- Training Programme on "Role Effectiveness"
- Women Grievance Redressal System: IndianOil has appointed Complaints Committee at each Refinery Unit/ Mktg. Regional offices, R&D Centre and Head office of Refineries, Marketing and Pipelines to deal with issues of prevention / occurrence of sexual harassment of women at work place. The culture of the organization is congenial and conducive to productivity, enabling women employees to contribute freely. Each Complaints Committee comprises of men and women employees as members with more than 50% of them being women. A woman employee heads each Complaint Committee.
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Some of the achievements of Women employees in IndianOil are as under:
- First Prize, Best Enterprise Award at 17th National Meet of the Forum of Women in Public Sector (12-13th Feb' 2007), Kochi - The Best Enterprise award, instituted by the Forum in 1990, gives National recognition for the three best PSUs/ Nationalised Banks in a year, that have done commendable work for women development in and around their PSUs. Indian Oil has won this award for the second time in six years, earlier being in February 2001.
- Ms. Sita Baruah, Dy. Manager (Engineering Services) was selected by Rotary International District 3240 to represent India in USA for a month long Group Study Exchange programme, during 2006-07.
- Ms Sukla Mistry, Chief Project Manager, Panipat Refinery was the leader of the Team that took part in the National Kaizen Competition at New Delhi and was among the Winning Team (5 Teams are declared winners). The Team will now compete for being selected as the Team to represent India at the World competition in JAPAN
- Ms. Pashmina Pusdekar, HRDO co-authored paper titled "Leveraging Human Capital Competency in New Third World Order" submitted for the 19th World Petroleum Congress to be held in Spain in 2008.
- Ms. Urmila Baruah, M (CC) was selected by British Council to undergo a 12-week course on Women in Leadership & Management at the University of Bradford, UK. She was selected by Rotary International District 3240 to represent India in USA for a month long Group Study Exchange Programme, during 2006-07.
- Second Prize in Slogan Competition in State Level Convention on Quality Circles from 13th to 14th September 2006 won by women employee of Gujarat Refinery.
- First Prize (Best of Excellent among 48 Quality Circles) in Case Study Presentation Competition in State Level Convention on Quality Circles from 13th to 14th September 2006 won by women employee of Gujarat Refinery.
- Ms. Sukla Mistry's article on "Damage to Metals" has been accepted for the Middle East Corrosion Conference to be held at BAHRAIN in Feb 2008.
- Mrs. Anjali Marathe received Merit Award in Hindi and English Slogan contest in INSSAN (Indian National Suggestion Schemes' Association) Northern India Chapter - 9th National Suggestion Summit held from 4-5th May 2007.
- Quality circle Samriddha QC (Materials Dept.), Gujarat Refinery led by women team leader Mrs. Sarita Kelkar, Material Superintendant received Par Excellent Award in recently held state level Quality Circle convention.
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