HRD Audit: Rejuvenating HR Function for Business Excellence

About T. V. Rao

T.V. Rao is currently Chairman T.V. Rao Learning Systems (started at Ahmedabad and now in Bangalore) and a Former Professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has also worked as the L&T Professor of HRD at XLRI Jamshedpur between 1983 and 1985. Rao is the co-founder and first president of the National HRD Network and the first honorary director of the Academy of HRD India. He was also president of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS). He worked with David McClelland of Harvard University (the initiator of the competency movement) and had joint research projects with him in the seventies. Rao was also a visiting faculty at the Indian Business School Hyderabad and was on the Boards of IIMA and GIM.Rao has worked as a short-term consultant to the UNESCO USAID consultant to Ministry of Health Indonesia National Entrepreneurial Development Association Malaysia and the Commonwealth Secretariat London. Rao has designed and assisted in implementing performance appraisals and other HRD Systems for a number of organizations in India and a few other countries. His consulting experiences including designing and implementing performance management and other HR systems in a number of organizations like SAIL NTPC Indian Oil Corporation HPCL Bharat Petroleum NALCO SBI Bank of Baroda Neyveli Lignite MRL BEML Reserve Bank of India Larsen & Toubro Voltas Sundram Fasteners EID Parry TI Group Crompton Greaves Transpek Industries BILT NOCIL IL&FS Mahindra and Mahindra Escorts Tata Finance Titan Taj Group of Hotels Tata Cummins KPMG ICI Hindustan Levers Pfizer Chanrai Group (Nigeria) Indorama (Indonesia) Godfrey Phillips India Amway Nestle Wockhardt Wyeth Fulford Galfar FAO Rome Commercial Bank (Sri Lanka) Hemas Group ( Sri Lanka) CHR (Oman) Alexandria Carbon Black Egypt etc.Rao along with Udai Pareek is credited with having established the first dedicated department of HRD at L&T in the mid-seventies much before HRD was known. Rao has been working in the HRD field for the last 50 years and has over 60 books to his credit. Dr. Rao was awarded as HR Professional of the Year 2019 by the Asia Pacific Federations for HR Profession Ravi Matthai Fellow by Association of Indian Management Schools and Life time achievement by INDAM Business world and many other bodies.