India's Top 10 Companies to Work For 2009

2. Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd

Rank - 2
India HQ - Bangalore
Employees - 2541
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:3.65
Employee Turnover - 10%
Best Practices - At every group in Intel, there are broad guidelines or deliverables set, but the culture is always steeped in how they could make things bigger, better. The chipmaker also believes in fully equipping with various tools for its workers.

3. Federal Express Corporation

Rank - 3
India HQ - Mumbai
Employees - 511
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:4.68
Employee Turnover - 21%
Best Practices - It isn’t just the camaraderie, though that drives the company loyalty Federal Express is reputed for; it’s the fairness that has become a hallmark of the organisation, something its founder -CEO Fred Smith instilled right at its inception.

Business is all about results. Results arise from opportunities. Opportunities arise from relationships. And business relationships must work beyond the boundaries of achievement to distinguish a good workplace from a great one.

Here's a list of India's 25 best workplaces -

1. RMSI Pvt Ltd

Rank - 1
India HQ - Noida
Employees - 1457
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:4.69
Employee Turnover - 8%
Best Practices - There is more gravitas in the work culture of the company than the slew of awards it has won over the years reflects. It encourages its employees to diversify and rewards them for their out of the box efforts.

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6. Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd

Rank - 6
India HQ - Mumbai
Employees - 984
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:5.6
Employee Turnover - 6%
Best Practices - At a time when various companies are laying off people, Qualcomm is reversing its role. In fact, the company is increasing investment in new ventures, CSR activities and doling out appraisals-twice a year. It has even doubled the life insurance coverage to twice the gross salary of employees.

4. Aviva Life Insurance Co India

Rank - 4
India HQ - Gurgaon
Employees - 7713
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:6.04
Employee Turnover - 15%
Best Practices - It’s all about oneness here. Flowers are sent to new recruits’ homes a day prior to their joining the Aviva family. The MD recently sent out 800 personally -signed letters to employees thanking them.

5. Google India

Rank - 5
India HQ - Gurgaon
Employees - 1462
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:0.93
Employee Turnover - 12%
Best Practices - Hiring alone is the most important function for senior managers at Google. Engineers are allowed ‘20% time’ to spend on anything they are passionate about. Ergo, it comes as no surprise why Google stands out as a verb.

7. Marriott Hotels India

Rank - 7
India HQ - Mumbai
Employees - 2566
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:4.55
Employee Turnover - 15%
Best Practices - Every company would like to embody the ‘mailroom to boardroom’ dream, where even the humblest employee has a fair shot at the corner office. At Marriot International, the very top slot still belongs to the 72 -year -old John Willard Marriot Jr, but every other position is open to those who can make it and to prove its point, the company presents a whole list of former stewards and housekeepers who have gone on to become business heads.

8. American Express

Rank - 8
India HQ - Gurgaon
Employees - 5920
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:1.3
Employee Turnover - 20%
Best Practices - Out of about 70,000 employees, trust Amex people to know each other by name. Perhaps, it’s this personal touch which makes employees return to Amex. Manoj Adlakha, head of commercial cards business at American Express in India, who joined back after spending four years outside the company. “It was my first job. While I had left Amex physically in 2005, I always used to miss it badly. It is the transparency and the Blue Box Values of people, integrity, teamwork, a will to win and personal accountability that brings people back to Amex,” he says.

9. NetApp India

Rank - 9
India HQ - Bangalore
Employees - 894
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:4.69
Employee Turnover - 9%
Best Practices - It’s not surprising to see the employees of NetApp play video games or cricket during their normal working hours as the company very clearly reposes its trust among its people to achieve the deliverables while having fun. For the software firm, which is very clear about its business objectives, values play a key role in keeping its engine running.

10. NTPC Ltd

Rank - 10
India HQ - Delhi
Employees - 24,705
Gender Ratio (F:M) - 1:18.2
Employee Turnover - 1%
Best Practices - NTPC nurtures the spirit of enterprise with uncanny patriotism. “We light every fourth bulb in the country,” claims Prasenjit Pal, Chief Design Engineer, with pride. Pal has served NTPC for 21 long years, where the average stay sits at 24 years. Apart from drilling in a sense of ownership, NTPC’s power drive seems to instill the confidence to perform. As Pal’s peer group points out, employees chip in 10 -12 hours a day without a grudge. “When your seniors go to extremes to ensure a plant runs smoothly, you don’t think twice,” says Rajeev Agarwal, 53, DGM, project engineer (civil).

source - ET