Virtusa wins accolade for employee engagement practices at National HR Conference 2014

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Virtusa Corporation, a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to transform the customer experience, was awarded the ‘Employee Engagement Special Category Award’ at the recently-held National HR Conference 2014 Sri Lanka. Virtusa received this award, one of the only three special category awards handed out at the event, for exceptional contribution towards driving organisational performance though positive engagement.

Virtusa Director – HR Chandi Dharmaratne (right) accepting the ‘Employee Engagement Special Category Award’ at the National HR Conference 2014 Sri Lanka held recently

Accepting the award, Chandi Dharmaratne, Director – HR at Virtusa, said: “It’s an honour to receive this award from IPM in recognition of our employee engagement initiatives. With over 86% of our global workforce comprising of millennials, we are focused on understanding them and proactively building a millennial conducive environment of engagement where they can constructively interact with one another. Accepting the fact that millennials are critical for the organisations’ growth, we brought in expertise from all over the company to develop tools that attract and engage this group. And this resulted in the in-house creation of our social business eco system, V+.” Madu Ratnayake, Head of Digital and Senior Vice President at Virtusa, elaborating on the V+ platform, said: “V+ offers an engaging environment akin to Web 2.0 solutions such as YouTube, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia. It provides social collaboration, document management, video services, enterprise services, innovation management, social performance management, and gamification to the organisation, thus enabling effective business transformation. Bringing together systems of records such as ERP, CRM, IPM, etc. and systems of engagement such as messaging, search, portals, etc., V+ has helped core business processes embrace the age of social and digital.” Billed as South Asia’s largest HR event, the National HR Conference 2014 is the flagship learning conference organised by the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) Sri Lanka. Featuring an impressive line-up of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics, and HR practitioners, the forum is designed to provide a platform for the HR community to gain knowledge, exchange views, share best practices, and to build professional connections. Over the recent past, Virtusa has been recognised all over the globe for its world class people initiatives and practices including its effective use of social technologies to drive employee engagement. Some of the recent global recognitions include Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in the US, the International Business Award (Stevies) for Best People Practices (for the second consecutive year), the Asia Best Employers Brand Award for HR Excellence, and the Golden Peacock Award for HR Excellence, among others.