Building People-First, Future-Ready Manufacturing Workplaces for India
Empowering India’s manufacturing workforce through cultures built on trust, psychological safety, and wellbeing, while accelerating digital transformation, upskilling, and inclusive growth to shape a resilient, future-ready industry.
360+
organizations assessed in India
8.3L+
employees surveyed
30+
years of research
Organizations with strong workplace cultures endure - more than 90% of Great Place To Work® Certified™ Workplaces in Manufacturing have been operating for over 10 years.
Manufacturing Trends in India
Changing Workforce Demographics
Manufacturing remains a male dominated workforce, with lower female representation (11%) than the overall workforce (27%), underscoring the importance of robust talent attraction efforts.
An Aging, Tenured Workforce
A larger proportion of tenured employees denotes an aging population with potential bottlenecks to re-skilling on technology, digitization and automation.
Psychological Safety in an AI Era
As the manufacturing industry evolves with AI and automation, employees are increasingly seeking psychological safety to navigate change, wellbeing to sustain performance, and a clear sense of purpose through involvement and growth.
A New Definition of Workplace Purpose
Employees, especially younger generations and women, are increasingly seeking a workplace purpose that goes beyond operational output - where their ideas contribute to innovation, and where leadership fosters openness and shared ownership.
Attraction and Retention Beyond Pay
Attracting and retaining talent goes beyond pay - it's about purpose, belonging, and feeling valued. In manufacturing, inclusion across shopfloor and staff employees through clear communication, recognition, and growth turns jobs into career destinations.
Consultative Support for Leaders
Great Place To Work® provides deep insights, industry benchmarking, and consultative support to enhance people practices, build a unique employee value proposition, and partner with leaders as they navigate mindset shifts.
Industry-Related Insights
Feedback Acted on Builds Trust
Best Workplaces value employee feedback, act on the feedback to build trust, and continuously invest in leadership development to create a consistent experience for all.
Culture Hardwired into Everyday Work
Best Workplaces don't rely on programs - they hardwire trust, purpose, and psychological safety into everyday work.
Stronger Core People Practices
These organizations consistently perform stronger on practices that build trust, clarity, and confidence - from offering meaningful benefits and unbiased decision-making to attracting the right talent, ensuring transparent performance evaluations, and reducing reliance on office politics.
Unique Benefits
83% at Best Workplaces vs 76% at other workplaces - a 7-point gap that signals what differentiated employee value looks like.
No Favoritism
80% at Best Workplaces vs 73% elsewhere, a 7-point gap showing how fairness is felt across the shopfloor and staff.
A Compounding Culture Advantage
Attract key talent (87% vs 81%), fair performance evaluations (84% vs 78%) and the ability to avoid office politics (81% vs 75%) - each a 6-point gap that compounds into culture advantage.
How We Can Help?
Diagnose Culture
We help you capture candid employee feedback through our flagship, Trust Index™ Survey. This is a tested mode, validated across industries and geographies. In addition, we also diagnose through:
- Focus Group Discussions
- Readiness Pre-Survey
- People Practice Evaluation
- Manager Level Insights
- Front Line Employees Assessment
- Appreciative Inquiry (1 On 1) Meetings with Leaders
Build Culture
We support culture building by taking diagnosed feedback to action, through structured presentations and programs such as:
- Results & Insights presentation to HR, Leadership and Board
- Data cuts & deep-dive on our tool - Emprising™ [Demographic cuts, Heatmaps, Employee Comment Analysis, Benchmark Comparison; Focus Areas]
- People Philosophy (EVP) Intervention
- People Practices Intervention
- People Managers Intervention
- Action Planning at an Org/Zone/Business Unit
Support a High-Trust Culture
We help you ensure a continuous listening and learning mechanism through:
- Quarterly/Monthly Pulse Surveys – Self or GPTW Administered
- Governance Check-In Sessions
- For All Leadership Summit, BFSI CXO Roundtables
- Trust Playbook – Best People Practice Report
Trusted by India's Leading Organizations
Our People
Kanul Goenka
Director, Manufacturing
Leads the Manufacturing, Industrial & Energy vertical at Great Place To Work® India and advises leadership teams on trust-led culture strategy and performance outcomes. Leads high-trust CXO conversations that move from insight to practical recommendations focused on how organizations create a high-performance culture today, benchmarking with the best.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To undertake the Great Place To Work assessment and achieve Certification, an organization must have at least 10 employees in India. Companies with 10-99 employees must also have been operating for over 2 years.
The Certification process evaluates your workplace through two lenses:
- Trust Index Survey – anonymous employee feedback measuring trust, leadership, and the overall employee experience.
- An organization must achieve 70% or more positive responses on the Trust Index to earn Certification.
Once certified, organizations become eligible for various national and industry–specific Best Workplaces Lists, depending on size and sector. Great Place To Work also provides research insights, reports, and post–assessment consulting to help HR leaders identify improvement areas and strengthen culture. To be eligible for Recognition, an organization needs to complete the Culture Audit – a qualitative evaluation of people practices, leadership values, and cultural philosophy.
Yes, Great Place To Work follows the For All philosophy, which ensures every employee, regardless of role, is included in the experience assessment. Organizations may discuss specific considerations with the Great Place To Work qualification team before beginning the process. There are also specific customized options available for this section of employees. Please reach out to our Advisor for more information.
- Interpret Trust Index and Culture Audit scores to identify cultural strengths and gaps.
- Build action plans for improving inclusion, leadership effectiveness, and employee experience.
- For organizations that require more detailed insights before conducting a structured assessment, we conduct focus group discussions, people practices benchmarking, leadership capability building, employer brand-building and various bespoke culture transformation solutions.