HR Practices of Frontier Foundry Steel

Introduction to FF steel

• Chief Executive: Noman Wazir• Director: Zarak khan • Location: Industrial estate • Number of employees: more then 200• In house material testing laboratory.• Proper drainage systems installed.

History

• Incorporated in 1986• Commercial production of steel bars and steel

ingots June 1988• 1992 product diversification and expansion• Increased production 1995• Product diversification 2001-2004• Installation of cooling bed 2006• Weldable steel April 2007

Products

• ASTM 706 steel bars• Wire Rod• Bailing Hoops• Deformed Steel Bars

Milestones and Achievements

• Enercon award 1992• National awards 2001,2007,2011• Amongst top 25 companies of Arabia fast

growth 500+ turkey 2011• Only PSQCA license holder of seismic resistant

and Weldable Steel Bars ASTM 706

HR practices

No written set of HR practices

for ff steel

Selection

Training and development

Motivation

Maintenance

recruitment

Recruitment process

Vacancy

job

description and

specificationApproval Advertise

Recruitment sources

• Internal recruitment

• External recruitment

• Employee Referrals

Media for recruitment

• Online recruitment

• Newspaperso Localo National

Third party Recruitment

• Yaldram Securities (Pvt) Ltd

SELECTION PROCESS

Selection Process

• Lower level staff

• Engineers/ managers

Selected on basis of referrals

Go through a selection process

Selection process at FF Steel

• Applications are shortlisted/screened as per criteria.

• Interview calls

• Interviews are conducted by a Panel.

• Final Selection of candidate based on the nterviews.

Selection process at FF Steel

• Basic selection criteria.

• 1) Education

• 2) Past Experience

• 3) Attitude (behavior)

Selection (Contd..)

• Education

1. Depends on the job but the candidate for the higher degree is preferred.

2. Skills maters grades doesn't.

Selection (Contd..)

• Attitude (behavior)

• In interview the main thing observed in the candidate is his attitude towards the job.

• The manager said they have set some basic criteria for the candidate to select him on the basis of his attitude towards job.

Selection (Contd..)

• Past Experience

• Past experience is highly preferred but in the relevant field.

• Candidates with multiple skills are hired.

Training and Development

• Reema Gul• Anum Iqbal• Adnan

Training and development

• Job rotations • Understudy

assignments

On the job training

• Seminars and lecture coursesOff the job

training

Motivation

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Motivation

Questions asked from HR manager at FF Steel:

I. How you motivate your employees?

II. Scenario (Employee Problem)

How we motivate employees?

• We give prizes to employees based on performance.

• We give incentives based on

– Produce more, get more

• Our employees are encouraged by being told

– Do mistakes, and you’ll learn

• Due to our quality motivation practices

– Our employees are competitive

Scenario Presented

• Employee has any problem

• Effecting his performance at mill

• How they are motivated in such cases?

• How their morale is developed?

Response

• They should submit a leave application

• They will be given paid leaves until the problem is solved

• Depending on the severity of the problem

• Also depends on status of employee

Director-Employee Interaction

• Great interaction between Directors and employee

• Directors meet with employees during working hours.

• Ask them how they feel being here.

• Employees share their problems with directors

Motivation Statistics

• According to the HR manager of FF Steel

• I’m 100% sure that our 99% of staff is honest and motivated

• Some of our employees switched to other organizations due to some

reasons

• But due to our excellent HR Practices many employees came back even

after 5 years

• Which shows our great HR achievement

Motivation

• Monetary benefits• Accommodation• Health and safety• First aid kits• Help from ceo

Maintenance

• Usman Ghani• Zeeshan• Sohail

Maintenance

• We asked the HR Manager of Ffsteel how do you maintain your HR staff?

Maintenance

• The Answer was we maintain our employee by a number of ways….like!!

A thorough performance evaluation followed by performance appraisal.

Giving fringe benefits

Giving good work environment.

No barrier between the management and workers

Maintenance

1. Performance evaluation followed by Appraisal

• The company’s HR department has designed a brief evaluation form which is also known as Annual incremental form.

• The patern of this evaluation form is shown:

Evaluation Form(Annual incremental form)

Maintenance (Contd..)

2.Fringe benefits include;• Free conveyance on the company’s expense

• 24 hours canteen to cater the food needs of employees

• Arrange various sports events periodically among the workers.

Maintenance (Contd..)

3.Provide Good work environment.

Workers consider their colleagues more like friends rather then professionals.

Provide breaks between the work so that employees doesn't get frustrated.

Maintenance (Contd..)

4.No barrier between the management and workers

• the HR manager of the ff steel believes that the most important thing that retains our employees is that there is no upward communication barrier exists

• As mentioned earlier the director is always available for the employees problems.

Maintenance (Contd..)