High Scores "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Regular and constructive feedback  95.3  3 Exciting growth opportunities  93.3  3 Managers care for professional and personal growth  92.8  2 Low Scores "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Conducts business fairly  91.0  14 Less stress at work  74.4  16 Encouraged to take risk in work  59.7  20 Dream Job "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Job security/stability  61.4  1 Company image  48.6  2 Technology that one is working on  24.3  8 Strengths: Rolta's overall image with employees is its biggest asset, with carefully designed jobs, good mentoring efforts, adequate training and high increments Weaknesses: Low brand equity and some dissatisfaction over compensation. Nearly 75% of the respondents felt that pay was below industry average Employee Size 2004-05, 3,350

The 23-year-old Mumbai-based CAD/CAM and GIS solution provider has one of the lowest attrition rates in the industry. It is ranked #2 in terms of retention, just behind Moser Baer. Increments offered at Rolta this year were also higher than the industry average. Its average salary increment was to the tune of nearly 21%-a good 3 to 5 points higher than the average industry hike during the same period. However, the HR front suffered a little and the company occupied the ninth slot in the overall HR scorecard.

TV Holay, Sr ED (HRD)

Rolta made significant gains on employee satisfaction this year. With over 3,000 employees on its rolls (making it a tenth of Infosys' size), Rolta's employee challenges are far lower than those of industry's giants. Another critical factor that works in its favor is its highly specialized domain operation.

Surprisingly, alleged financial irregularities during the first half of last fiscal and a modest 8% topline growth in FY 2004-05 did not play on its employee morale. In all, a consistent performance on most of the employee satisfaction parameters.

However, there seems to be some dissatisfaction in terms of compensation. Rolta has also been performing rather poorly on perception over the past two years: In 2004, only 34% of its employees rated it as their most preferred company and in
2003, it was only 29%. This year Rolta has managed to retain its internal image, with over 34% of its existing employees naming it the company of their dreams. Branding is one area that Rolta still needs to work on.