Building a Leadership Pipeline: A Case Study of NTPC

Abstract

Building a leadership pipeline is an alarming challenge in today’s competitive business environment. The insufficiency of available leadership talent is the utmost limiter in a company’s development. Companies arrange a wide range of leader development processes, emphasizing on tailor made learning interventions for fulfilling individual leader’s development needs; and experiential and action learning practices linking leader development to environmental challenges and company’s growth. Linkage of efforts for leader development towards organizational performance could suggest greater awareness in developing leaders at all levels in an organization. This research paper studies the system for building a leadership pipeline in NTPC, one of biggest power utilities in the world and gives suggestions for making the system of leadership pipeline more effective.