Professionalizing a religio-centric firm through workplace learning
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2017Author
Sinha, Anamika
Varkkey, Biju
Kikani, Rajesh
Dave, Priyanka
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Rakesh along with his brothers, Subhash Patel and Mihir Patel, promoted,
owned, and ran Steel Tubes and Pipes Ltd (STPL), a medium-sized company
that manufactured tubes and pipes made of stainless steel, exotic metals, and
carbon. In 2012, the company generated sales revenue of `30,000 million (USD 467
million) with a 16 per cent profit on operating margins. In 2014, it had a capacity
for manufacturing of about 30,000 metric tons of pipes (20,000 for welded pipes
and 10,000 for seamless pipes) and more than 350,000 tons of carbon steel. Some
of STPL’s popular products were high-frequency welded pipes, welded tubes, saw
pipes, electric-resistant welded pipes, seamless tubes and pipes, etc. STPL employed
around 2,000 full-time employees, including about 700 white-collar employees.
The 1,300 blue-collar workers were recruited through over 70 labour contractors,1
who were spread over different villages in Gujarat and Rajasthan. (See Exhibit 1
for the group organogram.) A few daily wage workers were also hired locally to
compensate for any shortfall, that is, in case a full-time worker did not report for
work. STPL was regarded as a quality supplier in the highly competitive western
Indian market. It catered to public, private, and joint-sector companies in power,
chemical, petrochemicals, refinery, fertilizer, oil and gas, water distribution, sugar,
food and dairy, automobiles, aeronautics, and space technology.
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