L&T-ites and Wives meet on TQM Journey

The fourth Workout Meeting for L&T's senior management personnel as a part of the TOM journey was held in Bombay on December 8 and 9, 1995.
Simultaneously, a separate programme was conducted for the wives of the Bombay-based participating L&T-ites, at the same venue. They were thrilled to receive a personal invitation from Mr. S.D. Kulkarni,
L&T's M.D. & CEO, "to come and get the flavour of what we are doing in our continuous learning exercises".
In the introductory session of the Workout programme, Mr. Anil
Sachdev, M.D., Eicher Consultancy Services Limited, discussed 'How to Live up to the Vision Values'. He did so in an exciting manner which enabled the participants to open up and share their views frankly but cordially. In the afternoon session, Mr. Dinesh Chandra, President of Global Quality Associates, USA, took up the theme : How to create an Empowered Culture. Again on the 9th morning, Mr Dinesh Chandra took up a session on learning' What is Dialoguing'.
Having laid down the ground rules the group put the Dialoguing into practice. The group also identified subjects that can be taken up subsequently like leadership, development for the future and organizational structure to meet our goals.
To obtain the best results out of the Workout, the participants were seated over seven round tables. Every table had a representative from each Business Group forming a microcosm of L&T, and different views were deliberated on. The arrangement and the discussions gave the feeling that L&T has reached a watershed in the TOM journey.
In the afternoon, five teams made presentations on SGAs, which demonstrated beyond doubt that TOM has quantifiable results. The presentation, which were from Gr. II, Gr.III, GR.IV, Gr.Xl and PGM Group will be covered in future issues of Chetna.