Mahindra Holidays, India’s largest leisure holiday company has announced that it has been Great Place to Work® - CertifiedTM by the Great Place to Work® Institute. The recognition has been given in the category of large sized organizations, which represent organizations having more than 500 employees.
Commenting on the recognition, Mr. Kavinder Singh, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited stated, “We are very pleased to receive the ‘Great Place to Work®’ certification. At Mahindra Holidays, we pride ourselves in making every moment magical for our members. Our secret sauce towards making this happen includes four key ingredients which are also our core values – ‘Proud to Belong, Making Smiles, Experience is Everything and No Room for Ordinary.’ We believe these values bind us together and have helped us achieve this recognition in our journey to become the most admired vacation ownership company in the world”
At Mahindra Holidays, it is our constant endeavour to ensure that we provide a stimulating environment for the best talent to thrive and succeed. Our HR practices are designed to empower our people to make each ‘Moment of Truth’ with the customer a Magical one. The core of our work culture evolves from our core values and focusses on building trust and emotional involvement with the organization and our members. We listen, collaborate and engage with our employees to ensure we work as one team towards achieving our organisational goals.
Mahindra Holidays has been actively promoting sustainability and local livelihood. We work in areas including education, health, skill development, local economic development and environment conservation. Last year, we hired 62 specially-abled colleagues and over a 100 from the under-privileged sections of the society. Over 2400 employees across the organization have participated in more than 300 community reach out programs across the country.
Great Place to Work® has conducted pioneering research on the characteristics of great workplaces for over 25 years and is considered the gold standard for assessing and certifying great workplace cultures. It believes that all organizations can become great workplaces, and it’s their mission is to help them succeed. Great Place to Work® partners more than 8000 organizations every year around the world to help create and sustain a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ and get Great Place to Work-Certified™.
About Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Limited Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited (MHRIL), India’s leading player in the leisure hospitality industry, offers quality family holidays primarily through vacation ownership memberships. While Club Mahindra is the flagship brand, the other brands offered by the company are – Club Mahindra Fundays and Svaastha Spa.
As on December 31, 2016, MHRIL has ~211K vacation ownership members and operates 46 resorts across India and abroad and its subsidiary, Holiday Club Resorts Oy, Finland, a leading vacation ownership company in Europe has ~57K members and 31 resorts across Finland, Sweden and Spain.
About Mahindra Group:
The Mahindra Group is a USD 17.8 billion federation of companies that enables people to rise through innovative mobility solutions, driving rural prosperity, enhancing urban living, nurturing new businesses and fostering communities. It has a leadership position in utility vehicles, information technology, financial services and vacation ownership in India and is the world’s largest tractor company, by volume. It also enjoys a strong presence in aerospace, agribusiness, components, commercial vehicles, consulting services, defence, energy, industrial equipment, logistics, real estate, steel, and two wheelers. Headquartered in India, Mahindra employs over 200,000 people across 100 countries.