Employees belonging to rival groups in the Tata group today clashed openly for supremacy. Videos of the clash were aired on TV channels across the country. Both the Ratan Tata and Mistry groups are fighting for the supremacy and the fight came out in open today as some top slot officials were replaced by the Tata loyal group employees. On the other hand employees also behaved rudely with the Journalists and thrashed them in front of the office. The journalists were not allowed to do any of the coverage at the Tata office . The scribes and employees thrashed each other.
Over a week after Cyrus Mistry was ousted as Chairman, Tata Sons announced organisational changes bringing in S Padmanabhan as the group human resources head. Besides, the former Tata brand custodian under Mr Mistry’s regime Mukund Rajan has been given the responsibility of overseeing operations of the overseas representative offices of Tata Sons in the USA, Singapore, Dubai and China.This is in addition to his existing responsibility of ethics and sustainability.
Harish Bhat, who is responsible for marketing and customer centricity, will henceforth also be responsible for managing the Tata Brand, Tata Sons said in a statement. In the interim, he will oversee the functions of Strategy and Business Development,” it added. Mr Padmanabhan has been given the responsibility of Group Human Resources in addition to his existing role of leading the Tata Business Excellence Group.
Tata Sons further said Gopichand Katragadda will continue to be the Group Chief Technology Officer, while Sanjay Singh will oversee the Public Affairs function out of the Delhi office. Three members of the now-disbanded Group Executive Council set up by Mistry — Nirmalya Kumar, N S Rajan and Madhu Kannan — have already quit. They have decided to explore options outside Tata Sons and have left the services of the company, the statement added.
