People and Management October 2018 | Page 28

[FOCUS] WHAT IS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK? “A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.” — Robert Levering Co-Founder, Great Place to Work® Prasenjit Bhattacharya CEO Great Place to Work® Institute India A research of more than three decades by the Great Place to Work® Institute reveals that it is the nature of the relation- ship between the company and its employees that makes a company a Great Place to Work. As established in the article ‘Research Insights from Great Place to Work®’, we can defi ne the relationship between an employee and his management as 28 | Vol. 9 Issue 6 • Sep-Oct 2018, Noida / Pre-Event Edition Trust; the relationship between an employee and his job as Pride; and the relationship between an employ- ee and his peers as Camaraderie. The Employee View Great workplaces are built through the day-to-day relationships that employees experience — not a checklist of programmes and benefi ts.