13 Point Leap in Trust: What led Navitasys to become a Top 100 Workplace
About The Company
Incorporated in 2019, Navitasys India, a part of the TDK Group a world-renowned leader in Automotive, Industrial & Energy and Information and Communication technology. It owns the lion’s share of the Total Smartphone Battery market share in India and has four business verticals such as Smartphone Batteries, Notebook Batteries, Micro Electric Vehicle Batteries and Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) manufacturing.
With a strong focus on Innovation, Quality and Sustainability Navitasys has built a TPM oriented culture that prioritizes safety and environmental responsibility. These have led to Navitasys earning accolades such as the Global Safety Summit Annual EHS Award and a National Level Environment Award.
- Industry: Manufacturing & Production
- Employee Size : 3,500 India based employees
- HQ Location: Bawal, Haryana
Great Place To Work Experience-
Achieving the Great Place To Work Certification has been a truly transformative milestone for our organisation. It has strengthened employee trust, engagement and collaboration at every level, creating a more cohesive and motivated workforce. This recognition not only reflects our commitment to building a positive workplace culture but has also translated into tangible business results that are driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and supporting sustainable growth across the company.
– Ankur Tandon, Head- Finance, Supply Chain & IT, Navitasys
Over the past three years, Navitasys India Private Limited has embarked on a transformative journey with Great Place To Work to create a workplace where trust, fairness and growth guide everyday experiences. This cultural journey is fuelled by a single-minded focus and commitment to ensuring that each employee is positively engaged. Leadership’s commitment to action based on employee feedback has ensured trust in employees that their voice is heard and acted upon.
Navitasys, being recognised as one of the Top 100 India’s Best Companies To Work For 2025 is a result of its listening culture, continuous work on survey feedback, and closing the loop on communication with employees, truly reflecting its relentless commitment towards building and sustaining a High-Trust High-Performance Culture™. Let’s read how:
The Beginning: Listening to Employees
In 2022, Navitasys initiated its first Great Place To Work assessment, seeking structured feedback from employees. The results provided data-backed, actionable insights into cultural strengths and opportunities.
Scores and employee comment analysis displayed the following:
Culture tenets loved by employees: Sense of Pride, Growth & Development Opportunities, and Fairness in Compensation
Experiences that employees suggested could be improved: Fun & Friendly Workplace, Impartiality, and Fair Performance Evaluation.
Leadership at Navitasys, true to their core values of RISE — Refine, Innovate, Strive, and Enable, rather than viewing these insights as challenges, embraced them as opportunities for growth. Further, with survey results as a base, HRBPs focused on listening, using a structured approach, to the unique needs of various demographics, aligning initiatives to be more inclusive.
“At Navitasys India, our Great Place To Work journey has been a meaningful experience which has helped us celebrate our strengths and address areas for growth. Over the past three years with insights we have seen our engagement improve. Our Trust Index score has improved by 13 points, supported by initiatives in talent management, communication channels, performance management, DEI&B and total rewards. These steps are shaping a strong and inclusive culture where our people can do their best work and thrive.”
Embedding Culture through Accountability and Action
Care And Appreciation: Making every employee feel valued
Recognition Platforms: Awards and Appreciation programs were scaled up with a holistic approach to celebrate employees’ achievements. A blend of both monetary awards & non-monetary recognitions was introduced, namely, On the spot, Cost Saving Award, Kaizen Awards, and service milestones. The Managing Director Award is a pinnacle of recognition since 2022, during which 49 projects have been submitted by 191 employees, resulting in initiatives that have driven growth in Business KPIs.
One of the award winner shares, “MD Awards motivated me to showcase innovative ideas and cost-saving strategies. The recognition was truly inspiring, reinforcing the spirit of innovation and excellence at Navitasys.”
Celebration: The Trust Index feedback in 2023 highlighted the need for more celebrations at the workplace. In response, Navitasys collaborated with the right partners and developed a comprehensive engagement calendar, that included numerous engagement activities and sport connects. There were festival celebrations, team bonding sessions, sports events, milestone celebrations, and lots more. This opened the pathway to many firsts in its celebrations, such as Founders Day and Yoga Day.
Clarity in Communication: Enhancing transparency and fostering collaboration
Communication Channels: Improved top-down and bottom-up communication loops are created and monitored for their effectiveness. Initiatives like Connect with Shirish (MD, Navitasys India Pvt. Ltd.), Lunch with Factory Manager, etc. improved leadership visibility and accessibility.
As part of internal communication initiatives, Navitasys shares quarterly newsletters displaying policies, achievements, and employee milestones. Taking new joiner feedback has been institutionalised during the Day-7 and Day-60 check-ins.
- Improvement in Top-down communication by 11 points
- Candid communication saw an upward movement by 17 points (from 73 to 90 in 2025)
- 88% of employees felt involved in decision-making in 2025; a remarkable improvement from 74% in 2023.
Open conversations on Compensation and PMS Systems: Navitasys has a transparent performance-linked reward system. Leadership has open and transparent conversations around compensation, instilling a belief of Fairness and Impartiality amongst its employees. As a result, Trust Index reveals that 88% of employees at Navitasys confirm that their compensation is fair, which is a remarkable 11% higher than the average in the manufacturing industry.
An employee shares,
“Navitasys stands out with its profit-sharing model that fosters ownership and its encouragement of innovation through minimal constraints and strong management support.”
Career Development
Enhancing Training & Development opportunities: Deep diving into the unique development needs of employees translated into providing more effective opportunities. It also led to understanding the unique support high-potential participants in programs like the Young Leadership Program (YLP), Engineer Development Program (EDP), Emerging Leadership Program (ELP) and Leadership Development Program (LDP) require to be successful in the organisation, thus building a robust succession pipeline. Further, Navitasys launched We Connect E-Learning platform that provides employees with various training modules. 650+ employees have utilised the courses offered with an average of 17 hours being spent by each employee annually.
The recommendations from Great Place To Work were implemented with rigor and empathy. The Great Place To Work assessment in 2025 revealed remarkable progress through these sustained efforts.
The Trust Index score improved from 77 to 90 (2023 vs 2025), with 91% of employees affirming that Navitasys is a great workplace.
Focus on Inclusivity: A Culture Accelerator
Navitasys continues to trust Great Place To Work as a partner for its workplace culture. Sustaining the areas of strengths and taking corrective measures towards areas of improvement identified through the Trust Index Survey guides its actions. Further, it is working towards creating a more inclusive culture by enhancing its DE&I strategy. One of the testaments is the She Power Development Program, which has welcomed 27 female GETs (Graduate Engineer Trainees) in 2024–25. As of January 2025, 25% of the organisation’s total population consisted of female employees (including contractual workforce) and it continues on its further plan to hire a more diverse workforce.
Recognition Among India’s Top 100
The culmination of these efforts led to Navitasys being ranked 31st among India’s Top 100 Best Workplaces. The organisation carries the badge with pride, and as a responsibility towards its workforce. It reflects excellence across Employee Experience, People Practices, and Leadership Effectiveness.
“At Navitasys India, we are proud to share that we have been ranked 31st in India’s Best Companies To Work For 2025 List. Since our formation in 2019, our journey has been guided by a vision to build a culture of trust, inclusion and growth while driving innovation in advanced energy solutions. We have combined world-class technology with a people-first approach, thus proving that a strong culture fuels both performance and progress. This milestone is a reflection of our collective commitment to do right by all stakeholders and together we will continue to reach greater heights.”
Culture as a Competitive Advantage
Navitasys’ journey from insights to impact demonstrates what is possible when organisations prioritise people by listening to employees, acting on feedback and measuring progress. The organisation has built a workplace where trust, fairness and growth thrive. As other organisations look to enhance their workplace culture, Navitasys offers a blueprint: Listen deeply, Act decisively and Celebrate consistently.
Author
Vaishali Dhrangadharia, Program lead- Consulting, Great Place To Work India
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