• Wipro started as a vegetable oil trading company in 1947 from an old
mill at Amalner, Maharashtra , India founded by Azim Premji's father. • When his father died in 1966, Azim, took on the leadership of the company at the age 21.He repositioned it and transformed Wipro (Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd) into a consumer goods company that produced hydrogenated cooking oils/fat company
• In 1980 Wipro moved into software development and started
developing customized software packages for their hardware customers. • Now Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited , is amongst the largest global IT services, BPO and Product Engineering companies. Ethics • Wipro has been awarded the Ethics in Good Business award for the year 2002, by the Punjab, Haryana, Delhi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI). The award recognises an organisation’s ethics and value-based business performance Reaching Out to Ombudsperson Are You Aware? • Code of Business Conduct & Ethics (COBCE) • Wipro Policies § Security Policy
§ Sexual Harassment Policy (work place harassment)
§ Privacy and Confidentiality Policy
§ Policy against Insider Trading
§ Equal Employment policy
§ Environmental Health & Safety policy
Unethical • A 26-year-old chartered accountant at Wipro named, Anup Kumar Agarwal commits $4 Million fraud
• Wipro gave gifts to World Bank
employees only, when their own employees are not getting it? Is Wipro doing a Charity to poor WB employees? Then it should do the same to all other bank employees. Unethical • 2 Wipro employees fired over sexual harassment Case Study •3 employees complained – asked to leave without proper reasons • Investigated by Ombudsperson with the Manager •3 employees transferred from
their jobs[BPO] •Reason> Poor customer experience in onsite project cited as reason By::.. J.K.Thomas::15:: & K.ABHIJEET::14:: Title