Peer review

San Jose State University

Leadership based on Ancient Principles

Jasmine Jade Ly, Betelhem Getachew, Cosmo Maddux, Jacky Chen, Napoleon Lee BUS5-16 Sec 62

Dr. Bobbi Makani

The Tata Group is a company that was founded in Mumbai, India, in 1868. Jamsetji

Musserwanji Tata founded this company when he was 29 years old. The Tata Group

manufactures automobiles, airplanes, and many other products. This company group has spread

to over 100 different countries and has over 750,000 employees. As a result of diversity, this

allows the Tata company to learn and grow throughout different countries and cultures giving

them a very diverse set of co-workers allowing more opportunities to find more efficient ways to

run various operations. The Tata Group is known for its reputation of strong leadership/ethics,

integrity, and good values. In this essay, we will discuss the characteristics of Tata’s leadership,

the levels of culture that the Tata corporation would need to consider, and whether this

management style can be implemented elsewhere.

In order to have such a successful and strong company, you must have strong leadership

skills. Some characteristics of the Tata Group’s leadership skills are integrity, responsibility,

excellence, pioneering, and unity. These core values of leadership are posted on the website and

run deep in the company’s principles, they promise to be honest, responsible, driven, insightful,

and united. Some ways you can notice these leadership skills put to examples are through their

diverse workforce, relations/concerns with employees/customers, pure values, and purpose. We

believe these values contribute to the core concepts of the Tata company group. This allows the

Tata company to push for excellence at the highest most efficient level. We presume these core

values have molded and contributed to the mass success of the Tata company group.

With leadership, there are always different factors that need to be considered. Culture is a

very big factor that needs to be taken into consideration, everyone has a different culture,

religion, and ideologies. The Tata company is extremely welcoming and accepting of everyone’s

differences, this is what the Tata company strives for. The levels of culture and diversity in the

Tata Group need to consider different companies and employees they work with, they need to be

global. They have a motto, “Leadership with Trust”. They describe leadership with trust as

having integrity inside and outside the organization. Their ethics are very driven in a positive and

ethical way. Another motto, “Count of Us”. Tata capital’s former brand tagline “We only do

what’s right for you” has been changed for the first time since the company was founded in 2007.

As Abonty Banerjee, chief Marketing and Digital Officer said that “our new tagline “Count on

Us” will be used for all our internal and external communications.” This explains that Tata’s

company is always trying their best to please their customers.

Tata’s management style can indeed be implemented elsewhere at any time. This is due to

the fact that India’s cultural diversity itself. An example of their management style was presented

back in 2008 when the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, India, the crown jewel of Tata’s

hospitality group, was being attacked by terrorists. Instead of being selfless and fleeing for their

own safety, staff members of the hotel remained and helped guests escape from the attack.

Through the leadership of Ratan Tata, the company was able to remain a self-effacing, private,

and humble man who advocated the importance of globalization ahead of its time.

The Tata Group’s leadership is one that is very special and unique, this leadership made a

billion-dollar company. Without the rich and deep leadership skills ingrained into the Tata

Group, there wouldn’t be such a successful company. A quote by Ratan Tata explains that

teamwork is a very important factor within this company, “If you want to walk fast, walk alone.

But if you want to walk far, walk together”. We as a group believe that the Tata Group is a great

company and organization because of its strong leadership skills and values. We credit the Tata

companies ideology of leadership that pushes and innovates all companies' perspectives on how

leadership should be run.

Citation:

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“About Us: Tata Group.” About Us | Tata Group, www.tata.com/about-us.

“Culture & Diversity | Tata Communications.” Tata Communications, 8 Jan. 2021,

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Tata Capital launches a new brand campaign – 'count On us'. exchange4media. (n.d.).

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