
BUSINESS LEVEL AND FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES
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Strategy Show: Reliance Industries—Sharpening the Performance Engine
Reliance Accelerated Leadership Program
(RALP) is conceived to develop a new breed
of managers for leadership roles within the
organization. The human resource (HR) strat-
egy of which RALP is an element is aimed at
attracting mid-level managers and moulding
them into tomorrow’s leaders. When Reliance
was aggressively following the growth strat-
egy during 1990s, HR was a constraint. While
pursuing multiple opportunities in the liberal-
ized business environment, Reliance was fac-
ing the challenge of finding human resources
to implement ...