Tata Steel’s leadership system is a visionary leadership force driving the Company’s performance excellence effort in all areas related to its products, services and activities. A strong believer in participative management, it has enthused leaders at all levels to live by Tata Steel’s values, fashion the organisation’s passion for excellence and stakeholder focus, and cascade that energy throughout the organisation. The Vision of the Company and its core values are the integrating bonds, ensuring a common message across the organisation.

Tata Steel’s leadership system has two dimensions — the "Visionary" and the "Architectural".

The Visionary dimension encourages people to envision, empowers them and energises them to achieve superior performance.

The Architectural dimension is an enabler and includes processes, policies, systems, strategies and measures that support and enhance superior performance.

Feedback from stakeholders constantly re-fashions the leadership system at Tata Steel.

Policies and systems guide Sustainability

At the heart of Tata Steel’s leadership system are stakeholder expectations. These stakeholder requirements drive all leadership actions.

The Company has evolved policies on various sustainability concerns, which guide its leadership. The Tata Code of Conduct laying down clear guidelines on each issue. The Code stipulates, "A Tata Company shall be committed in all its actions to benefit the economic development of the countries in which it operates and shall not engage in any activity that would adversely affect such objective."

Tata Steel became a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact in 1998 and abides by its rules and principles, which address Human Rights, Labour Rights, the Environment and Anti-corruption. Tata Steel is a member company of the Brussels-based International Iron & Steel Institute (IISI) and tabulates sustainability indicators as per its guidelines. The Company follows the Global Reporting Initiatives guidelines for Sustainability reporting.

Tata Steel also subscribes to the guidelines of the Tata Council of Community Initiatives, which places the community at the centre of its core values.