Abstract
The Employee Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), established by the Government of India is one of the World’s Largest Social Security Organizations. The purpose of EPFO is to ensure social security for Industrial workers and their dependents. EPFO maintains more than 15 crore accounts of its members. Traditionally EPFO had been functioning as a legacy organization, administered and managed by Indian bureaucracy. Operational processes were riddled with over emphasis on rules and regulations, but were weak on transparency, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency. The 120 EPFO offices established all over the country operated in silos. Consequently, the very purpose of social security and welfare of the industrial employees suffered, while all other stake holders enjoyed significant controlling power. Recent interventions at EPFO were focused on process reengineering and ICT enablement to make EPFO more customer-centric. The case documents the transformation of EPFO from a bureaucratic, opaque organization to a customer centric, stakeholder friendly, transparent and accountable organization through IT enabled operations.
Additional Information
| Product Type | Case |
|---|---|
| Reference No. | PSG0128 |
| Title | Employee Provident Fund Organization (EPFO): Towards consumer centricity |
| Pages | 26 |
| Published on | Apr 4, 2018 |
| Authors | Ravichandran, N; |
| Area | Public Systems Group (PSG) |
| Discipline | Ethics and Governance, Management Education , Operations Management, Public Policy and Law |
| Sector | Government, Public Sector |
| Learning Objective | Demonstrate the impact of bureaucracy in public services. Demonstrate the adverse implications of over emphasis on rules based decision making in an organization that was created for social security and welfare. Discuss operational transformations in a public organization towards achieving customer centricity. Understand the impact of Technology Enablement and Process Reengineering in improving efficiency and effectiveness of a social organization. Illustrate fairness and balance in empowerment of individuals, specifically for an employee to demand his own monetary rights. Illustrate the power of IT enabled processes in rebalancing the power equation among various stakeholders |
| Keywords | Social Security; Employee Welfare; Process Reengineering; IT enablement; Organization turnaround; Customer Centricity |
| Country | India |
| Organization | Employee Provident Fund Organisation |
| Courses | PGP; PGP-ABM; PGPX; EEP |
| Access | For All |
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