The first company under the Amara Raja Group (ARG) was established in 1984, i.e. Amara Raja Electronics Limited (AREL) followed by Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL). Its founder leveraged the presence of his family in Renigunta, a rural village in South India, and chose to start the industry there to create employment opportunities. Preference is given to local population in all ARG enterprises. Despite its strong people orientation, the HR department/function at ARG got strengthened only after Jaikrishna strived to make it central to business. The department's evolution has been demarcated in three phases. The first and second phase saw few initiatives, and during the third phase the HR department was structured according to the Dave Ulrich Strategic HR Model. While this structure had been successful until now, certain sections in ARG still doubted its sustainability.

This case, Amara Raja Group (B): Vision 2025 is set in 2019 where the HR department has gone through multiple interventions commencing in 2017, including building a business specific recruitment strategy, making HR digital, and development of an employee value proposition. With changes in external environment including increased digitisation, automation, and industry 4.0 along with the internal shift of leadership of ARG from the founder RNG to Jay Galla to the newer generation, Jaikrishna ponders upon the way forward for the HR function of the group.