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Tata Sons Ltd's Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Wednesday, 15 September clarified that "no leadership structural changes are on the anvil, as speculated in certain sections of media."
On Tuesday, a source-based report by a newswire stated that Tata Sons is considering "historic revamp of its leadership structure by creating a Chief Executive Officer's role to help improve corporate governance."
Chandrasekaran's tenure as the Chairman of Tata Sons is coming to an end in February next year. The vacancy created after him fuelled speculation of a revamp in the leadership structure at the conglomerate.
The report indicated that management of the sprawling Tata empire business would be divided into two with a CEO guiding the business and overseeing its operations and the chairman acting as nominee of shareholders to oversee the working of the CEO on their behalf.
Ratan Tata also added that "such speculation can only serve to cause disruption amongst a team that has been operating smoothly with impressive growth in market value."
It is expected that post completion of his tenure as Chairman, Chandrasekaran may get another extension. However, no confirmation on this development is available at present.
(Published in an arrangement with IANS)
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