Award categories & criteria

The HRM Awards 2012 are open to all Singapore based employers from the private and public sectors - including all MNC's, local companies, government agencies and SME's etc.*

Please note that nomination entries close on the 28th October 2011.

Criteria
The criteria that applicants and the ultimate finalists will be evaluated upon vary according to each award category. Following is a category by category synopsis of each award and its main evaluation criteria.

* Service providers are requested to 'Support Great HR' via nomination proposals for third party companies, including clients / potential clients, and to kindly refrain from self-nomination entries.

1. Hays Award for Employer of Choice
2. Robert Walters Award for Best HR Leader
3. Champion of HR
4. Capita Award for Best HR Manager
5. mytraining.net Award for Best HR Team
6. HR Young Achiever
7. Best Regional HR Practices (Asia)
8. Outstanding Contribution to HR
9. Best Environmental Practices - New for 2012
10. Healthway Medical Group Award for Best Health & Wellbeing - New for 2012
11. Innovation in HR - New for 2012
12. Center for Creative Leadership Award for Best Leadership Development
13. Best Performance & Productivity Practices
14. Grass Roots Asia Pacific Award for Best Reward & Recognition Strategies
15. Best Employer Branding
16. Best Recruitment Strategies
17. Best Use of Technology
18. Best CSR Practices
19. Fair Employment Practices
20. Best Mature Workforce Practices
21. Kaplan Professional Award for Best Training, Learning & Development
22. Best Work-Life Harmony


1. Hays Award for Employer of Choice
• Management's commitment to human capital
• Communications within the company
• Above average staff retention rates and innovative strategies
• Talent management initiatives
• Mentoring and succession planning
• Training, learning and development policies and practices
• Work life balance initiatives
• Health and safety practices and procedures
• Compensation and benefits and rewards & recognition
• Recruitment procedures
• Workplace harmony and physical environment
• Overall corporate culture
• Non-discriminatory practices
• Corporate Social Responsibility practices
• Performance management
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2. Robert Walters Award for Best HR Leader
• Ability to lead and create an environment that focuses all employees on the organisations priorities, directives and their expected place in the process
• Strategic thinking and planning attributes
• Contribution and implementation of specific HR initiatives
• Business sensitivity and savy
• Communication effectiveness
• Innovation
• Champion of change
• Leader of organisational improvement
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3. Champion of HR
This award recognises a non HR organisational leader (MD, CEO etc.) who embraces HR via:
• A demonstrated track record in supporting HR and driving, from the top, agreed HR strategies and initiatives
• Ability to lead and create an environment that focuses HR and all employees on the organisation's priorities, directives and their expected place in the process
• Contribution and implementation to specific HR initiatives including talent development and retention strategies
• Business related HR sensitivity and savy
• Communication effectiveness towards employees
• Innovation within other HR disciplines and areas
• Champion of change
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4. Capita Award for Best HR Manager
• Contribution and implementation of specific HR initiatives
• Business sensitivity and savy
• Innovation
• Champion of change
• Ability to implement organisational improvement initiatives
• Ability to align the business interests of the organisation to workforces needs
• Knowledge of HR practices and business issues
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5. mytraining.net Award for Best HR Team
• Retention rate
• Morale and engagement
• Productivity
• Team contribution and implementation of specific HR initiatives
• Team effectiveness in delivering cost effective HR administration services
• Ability to improve bottom line profits and employee productivity
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6. HR Young Achiever (Working in HR for less than 3 years)
• Contributions towards achieving organisational goals
• Knowledge of HR practices and business issues
• Initiative demonstrated in rolling out specific plans and strategies
• Grasp of aligning business interests of the organisation to its workforces needs
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7. Best Regional HR Practices (Asia)
• Retention rate
• Morale and engagement
• Management of cultural sensitivity & languages when handling HR issues
• Deployment of employment laws in different countries
• Align corporate culture across regional teams
• Effective deployment and implementation of specific HR initiatives
• Team effectiveness in delivering cost effective HR administration services
• Ability to improve bottom line profits and employee productivity
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8. Outstanding Contribution of HR
This award celebrates a leading HR figure who has contributed much to the HR industry throughout their career. We are looking for an individual who has helped to develop, grow and champion the HR profession, who also possesses exemplary knowledge and experience in practicing HR within the organisations they have worked.
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9. Best Environmental Practices - New for 2012
• Historical environmental policies and programs in place
• Innovative processes and programs undertaken / implemented within the past year
• Employee awareness and participation levels
• Results achieved and/or measured
• Impact on employee relations and retention
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10. Healthway Medical Group Award for Best Health & Wellbeing - New for 2012
• Commitment to employee health & wellbeing
• Awareness policies and programs for employee health & wellbeing
• Future health & wellness programs
• Number of employees on the schemes and percentage against total size of company
• Effectiveness of the programmes
• Management support and participation
• Impact on employee productivity & retention
• Staff turnover rate
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11. Innovation in HR - New for 2012
This award recognises the organisation that has achieved a major HR objective, or objectives, via truly innovative strategies and initiatives. Judges will consider:
• The challenge and/or objective required
• Specific strategies and initiatives employed
• Communications
• The effectiveness of these methods
• Ultimate outcome
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12. Center for Creative Leadership Award for Best Leadership Development
• History of promoting leaders from within
• Leadership development programmes including coaching, training and executive development
• Succession planning
• Mentoring
• Future needs analysis
• Career planning initiatives
• Performance management
• Selection methods
• Leadership assessment, evaluation and feedback systems
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13. Best Performance and Productivity Practices
• Training and development aligning organisational needs with employee ambitions
• Diversity management programs and policies
• Talent sourcing (internal and external)- methods and policies
• Performance management policies and practices
• Use of KPI's
• Effective use of communications to include performance appraisals, employee feedback and recognition
• Future talent needs analysis and alignment of performance management initiatives to meet future shortages
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14. Grass Roots Asia Pacific Award for Best Reward & Recognition Strategies
• Alignment of rewards to retention and other corporate objectives
• Effective rewards for varying employee demographics and seniority levels
• Incentive based programme initiatives
• Alignment to performance (personal and organisational)
• Measurement and ROI
• Recognition strategies (public and private)
• Creativity and innovation
• Level of recognition support within organisational culture
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15. Best Employer Branding
• Alignment of branding campaign with corporate objectives
• Innovation and creativity
• Communication avenues
• Advertising and marketing strategies
• Recruitment statistics & results
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16. Best Recruitment Strategies
• Variety of avenues used to recruit
• Recent innovative strategies used to recruit
• Resources allocated towards recruiting
• Effective use of external suppliers
• Media campaigns and innovations in attracting
candidates
• ROI
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17. Best Use of Technology
• Innovation
• Needs identification processes
• Variety of software and solutions used
• Efficiencies and cost-savings gained from use of technology
• Resources allocated towards training, manpower, systems, technology etc.
• Efficiencies
• Use of technology in non administrative functions including: recruitment, talent development, communications and training etc.
• ROI
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18. Best CSRPractices
• Corporate support for staff participation including non leave deductible time off, use of internal resources, etc
• Management support and participation (top down)
• Corporate communications for participatory support, internal and external
• Actual initiatives supported
• Staff participation levels
• Impact on employee relations and retention
• Impact on further improved recruitment
• Results achieved and/or monies raised
• Corporate donations and/or organisational cost of support shown
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19. Fair Employment Practices
• Non-discriminatory recruitment practices
• Pro-active efforts made to recruit diverse workforce
• Policies and practices in place to ensure that other HR and employment processes (e.g. promotions, grievances, etc.) are fair and non-discriminatory
• Management training on diversity issues and internal
• Effective internal communications of all fair employment practices and diversity initiatives
• Sustainable alignment of fair employment/diversity practices to business objectives
• Effectiveness of supporting structures (framework) for diverse groups within the organisation
• Level of CEO and senior management commitment
• Ongoing evaluation and reviews to ensure initiatives continue and are effective
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20. Best Mature Workforce Practices
• Number of mature employees and percentage against total size of company
• Training, learning and development measures and practice
• Non age discriminatory hiring and recruitment policies and practice
• Health and OSH standards and practices
• Flexible working policies and practices
• Pay/Compensation and benefits policies
• Non-discriminatory practices
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21. Kaplan Professional Award for Best Training, Learning & Development
• Alignment of training with business objectives
• Defined training and development policies and programmes
• Assessment, evaluation and feedback systems
• Alignment of training with career development planning strategies and policies
• Impact of training on retention rates
• Alignment of training to organisational goals and future talent needs
• Types & variety of courses offered to employees
• Training budgets and hours
• Resources allocated towards training, learning and development; manpower, systems, technology etc.
• ROI
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22. Best Work-Life Harmony
• Innovation
• Availability and execution of flexible work options/arrangements
• Types of leave benefits, employee support schemes and/or services
• Availability of health and recreation facilities for employees
• Effectiveness of programmes
• Maternity/Paternity programmes
• Management's support towards flexible work hours and strategies
• Number of employees on the schemes and percentage against total size of company
• Staff turnover rate
• Corporate ROI
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