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HRM Awards 2010 Hong Kong

Categories & criteria The criteria that applicants and the ultimate finalists will be evaluated upon vary accordingly for each award category. Following is a category by category synopsis of each award and its main evaluation criteria.

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-discrimatory practices
  • Corporate Social Responsibility practices
  • Performance management

Best HR Leader(HR Director, HR President, VP, CHRO etc)
  • 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 savvy
  • Communication effectiveness
  • Innovation
  • Champion of change
  • Leader of organisational improvement
Best HR Team
  • Retention
  • 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
Best HR Manager
  • Contribution and implementation of specific HR initiatives
  • Business sensitivity and savvy
  • 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
Champion of HR Non HR business leader MD, CEO etc who embraces and supports HR in an exemplary fashion via actions including:
  • 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 savvy
  • Communication effectiveness towards employees
  • Innovation within other HR disciplines and areas
  • Champion of change
Best HR Young Gun (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
Best Retention Strategies
  • Retention strategies in place
  • Compensation & benefits along with reward and recognition strategies and their effectiveness
  • Selection Processes
  • Other innovative processes such as family days, work-life balance
  • Effective communications including employee feedback
  • Career development strategies
  • Use of training & development to increase retention
  • Overall effectiveness of retention policies
  • Comparison of turnover to industry specific norms
Best Employer Branding
  • Innovation and creativity
  • Alignment of branding campaign with corporate objectives
  • Communication avenues
  • Advertising and marketing strategies
  • Recruitment statistics & results
Best Leadership Development
  • History of promoting leaders from within
  • Leadership development programmes including coaching, training and executive development
  • Succession planning and mentoring
  • Future needs analysis
  • Career planning initiatives
  • Performance management
  • Selection methods
  • Leadership assessment, evaluation and feedback systems
Innovation in Recruitment
  • Innovation and creativity in employer branding and placement advertising
  • Staff referrals and other candidate referral initiatives
  • Above industry average recruitment statistics
  • Effective use of compensation and benefits
  • Innovation in networking to recruit
  • Harnessing the selection and interview process
  • Career fairs, campus recruitment, use of media and other recruitment methods
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
Best Workplace Health Strategies
This award recognises the organisation that promotes and practices a healthy lifestyle for its workforce both inside and outside of the workplace. The nominees are assessed based on:
  • Healthy lifestyle initiatives and programmes
  • Effectiveness of programmes
  • Management's support towards workplace health strategies
  • Availability of health and recreation facilities for employees
  • Innovative workplace health policies and programs
  • Where relevant - encouragement of healthy diet/eating habits of employees
Best Talent Management
  • Rewards and recognition
  • 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
  • Succession management
Best Corporate and Employee Citizenship
  • 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
Best Work Life Balance Practices
  • 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
  • Rate of absenteeism, lateness and sick leave
  • Corporate ROI
Best Training, Learning and 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
Outstanding Contributions to HR
This award celebrates a leading HR figure that has contributed much to the HR industry. Though there are no defined parameters the judges will be acknowledging someone who has actively advanced the profession, served as a coach and mentor to others, put the interests of organisational HR at the top of their priorities and who has consistently 'worked wonders' within the profession of HR.