HR Excellence Awards - 2011 26-27 Jan

HR Nexus Proudly announces HR Nexus Excellence Awards for outstanding contributions of Human Resource Fraternity.

HR Nexus Excellence Awards - 2011, Amby Valley, Pune

Categories & criteria

The HR Nexus Excellence Awards 2011 are open to all India based employers from the private and public sectors - including all MNC's, local companies, government agencies and SME's etc.

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.

HR Nexus Excellence 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to HR


HR Nexus Excellence 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 savvy
• Communication effectiveness
• Innovation
• Champion of change
• Leader of organisational improvement

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Champion of HR

• 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Employer Branding

• Innovation and creativity
• Alignment of branding campaign with corporate objectives
• Communication avenues
• Advertising and marketing strategies
• Recruitment statistics & results

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Business Continuity Practices

• Context of risk related to industry sector/operations
• Needs analysis and risk identification
• Preparedness to respond
• Action plans and strategies
• Cross border strategies and alignment
• Communication methods and channels
• Employee training and testing

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Reward and 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Graduate Development Practices

• Alignment of graduate training to organisational goals and future talent needs
• Effective graduate recruitment practices
• Assessment, evaluation and feedback systems
• Career development programmes and feedback
• Impact of training on graduate retention rates
• Training & development budgets and company funded hours
• Coaching and mentoring programmes

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Innovation in Recruitment

• 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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

HR Nexus Excellence 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Change Management Practices

• Nature of change experienced
• Speed of HR reaction
• Strategies and initiatives undertaken
• Communication methods and channels - Internal & External
• Transparency of change
• Execution process
• Morale management
• Performance management
• Retention strategies and turnover rates during change

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Talent Development Strategy

• 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for 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
• Rate of absenteeism, lateness and sick leave
• Corporate ROI

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Performance Management

• Use of KPI's
• Relation of performance to compensation and benefits/rewards and recognition
• Alignment to training and development
• Employee and management accountability
• 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

HR Nexus Excellence Award for Best Corporate & 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

For Nomination / Sponsorship please send a mail at hrnexusindia@gmail.com or call AJ Mishra at 09873302143