This award recognises an organisation that have demonstrated excellence in implementing strategic plans to address and drive organisational transformation. Entrants should showcase how their HR teams exhibited vision, agility, and effectiveness in executing transformative change initiatives aligned with the business objectives. Judges will look for how the change journey empowered employees to make the significant transition, embrace the new vision, and deliver positive transformative impacts.

This award recognises an organisation that has applied a practical and innovative compensation and benefits scheme to attract, retain, and engage employees. Entrants should show how the overall HR strategic plan satisfied the employees while staying in control of the budget. Judges will look at how the C&B strategy aligned with the employee value proposition and met the overall business goals.

This award recognises an organisation that has developed and implemented a strategic crisis management/contingency plan to deal with the impact of unexpected events on their business and employees. Entrants should demonstrate their proactive and strategic approach to crisis management, including identifying potential risks, and implementing effective measures to manage and mitigate them. Judges will look for effective HR contingency plans that identified potential risks and implemented measures to help with employee retention and satisfaction, business performance, and productivity.

This award recognises an organisation that has fostered a diverse workforce that provides a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Entrants should show how their best diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies were embedded within the organisational culture, HR policies, and procedures. Judges will look for action-oriented approaches that ensured a level of transparency, and removed any unfair bias, along with any measurable evidence of the initiatives’ effect on the growth and sustainability of the organisation.

This award recognises an organisation that has demonstrated a strong commitment to prioritising the health, safety, and overall wellbeing of its employees by implementing comprehensive policies and programmes that addressed physical, mental, and emotional health, and prioritised work-life balance. Judges will look for companies that went above and beyond to create a supportive workplace culture that fostered employee development, engagement, and satisfaction. Entrants should demonstrate their genuine commitment to the care and wellbeing of their employees, resulting in a highly engaged and motivated workforce.

This award recognises an organisation that has a clear and personalised ongoing development plan for individual employees – from training to career development. Entrants should show how the HR programmes and policies promoted a clear vision of employee development and encouraged employees and managers to proactively participate in on-the-job trainings, coaching, mentoring, and other initiatives designed to improve employee skills and knowledge. Judges will look at how the HR strategies and programmes provided a supportive workplace culture that encouraged ongoing learning and development, and enhanced the personal growth of employees.

This award recognises an organisation that has an effective employee engagement strategy which is aligned with its wider business objectives, and has benefited the organisation’s growth and employees’ motivations, resulting in increased job satisfaction, productivity, and retention. Entrants should show specific engagement initiatives that understood employee needs, and supported their commitment and satisfaction at work. Judges will look for high-level engagement initiatives that increased the productivity of the organisation’s overall performance.

This award recognises an organisation with a unique value proposition and highly identifiable branding that has created value to the organisation. Entrants should show how a strong branding campaign helped in employee recruitment, retention, and engagement. Judges will look for how the campaign promoted the employer brand, growth of the brand, and the sustainability of the organisation.

This award recognises companies who have successfully integrated sustainable and responsible practices into their HR operations. Entrants should showcase how their HR strategies aligned with environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and strong corporate governance practices, resulting in long-term value creation for all stakeholders. Judges will look at the company’s approach to integrating ESG (environmental, social, and governance) considerations into its HR practices which enhanced its reputation, and created a better world for all parties. Winners should have a clear and comprehensive ESG strategy that resulted in tangible benefits for the organisation and society at large.

This award recognises an organisation that has an exceptional recruitment and development programme for fresh graduates or early-stage professionals. Entrants should show how their HR strategies attracted and developed new talent to the organisation and supported core business strategies, while enabling graduates and trainees to develop key skills, knowledge, and competencies required for success in their roles. Judges will look at the effectiveness of the organisation’s graduate and management trainee programmes in supporting workforce planning, improving individual performance, and driving overall business success.

This award recognises an organisation that has wholeheartedly embraced the digital revolution with campaigns to speed up HR innovations and improve synergies across teams. Entrants should show their HR investments in digitalisation and their impact on enriching the employee experience, and supporting the wider strategy of the organisation. Judges will look for HR digital initiatives that have helped to evolve a digital culture and contributed to the bottom line of the organisation.

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented a sustainable leadership development programme to strengthen the knowledge and skills of current and potential future managers. Entrants should show an exemplary leadership development plan and training processes that have supported an employee’s transition to a management position. Judges will look for how these initiatives promoted ongoing learning and development, and demonstrated a commitment to creating a positive and supportive leadership culture.

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented an effective learning and development programme that has exceeded its business objectives and contributed to its bottom line. Entrants should show a state-of-the-art programme that has strengthened individual and organisational performance, and promoted a culture of continuous L&D in the organisation, which has provided an engaging and effective learning environment that has fostered employee growth and development. Judges will look at the design, creation, and implementation of a specific learning and development strategy that has effectively hit organisational targets and contributed to the organisation’s bottom line.

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented inclusive strategies that offer flexibility and remote working options, matching the needs of employees with the business function to maximise the employees’ working ability and efficiency, leading to enhanced organisational performance and results. Judges will look at how these mobility strategies positively impacted the staff’s work-life balance, while accounting for productivity and business success. The winner will stand out for their adept deployment of comprehensive international mobility policies, unwavering dedication to continuous learning and development, and a resolute focus on fostering employee growth and facilitating career advancement on the international stage.

This award recognises an organisation that has excelled in its retention strategies and created a positive work environment that prioritised employee satisfaction and engagement by offering a competitive compensation and benefits packages, provided opportunities for career growth and development, and fostered a culture of collaboration and teamwork. A happy and fulfilled workforce is more likely to stay with a company long term; and companies that prioritise retention strategies are able to reduce employee turnover rates, retain top talent, and maintain a competitive advantage in their industry. Judges will be looking for companies that went beyond the traditional ways of retention, and instead, used data-driven insights to identify and address factors that impact employee turnover rates.

This award recognises an organisation that has created new and dynamic measures to celebrate and incentivise its employees’ efforts and contributions towards its business. Judges will look for entries that exhibited genuine acknowledgment and impactful initiatives that inspired employees to be at their very best, resulting in improved employee engagement, productivity, and retention. 

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented innovative and effective strategies to identify, attract, and hire top talent. Companies that prioritise talent acquisition are able to attract top talent, build a strong employer brand, and stay ahead of the competition in today’s competitive job market. Judges will look for companies that had a deep understanding of their talent needs, used data-driven insights to develop targeted recruitment campaigns, along with innovative approaches to source and attract talent. Winners should showcase how their strategies were results-driven, innovative, and had a measurable impact on the organisation’s talent pipeline and overall success.

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented HR technology into their operations, to improve business performance, efficiency, and productivity. Entrants should show their best implementation of the advanced HR technology and how they harnessed the data to exceed their business objectives. Judges will look for the complexity and size of the project or business issue, results on growth opportunities, and ROI from these initiatives.

This award recognises an organisation that has developed a strong workplace culture and values that have enhanced its business performance. Entrants should show how HR nurtured and communicated the cultural values to employees across all functions. Judges will look at the effectiveness of the organisation’s workplace culture initiatives in creating proactive employee engagement, and meeting business objectives. Winners should demonstrate how the positive workplace culture fostered employee growth and development, promoted diversity and inclusion, encouraged collaboration and teamwork, and prioritised employee wellbeing and development.

This award recognises the HR team which has excelled within its function or across functions. Entrants should show tangible results of initiatives in team morale, employee engagement, teamwork, and cohesiveness. Judges will look for the HR team’s strategic approach in all aspects of HR management, and how it demonstrated high levels of co-ordinated communication, strategy, execution, and consistency in its overall team performance.