Award categories

· HR Strategy Excellence –

1. Best HR Strategy – This category of awards recognizes organizations that have achieved (or on their way to achieve) growth and expansion globally with an HR strategy closely aligned to their business goals and essentially bringing to fruition the organizational strategy.

2. Best Emerging HR Strategy – This category of awards recognizes the organisations that have a powerful HR strategy that is closely aligned to business and has been anchoring business excellence and driving organizational results in the formative growth years.

3. Best Place of Work – This award will recognize the efforts of the best HR team that has collectively achieved supremacy among several domains of HR excellence

4. Equal Opportunity Employer – This award will recognize the efforts of the best HR team that has collectively achieved supremacy among several domains of HR excellence.

· HR Execution Excellence –

1. Excellence in compensation and benefits – This award category Rewards the organization(s) that have been able to maximize perceived benefit of total rewards in the hearts and minds of the employees while ensuring alignment to business objectives.

2. Excellence in talent acquisition – This award category recognizes the organization(s) that have highly effective and efficient Talent Acquisition process producing desired results.

3. Excellence in diversity and inclusion – This award recognizes the organization(s) that have diversity and inclusion at the core of business, providing outstanding support, opportunities to everyone and embrace the benefits of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce.

4. Excellence in employee experience – Rewards organizations which leverage their unique values, traditions and beliefs innovatively to enhance employee experience.

5. Excellence in learning and development – This award category recognizes the organization(s) that have well aligned and continuously improvising Learning & Development process inculcating the desired skills & abilities in the workforce hence increasing the productivity.

6. Excellence in HR technology – This award category recognizes the organization(s) that have successfully leveraged technology to transform their HR function to a business lever and its advisory partner.

7. Excellence in Learning Technology – This award category recognizes the organization(s) that have demonstrated excellence in managing organizational change in respect to people systems & processes, efficiently.

8. Excellence in performance management – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

9. Excellence in Employer Branding – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

10. Excellence in line of Business Strategy – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

11. Excellence in Employee Engagement Strategy – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

12. Excellence in Health & Safety Initiatives – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

13. Excellence in Employee Welfare Initiative – This award category recognizes organizations which have successfully driven organizational effectiveness through innovative performance assessment and development practices.

HR People Excellence –

1. CHRO of the year – This award will bring to spotlight- the best CHRO for the year- who has made an impact on not just its organization- its business and people alike- but also on the larger HR community, India Inc., and society at large.

2. Future HR leader of the year – This award recognizes the promising HR leader(s) who have demonstrated excellence in delivering transformational HR and achieving impactful results.

3. Woman leader of the Year – This award recognizes the women leader(s) who have excelled in driving sustainable HR contributions to their organization(s)

4. Best HR Team of the year – This award category recognizes the HR teams of organization(s) that have exhibited a consistent level of excellence across multiple dimensions of the best people practices.

· Lifetime achievement – (No nomination, Jury Choice only) – This award will honor the contributions of the HR leader who worked to brin