The Singapore HR Awards: Awards Cateogries

Corporate HR Champion Award | Corporate HR Award | HR Advocate Award |

Leading HR Practices Award | Special Category Award | Individual HR Award

Special Category Award

The Special Category Awards serve to support current national initiatives. Awards will be bestowed on organisations that have developed effective and innovative programmes, achieving effectiveness in the areas listed below.

Leading HR Practices in Quality Work-Life, Physical & Mental Well-Being Award

This Award emphasises programmes that seek to help employees achieve effective quality work-life, through balancing work and personal life in order to increase employee satisfaction, productivity, performance and retention. It also seeks to inform employees of health-related issues and matters and at the same time, provide a platform and/or programmes that enable employees to have good physical and mental health.

Leading HR Practices in Workplace Safety & Health Award

This Award emphasises programmes and systems that seek to ensure high health and safety standards regulated by the Workplace Safety & Health Act to ensure workplace health and safety for the employees.

Leading HR Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility Award

This Award emphasises the organisation�s commitment to behave ethically and contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life of the workforce, their families, local community, society and the environment at large. To be considered effective, corporate social responsibility must be an integrated part of the day-to-day business operations.

Leading HR Practices in Fair Employment Practices Award

This Award highlights the organisation�s good practices in supporting fair employment. The organisation has to show evidence that recruitment and selection of employees are based on merit and it provides employees with equal opportunity for training and development. It has to demonstrate that employees are fairly rewarded based on their ability, performance, contribution and experience. The organisation also has to put in place a progressive human resource management system that ensures fair treatment of all employees. It also has to abide by labour laws and adopt the Tripartite Guidelines, which promote fair employment practices.

Leading HR & Management Consultancy Service Provider Award

This Award emphasises the high level of effective and excellent consultancy services provided by consultancy firms to organisations and HR departments.

Conferment of Awards

The conferment of Leading HR Practices Awards serve to recognise organisations which have set the standards and benchmarks for the HR fraternity

The conferment of Leading HR Practices (Special Mention) Awards* acknowledge the efforts contributed by the organisations in HR development, but which are not deemed to have attained the industry-leading status.

*To encourage organisations to strive for continuous and innovative human capital management and development practices, the Leading HR Practices (Special Mention) Award will not be awarded to organisations that have been conferred either the Leading HR Practices Award or the Leading HR Practices (Special Mention) Award in the immediate preceding year of application.