Awards Categories 2023/24
The following Awards will be granted to outstanding programmes in the "Organisational Category", "HR Service Provider Category", “GBA Category”, “NGO Category", “SME Category” and "Individual Category” by the Judging Panel
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Excellent Award
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Elite Award
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Merit Award
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Good Practice
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Professional Practice (Only for Organisational Category Grand Awards)
Organisational Category
There are 9 Grand Awards and 16 Sub-Category Awards under “Organisational Category”.
Grand Awards
Sub-Category Awards
Grand Award of the Year (will be granted to the organisation with the highest score among the entries in the year)
Grand Award of Diversity & Inclusion
Grand Award of Employee Experience
Grand Award of Employee Wellness
Grand Award of ESG Initiatives
Age-Friendly Workplace Award
Disability-Friendly Employment Award
Best Workplace Award
Employer Branding Award
Family-Friendly Practices Award
Employee Benefits Award
Employee Happiness Award
Community Caring Award
Corporate Governance Award
Green Achievement Award
Grand Award of HR Digitalisation
Grand Award of Talent Management
HR Analytics Award
Learning Technology Award
Gen Z Attraction Award
Learning & Development Award
Management Trainee Programme Award
Talent Acquisition Award
Grand Award of Change Management
Grand Award of Innovation
Grand Award of the Year (will be granted to the organisation with the highest score among the entries in the year)
The Grand Award of the Year is presented to the top awardee under the “Organisational Category”. This award highlights the entry that serves as the most outstanding example of best practice in action, inspiring Hong Kong HR practitioners with new ideas to help them excel in their profession. In arriving at their decision, the judges will look for projects that have produced outstanding results with a far reaching impact and meaningful contribution to the HR community. The winning project should be able to show what can be accomplished through passion, dedication, and a commitment to helping and developing its people.
Age-Friendly Workplace Award
This award recognises an organisation that promotes age diversity and inclusion in the workplace and implemented policies and practices such as flexible working arrangements, learning opportunities, career paths, benefits and wellness initiatives which support older workers and created an age-friendly workplace to value the contribution of older workers. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying age-friendly initiatives to deepen the impact of diversity & inclusion of the organisation.
Grand Award of Diversity & Inclusion
This award recognises an organisation that supports diversity and inclusion initiatives at the heart of its business and realises such values through active practices. Entries should demonstrate best practices in diversity and inclusion being put in the place in their HR policies, practices, and procedures with regular reviews to tackle and remove any unfair bias.
Disability-Friendly Employment Award
This award recognises an organisation that promotes disability-friendly employment and implemented policies and practices such as flexible working arrangements, learning opportunities, career paths, benefits and wellness initiatives which support employees with disability and create a disability-friendly workplace to value their contribution. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying the disability-friendly initiatives to deepen the impact of diversity & inclusion of the organisation.
Grand Award of Employee Experience
This award recognises an organisation where its employee experience strategy is closely aligned with the broader business objectives. Entries should demonstrate that specific creative and brand-new employee-centric initiatives have helped to improve employee' working experience, increase employees’ satisfaction and commitment, strengthen employee engagement, and enhance the work environment. Entries should be able to quantify the achievements.
Best Workplace Award
This award recognises an organisation with excellence in providing an exceptional workplace environment that fosters employee engagement, cross-team collaboration, satisfaction, and well-being through a wide range of HR policies and practices, leadership, physical setting, etc. to create a best workplace for employee.
Employer Branding Award
This award recognises an organisation that has created a value proposition and executed a branding campaign with proven success in differentiating its identity and adding value to the organisation. Entries should demonstrate a strong employer brand strategy in attracting, engaging, and retaining employees and show evidence of implementing the branding campaign successfully.
Family-Friendly Practices Award
This award recognises an organisation with excellence in helping employees balance work and family obligations, through a wide range of HR policies and practices, such as flexible work arrangements, daycare, elderly care, adoption and reproductive assistance, breastfeeding support, paid personal and earned days off programmes, or academic bursaries for employees' children.
Grand Award of Employee Wellness
This award recognises an organisation that provides the most compelling evidence about their strategy for protecting and enhancing the health and wellbeing of employees. Entries should include specific initiatives to give whether mental, physical, social, and/or emotional supports to their employees, which in result improving the health and well-being of the employees and strengthening the organisation performance as a whole.
Employee Benefits Award
This award recognises an organisation for going above and beyond in providing their employees with a comprehensive benefits package, such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, special leaves or wellness programmes which motivate employees to perform at their best and attract and retain talents for the organisation. Entries should be able to quantify the achievement.
Employee Happiness Award
This award recognises an organisation that has adopted a purposeful approach to foster a positive and happy workplace culture where employees feel valued and find working meaningful in the organisation. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying the approaches in strengthening employee happiness and quantify the achievement.
Grand Award of ESG Initiatives
This award recognises an organisation for planning a comprehensive ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) approach, including Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, and factoring it into its overall HR strategy. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying the ESG initiatives / projects to deepen the sustainability and ethical impact of a company in the areas of environment, society, and governance.
Community Caring Award
This award recognises the organisation that has made a significant contribution to the well-being of the community and achieve excellence in promoting social responsibility and ethical business practices. The scope of entry can include volunteerism, community involvement through advocacy, educational or outreach programmes, compassionate leadership to demonstrate empathy, kindness and respect towards stakeholders.
Corporate Governance Award
This award recognises an organisation that effectively promotes transparency and accountability, pursues integrity in business operations and embraces diversity in the processes to attract, appoint, promote, and ensure accountability among the senior leaders. The scope of entry can include corporate’s purpose, the role and makeup of board of directors and management committees, shareholders and stakeholders’ interests, measurement of the corporate's performance, etc.
Green Achievement Award
This award recognises an organisation that makes significant efforts to promote environmental sustainability and foster a green culture that motivates employees to take actions for protecting the environment. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying the green initiatives / projects to deepen the sustainability with quantifiable impact to the environment.
Grand Award of HR Digitalisation
This award recognises an organisation that embraces technologies, data analytics / informatics or digital solutions to help drive better efficiency, productivity, and performance of the HR department and the organisation as a whole. The scope of the entry can include the implementation of HR software, analytic systems, online learning and development tools, etc.
HR Analytics Award
This award recognises an organisation for demonstrating exceptional use of data analytics to analyse and manage human resources data which help drive better efficiency, productivity and decision making of an organisation. The scope of entry can include the implementation of HR analytics systems, HR software, people analytics strategy, etc.
Learning Technology Award
This award recognises excellence in implementing and utilising technology to enhance employee learning opportunities and experience which strengthens the skills, knowledge, mindset, and culture across all levels of the organisation. The scope of entry can include the implementation of strategic plan or programme, digital solution, software, online training, etc.
Grand Award of Talent Management
This award recognises an organisation which has developed outstanding effective strategies, programmes and policies for talent identification, classification, management, and retention, as well as workforce mobilisation such as job rotation and assignment planning to enable leadership succession.
Gen Z Attraction Award
This award recognises an organisation which has developed outstanding effective strategies, programmes, and policies to enhance the employer branding, recruitment processes, and retention initiatives that attract, engage, develop, and retain quality Generation Z. Entries should demonstrate excellence in formulating effective strategies and commitment to understanding and engaging with Gen Z with tangible impact by putting them in place.
Learning & Development Award
This award recognises excellence in the design, creation, and implementation of a unique learning and development strategy that enhances the skills, knowledge, and attitude across all levels of the organisation. The scope of the entry can be a strategic plan or programme, individual courses or other deliverables that enhance performance and encourage learning and development in the organisation.
Management Trainee Programme Award
This award recognises an organisation that successfully formulates and delivers a management trainee recruitment programme which attracts, engages and grooms graduates to be the future management / leaders of the organisation. The scope of entry should demonstrate a strategic and structured programme is in place to provide training, learning initiatives, networking opportunities and aspirational career path to the trainees.
Talent Acquisition Award
This award recognises an organisation’s talent attraction strategy that effectively aligns with the overall business strategies and employer branding. Entries should demonstrate excellence in job design, manpower planning and deployment, recruitment and selection strategies, internal mobility strategies and programmes that seek to achieve effective utilisation and acquisition of talent to meet business needs.
Grand Award of Change Management
This award recognises excellence in an organisation's ability to set a compelling vision and plan, implement, and manage changes in the people aspect of a major organisational programme. Entries should demonstrate HR’s contribution through all the stages of the change process, and how the programme brings positive impacts to employees and organisation performance and / or clearly minimises potential negative impacts.
Grand Award of Innovation
This award recognises the successful implementation of an overhaul of an HR concept through innovative initiatives to create synergies, deliver insight, increase efficiency, enhance family, community and / or social values while addressing workforce and / or organisation challenges. Innovative initiatives can be creating or adopting a new technology or digital solution, or a creative strategic HR-related programme.
HR Service Provider Category
Change Management Provider Award
This award recognises the excellence of a service provider in helping its clients set a compelling vision and plan, implement, and manage changes in the people aspect of a major organisational programme. Entries should demonstrate contribution through all the stages of the change process and how the programme brings positive impacts to the client’s employees and organisation performance and / or clearly minimises potential negative impacts.
ESG Provider Award
This award recognises the excellence of a service provider in assisting its clients in planning a comprehensive ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) approach, including Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, and factoring into the overall HR strategy. Entries should demonstrate the positive influence made by applying the ESG service / project to deepen the sustainability and ethical impact of its client in the areas of environment, society, and governance.
Innovation Provider Award
This award recognises the excellence of a service provider in putting an HR concept into practice for its clients through innovative initiatives to create synergies, deliver insight, increase efficiency, enhance family, community and / or social values while addressing workforce and / or organisation challenges. Innovative initiatives can be creating or adopting a new technology or digital solution, or a creative strategic HR-related programme for clients, implementation of HR software, analytic systems, or online training, etc.
Learning & Development Provider Award
This award recognises a service provider that demonstrates excellence in the design, creation, and implementation of a unique learning and development strategy for its clients that enhances the skills, knowledge, and attitude across all levels of the organisation. The scope of an entry can be a strategic plan or programme, individual courses or other deliverables that enhance performance and encourage learning and development in the client’s organisation.
Mobility Provider Award
This award recognises a service provider that demonstrates excellence in the design, creation and implementation of mobility strategies that allows clients to successfully create the Remote Workforce (WFH), Internet of Things (IoT), or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture in their companies. Entries should demonstrate excellence in driving better efficiency, productivity and performance of the HR department and the organisation.
MPF Provider Award
This award recognises a service provider in providing its client services in managing MPF funds and related services to employers and employees who participate in the scheme. Entries should demonstrate excellence in areas such as customer service, contributions, investment options and performance, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Payroll Provider Award
This award recognises a service provider in offering exceptional payroll services to its clients to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their payroll operations. Entries should demonstrate excellence in customer service, payroll calculations and accuracy, timeline, payroll reporting and innovation in their payroll services.
Talent Acquisition Provider Award
This award recognises the excellence of a service provider in providing its clients with a talent attraction strategy that effectively aligns with the overall business strategies and employer branding of the organisation. Entries should demonstrate excellence in job design, manpower planning and deployment, recruitment and selection strategies, internal mobility strategies and programmes that seek to achieve effective utilisation and acquisition of talent to meet client’s business needs.
The Most Popular Recruitment Platform Award
This award recognises the best local online platforms for job seekers and employers in Hong Kong. The platform must have a large and active Hong Kong user base, high engagement and satisfaction rates, innovative and user-friendly features for job search and hiring, and a positive impact on the Hong Kong labour market, such as creating more job opportunities, improving skills development, etc. Entries should be able to quantify the achievements.
Wellness Provider Award
This award recognises a service provider in offering exceptional wellness solutions or family-friendly practices to their clients. Entries should demonstrate excellence in providing health and well-being programmes and services that enhance physical, mental, financial and social well-being of employees or providing family-friendly services that help balance employees’ work and family obligations, as a result improving employees’ engagement and retention.
GBA Category [NEW]
NGO Category
GBA Category: Organisations that have business registration and operation in the GBA cities are eligible to enter the Awards.
NGO Category: Organisations that are on the list of charitable institution and trusts of a public character, which is exempt from tax under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance, and hold the letter issued by the Inland Revenue Department are eligible to enter the Awards.
The following 9 Awards are included in GBA Category and NGO Category respectively:
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Change Management Award
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Diversity & Inclusion Award
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Employee Experience Award
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Employee Wellness Award
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Employer Branding Award
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ESG Initiatives Award
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HR Digitalisation Award
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Innovation Award
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Talent Management Award
For definitions – please refer to Organisational Category.
SME Category
Manufacturing enterprises with fewer than 100 employees or non-manufacturing enterprises with fewer than 50 employees are eligible to enter this Awards.
The following 4 Awards are included in SME Category:
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Employee Experience Award
- Employee Happiness Award
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Family-Friendly Practices Award
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Innovation Award
For definitions – please refer to Organisational Category.
Individual Category
Entrants for the Individual Category should possess at least 1 year of working experience as an HR practitioner.
Entrants should remain in the same organisation during the interview period, otherwise he or she may be disqualified from the Award. Entrants should also submit a nomination letter with the letterhead of the organisation as an official supporting document from the company. The letter should include the name, business title, and signature of both the supervisor and entrant, as well as the company chop.
HR Excellence Leader Award (will be nominated by the Executive Council of the HKIHRM only)
This award recognises an individual who demonstrates excellent HRM professionalism, enhances influence of the HRM profession and has made an outstanding contribution to the HR community.
HR Professional Award
This award recognises an individual HR practitioner who is at the Managerial, Executive, or Leadership career stage as described in the HR Career Ladder Guide which is published by the HKIHRM, and has contributed to his or her own organisation by creating a significant HR impact. Entries should include specific initiatives, projects or thought leadership to people management, work practices, applying technologies / talent solutions and building organisational capabilities to enhance business success.
Rising Star Award
This award recognises an individual HR practitioner who is at the Technical or Professional career stage as described in the attached HR Career Ladder Guide* which is published by the HKIHRM, and has demonstrated excellence either by the creative and innovative development of new ideas and programmes or by highly effective utilisation of well regarded principles in HR. Specific achievements may be related to a project or an ongoing activity of his or her own organisation.
Milestones
Organisational Category Grand Awards/
HR Service Provider Category /
GBA Category / NGO Category /
SME Category / Individual Category
Organisational Sub-Category Awards
Early-bird Period
Until 17 June 2023
Deadline for Entry
Form Submission
Until 3 July 2023 (23:59)
Interested organisations / individuals are required to submit the Entry Form and settle the entry fee before the entry deadline.
Deadline for Project Summary Submission
Until 17 July 2023 (23:59)
The Project Summary in English or Chinese with a word limit of 2,000 will be used to identify candidates for the assessment. The Project Summary should be clear and comprehensible to readers both inside and outside your field.
The Project Summary in English or Chinese with a word limit of 1,000 will be used to identify candidates for the assessment. The Project Summary should be clear and comprehensible to readers both inside and outside your field.
Assessment
(Q3 2023)
Assessors will mark each entry according to the submitted Project Summary. The first two highest scores candidates among the same Award entries will be shortlisted to the Final Interview, to complete for the Excellent Award and the Elite Award. For the rest of the entries, Merit or Good Practice / Professional Practice (only for Organisational Category Grand Awards) will be granted based on the scoring marked by our professional assessors.
Final Interview
(December 2023)
Finalists will be invited to give a 10-minute presentation and a 5-minute Q&A session to the judging panel. The Excellent and Elite of each Award will be selected.
Assessors will mark each entry according to the submitted Project Summary. The Excellent, Elite, Merit and Good Practice of each Award will be selected based on the score.
Awards Presentation Ceremony cum Gala Dinner
(Q1 2024)
The results of the HKIHRM HR Excellence Awards 2023/24 will be announced.