WITH NOMINATIONS for the Australian HR Awards closing on 27 August, the event is once again set to become the industry’s night of nights following an unprecedented level of interest from HR professionals around the country
WITH NOMINATIONS for the Australian HR Awards closing on 27 August, the event is once again set to become the industry’s night of nights following an unprecedented level of interest from HR professionals around the country.
With organisations and HR practitioners nationwide vying for the awards, the event provides an opportunity for individuals, teams and organisations to come together and recognise benchmarks set by their peers.
“It’s a great opportunity to critically review your high profile programs or HR activities and to draw attention to yours successes,” said Roger Collins, professor of management at the Australian Graduate School of Management.
“The awards also present an opportunity to celebrate contributors – those key people who made these initiatives work. I think those two things are very important for organisations.”
With 15 categories recognising excellence across the entire spectrum of HR, this year’s selection and judging process builds upon last year’s more rigorous methodology to including random workplace assessments from members of the judging panel.
Collins, who forms part of the high calibre judging panel, also believes the awards provide an opportunity for the HR profession to come together and celebrate as a community.
“It’s important that the profession come together as an occupational group on the evening,” he said.
“We need to celebrate as a community, to build a sense of shared identity and purpose. We don’t stop to analyse what we do enough and we don’t stop to celebrate enough.”
The awards, which are organised by Human Resources magazine and sponsored by Aon, are slated for 15 October at Sydney’s Westin Hotel. Attended by CEOs, HR directors, senior HR managers and professionals as well as corporate leaders, the awards will be hosted by Vince Sorrenti, with speeches from Microsoft CEO Steve Vamos and Kieren Perkins.
Collins also said the awards are a great forum for HR practitioners to come together to celebrate and recognise the benchmarks of the profession and learn from their peers.
“As we build up this pool of breakthrough programs and successful organisations, the awards provide HR professionals with an ability to benchmark and compare what they do in their organisation with those at the frontier of HR,” he said.
“It’s a wonderful source of ideas for organisations.”
This year’s awards include a number of new categories, developed in conjunction with leading academics and professionals from the HR industry, such as The Defence Reserves Support Council Award for Employer of Choice (public sector), The Humanagement Award for Corporate Citizenship and The HR Matters Award for Lifetime Achievement in HR.
Jeans for Genes will serve as the official charity for the awards evening, with the proceeds of fundraising going to assist research into genetic disorders affecting children and providing support for their families.
For more information on the awards see page 18, or log on to www.hrawards.com.au.
