AWARD CATEGORIES

Winners for the Mercer NDTV Employer Awards 2017 have been announced for the following categories:

Excellence In Work Life Balance: Work-life balance initiatives are benefits, policies or programmes that help create an improved balance between the demands of the job and the healthy management (and enjoyment) of life outside work. This category touches on areas such as flexibility at work, time spent at the workplace per employee and fun/leisure activities planned for employees on a regular basis.

Excellence In Employee Recognition: Recognition programmes can be monetary or non-monetary and could include spot awards, best employee awards, etc. They should be outside the variable pay programme. This category recognises mechanisms by which middle managers are empowered to recognise/reward their teams on an ad hoc/spot basis.

Excellence In Capability Building: This category includes training, competency frameworks and assessments, mentoring, job rotation, task force participation, etc. The presence of this policy could be demonstrated by a published training calendar that gets updated on regular basis, the number of employees that go through the job-rotation and mentoring programmes compared to the overall staff, etc.

Excellence In Digital HR: HR digitisation is judged by the extent to which technology/automation has been deployed with respect to employee information, HR processes, policies and business outcomes. This category includes all the digital innovations that HR has introduced for the purpose of employee engagement.

Excellence In Workplace Diversity: Workplace diversity is demonstrated by initiatives or measures to enhance diversity in the organisation, such as hiring of female employees and the differently abled. Consideration is given for any specific policies established for female employees, beyond what is statutory.

Excellence In Connected Organisation: Connected companies have initiatives in place that go beyond the organisation and benefit the community. Judging covers regular communication with employees and participation interest generated.

Excellence In Career Development: An increasing number of organisations have realised that they must redefine the relationship between organisation and employee. They start a win-win career development path to satisfy employees' demands for self-fulfilment, and create more value for the organisation. This award is granted to organisations that conduct career development management for employees: career development design and planning for various types of employees are conducted, and corresponding career development courses and abundant internal resources are provided to support the fulfilment of employees' value.

Excellence In Innovative Hiring: Innovative hiring includes original approaches and programmes for improving the employment prospects of non-traditional talent pools. This category covers the different approaches adopted to recruit candidates and the part that technology/social media/analytics plays in leveraging the recruitment process and managing the related workforce.

Excellence In Employee Well-Being: This category covers improvements made to the health and wellbeing of individuals in the workplace, and is pertinent to organisations that create an environment conducive to promoting a wellness culture among employees and that induce long-term behavioural change.

Excellence In Innovative Benefits: Innovative benefits meet the changing needs of the workforce. This category looks at organisational initiatives that go beyond market benchmarks and competitiveness to design/personalise benefits programmes (including communication) that meet the diverse needs of companies’ specific employees while aligning with the company’s business and talent strategies.