Awards
Celebrating Great People Doing Great Work
150+ Award Submissions | 350+ Attendees | 20+ Expert Judges | 18 Award Categories | 1 Exciting Evening
Congratulations to the 2019 Future Workplace Award Winners
Best Employee Engagement Strategy
UAS INTERNATIONAL TRIP SUPPORT - WINNER
ABU DHABI FINANCE - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Employee Wellness and Wellbeing Program
DUBAI ASSET MANAGEMENT BY DUBAI HOLDING - WINNER
ETISALAT - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
MERCK SHARP AND DOHME IDEA - WINNER
AXA INSURANCE - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR / L&D Technology and Digital Champion
MEDIA ONE HOTEL - WINNER
IBM - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR Technology Provider of the Year (Vendor)
LUNAR ROCK TECHNOLOGIES - WINNER
CLEARMOVE - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Recruitment & Onboarding Strategy
LANDMARK GROUP -WINNER
EMIRATES FLIGHT CATERING - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Graduate Recruitment Program
ETISALAT - WINNER
EMAAR ECONOMIC CITY -MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Learning and Organisational Development Strategy
DUBAI SILICON OASIS AUTHORITY -WINNER
UAE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Talent Development Strategy
DAFZA - WINNER
ROADS AND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY - RTA - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Executive and Leadership Development Strategy
KUWAIT AVIATION FUELLING COMPANY (KAFCO) - WINNER
MAX FASHION - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
L&D Training Provider of the Year (Vendor)
PROPEL INTERNATIONAL - WINNER
THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR APPLIED RESEARCH & TRAINING - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best HR Transformation and Change Management Strategy
MB PETROLEUM SERVICES - WINNER
EMAAR HOSPITALITY GROUP - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR / L&D Director of the Year
ROHIT MANUCHA from AUJAN COCA COLA BEVERAGES COMPANY - WINNER
DALE GOULD from ATLANTIS, THE PALM - WINNER
SANDEEP KHOSLA from FITNESS FIRST MIDDLE EAST - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR Team of the Year
ABU DHABI POLICE - WINNER
ATLANTIS, THE PALM - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR’s Future Leader
SAMANTHA MENDONCA from ATLANTIS, THE PALM - WINNER
MINA ADEL RADY AZIZ from MASSAR SOLUTIONS - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Best Women Development and Leadership Programme
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES - WINNER
ABU DHABI POLICE - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
Employer of the Year
CHALHOUB GROUP -WINNER
EMRILL SERVICES - MARK OF EXCELLENCE
HR’S MOST LAVISH NIGHT RECOGNISING THE BEST TALENT IN THE REGION
Future Workplace Awards (formerly known as Middle East HR Excellence Awards) showcases the best HR talent in the Middle East and honors HR professionals in government and the private sector for their outstanding contributions in creating a high performing workforce for the future.
Why you should take part in Future Workplace Awards?
SHOWCASE YOUR BRAND
- Being a part of Future Workplace Awards provides your brand access to global and regional marketing platforms via online and offline media.
- Your participation affirms that your organisation is investing in HR and has an active agenda to improve your workplace, satisfying current employees and attracting talent.
RECOGNISE & MOTIVATE YOUR TEAMS
- Entering the Future Workplace Awards is a way to thank and honour valued employees and to show you care about the future of your workplace, making you more attractive as an employer.
- Your award application helps reflect on the achievements, challenges and areas of improvement which is vital for any developing business.
- Being nominated, shortlisted or winning an award can help boost staff morale and improve
motivation.
CELEBRATE IN STYLE
- The awards are an excellent opportunity to network with hundreds of senior HR professionals, showcase your work and learn from others.
- Celebrate all the hard work and successes of the industry with 18 awards, covering every aspect of work including; Employee Experience, HR Technology, Recruiting, L&D and Achieving Excellence in HR.
Future Workplace Awards Categories
Our mission is to champion best practices for HR practices and HR initiatives which will help develop employee experience, businesses and the industry. Last year, 17 HR experts judged 140+ companies across the 18 categories below.
Best Employee Engagement Strategy
This award recognises the importance of employee engagement in today’s businesses. The awarded initiative is one where engagement levels are improved as results of an HR initiative.
Best Employee Wellness and Well-being Programme
Recognising employers which place employee well-being centre stage within the organisation and have embedded a strong culture of health and wellness.
Best Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
This will be awarded to an organisation that is dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive and tolerant workplace
2019 HR / L&D Technology and Digital Champion
This award recognises the employer that has successfully embraced digital disruption to move HR and/or L&D forward.
HR Technology Provider of the Year (Vendor)
This award looks for innovative service providers that create, implement and integrate HR technology solutions for clients on a specific people-related project.
Best Recruitment & On-boarding Strategy
Employer who has excelled in creating an effective recruitment and on-boarding atmosphere that is conductive to employees’ smooth introduction to the company
Best Graduate Recruitment Programme
This award recognises the efforts of the organisation in attracting high calibre talent from top-notch universities.
Best Learning and Organisational Development Strategy
The award will recognise an organisation that has implemented an innovative and successful L&D and OD strategy.
Best Talent Development Strategy
This award honours the organisation which has developed a very well integrated strategy to recruit, manage, develop and retain talent.
Best Executive and Leadership Development Strategy
Rewarding the implementation and planning of a coaching, training and executive development strategy to promote and develop leaders
L&D Training Provider of the Year (Vendor)
This award recognises a provider that creates and delivers a broad range of employee training programmes and products for clients
Best HR Transformation and Change Management Strategy
This award recognises employers that have successfully delivered a major HR business transformation project.
HR Director of the Year
A senior HR executive / director who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and business best-practice in developing effective HR strategies which have significantly benefited their business throughout the last 12 months
HR Team of the Year
An award to recognise the collective effort of HR teams within the business
HR’s Future Leader
An emerging talent in the field of HR who shows high potential for future achievement in the profession.
Best Women Development and Leadership Programme
The award will recognise an organisation that has developed and implemented a women development and women leadership programme
Employer of the Year (Public Sector)
This award honours the leading public sector employer that can demonstrate superior people development strategies resulting in a productive, engaged and motivated workforce becoming an employer of choice.
Employer of the Year (Private Sector)
This award honours the leading private sector employer that can demonstrate superior people development strategies resulting in a productive, engaged and motivated workforce becoming an employer of choice
Judging Panel
This year we have a panel of 20 judges, who have each dedicated their time and their efforts to score the award entries.
Our judging panel is made up of internationally recognised and respected judges from a variety of industry sectors and disciplines. The panel are carefully selected to ensure the selection process is fair and objective. The judges are bound to a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate and to stand aside from deliberations concerning those entries.
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