The Hong Kong HR Awards 2022/23
Equipping & Empowering a Future-ready Workforce
The Hong Kong HR Awards is back for its second edition this year. The Awards is a salute to the exceptional & inspirational accomplishments of organisations & individuals who have pushed the boundaries of people strategy. We can’t wait to see what you’ve done this year!
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Award Categories
"Mission"
This Award recognizes an organisation that prioritize diversity & recognize the value of an inclusive workplace for both individuals & the organisation, how to create a culture where people are respected, appreciated & feel included.
This Award recognizes an organisation that has a comprehensive ESG approach & implementations into its HR practices. This is done by the meaningful changes in organisational culture & significant influence of the employee involvement in the ESG initiatives.
This award recognizes an organisation with outstanding branding and reputation that attract candidates.
“Technology”
This award recognizes 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. The scope of the entry can include the implementation of HR software, analytic systems, online training, etc.
This Award recognizes an organisation who have adopted digital technology to change operational HR & business processes to become automated & data driven. It helps improve communication, collaboration, & access to data analytics of a diverse workforce.
This Award recognizes an organisation that adopt innovative and/or tech-driven HR initiatives to provide solutions to problems or challenges faced, and how it was communicated to the workplace for effective implementation with positive impact.
This Award recognizes an organisation with outstanding performance by using AI technologies and processes that support a more adaptive, flexible and fluid workforce, in order to meet their business needs and strategic goals.
“Recruitment”
This Award recognizes the best candidate’s attraction campaign that has demonstrated excellence & innovation in terms of design, execution & hiring impact.
This Award recognizes the creativity & effectiveness in formulating & delivering a graduate trainee recruitment campaign that has helped the company achieve its business objectives.
This Award recognizes the most creative & effective approach in sourcing for candidates through identifying, attracting, assessing & selecting the right candidates, in response to the changes in organisational talent needs & external market conditions.
This Award recognizes the most outstanding campaign that can demonstrate how it drove significant results in achieving the business goal.
“People”
This Award recognizes an organisation that have adopted a holistic approach to employee engagement & demonstrated agility in fulfilling the changing needs of their employees at all levels as well as ensuring alignment with wider business objectives.
This Award recognizes an organisation that have implemented employee-centric initiatives to improve their employees’ working experience, to motivate performance by connecting individuals career goals with company goals.
This Award recognizes outstanding training & development initiatives, programs &/or strategies that have been implemented by an organisation to develop its current talents & to effectively equip them to achieve the organisation’s strategic objectives.
This Award recognizes an organisation for their significant contribution to the sustainability of talent development practices of their organisation, as well as the business community.
“Leadership”
This Award recognizes the excellent strategic launch or repositioning of employer brand. This is done by the meaningful changes in organisational culture and/or outstanding HR initiatives as well as reputation that attract candidates.
This Award recognizes 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.
This Award recognizes excellence in design and implementation of effective engagement programs with young job seekers and future talent.
“Wellness”
This award recognizes outstanding strategies and initiatives that promote and embed well-being of the workforce, achieving higher level employee happiness and fulfillment and practicing work safe behavior in their workplace that has impacted the overall business performance.
This Award recognizes an organisation who have created a safe, flexible, collaborative & empowering hybrid workplace that accommodates both the employee, employer & maintains the company culture.
This Award recognizes an organisation that have successfully managed their remote workforce, including gig workers, through their work-from-home and flexible working arrangements pre, post and during the pandemic.
This Award recognizes individuals and teams who have proactively role modeled inclusive and respectful behaviors in their workplace.
“Recruitment Firm”
This award recognizes recruitment firms (company size >= 15 people) with creativity, effectiveness, market insight & innovation in providing outstanding service to clients.
This award recognizes recruitment firms (company size < 15 people) with creativity, effectiveness, market insight & innovation in providing outstanding service to clients.
This award recognizes recruitment firms with outstanding performance in specialized fields, the entrants demonstrated top-notch creativity and innovation and the application of market insights to provide the best service of specialized field to clients.
This award recognizes the excellent strategic launch or rebrand of an employer brand by a recruitment firm.
This award recognizes recruitment firm with the capability to supply a comprehensive and customizable service of HR professionals that fits the business needs of their clients seamlessly.
This award recognizes the most creative, innovative and effective campaigns from a recruitment firm for its clients to draw attention of a specific targeted group of talent and engage them with the client to achieve its recruitment goal.
This award recognizes partnerships between a recruitment firm and a client service, channel or product which leveraged the strength of all parties.
“Team & Individual”
This award recognizes HR teams has successfully implemented a new project, innovation, strategy or initiative not more than twelve calendar months ago that contributed to the growth of the company.
This award recognizes HR individuals who have improved HR practices with innovative ideas. It aims to position the HR function as an effective strategic business partner that contributes to the success & achievement of the organisation’s business strategy & goals.
"Special Award"
This award recognizes the best employers in Hong Kong. The winners will be 100% determined by a unique blending of the votes of employees & the general public. Nominees in this category are composed of the finalists from all the award categories.
This award recognizes the most engaging employers in Hong Kong. The winners will be 100% determined by total job application numbers of top 10 industry via JobsDB portal within the eligibility period.
Judging Process and Criteria
Dr. Aaron Chiang Head of HR & Admin Hong Yip Service Company Limited
Dr. Aaron Chiang is currently the Head of Human Resources and Administration of Hong Yip Service Company Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. Established in 1967, Hong Yip is a leading company in property and facilities management in Hong Kong.
Dr. Chiang has many years of experience in human resources and administration gained from various organizations in both the public and private sectors in Hong Kong. He holds a degree in Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Newcastle, Australia and LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from The University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He is the incumbent President of the Hong Kong People Management Association and the Advisory Committee Member of both the Business Discipline of Vocational Training Council and the School of Continuing Hong Kong Baptist University.
Ms.Janet Poon Director – Human Resources & Administration Hang Lung Properties Limited
Ms. Janet Poon joined Hang Lung Properties Limited in 2012. She is currently the Director (Head of Group HR & Administration) in Hang Lung and responsible for leading and overseeing the Group’s Human Resources and Administration functions in both Hong Kong and Mainland.
Janet has tremendous Human Resources experience especially in business partnering, people engagement initiatives, diversity, and talent development as well as building and strengthening corporate culture. Having made genuine effort in driving various HR initiatives, Hang Lung is named as Employer of the Year in the Hong Kong HR Awards 2021/2022 and clinched the title of Employer of Choice in the Employer of Choice Award 2021. She graduated from University of Leicester with a Master degree of Training & Human Resources Management, and also holds a Business Administration degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ms. Eliza Ng Chief People and Culture Officer Hong Kong Productivity Council
Eliza is currently the Chief People and Culture Officer at Hong Kong Productivity Council. She holds a Master Degree in Human Resources Development and Training with over 28 years all-round HR experience as Senior HR Executive in US Fortune 500 Listed Company, Investment Banking and Hong Kong Listed IT Company.
Eliza also serves as a member of the Hong Kong Management Association’s (HKMA) People Development Management Committee since 2011; a Board of Examiner of HKMA Award for Excellence in Training and Development since 2012; Executive Committee of the Chamber’s Women Executives Club of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) since 2014; Manpower Committee of HKGCC since 2017; Examination Moderator (honorary) for the Certification & Diploma Programmes in HR Management courses of the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) since 2018.
In appreciation of her outstanding vision and leadership, she garnered the “The Most Popular Business Leaders of the month” from Asia CEO Community in September 2020 and “Best of the Best HR STAR of the Year” granted by one of the HK media in October 2020.
Mr. Ernest Cheung Director of Career Development & Training (TPG) HKU Business School
Mr. Ernest Cheung is currently Director of Career Development and Training (TPG) team of HKU Business School and is primarily responsible for managing full L&D cycle, employer branding events, and leading the career team to work closely with community and corporate partners, both local and in the region, for all forms of collaboration, particularly in terms of knowledge sharing and talent acquisition. Prior to joining HKU, Ernest held various team management roles in financial institutions.
Ms. Lancy Chui Senior Vice President ManpowerGroup Greater China Having joined ManpowerGroup in 1997, Lancy is currently Senior Vice President of ManpowerGroup Greater China Limited (Stock code: 2180), where she has been strongly instrumental in building up operations framed around a regional initiative geared towards developing common business strategies and synergies for Greater China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Mainland China).
As a recognized expert in human resources, Lancy is regularly featured in newspapers and on television and radio as spokesperson for ManpowerGroup. She is awarded GBA Outstanding Women Entrepreneur Award 2021 and Asian Female Business Leader Award 2017 and in addition, she has led ManpowerGroup Greater China to numerous awards.
Lancy is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Bay Area Hong Kong Women Entrepreneurs Association, Member of the Advisory Board on Centre for Leadership & Innovation (CLI) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Honorary Adviser of Junior Achievement Hong Kong. She is also a Member of the Executive Committee and Chair of HR Subcommittee of Playright Children’s Play Association, Chairwomen of Training & Employment Steering Committee of Hong Kong Rehabilitation Power and a member of the Trade Advisory Committee under Employment Services – part of the Christian Action’s Training Services Division.
Ms. Pat Poon Human Resources Director ATAL Engineering Group
Ms. Pat Poon is the Human Resources Director of ATAL Engineering Group. Being the head of Human Resources of the Group, which is a leading E&M engineering service provider listed in Hong Kong with operations in different geographic areas globally, she spearheads the overall talent management strategies and leads a professional HR team to deliver the HR excellence and innovative initiatives to support the Group’s business development.
Pat holds a Master of Management in People and Performance from the Macquarie University of Australia and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London. She has a wealth of regional HR experience gained from Engineering, FMCG and Manufacturing industries, etc. She is now an Executive Committee of the Hong Kong People Management Association as well as a professional member of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management.
Ms. Carrie Leung, MH Chief Executive Officer The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers
As the Chief Executive Officer of The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB), Ms. Leung is responsible for driving the ongoing development of competency and professional standards among local banking practitioners.
Prior to joining HKIB, Ms. Leung was Head of Service Quality and Training at one of the note-issuing banks where she acquired extensive experience in building and managing “total quality excellence”. Under her leadership, the bank obtained several highly-regarded industry awards for the quality of its training and customer service.
Ms. Leung also actively participates in the development of Hong Kong Banking Qualifications Framework (QF) which sets the professional standards for industry competency amongst the local banking practitioners.
In addition, Ms. Leung is extensively involved in the education and human capital development of the banking and financial industry in Hong Kong and is a member of numerous committees organised by different government departments and public organisations including the Council of Lingnan University. Of the particular notes, she was appointed as the Council Member of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ).
Ms. Leung was one of the recipients of the Most Extraordinary Women in Finance Award 2009 from Benchmark Magazine and awarded with the Medal of Honour (MH) by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2018.
Ms. Tina Au-Yeung Group Chief Human Resources Officer Emperor Group
Ms. Tina Au-Yeung is the Group Chief Human Resources Officer of Emperor Group, a local conglomerate with eight different businesses and 6 individually listed companies. Ms. Au-Yeung had spearheaded the organizational development, leadership development and long-range human capital planning initiatives in her career.
Ms. Au-Yeung holds a Master and a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration.
Enrollment Details & Timeline
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Starting from TODAY
Stage 1/ Nomination Organisations & individuals to recognise the best HR practitioners by submitting one or more nominations.
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21 October 2022
Stage 2/ Submission All nominated parties will be required to provide a proposal that demonstrates how they fulfil the criteria.
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1-25 December 2022
Stage 3/ Scoring A judging panel comprises of HR directors & industry leaders will review the submissions for scoring. 30% of the final results will be determined by public voting
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Late-December 2022
Stage 4/ Result Announcement Submissions with the top scores in each category will win.
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17 February 2023
Stage 5/ Awards Ceremony All winners will be announced & celebrated at the highly anticipated gala dinner.
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March-April 2023
Stage 6/ Post-event Highlights Through-the-line publicity plan will be carried out in order to arouse public awareness.
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