2008 Optimas Award Winners Announced
Ten organizations, including a not-for-profit HMO, a global IT firm and the world’s largest steel maker, are the winners of the 2008 Optimas Awards, given by Workforce Management in recognition of workforce management initiatives that directly affect business results.
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September 3, 2008
2008 Optimas Award Winners Announced
Ten organizations, including a not-for-profit health maintenance organization,
an India-based global IT services company and the largest steel company in the
world, have been selected as the winners of the 2008 Optimas Awards, given by
Workforce Management in recognition of workforce management initiatives that
directly affect business results.
This year’s winner in the General
Excellence category is Crouse Hospital
in Syracuse, New York, which was featured in a Workforce Management magazine
cover story in March 2008. The hospital pulled itself out of bankruptcy and has
established itself as a leader in medical services in a highly competitive
regional market by using its reorganization not only to fix its finances but
also to reinvent its corporate culture. The General Excellence award is given to
the organization whose workforce management initiatives have met the standards
established for at least six of the other nine Optimas categories.
This is
the 18th year for the Optimas Awards. Past winners have included organizations
of every kind—global public companies, city governments, federal and state
agencies, not-for-profits and small family-owned enterprises.
Themes emerge in
each year’s judging, and one thing that the 2008 winners have in common is an
ability to roll with the punches, whether they’re thrown by a difficult economy,
globalization, rapidly changing workforce demographics or even something as
fundamental as the need to reinvent how work is done.
The winners have faced a
variety of business challenges and answered them with creative solutions that
have one thing in common: a belief that the organization with the best workforce
wins.
Click here
for the list of the 2008 Optimas Award winners. Their full stories will be
featured in the October 20 issue of Workforce Management magazine.
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