HR Awards - Submit a survey

Expatica HR invites you to submit your survey for consideration in the 2011/2012 Expatica Top 5 Industry Survey Awards. The award recognises excellence in HR surveys which demonstrate continuing relevance to the HR profession, cutting edge findings, and rigorous survey methodologies. It strives to become an industry benchmark for achieving excellence in what is an increasingly challenging profession.

This award provides an opportunity for organisations to come together to share their survey findings, and to recognise and celebrate industry surveys as a significant tool within the HR profession. Developed in conjunction with leading academics and professionals from the HR industry, the award uses a two-tier selection and judging process which requires entrants to meet a set of essential and desirable judging criteria in each award category.

Nominations for the 2011/2012 Expatica Top 5 Industry Survey Awards are now open. If you belong to an organisation, or know of an organisation, that has recently released an industry survey; don't let that achievement go unrewarded.

How to enter

The submitted surveys should have been published by 30 June 2012. Any surveys published after this date up until June 2013, will be eligible for our 2012/2013 awards. The awards recognise excellence across the entire HR spectrum including, but not limited to, international HRM, international management, compensation, policy and practices, technology, training, measurement, and talent management. Nominations will be assessed against a set of essential and desirable criteria. This approach allows for flexibility in recognising innovation and creativity, whilst also maintaining rigorous standards that match quantitative evidence with business focus in order to validate qualitative claims.

Organisations may enter as many surveys as they wish, providing each survey falls within the domain of the HR profession. Nominations are first passed on to a five-member international short-listing panel, including three international HR academics, two international HR practitioners, and the editor of Expatica HR. This panel is responsible for examining each submission, and short listing candidates based on a set number of essential and desirable criteria. A final judging panel, consisting of an international HR academic and the editor of Expatica HR, will select the top five surveys, based upon the same essential and desirable criteria, and in consultation with members of the short-listing panel.

To register your submission, submit one survey per email (with the survey attached as a PDF file) to survey.submissions@expatica.com with the following information in the text of the email:

Name of Survey
Organisation Name
Contact Person
Job Title
Address
Direct telephone number
Email

Please submit your entry by 1 November 2012.

[Late submissions may still be considered. Please contact Natasha Gunn at natasha.gunn@expatica.com to see if you can still be included in the reviewing process.]

Essential and desirable criteria

Each survey will be assessed against the following criteria:

1.   Findings: Does the survey contribute new findings on a topic of interest to HR professionals? Is the survey based on a current ‘hot topic' in HR? Are the survey findings novel or unique, cutting edge, and/or representative of findings that are under-researched or undeveloped? Do the findings build on previous survey findings in an effort to contribute towards an understanding of growing trends within the HR profession?

2.   Methodology: Does the survey use a rigorous methodology? Is the sample large enough to be representative of the general population? Is the method of data collection (e.g. interviews, questionnaires) appropriate for the topic being investigated? Is the sample appropriate for the topic being investigated? Is methodological information easy to find and clearly articulated?

3.   Readability: Is the survey easy to read and digest? Does the design and layout lend itself to a ‘quick read' or for use as a reference guide? Are page numbers, table of contents, and indexes available and accurate?

4.   Quality of the data: Does the survey provide data that is of value to HR professionals? Can qualitative data be verified with quantitative evidence? Does it satisfy the ‘so-what?' question in terms of investigating a topic of relevance to the profession? Are the findings of more than trivial value?

5.   Willingness to have data scrutinised: Is the submitting organisation willing to answer questions from the judging panel regarding verification of the survey data? Note: if submitting organisations are not willing to answer questions about a particular survey, then that survey will not make the shortlist. Note: Scrutiny of the survey data is unlikely to be necessary if a submission satisfies the above criteria.