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People Matters and Keka SME HR Awards 2023

 

Human Resources have gone through a seachange in functionality and their role in managing employees, fostering company culture, and ensuring compliance. With the rise of emerging businesses and rapidly evolving work dynamics, HR today is standing at the cusp of a bigger breakthrough.

This breakthrough entails recognising and rewarding the power and potential that emerging businesses bring to the table. By embracing new approaches, technologies, and strategies, HR professionals can drive innovation, attract top talent, and propel organisational growth in an increasingly competitive business landscape.

Conceptualised with the objective of identifying emerging leaders from small and medium enterprises, the People Matters and Keka SME HR Awards 2023 will celebrate the unsung HR heroes that have showcased resilience and agility during challenging times, and helped their organisations turn the tide with their future thinking and innovative approach.

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What Makes It So Compelling?

The People Matters and Keka SME HR Awards are unique in their concept and are driven by passion for innovation. The Awards will have a three-pronged process starting with online registrations for the nominations, to assess and review the initiatives and practices followed at the organisation.

On approval of the submitted application, the Jury will judge the nominations based on the impact and scalability of the initiative implemented. The initiative or the program highlighted in the application should have been implemented in the last 18 months.

The 5-member jury panel will evaluate the filtered applications and choose the top 5 emerging leaders with the most innovative and impactful HR Tech programs for the year 2023-24.

 

Why Should You Participate?

People Matters in association with Keka will host the SME Awards across regions to honour young businesses for their efforts and achievements in empowering their HR to become thought leaders in the growing segment in India, forging strong partnerships with business leaders.

If you are an emerging organisation in the SME & MSME space and have some impactful people's practices, People Matters and Keka SME HR Awards 2023 is the right platform to showcase your best practices.

 

Eligibility Criteria

Here are four criteria that you should fulfill before applying to the awards:

Should be working in an HR role at the time of application

Must be employed with an Organization with employee size ranging from 250-5000 only

The initiative or program highlighted in the application should have been implemented in the last 18 months.

Application Process


Stage 1
Stage 1

1A (Online Application)
20th June - 15th Aug
Candidates register online by submitting their details and by following the online application process.

Stage 2
Stage 1

1B (Initiative Submission)
20th June - 15th Aug
Candidates to detail out the initiative and the impact of their programs in SMART format

Stage 3
Stage 3

Jury Assessment
16th Aug – 30th Sept
A 5 member Jury to evaluate the applications and shortlist best entries

Stage 4
Stage 3

Video Interviews

The shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a one on one video interview with our jury members on pre-determined questions to assess whether the applicants display the required competencies.

Stage 5
Stage 5

Awards Ceremony
October/November/December
The selected Top Emerging HR Leaders will be recognized at a formal event in the presence of HR veterans at 3 different locations across the country.

SME HR Awards Jury 2023

 

Here is the eminent jury comprising of leading CXOs of progressive businesses who will help us identify the Emerging Future HR Leaders:

 

  • Shalu Manan +

    Shalu Manan

    Global Talent Supply Chain Leader at Genpact,

  • RAJESH LELE +

    RAJESH LELE

    Consultant - Employee Experience at Piramal Enterprises Limited,

  • Debashree Lad +

    Debashree Lad

    Chief People Officer at CredAble,

  • Anurag Verma +

    Anurag Verma

    Vice President - Human Resources at Uniphore,

  • Yogi Sriram +

    Yogi Sriram

    Consultant to CEO & MD at L&T Group HR,

  • Yuvaraj Srivastava +

    Yuvaraj Srivastava

    CHRO at MakeMyTrip,