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2008 Optimas Award Winners Announced
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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 has 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 has judging, and one thing that the 2008 winners have in common is an ability to roll with the punches, whether they a`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.
This year has 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 has judging, and one thing that the 2008 winners have in common is an ability to roll with the punches, whether they a`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.
