The Australian HR Awards are the leading event for recognizing excellence in Australia’s human resources profession and provide the opportunity for individuals, teams and organizations to vie for the national awards that recognize outstanding contributions to HR and people management and to identify the setting of best practice and world-class benchmarks within the profession.

Developed in conjunction with leading academics and professionals from the HR industry the awards are based on a rigorous judging methodology and this year generated an unprecedented level of interest from HR professionals from around the country with finalists including companies such as Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, DHL Worldwide and Fone Zone.

As well as Dean of the Division, Ed Davis is a leading international scholar in the field of industrial relations and since 1987 has been Director of the Labour Management Studies Foundation. He is joined on the Board by senior industry leaders and consultants, union officials and academics to foster and contribute to a higher level of understanding of industrial relations and human resource management issues through research and public discussion.

The judges were high is praise of the contribution that Ed has made to Human Resource Management:

“ Ed Davis has focused on the management of people at work for the past 30 years. His driving interest has been the links to people’s enjoyment of rights at work, their sense of job satisfaction and work-life balance, and workplace performance. He has demonstrated integrity and courage in his efforts to improve the profession through his many and varied teaching posts, and raised the profile of HR in a constructive way through developing a number of programs to raise awareness of key HR issues and improve managerial practice. Ed has received numerous accolades for his tireless work in improving the HR profession at a number of levels and actively sought opportunities to lift organisational awareness of HR and improve outcomes. He is to be congratulated on his dedication to bridging the gap between the familiar rhetoric about people management and the experience for many at work .”

Given that the “quality of the candidates in all categories was truly outstanding” it is a credit to Ed’s knowledge, vitality and passion in researching and promoting the importance of key HR issues and practice that he has been recognized with this prestigious national award.