The Fons Trompenaars Award for Cross Cultural Management

Recognising outstanding people management initiatives/strategies in the management of a multicultural workplace and/or managing employees across borders.

About Fons Trompenaars
World authority on cross cultural management, Fons Trompenaars is the Managing Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner.

Criteria
All applications for the people management initiative categories must address the following five criteria:

1. Innovation: The initiative is based on/incorporates a new approach to addressing the specific challenge the organisation is facing
2. Impact: The initiative has made a significant impact as its intention on the challenge faced by the organisation and/or business outcomes.
3. Outcomes: The initiative has achieved or exceeded its objectives
4. Sustainable: The outcomes achieved are sustainable and/or replicable
5. Community: The outcomes of the initiative provide benefit outside of the organisation and can be used to educate others.

Applicants for this award must also demonstrate the following:

1. Leadership: the initiative incorporated leadership that enables other people to perform better in a diverse and inclusive environment.
2. Inclusion: the initiative contributes to ensuring employees feel they belong, are engaged and connected through their work to the goals and objectives of the organisation.
3. Diversity: the initiative incorporates communication and learning strategies to address and manage diversity of the workforce.

Applications for the 2009 awards have now closed.