The 50 companies determined to be most admired in the following four categories of HR-related attributes: People Management, Innovation, Product/Service Quality and Management Quality. Korn Ferry uses Fortune‘s “Most Admired Companies” database to perform the analysis.

Every year, HR Executive spotlights 100 professionals who are making a real difference in how the world works and how technology supports it. Meet our picks for the people making big changes today.

Awards that recognize the HR technology products believed to represent the very best of what vendors introduced to the market during the past 12 months.

HR professionals near the top of their organization’s human resource function who have demonstrated leadership, the ability to successfully launch significant HR initiatives and programs, and the ability to tackle major HR-related challenges.