The HR Executive of the Year and HR Honor Roll awards recognize leaders who have made outstanding contributions to their organizations and who exemplify the increasingly strategic role in HR in business today.

A chart that indicates the rank order and scores of 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.

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.