HR Leaders at Safeway, Texas Health Resources, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and Universal Weather and Aviation Named to Honor Roll
HORSHAM, PA--(Marketwire - Oct 3, 2012) - Human Resource Executive®, the leading HR business magazine, named Mara Swan, executive vice president of global strategy and talent for ManpowerGroup, its 2012 HR Executive of the Year.
In addition, the magazine named to its 2012 HR Honor Roll Russ Jackson, senior vice president of human resources for Safeway; Michelle Kirby, senior vice president and chief HR officer for Texas Health Resources; Janice K. Bultema, senior vice president of human resources for University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics; and Steven Ginsburgh, senior vice president of human resources and workforce development for Universal Weather and Aviation Inc.
Winners will be recognized on Oct. 9 during a special awards dinner sponsored by Monster at the University Club of Chicago.
"The HR Executive of the Year award recognizes human resource leaders who have made outstanding contributions to their organizations and who exemplify the increasingly strategic role of HR in business today," says David Shadovitz, editor of Human Resource Executive®.
Mara Swan has had a huge impact on ManpowerGroup since joining the corporation seven years ago. Among other things, she has been instrumental in the launch of:
In a story appearing in the Oct. 2 edition of Human Resource Executive®, ManpowerGroup's chairman and CEO Jeffrey Joerres compares Swan to "one of those special hitters in baseball, guys like Ted Williams, who can see the spin of the ball and can take it to left or right field. She can clearly see the pitch, read the pitch and know where to hit the pitch."
The four executives named to the 2012 HR Honor Roll were recognized, among other things, for the following contributions and achievements:
Judges for this year's contest were Dennis Donovan, vice chairman of Cerberus Operations & Advisory Co., and HRE's 2003 HR Executive of the Year; Fred Foulkes, director of the Human Resource Policy Institute and professor of management policy at the Boston University School of Management; Dr. Jac Fitz-enz, president of the Human Capital Source; Susan Meisinger, author, speaker and consultant on human resources and former president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management; and Human Resource Executive® Editor David Shadovitz.
The judges based their selections on the following criteria: the candidate's ability to handle significant problems or obstacles in the human resource field, the candidate's role and/or success in establishing the human resource function as an integral part of his or her organization, the candidate's management skills as demonstrated within the human resource function and his or her contributions to the HR profession as a whole.
The 2012 HR Executive of the Year and HR Honor Roll winners are profiled in the Oct. 2 issue of Human Resource Executive®, which has a circulation of more than 75,000 HR vice presidents and directors. It is published by LRP Publications and is based in Horsham, Pa. On the Web, it can be found at www.HREOnline.com.