• Singapore@aps@s first international school to win the prestigious award
• GIIS bags its 27th award, this time for excellence in Human Resources at the London Global Convention 2013 that incorporated the 13th International Conference on Corporate Governance & Sustainability
• Globally-reputed organisations honoured at the award ceremony. These included Credit Suisse Group AG (Switzerland), Campbell Soup Company (USA), Time Warner Inc. (USA) and Iberdrola S.A. (Spain)  for ‘Excellence in Corporate Governance’, and Volkswagen AG (Germany), The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (UK) and MasterCard (USA) for ‘Sustainability’

Winner of twenty six international and national awards for Excellence in School Education, Global Indian International School (GIIS) in Singapore added the prestigious international ‘Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award’ for the year 2013 by the Institute Of Directors (IOD), India into its list of awards.

On October 2, 2013, The Rt. Hon. Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Government of United Kingdom, presented the award to Mr Atul Temurnikar, Co-Founder and Chairman, Global Schools Foundation at a specially organised @aps@Golden Peacock Awards Nite@aps@ at the Tower Hotel in London, in the august presence of business leaders, jurists, academics, environmentalists, economists, legislators and policy makers.

The award recognises leading organisations and practitioners in driving impactful human capital strategies. It also highlights the quality of work and the impact that GIIS has had in the field of education as a result of its commendable Human Resource and people management practice.

“The Golden Peacock Award not only recognises the best practices in our management of Human Resources, it also strengthens our commitment to supplement the skills knowledge of teachers and administrative team members at GIIS.  Our healthy working environment and culture has motivated our vital stakeholders like staff and teachers to strive for the best results, thus contributing positively to the overall performance of the organisation,” said Mr Temurnikar.

Mr Kaustubh Bodhankar, Deputy CEO, Global Schools Foundation; Mr Rajiv Vasudeva, Country Director (Singapore), GIIS; Mr BG Shenoy, Director, Global Centre for Education Excellence; Ms Deepti Bhanot, Manager, Human Resources, GIIS; and Commander Bharat Unercat, Director Infrastructure, GSF, were also present to receive the award with Mr Temurnikar.

Furthermore, organisations like General Motors India Pvt Ltd, JK Tyres, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd amongst various other premier organisations, were adjudged as Global HR Excellence Award winners, in their respective sectors.

Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award is bestowed upon organisations that have achieved overall excellence in their HR and people management practices, thus contributing to the needs of business, the profession, employees, industry and the nation. The Award serves to confer distinct recognition on organisations and HR professionals as an employer and employee champion to bring out the best through sound and commendable HR and people management practices. Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award recognises leading organisations and practitioners in the drive for impactful human capital strategies.

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