HR Works wins Rochester Business Ethics Award
HR Works Inc. has been named the recipient of the 2005 Rochester Business Ethics Award within the small company (less than 250 employees) category.
HR Works was chosen to receive the award from among 89 nominated companies and 13 finalists, while the engineering firm Erdman Anthony & Associates was the recipient of the large-company award. Both will be eligible for next year’s National Business Ethics Award.
The local awards, sponsored by the local Society of Financial Service Professionals, St. John Fisher College and the Rochester Business Alliance, were presented at a Sept. 22 luncheon at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York State, was the keynote speaker.
Finalists in the local competition were required to document a number of factors, including:
- The company’s executive commitment to ethics in communications.
- A code of ethics.
- A mechanism for airing and resolving concerns brought by employees, customers and others.
- Specific examples where the finalist demonstrated ethics in action.
Two of last year's recipients also were lauded at the luncheon for distinguishing themselves at the national level. PAETEC Corp. won the large-company American Business Ethics Award from the Society of Financial Service Professionals, and QED Technologies won an honorable mention in the small-business category.
