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Who?

Since 2009, The WorkStyle Magazine has made its mission to be present at the epicenter of changes in our work-related culture, to explore new frontiers, and to report back to its growing readership – averaging 80’000 plus per issue between Top Managers, HR Directors, Strategic and Organizational Consultants, Head Hunters, and Academics – through the pages of an engaging, stylistically rich publication.

What?

Now, in 2012, The WorkStyle Magazine launches the first edition of Best Work Style, a yearly award that will be presented to companies whose activity and conception of the workplace best reflect the Work Style spirit.

Best Work Style is a journalistic award: its goal is to give visibility to remarkable efforts, draw attention to fresh approaches and innovations, and illuminate new possibilities; participation is 100% free of charge.

Why?

Best Work Style is an unique initiative that puts to the foreground a new conception of excellence, based on five carefully balanced criteria: identity, emotion, architecture, environment, and organization. These have been developed by the magazine during its editorial journey and sharpened thanks to Milan’s 2011 Workstyle Talking – an event that has seen the participation of over 150 professionals from a wide range of fields.

When?

Staring February 2012, candidates will be asked to fill a questionnaire focusing on the five Work Style criteria. A jury of experts will select a winner, as well as one distinguished company for each of the criteria. December’s issue of the magazine will feature extensive coverage of the award, as well as focus articles about the winners.

Join us and take part in the 2013 Award

Would you like to be one of 2013’s "Best Work Style" companies?

To participate, fill our questionnaire and submit it to us before October 1, 2012. Here is how to proceed:

15 questions

The questionnaire is composed of fifteen questions, divided in five categories (corresponding to the five Best Work Style criteria). Please answer concisely, but do not hesitate to offer concrete examples.

A picture is worth a thousand words

For each category, we ask to illustrate one of your answer with a photograph. This is not an absolute requirement, but we encourage participants to use this opportunity to tell us more about who they are and what their “work style” looks like.

How to submit your answers

You have two options:

You can answer to the questions directly in this Word document, and submit it, along with the photographs, to award@theworkstylemagazine.com; please include your company’s name in the subject line.
If you prefer you can also fill in the online questionnaire (below). Please remember to send the photographs in a single e-mail to award@theworkstylemagazine.com; please include your company’s name in the subject line.

Submissions deadline

The deadline for all submissions is October, 2012.

Contact person @ Work Style Magazine: Katherine Olson katherine@theworkstylemagazine.com

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Dimension Identity

Each employee brings his own identity to work, where it must co-exist with that of her/his colleagues. At the same time, companies/brands possess their own, complex identities, which define their relationship with the general public, but also with its partners and its employees.

1. In which ways are your employees’ personal identities expressed in your workplace? Please give one concrete example.

2. How is your outer company/brand identity reflected in your workplace?

Send us a photograph that illustrates your answer to one of the two questions above (indicate which).

3. What do you think connects your employees’ identities with your company/brand identity? How does your workplace reflect this connection?

Dimension Emotion

Emotions are the driving forces behind human activity and behavior. Few office walls are capable of keeping out feelings carried in from the outside, and at the same time, the workplace is one of the most intense generators of emotions.

4. Is your workplace conceived in a way that it may reduce the risk of negative emotions, or favor the prompt dealing with them?

Send us a photograph that illustrates your answer.

5. How does your company promote employee engagement?

6. Name two positive emotions that new employees may feel during their first days in your company. What aspects of your workplace/organization are responsible for them?

Dimension Architecture

We are continuously re-thinking the workspace in order to adapt it to company philosophy, the type of work that is being done, employees’ well being, new technologies, productivity needs, etc. With so many issues at stake, achieving a balance can be delicate.

7. How do your workplace’s space and architecture relate to your company/brand identity? How does it relate to hierarchy?

8. What is the central concept behind your workplace’s space and architecture?

9. What is the most innovative/original feature of your workplace?

Send us a photograph that illustrates your answer to one questions of your choice (indicate which).

Dimension Environment

Companies are the key players in the struggle to re-establish a sustainable relationship with environment, and their attitude has direct repercussions on their image and identity. The workplace can, both symbolically and through concrete initiatives, reflect environmental commitment

10. In which ways is your company conscious of environmental issues? How is this reflected on your workplace?

11. How does your company and your workplace relate to the environment on a global level or/and on a regional level?

12. What is the most significant/innovative “green initiative” that has been incorporated in your workplace?

Send us a photograph that illustrates the answer to one question of your choice (indicate which).

Dimension Organization

Organization is the glue that connects all the previous criteria, and creates the premises for a productive, pleasant, and efficient work atmosphere.

13. In which ways can organization in your company/workplace be defined as original or innovative?

14. What is the relationship between space and organization in your workplace?

Send us a photograph that illustrates your answer to one of the two questions above (indicate which).

15. Define the main philosophy behind your company’s concept of organization.

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