Twenty-Five Organizations Receive the Fourth Annual Gallup Great Workplace Award

Winners to be honored at Gallup Summit 2010

WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gallup proudly announces the following 25 distinguished organizations will receive the 2010 Gallup Great Workplace Award at a gala during the Gallup Summit 2010, April 27-29. Based on the most rigorous workplace research ever conducted, the award honors organizations whose employee engagement results demonstrate they have the most productive and engaged workforces in the world.

This year's Gallup Great Workplace Award winners span the globe and represent all facets of business from healthcare to hospitality, retail to manufacturing, and banks to insurance. Six elite organizations will receive the award for the fourth time, while four companies will become three-time award winners, and four will be two-time winners. Eleven organizations will be first-time recipients of the award, which is in its 4th year of existence.

The 2010 Gallup Great Workplace Award recipients are:

ABC Supply Co., Inc (four-time winner)

Alexian Brothers Hospital Network (two-time winner)

ASB Bank (three-time winner)

Atlantica Hotels International (two-time winner)

Bharti Airtel Limited (three-time winner)

Bon Secours Richmond Health System

B&Q (four-time winner)

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Cable & Wireless Panama (two-time winner)

Campbell Soup Company (four-time winner)

Eisenhower Medical Center

HealthEast Care System

Hendrick Health System (four-time winner)

Indian Hotels Company Limited

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

Novo Nordisk, Product Supply A/S

Parrish Medical Center

PNC Bank (two-time winner)

Self Regional Healthcare (three-time winner)

Sisters of Mercy Health Systems

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong three-time winner; Kenya, Thailand, and Korea)

Stryker (four-time winner)

Transitions Optical, Inc.

Vanguard Health Systems

Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. (four-time winner)

"Engagement is about business outcomes, and much more. Our research clearly shows that engagement links to many aspects of wellbeing, including how people evaluate their overall lives and experience their days," says James K. Harter, Ph.D., Gallup's chief scientist of workplace management and well being and coauthor of 12: The Elements of Great Managing. "It is an honor to recognize these organizations that have vigorously worked to achieve very high levels of employee engagement, which means, even during difficult economic times, they are improving lives while they improve their organization's performance."

The Gallup Great Workplace Award is based on multiple criteria, including response rates, overall engagement levels, and evidence of engagement impact on performance. Gallup compares applicants' results across its renowned workplace research database composed of millions of work teams in more than 150 countries. A panel of workplace experts reviews each organization's portfolio, which includes quantitative and qualitative components.

Gallup will present the awards to the winning organizations at a sold out Gallup Summit 2010, which will take place April 27-29, 2010, in Omaha, Nebraska. During the summit, Gallup Great Workplace Award winners will present the best practices they applied to their workplaces and discuss the improved business results they achieved through building an engaged workforce.

More information about the award and the summit can be found at:

http://www.gallup.com/consulting/25312/Gallup-Great- Workplace-Award.aspx

About Gallup

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