As it did last year, Human Resource Executive^® has collaborated with analysts at The Hay Group in Philadelphia to construct a customized ranking of suitable candidates from Fortune's annual hierarchy of Most Admired Companies.

This year, with a focus by HRE on global corporations, the survey data underlying Fortune's "The World's Most Admired Companies" was adapted to generate a more rarified ranking of large companies based on two criteria: their reputations based on HR-oriented success criteria, including "people management" and "management quality," and their "effectiveness in conducting business globally."

This is a further breakdown of the individual attributes that underpin the special HRE re-ranking of Fortune's Most Admired Companies focusing on those companies scoring highest for global and HR operations.