Importance of High Performance Working for Fat Duck Restaurant

Developing Teams and
Organizations

Introduction
High performance working is primarily the method as well as holistic approach which
mainly focuses upon increasing the commitment and enthusiasm of employees for achieving
high level of excellence. The main aim of this ppt is to understand the importance of HPW for
fat duck restaurant to gain the competitive advantage. The fat duck restaurant is primarily the
restaurant chain being established in 1995 and headquartered in Berkshire, UK.

Understanding of HPW in employee
engagement and competitive advantage
• Concept of HPW
HPW is basically high performance working and is described as the general approach
for managing the organizations where its main aim is to facilitate and stimulate effective employee
engagement as well as commitment for achieving high performance. In short, HPW is predominately the
approach as well as framework which are being used by organizations for increasing the enthusiasm as
well as commitment towards their work in order to increase their overall performance. High performance
working has recently gained a great attention from the human resource managers in large number of
organizations and thus has been implemented by them in order to increase the productivity and motivation
of the employees. This is mainly considered as the corrective measure as most of the other tools like TQM,
just in time etc can only be functioned better when the people of organizations are actually fit for the
specific requirements. HPW initially emerged as the concept where the main purpose was to raise the skills
of employees and increasing the productivity of employees.

Cont...
HPW will not only help the Fat Duck restaurant to achieve competitive advantage but will also
help them in increasing the employee engagement. When restaurant and its HR department will use the
best practices for appreciating their employees and increasing their motivational level then this will in turn
increase their satisfaction level. When employees will be satisfied from the organization then this will lead
to high employee engagement in decision-making process.
• How HPW can be applied within organization
The Fat Duck restaurant can apply the HPW within its restaurant by using various practices as well as
strategies.
• Providing rewards
This is the best method of applying HPW within the organization which this restaurant can use in
order to increase employee engagement. For example- when The fat duck restaurant will appraise the work
of their employees and will provide rewards and compensation benefits to them then this will eventually
lead to high commitment of employees towards their work.