HPW System: Assessing Performance and Collaborative Working

This report examines high-performance work systems (HPW) and their application in organizations. It delves into the benefits of implementing HPW, focusing on employee empowerment, engagement, and the enhancement of skills. The report analyzes various approaches to performance management, including collaborative, behavioral, quality, and comparative methods, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each. It also explores how HPW can improve employee satisfaction and organizational performance. The document references several academic sources to support its findings and provide a comprehensive understanding of HPW.

Developing Individuals, Team and
Organizations

Presenting key elements of HPW system along
with the examples
HPW (high performance working) is undertaken by the business units in the recent times
with a motive to increase employee empowerment, knowledge and skills. Hightown can
ensure better employee involvement, commitment and empowerment by taking into
account HPW system. By using this, Hightown can evolve job satisfaction among
personnel and thereby productivity.

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Key elements which can be undertaken by Hightown for ensuring high performance
working aspects in an organization includes following:

Assessing the benefits of applying HPW
practices in relation to improving Hightown’s
performance
Hightown can capitalize following benefits by applying HPW system within the firm:

Evaluating different approaches pertaining to
performance management
There are numerous approaches which can be employed by Hightown for performance
measurement and management. Such approaches are enumerated below:

CONTD…
Collaborative working
Advantages
Helps in creating friendly surroundings
Motivates personnel
encourage multi-disciplinary work
Disadvantages
Ambiguity in roles and responsibility
Conflicts within the group creates difficulty s

CONTD…
Behavioral approach
Advantages
Facilitates work commitment and completion as per goals
 Helps in observing behavior of personnel
Disadvantages
Time consuming process
 Observation of employee behavior is difficult

CONTD…
Quality approach
Advantages
Helps in achieving organizational goals
 It helps in evolving high level of satisfaction among the customers
Disadvantages
Assessment of quality aspect is time consuming
Need the team of skilled workforce

CONTD…
Comparative approach
Advantages
Helps in assessing deviations timely
Give indication in relation to doing modifications in the existing strategic framework
Disadvantages
setting of unrealistic standards may result into higher deviations
Training session imposes cost in front of company

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