High Performance Work Cultures: Examples, Characteristics and Impact

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of high-performance work cultures. It begins by defining the concept and highlighting its importance in achieving organizational goals. The presentation then delves into real-world examples of companies, such as Zappos and Google, that successfully implement high-performance work cultures. It identifies four key characteristics: strong leaders, continuous learning and employee development, empowered and engaged employees, and openness to change. The presentation further examines the impact of high-performance work cultures on organizational culture and staff development procedures, emphasizing how these cultures motivate the workforce, foster open communication, and encourage collaborative working. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and emphasizing the positive and potentially negative impacts on overall organizational performance. The presentation includes references to academic sources to support the information presented.

HIGH PERFORMANCE
WORK CULTURES

INTRODUCTION
 High performance work culture can be said to be a virtual or physical environment
which is developed for making the workers effective to the most extent as possible
from the point of view of supporting the business in achieving its goals.
 The following power point takes into account the examples of companies which
demonstrate the application of high performance working culture in the company.

CONCEPT OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE
 High performance work culture can be defined
as the process or working strategy in which an
organisation or the employees working within its
confines are pushed to achieve superior results.
 This renders assistance to an organisation in
achieving the desired results as expected by the
management of the company.

CONTINUE…
 High performance work culture can be said to be concept which emphasizes
upon the realisation of organisational goals and objectives as expected by virtue
of driving the behavioural patterns and characteristics of the workers.

EXAMPLES OF COMPANIES APPLYING HIGH
PERFORMANCE WORK CULTURE
The examples of some of the renowned
companies that apply high
performance working culture within
the organisational premises are
Zappos, Google, Bento, Blackbaud,
Paxos, Reonomy, SecureLink, Blue
Core, CB Insights, Gtreasury,
Nerdery etc.

CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH
PERFORMANCE WORK CULTURE
There are four main characteristics of high performance work culture named
strong leaders, continuous learning & employee development, empowered &
engaged employees and openness to change.

CONTINUE…
 Strong leaders: Within the domain of a high
performance work culture, leader tends to drive the
accomplishment of a goal by motivating the
workforce in an effective manner in the right
direction.
 Continuous learning & employee development:
High performance cultures tend to realise that
employees are required to emphasize upon the
continual upgrade of their skill set and competences.

CONTINUE…
 Empowered & engaged employees: High performance
work culture tends to consist of the personnel who hold
the ability as well as the competence to take key
decisions and take the responsibility of such decisions
resulting into the enhanced engagement.
 Openness to change: The individuals pertinent to high
performance culture tend to approach change in the form
of an opportunity instead of only a hurdle to be tackled.

IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROCEDURES
 High performance working culture hold the capacity to reinforce the
organizational culture by virtue of motivating the workforce and stimulating
the behavioral patterns as well as attitudes.
 It will also facilitate open communication and tend to foster an atmosphere
whereby collaborative working is encouraged in the organizational premises.
 In addition to this, it has been identified that high performance working culture
leads to development as well as growth of staff.

CONCLUSION
 From the above discussion done in PPT, it can be concluded that high
performance culture refers to set of norms and behavior that leads organization to
attain the best probable results.
 It is analyzed that the high performance work culture tends to depict the way in
which employees behave while dealing with different situations.
 This creates a both affirmative and pessimistic impact on the overall performance
of the organization.

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