Developing Individuals, Teams, and Organizations: HPW Systems Report

This report analyzes high-performing work systems (HPWS) and their impact on individual, team, and organizational development, using Hightown Housing Association as a case study. The report defines HPWS, detailing its role in strategy development, competitive advantage, and employee relations. It outlines the characteristics of a HPWS organization and the benefits it provides, such as increased employee engagement and motivation. The report also explores various performance management approaches suitable for Hightown Housing Association, including ranking methods, 360-degree feedback, and collaborative working. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of skill development and HPWS for organizational success, highlighting the positive impact on employee engagement and competitive positioning.

Developing individuals, teams
and organizations

Table of Content
Introduction
What is HPW?
HPW develop and support strategy development, competitive
edge and enhance employee relations
Characteristics of HPW organization
Benefits of HPW
Various approaches of performance management
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Development is refers to the process or a phenomena used by individuals and organizations for improving and enhancing their
abilities personality and skills. Development is an ongoing process in a life of an individual and foreign organisation as change
and development moves in a line and therefore it's important for individuals, teams and organisation to develop for better for
keeping up with the aggressively changing environment. The report consist a analysis of individual team and organisational
development in relation with selected company known as Hightown housing association. The height on housing association
was founded in in 1968 by Ken Loach. The height on housing association gradually became a leading regional provider of
affordable housing and support managing over thousands of properties and 100 of care and supported housing services.

What is HPW?
The HPWS is the short form of high performing work system and that is an element which is useful for gaining
knowledge about the effectiveness of employees who are associated and linked with the actions of Hightown housing
association in relation with achievement of different strategic business goals and leading towards achievement of
competitive edge within the business environment among other competitors. The high performing workforce plays a
very important part or role providing several benefits to the organisation that allow it to gain flexibility and easily
achieved their respective targets such as sales volume and profitability that it will help the Hightown housing
association in maintaining healthy working condition for the employees and personnel’s associated.

HPW develop and support strategy development,
competitive edge and enhance employee relations
The high performing workforce systems are very helpful and appropriate allowing the Hightown housing association to generate healthy
relation with the employee base that are associated with the company and are useful in increasing the employee engagement in relation
with enhancement in sales and profitability of the entity. The high performance working system develops and support strategy
development, competitive edge and enhance employee relation as it allows the top level management to manage and balance the working
conditions and activities of the company in the most effective and efficient manner supporting all the three objectives of the systems. The
high performing workforce systems encourages employee engagement that automatically improve the motivation level of individuals
working in the company enabling them to contribute their part creative plans development and their implications in the unique manner for
company to attain the respective sales and profit targets. The increasing employee engagement in the operations of the organisation and
there improve the motivation level automatically affects their performance and productivity have the most potential impact on the
operations of the respective entity allowing it to be productive and competitive in the marketplace by gaining unique higher position from
others.

Characteristics of HPW organization
Some of the very specific and appropriate characteristics of high performance work system are as follows:
 The system allows the form to interlink their selection and promotional decisions for validating use of competency
models that will benefit the organisation in the most prominent and positive manner.
 The system enacts the compensation and performance management policies that attracts and retain the most and the
best performing employees as they are motivated and encouraged to be a significant part of the organisation.
 The high performance working system provides a basis for developing effective and efficient strategies that provide
timely and prominent support to the employees for the skill development in order to enhance the implementation of
different strategies and actions.

Benefits of HPW
The most beneficial and advantages features of high performing work system is they improve the motivation levels
of employees encouraging them to engage more with the functions and operations of the company by making use of
the most creative and unique ideas. These are highly motivated employees and their keenness to learn and speak
better knowledge and skills enables The entity to develop the most effective strategies in favour of the individual and
organisational development allowing it to attain a competitive edge in the market with the help of high performance
measures of the employees and improved retention ratio.

Various approaches of performance
management
Performance management is a very important and essential HR practice which is needed to be performed by the human resource
department of every organisation and in this case hightown housing association. The performance management practice is the HR
department of the company to keep a close watch on every individual and their performances along with helping them in increasing the
productivity and efficiency of each individual. Several different approaches are present in the marketplace for performance management.
Some of the performance management approaches which are suitable for Hightown housing association are elaborated underneath:
 Ranking method is one of the oldest and traditional methods which is used by organisation in old times for analyzing and evaluating
the performance of the workforce.
 360 degree feedbacks is performance management tool which is depending upon the suitable abilities skills and knowledge of the
personnel.
 Collaborative Working refers to coordinative and cooperative working environment along with a very interrelated working practice.
Collaborative working approach of performance management enhances the corporation and cooperative attitudes and behaviour that
will allow the workforce of hightown housing association to work with one another with their potentials towards the ultimate and their
common goal of the organisation rather than performing for their own interests.

Conclusion
The above presentation and the discussion made in it summarises that development of specific skills
knowledge and behaviour in an individual a team and organisation is very important for growth and success
point of view. In the organisational and individual development context the high performing work systems are
also analysed with their characteristics benefits imposes on the company bringing competitive edge and better
employee engagement towards it.

References
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 Harrison, J. A., Boekhorst, J. A. and Yu, Y., 2018. HPWS and climate for inclusion: a moral legitimacy lens. Equality,
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