High Performance Work Organizations
Since the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) issued its report in 1991, organizations have been urged to become "high performance workplaces" and vocational educators are considering how best to prepare workers for them. What are high performance work organizations (HPWOs)? Do they exist? Are they really the wave of the future and the best hope for organizational survival into the next century? The myths and realities of HPWOs are explored in this publication.
I'll Know It When I See It
The first problem in clarifying the reality of HPWOs is trying to find consensus about what they are. Theorists and researchers of the phenomenon use various phrases to describe its
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76). Two distinct models are emerging in the United States: lean production, which relies on centralized coordination, top-down total quality management, and reengineering; and team production, in which empowered workers make decisions and produce innovations.
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Like the story of the blind men and the elephant, the numbers of HPWOs vary depending on which part of the animal is being grasped. For example, a 1990 survey of 645 large companies found 13% using self-managed groups (Marschall 1991). Appelbaum and Batt's (1994) case studies of 185 Fortune 1000 firms revealed 47% using at least one self-directed team, 66% at least one quality control practice. A University of Southern California study (Dumaine 1994) showed that 68% of the Fortune 1000 use self-directed teams (SDTs). Galagan (1994) cites survey results indicating that 59% of 400 executives are conducting three or more major performance improvement projects. Osterman (1994) challenged the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce's claim that only 5% of U.S. companies are HPWOs. He studied the existence in 875 establishments of 4 core high performance practices: SDTs, job rotation, quality circles, and total quality management (TQM). Over half use teams, 33.5% TQM. He decided an organization is "high performance" if it uses
Production practices have had an important role in satisfying the dynamic market. Many approaches have being developed in order to respond effectively to specific business requirements. In fact, some areas of management have focused its study on the overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production in an effort to find the best methodology that ensures the business success and performance. However, complexities arise in this field because many variables such as costs, inventory, scheduling, suppliers, etc have to be considered in any business. Lean approach and the traditional approach are two points of view that aim to address this complexities, and those will be examined in this essay.
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Describe how alignment between the values of an organization and the values of the nurse impact nurse engagement and patient outcomes.
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The fourth chapter is titled “Standardize Work.” The theme is “to identify how the work is well defined and how the effective team effort is exerted on the maintenance of the same repetitive work in sequence”. Thus, the standardization and the effort towards lean production is important (Ballé and Ballé).
Human resources are the most valuable assets of any organization, with the machines, materials and even the money; nothing gets done without man-power. In today’s business climate, businesses are faced with stiff internal and external competition. There are various human resource functions that give an organization a competitive edge, but most scholars argue that human resource functions becomes only operational when training has run through them all. This places training and development as an essential function in the survival of any organization. Increasingly, high performance organizations today are recognizing the need to use best training and development practices to enhance their competitive advantage.
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