International Association for High Performance Organizations
Framework
HPO FRAMEWORK considers Management & employees "Quality", Continuous Improvement, Long-Term & Action Orientation as well as the capacity to adapt in order to achieves High Performances:
- HPO Achieves SUSTAINED GROWTH which is better than the financial performance of its peers group over a long period of time
- HPO has a great ability to ADAPT TO CHANGES
- HPO is able to REACT & ADAPT QUICKLY to the changes
- HPO has LONG TERM ORIENTATION
- HPO management PROCESS ARE INTEGRATED & PEOPLE ALIGNED throughout organization
- HPO focus on CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING and reinventing its core capabilities
- HPO spends much effort on IMPROVING WORKING CONDITIONS
CAPACITY TO ADAPT
- Team completely aligned around the organization’s vision, values, and vital priorities
- Continuous Monitoring the external forces
- Moving horizontally across roles and vertically to connect with the next level of leadership down
- Establishing a framework within which teams can experiment
- Synthesizing complex insights to make high-quality decisions quickly and efficiently
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT*
- Our organization has adopted a strategy that sets it clearly apart from other organizations.
- In our organization processes are continuously improved.
- In our organization processes are continuously simplified.
- In our organization processes are continuously aligned.
- In our organization everything that matters to the organization’s performance is explicitly reported.
- In our organization both financial and non-financial information is reported to organizational members.
- Our organization continuously innovates its core competencies.
- Our organization continuously innovates its products, processes and services.
LONG-TERM ORIENTATION*
- Our organization maintains good and long-term relationships with all stakeholders.
- Our organization is aimed at servicing the customers as best as possible.
- The management of our organization has been with the company for a long time.
- New management is promoted from within the organization.
- Our organization is a secure workplace for organizational members.
ACTION ORIENTATION*
- The management of our organization frequently engages in a dialogue with employees.
- Organizational members spend much time on communication, knowledge exchange and learning.
- Organizational members are always involved in important processes.
- The management of our organization allows making mistakes.
- The management of our organization welcomes change.
- Our organization is performance driven.
QUALITY OF EMPLOYEES*
- The management of our organization inspires organizational members to accomplish extraordinary results.
- Organizational members are trained to be resilient and flexible.
- Our organization has a diverse and complementary workforce.
- Our organization grows through partnerships with suppliers and/or customers.
QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT*
- The management of our organization is trusted by organizational members.
- The management of our organization has integrity.
- The management of our organization is a role model for organizational members.
- The management of our organization applies fast decision making.
- The management of our organization applies fast action taking.
- The management of our organization coaches organizational members to achieve better results.
- The management of our organization focuses on achieving results.
- The management of our organization is very effective.
- The management of our organization applies strong leadership.
- The management of our organization is confident.
- The management of our organization is decisive with regard to non-performers.
- The management of our organization always holds organizational members responsible for their results.
* A High Performance Organization.What is it? by Marco Schreurs & Alex Meingast
Framework