Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Leaders want to know more about e. They align strategy, goals, and objectives
HPOs so they can apply the best practices with the demands of the external
approaches or lessons learned to their own environment so corporate renewal
companies. Of course, the goal is to ensure is always based on customers’ need.
that their own organizations excel in the f. They adopt the strategy that will set
marketplace. the company apart by developing
Over the years, researchers have been many new options and alternatives to
trying to identify and study HPOs for years. compensate for redundant strategies.
Much has been learned during this time. g. They adhere to high ethical standards
As Julia Kirby (2005) noted in the Harvard throughout the organization.
Business Review, management experts h. They create an organizational design
continue to build on one another’s work and structure that complement the
in order to formulate more sophisticated intended business strategy.
ideas about organizational performance. i. They stimulate cross-functional and
The various published research including cross-organizational collaboration by
that of André A. de Waal (2007) and A
merican making teamwork and collaboration
Management Association (2007) Report top priorities of management, fostering
on “The High-Performance Organization teamwork by stressing the importance
Survey 2007” provides
insights into the of teams for the performance of the
characteristics of HPOs. Generally speaking, organization, and developing a team
HPOs are superior to their low-performance feeling by creating team commitment,
counterparts in the following areas: getting everyone on the same team,
and establishing shared responsibility.
1. Strategy j. They simplify and flatten the organization
a. They define a strong vision that excites by reducing boundaries and barriers
and challenges, which is based on between and around units, thus g etting
a winning strategy or big idea and rid of bureaucracy and organizational
which is continuously propagated. complexity.
Their strategies are more consistent, k. They foster organization-wide sharing
are clearer, and are well thought out. of information, knowledge, and best
Their mission, vision, values, and practices by creating the infrastructure
operating philosophies are consistent and incentives for these.
with their strategies. l. They continuously realign the business
b. They balance long-term focus and with changing internal and e xternal
short-term focus in order to safeguard circumstances by setting up an adaptable
the long-term continuity of the b usiness business model, which is easily altered
and its contribution to the world, and based on o pportunities in the external
at the same time obtain short-term environment and shifts in customer
results, which makes it possible to needs and market conditions.
plan against possible futures. 2. Leadership
c. They set clear, ambitious, measurable, a. In an HPO, trust-based relationships
and achievable goals, which raise with employees on all levels are
levels of aspiration and thereby create maintained and strengthened because
a sense of stretch. loyalty is valued, smart people are
d. They create clarity and a common treated smart, people are shown
understanding of the organization’s respect, a learning attitude is fostered,
mission, direction, and strategy, which individual relationships between
is understood by everyone within the managers and employees are created
organization. and maintained, both leaders and