High Performance Working Summaries Available
Fri 30 Jul 2010
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills has been charged by the four governments of the UK to lead a major project looking at skills utilisation and its impact on productivity and performance. Skills utilisation is concerned with maximising the contribution that people can make in the work place, and therefore how well people’s abilities have been deployed, harnessed and developed to optimise organisational performance. What happens inside the work place is therefore crucial to skills utilisation. This is why a key focus of the UK Commission’s work is on understanding how organisations can be successfully run to achieve High Performance Working (HPW).
HPW encompasses the bringing together and implementation of a number of practices in a holistic way to effectively manage an organisation. As such it must provide an important means to: stimulate businesses to review their business strategies; move up the value chain raise their demand for high skills; reorganise their work; and by so doing improve skills utilisation in the workplace and, hence, firm performance.
The project consists of three main reports which are of interest:
- High Performance Working: A synthesis of Key Literature
- High Performance Working: A policy review
- High Performance Working: Case Studies Analytical Report
A summary of each report is available from our publications page.
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