Pfeffer High Performance Practices

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR gamey PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Report for the CEO Goncalo Correia MIB28 The Trivalor Holding The Trivalor Holding, is a Portuguese group created to a greater extent than 50 years ago by a Portuguese business man, having started with two companies in the Business go segment, and evolving over prison term, securing a position as the biggest services group in Portugal, owning today 16 companies and employing at times over 11. 000 workers. The argonas covered by the group be, social and public food services, emission and focusing of services tickets, commercialization and logistics of food products, industrial cleanings, uman and robotic security, transport of values, vending machines and archive management.The master(prenominal) clients of the state are public administration, local city councils, hospitals, schools, and defense forces as well as prisons. Historically, the group, has always had an employer friendly policy, and is cognise for the fact of neve r having lay-? out one single worker hobby a Japanese mien management. The majority of the technical and administrative workforce has worked there since the start-off of the company and there is a integrity imprint that can be easily perceived amongst the workers. Nevertheless, from my point of iew, due to its size and age, it has created over the time some habits that fail to evolve from a top-? down to a integrative elan management where workers are part of everyday decisions, fact which after reading this paper I believe could be honest ameliorated contributing for an efficiency breakthrough needed by us to remain competitive. 2 Status Quo In an evolving business environment such as the one we live in nowadays, where there is a straighten out tendency of companies in the first world countries to walk towards a service driven economy, human resources are one if not the most primal assets that a firm can give birth.This should not be treat or by any means devalued by to p management, that in order to contain its best individuals within the firm, must adapt, motivate and commit to mass in all levels of work. In menses times, polls show a high-? growing discontentment of people towards their professional careers. For this, workers lack motivation, not livelinessing aligned with the company goals, ultimately seeing the organization they work for as the enemy, facts that are liable for the loss of Billions of dollars every year. Amongst the main reasons for this dissatisfaction, Pfeffer stresses out, issues like Company Trust, or in ther words how does the employee perceives to what degree the statements, dealing and promises from the company are feasible and fulfilled in the future, Job Security, the prospects of maintaining their job position in the persistent term as well as the dependence on externalities such as economic downturns and crisis, or industry distressesWork-Family relation, which is commonly perceived as a distributive issue, me aning that a person which is good in the family-? relations must necessary lack of dedication to their job, and finally Poor Job conditions and environment, when people dont feel comfortable with the workplace s well as their professional relations. Historically, the firms that direct soon understood this, and practice a high commitment tactics towards all its stakeholders, were able to benefit on long periods of success, and ultimately guarantee financial wealth. Taking Advantage of an Integrative Management style As our company has been in the services and utilities business for decades, from my point of view, we have gained the habit of taking a more than accommodated approach in the relation with our employees, failing sometimes to take advantages from some high commitment tactics, many of which could be put in practice with little pending and effort.Our group policy has been since the beginning to offer a work for life, offering a secure position as long as the co-? worker s comply with what it is requested from them, what accordingly to Pfeffer and proven by our success of transforming a small company in the biggest group in the country inside our industry paid-? off in the long-? term. Nevertheless, I believe it is important to express that from my analysis of the article that you as CEO asked me to read we are still lacking off on issues like training and skill development, as our R&D expenditure has been practically no(prenominal) over the last couple of ears. 3 I believe that by continuously training and investment in our co-? workers, through coaching programs, team building days, and more corporate events, more than just gaining the advantages of what they lead learn and apply to our daily operations, we can make them getting involved with their work tasks what will read a substantial increase in their performance. Nowadays I believe our relationship between employees is preceding(prenominal) average but there is still a big power-? distan ce within Trivalor.This comes hand-? in-? hands with the decentalisation of our daily decisions, which I believe some of these have the potential f being made from bottom-? up rather than following our historical rigid and traditional top-? down hierarchy model as in many cases it is the workers down the hierarchy chain have best knowledge of some the operational processes. Studies argue that workers that feel their importance to the organization, and that are trusted with a great deal of information, tend to feel more involved, making better-? informed decisions about operational facts. Further, from an organizational behavior point of view, people tend to be concerned with affiliation within a group and the fact of feeling that they are part of something has lso a very positive effect in their performance.People do worry about their work relationships and about the other(a) workers opinions on themselves. Reciprocity should be a central concept to bear in mind, defended by Pfe ffer when managing the relations between an organization and its co-? workers. To me, even searching in common sense, my empirical experiences refer that people work better under devotion than obligation, and workers often tend to be much more pro-? active giving valuable and balanced input and new ideas when they feel a inner gush to please their superiors and the organization, rather than functional n a fear oriented regime, where individuals respond by impulses. Deepened by further research I must underline my belief that by uniting all the to a higher place factors, would constitute an important milestone in the process of achieving what Professor Michael Beer identified as the three main goals in the quest for success in management.First, Performance Alignment1, the designing of a winning strategy to secure long-? term goals, (by training and coaching our employees). Second, a Psychological Alignment, providing to our co-? workers a mindset that fosters meaning of their ta sk, challenging work, a pleasant work environment nd the capacity to make a difference (through offering more autonomy, respect and conditions) and finally Capacity for Learning Change, by making everyone from the lowest level to senior places feel like part of something-? our company. 1 High Commitment High Performance How to Build A lively Organization for Sustained Advantage, Michael Beer Hardcover, August 2009 4 Implementation Challenges Analyzing our company, it is not hard to spot some of our pit-? waterfall when it comes to high performance management tactics.When reading the points described above you might end up inquire yourself, if this analysis is not just resenting facts of good sense, and that the position defended by Pfeffer is obvious. But if this is true, why do we and so fail to implement the suggested changes in our organization? The first reason that can come up to your coping is cost. As I am aware, mainly due to externalities like the 2008 downturn crisis o ur group has been trying to newspaper clipping costs, mainly changing processes (specially logistics) into a lean management style, and betting on credit recuperation, although opting always by not laying-? off co-? workers.This might seem stressful time to propose these kinds of structural changes to the shareholder, as we have een feeling pressure from upstream to retain costs. Nevertheless I would argue that even in the mass medium term, the results will be felt, and by implementing some of these changes would have a positive effect on our employees trust, representing a boost in the recuperation from last year hard times. Further, as our macro-? economic situation in Portugal is very unsure at the time, as our government is struggling to approve its deficit budget with the European Union, I believe that these measures could consolidate our firms image that no matter what, we keep our propulsive capabilities and do not stagnate our processes even in imes of economic downturn. This, not to mention the confidence passed to our co-? workers that presently face a confidence crisis triggered by the media alarmism. We must not fall in the trap of following our competitors measures in order to secure our market position.Also I believe that by having a single shareholder we are in a privileged position, as if we are able to produce and adopt these tactics, we do not suffer pressures from other shareholders that could eventually feel they are being putted imprimatur after the employees. Concluding, my last point resides on our company being a pioneer when it comes to rewarding ethods. It was in fact the first group in the country to implement the American reward system, knowledge acquired by our Shareholder in the beginning of his life still as a manager working in the U. S. Our system relies on meritocracy, and even at the lowest levels, lets take for poser a cook in one of our hospital canteen, can make up to 20% of her build salary if there is a complianc e and dedication to schedules, attendance and customer satisfaction. Nevertheless, I believe that in addition to this, there could be offered an extra remuneration to the team as a whole including the cooks, the accountable of the canteen