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Performance Management System

Notes 11.4 Summary

Organizations cannot stay/sustain the pressure of competition unless environment ignites
creativity, conserve/nurture ideas and translate the ideas into action.
The leaders of any large-scale organizational change quickly learn that it’s not enough to
develop a new and improved set of strategies, structures and work processes.
A high performance team is a group of individuals working together in harmony to achieve
what others might think of as the impossible.

Culture is a term that is used regularly in workplace discussions
Building a strong performance culture facilitates the organisations in improving the

performance and financial results of the organisation.
11.5 Keywords

High performance team: A high performance team is a group of individuals working together in
harmony to achieve what others might think of as the impossible.
Organisational culture: Organisational culture may be generally described as a set of norms,
beliefs, principles and ways of behaving that together give each organisation a distinctive
character.
Performance Culture: It refers to an organisational culture where performance is one of the core
value.

11.6 Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. A ..................... is a group of individuals working together in harmony to achieve what
others might think of as the impossible.
2. An ..................... may be generally described as a set of norms, beliefs, principles and ways
of behaving that together give each organisation a distinctive character.

3. Building a strong performance culture facilitates the organisations in improving the
performance and ..................... of the organisation.
4. A strong culture is ..................... .
5. ..................... should be such that it encourages team working, ownership of problems, risk
taking or entrepreneurship, and orientation towards continuous improvement.

6. ..................... should include both immediate workflow, and also working on goals to
improve how the team works together.
State whether the following statements are true or false:
7. Change and learning are built right into the same fabric.
8. A team needs to have a sense of being a team.
9. Running effective meetings is key to organising and to building the team.

10. Performance depends on a few variables.

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