Ongoing research
Shaping the Future
We have initiated a new flagship CIPD research project Shaping the Future: A vision for sustainable high performance organisations. The project will investigate how a variety of organisational interventions build sustainable high performance using relevant action learning and experiential research techniques. In addition, it will collect practical evidence about the contribution that effective people management and development, together with organisational design and development, make to organisational value.
The three-year programme has the following key objectives:
- to understand the environment and conditions that organisations need to build to enable high performance;
- to investigate the cultural and organisational practices that drive sustainable high performance;
- having understood the major points of transformation, to investigate how these conditions can be sustained over time and practices can be embedded into the wider business strategy to achieve sustainable competitive advantage;
- to understand the HR contribution to this process.
Previous research
- We have an introductory factsheet which explains the concept of high performance working.
- A joint publication with the DTI and Best Companies, Achieving Best Practice in your Business: High Performance Work Practices - Linking Strategy and Skills to Performance Outcomes, was published in February 2005. It includes a survey of CIPD members and case studies from a sample of companies from the Sunday Times 100 best companies to work for 2004.
- A joint publication on high performance working with the EEF was published in November 2003. This highlighted the link between productivity and people management practices.
- See also details of our research on People and Performance
Contact details
- Angela Baron, Adviser - Organisation and Resourcing