High Performance Work Systems’ report launched today
Monday 23 January 2008

High Performance Work System

A report entitled 'New Models of High Performance Work Systems’ which was carried out by a team of academics from Dublin City University, University of Limerick and Kansas University, led by Professor Patrick Flood of DCU Business School was launched today by Minister for Labour Affairs, Mr Billy Kelleher, TD. 

The report was commissioned jointly by the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) and the Equality Authority.

High Performance Work Systems include strategic human resource management, partnership, diversity and equality strategies and flexible working arrangements.  The report was based on a detailed survey of more than 130 of Ireland’s leading companies, drawn from the Irish Times Top 1,000 Companies database, a representative, multi-sectoral set of Irish-based businesses. The sample included both indigenous and foreign-owned companies with operations in Ireland.  1005 companies were initially invited to participate in the survey, of which 241 companies responded. Data was utilised from the 132 companies that completed both a CEO/GM and HR survey questionnaire, resulting in an overall response rate of 13.2%. This rate is consistent with typical response rates for research of this nature.

The main findings of the report are that the :

Use of High Performance Work Systems is linked to:

• 14.8% of productivity growth
• Sales revenue of EUR 44,399 per employee per annum or EURO 12 million in annual sales revenue
• 12.2% improvement in workforce innovation
• 7.7% reduction in employee turnover

For further details, please contact Patrick Flood at:

01 7006943
email:  Patrick.flood@dcu.ie