High performance work systems (HPWS) are imperative in this competitive world. Organizations must focus in the context of real life and real time challenges. HPWS is a combination of various functions of HR that focuses on the performance of the employee through increased knowledge, skills and commitment towards the organization. The proposed changes should be driven from the top and fueled thoughout an organization. According to Keith Denton, HPWS are those organizations that employ a fundamentally different approach to managing than the traditional piece-meal approach. Components like people, technology or even the managers treated independently work bureaucratically and when integrated make the system work effectively and result in less attrition, more productivity and profits to organizations.

High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) is the combinations of various functions of HR that focus on the performance of the employee through increased knowledge, skills and commitment towards the organization. According to Sienknecht, RT, Van Aken, EM, HPWS is a systemic approach to organizational design that seeks to align the organization and its environment as well as align the organizational structure, systems, and processes using team structures, to achieve operational effectiveness, innovation, and high quality results for customers.

According to Bohlander and Snell, HPWS is a specific combination of HR practices, work structures, and processes that maximizes employee knowledge, skill, commitment, and flexibility. Systems composed of many interrelated parts that complement one another to reach the goals of an organization, may be large or small.

In an ever-changing nature of business world, organizations are bound to face challenges such as adapting to newer situations, accepting and implementing newer technologies, bringing in and managing change and responding to often changing needs and wants of the employees. Apart from the above mentioned, organizations are also concerned with managing diversity at work and respecting employee rights and developing innovative work environments and work-life balance.

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