Baldrige Criteria Item 6.1 - Work Systems

2010 Baldrige Criteria Item 6.1 (Workforce Systems) - Integrated Version

6 Process Management (85 pts.)

The Process Management Category examines HOW your organization designs its WORK SYSTEMS and HOW it designs, manages, and improves its KEY PROCESSES for implementing those WORK SYSTEMS to deliver CUSTOMER VALUE and achieve organizational success and SUSTAINABILITY.

Also examined is your readiness for emergencies.

Item 6.1 - Work Systems (35 pts.)                                                                                                                                                                        Process

HOW do you design your WORK SYSTEMS?

Describe HOW your organization designs its WORK SYSTEMS and determines its KEY PROCESSES to deliver CUSTOMER VALUE, prepare for potential emergencies, and achieve organizational success and SUSTAINABILITY.

Within your response, include answers to the following questions:

6.1a. WORK SYSTEMS Design

(1)   HOW do you design and INNOVATE your overall WORK SYSTEMS?

HOW do you decide which PROCESSES within your overall WORK SYSTEMS will be internal to your organization (your KEY WORK PROCESSES) and which will use external resources?

(2)   HOW do your WORK SYSTEMS and KEY WORK PROCESSES relate to and capitalize on your CORE COMPETENCIES?

6.1b. KEY WORK PROCESSES

(1)   What are your organization’s KEY WORK PROCESSES?

HOW do these PROCESSES contribute to delivering CUSTOMER VALUE, profitability or financial return, organizational success, and SUSTAINABILITY?

(2)   HOW do you determine KEY WORK PROCESSES requirements, incorporating input from CUSTOMERS, suppliers, PARTNERS, and COLLABORATORS, as
      appropriate?

What are the KEY requirements for these PROCESSES?

6.1c. Emergency Readiness

HOW do you ensure WORK SYSTEM and workplace preparedness for disasters or emergencies?

HOW does your disaster and emergency preparedness SYSTEM consider prevention, management, continuity of operations, and recovery?

Notes:

N1.WORK SYSTEMS” refers to HOW the work of your organization is accomplished. WORK SYSTEMS involve your WORKFORCE, your KEY suppliers and PARTNERS, your contractors, your COLLABORATORS, and other components of the supply chain needed to produce and deliver your products and business and support PROCESSES. Your WORK SYSTEMS coordinate the internal WORK PROCESSES and the external resources necessary for you to develop, produce, and deliver your products to your CUSTOMERS and to succeed in your marketplace.

N2. Your KEY WORK PROCESSES (6.1b[1]) are your most important internal value creation PROCESSES and might include product design and delivery, customer support, supply chain management, business, and support PROCESSES. Your KEY WORK PROCESSES are the PROCESSES that involve the majority of your organization’s WORKFORCE and produce CUSTOMER, STAKEHOLDER, and stockholder VALUE.

N3. Disasters and emergencies (6.1c) might be weather-related, utility-related, security-related, or due to a local or national emergency, including potential pandemics. Emergency considerations related to information technology should be addressed in Item 4.2.

For additional description of this Item, see: 6.1 Work Systems Description

Note: CAPITALIZED words above are hyperlinks; Red words above were added for the 2009 - 2010 INTEGRATED Business, Nonprofit, and Public Sector Criteria

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