Applicability of High Performance Organization (HPO) Framework to Students' Academic Achievement in Tanzania: A Case of Catholic Schools in Dodoma, Tanzania

Abstract

Purpose: The general objective of the study is to assess the influence of high performance organization framework (HPO) to students' academic achievement in Tanzania specifically on the case of Catholic schools in Dodoma. The specific objectives were; to determine the applicability of management quality in Catholic Secondary Schools academic plans on students' academic achievement, to evaluate the practices of openness and action orientation in Catholic schools, to examine the application of long-term orientation of workforce on students' academic achievement, to determine the applicability of continuous improvement in Catholic Schools academic strategic plans on students sustainable academic achievement, and to examine the application of quality of employees in Catholic Schools toward students' academic achievement.

Methodology: The study employed two methods of data collection namely questionnaires and documents review based for secondary data. Questionnaires is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents, although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. The method is helpful in collecting large amounts of information from a large number of people in a short period and at a relatively low cost. Its results were usually quickly and easily quantified by a researcher through the use of a software package SPSS.

Conclusion: it is observed that, The application of High Performance Organization Framework to Catholic Schools in Dodoma seems to be very low. 48% of the respondents agreed that there were HPO Framework applications in their respective schools which is under a half. Many researchers have found that HPO Framework has a great relationship to performance or achievement. This can be proved by this study because the Catholic Schools in Dodoma are not the best schools in Tanzania. If they could apply these HPO Framework their performance would likely be higher than expected.

Contribution to theory, practice and policy: The researcher is recommending that other researchers should take an in-depth analysis of the applicability of higher performance organization framework to students academic achievement in Tanzania.