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

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is an organization that achieves financial and non-financial results that are exceedingly better that those of its peer group over a period of time of five years or more, by focusing in a disciplined way on that which really matters to the organization (Dr. De Waal, HPO Center). The high performance organization framework is a conceptual and scientifically validated structure that managers can use to focus on in order to improve organizational performance and make it sustainable. The HPO Framework is not a set of instructions that can be followed blindly. It is a framework that has to be translated by managers to their specific organizational situation in their current time, by designing a specific variant of the framework fit for their organization (Dr. De Waal, HPO Center).Many academic and management publications in the area of high performance and excellence were studied in order to be able to build the HPO Framework. Subsequent statistical analysis of the collected data showed that there are 35 characteristics that have a direct positive relation with competitive performance. These characteristics always appear in five groups, the so-called HPO factors. When an organization scores higher on these five HPO Factors than its peer group, then it performs financially and non-financially also better than the peer group (Dr. De Waal, HPO Center).The HPO Framework consists of five factors of high performance, with each factor consisting of several underlying HPO characteristics. These are the five factors; Quality of Management, Openness and Action Orientation, Long-Term Orientation, Continuous Improvement and Renewal and Quality of Employees.On the other hand the definition of academic achievement can vary, it depends on the indicators used to measure it. There are various indicators used to measure and show academic achievement, mostly indicators can be considered from the test or examination results of a student (Spinath & Birgit, 2012). Students' academic achievement represents performance outcomes that shows the level a student or person has attained to his/her specific goals that were the

Maars, tuff rings, and tuff cones at the Manyara rift escarpment, Tanzania.

“…The spatial distribution of the craters within the Tanzanian monogenetic volcanic fields are controlled by the old basement and the rift structures although this influence is fading in recent geological times as the rift is becoming more mature (Delcamp et al, 2019). (Mudd and Orridge, 1966;Thomas, 1966). The monogenetic volcanoes form three fields named after the villages and cities of Basotu, Katesh, and Babati.…”

“…Figure 2: a. Shaded relief image derived from SRTM-DEM (30m; Jarvis et al, 2008) with the Manyara rift escarpment and the strato-volcanoes of Hanang and Kwahara indicated. b. Shaded relief image overlapped with the geological map(Mudd and Orridge, 1966;Thomas, 1966). The monogenetic volcanoes form three fields named after the villages and cities of Basotu, Katesh, and Babati.…”