2024 Kāinga Ora Organisational Health results – all staff key messages
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We recently announced the launch of Transforming Kāinga Ora, with the first phase of
our transformation focusing on executing our proposed Reset Plan once it’s approved.
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For successful and sustainable transformation and business outcomes, organisations
need to put equal emphasis on performance and health.
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Performance is how an organisation creates value (e.g., as measured by financial
outcomes, key output metrics, or customer experience); organisational health is how
wel an organisation aligns itself, executes with excel ence, and renews itself to achieve
its performance objectives (measured by the Organisational Health Index – OHI).
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To understand the current state of our organisational health we conducted an OHI
survey in November.
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Out of the 3234 employees that were surveyed, 80% responded and more than 6500
employee comments were provided—this represents strong engagement and a
statistical y robust result.
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A big thank you to al who participated for your input.
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The Executive Leadership Team and I have had a chance to review some preliminary
insights, results, key themes and imperatives for Kāinga Ora.
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The punchline is that we are not where we want or need to be. Our overal OHI result,
and the results for most of our key outcome areas and practices have gone backwards
compared to results from the last OHI survey Kāinga Ora conducted in 2020.
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We are a long way from the best practices we aspire to and wil need to successful y
execute and sustain our transformation.
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I think we can al feel that things aren’t working as wel as they need to in our
organisation and that change is needed.
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This is certainly what you have col ectively told us in your responses to the OHI survey.
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The good news is, we have some relative strengths to build on – continued strength (vs
2020) in our role in social responsibility, guided by supportive leadership.
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In general people also feel that we have an open and trusting workplace, and that they
are fairly remunerated.
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We saw substantial improvements vs 2020 in two key related areas – process-based
capabilities and operational discipline.
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This is likely to have come from an increased emphasis on standardising processes and
having clear standards of work, for example our efforts in customer service and the
Housing Delivery System.
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There is some concern however that this has come at the cost of empowerment.
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Results do make it clear, that consistent with 2020 results we must lift our game
substantial y around the way we measure and manage the performance of the
organisation as wel as our people.
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Our results for financial management, people performance reviews, consequent
management (positive and negative – including for employee conduct) and career
opportunities were very low.
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Results also suggest that since 2020 we have decreased focus on fostering an
environment of internal innovation and our investment in external business
partnerships.
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From a values perspective our people view Kāinga Ora as having a noble purpose and
being values driven, but with a prevalence of bureaucracy and silos that need to be
addressed.
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Values people commonly indicated they would like Kāinga Ora to have more of are
accountability, efficiency, excel ence and employee focus and professional growth.
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There is a lot to take in here and these are just some of the preliminary results and
insights. From here there is more work to do.
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In the new year we are planning to enlist help from people at al levels and functions
across Kāinga Ora to help us better understand our strengths and improvement
imperatives.
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This wil help inform our top priority interventions to address our chal enges and build a
world class healthy organisation that al ows you al to do your best work with and for our
customers, communities and partners.
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Tracey Taylor, General Manager, PGC wil also be standing up the Organisational Health
workstream in 2025. She wil be driving forward important initiatives related to workforce
capability, training, development and change readiness.
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Thank you again for your participation in this important survey, and in advance for your
help as we confirm the priority changes we want to make to take us forward in our
transformation.
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We have work to do but I am 100% convinced we can work together to build an
organisation that feels great to work in and we can al be proud of.
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