Common use of Commitment to Partnership Clause in Contracts

Commitment to Partnership. The essence of the Labor Management Partnership is involvement and influence, pursuit of excellence and accountability by all. The parties believe people take pride in their contributions, care about their jobs and each other, want to be involved in decisions about their work and want to share in the success of their efforts. Market-leading organizational performance can only be achieved when everyone places an emphasis on benefiting all of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente. There is an indisputable correlation between business success and success for people. Employees throughout the organization must have the opportunity to make decisions and take actions to improve performance and better address patient needs. This means that employees must have the skills, knowledge, information, opportunity and authority to make sound decisions and perform effectively. Engaged and involved employees will be highly committed to their work and contribute fully. By creating an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect, recognizing each person’s expertise and knowledge, and providing training and education to expand those capabilities, the common goals of organizational and individual success and a secure, challenging and personally rewarding work environment can be attained. With this Agreement, the parties will continue to invest in and support a wide array of activities designed to increase individual employee skills training, learning opportunities, and growth and development. The Value Compass sets forth the way in which this National Agreement becomes a key operating strategy for ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente. To improve performance measures by focusing on the needs of our patients and members requires involvement from everyone. We seek to move from projects to pilots to whole systems improvement, recognizing that all four points of the Value Compass impact the whole value that the organization creates. The Value Compass is designed to achieve the KP Promise, which ensures our members always have the best health care experience. The KP Promise is a commitment to our members to provide health care that is: » quality you can trust; » convenient and easy access; » caring with a personal touch; and Section 1 presents an integrated approach to service quality, performance improvement, workforce development, education and training, and creation of an environment responsive to organizational, employee and union interests. In addition, it provides a process to solve problems as close to the point at which they arise as possible, respecting the interests of all parties. The Partnership Agreement Review Process in Section 1. L.2. applies to disputes arising out of Section 1, but is meant to be used as a last resort. With this Agreement, the Coalition and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente assume a set of privileges and obligations. These include, but are not limited to, employment and income security, union security, access to information, including the responsibility to maintain confidentiality concerning sensitive information, participation in the governance structure and participation in performance sharing plans. There is a joint commitment to identify, and by mutual agreement, incorporate our own successful practices and those of other high-performance organizations into each facility. The parties will work diligently to increase and enhance flexibility in work scheduling and work assignments to enhance service, quality and financial performance while meeting the interests of employees and their unions. We share a willingness to work in good faith to resolve jurisdictional issues in order to increase work team flexibility and performance, and we share a commitment to marketing ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente as the Employer and care provider of choice. In addition, it is absolutely critical for KP to grow its membership and adapt to a changing health care market. We believe that much of the new growth opportunities could come from new government initiatives that emerge out of national health care reform. The parties commit to the involvement of high-level Union, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente and Kaiser Health Plan leaders to work together on growth strategies. The parties will work in a proactive manner on other growth potential, including discussing both contiguous and non-contiguous opportunities, new geographies and regions, mergers and acquisitions that best position opportunities for KP to grow more quickly and respond to opportunities, and will explore new health care vehicles that could be made available to union trust funds, multiemployer trust funds and single employers. The parties shall work together to explore and utilize available growth opportunities. This requires positioning to ensure that we are a major player in current and future debates over national health care reform. The parties shall emphasize the unique advantages of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente model.

Commitment to Partnership. The essence of the Labor Management Partnership is involvement and influence, pursuit of excellence and accountability by all. The parties believe people take pride in their contributions, care about their jobs and each other, want to be involved in decisions about their work and want to share in the success of their efforts. Market-leading organizational performance can only be achieved when everyone places an emphasis on benefiting all of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente. There is an indisputable correlation between business success and success for people. Employees throughout the organization must have the opportunity to make decisions and take actions actions SECTION 1 to improve performance and better address patient needs. This means that employees must have the skills, knowledge, information, opportunity and authority to make sound decisions and perform effectively. Engaged and involved employees will be highly committed to their work and contribute fully. By creating an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect, recognizing each person’s expertise and knowledge, and providing training and education to expand those capabilities, the common goals of organizational and individual success and a secure, challenging and personally rewarding work environment can be attained. With this Agreement, the parties will continue to invest in and support a wide array of activities designed to increase individual employee skills training, learning opportunities, and growth and development. The Value Compass sets forth the way in which this National Agreement becomes a key operating strategy for ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente. To improve performance measures by focusing on the needs of our patients and members requires involvement from everyone. We seek to move from projects to pilots to whole systems improvement, recognizing that all four points of the Value Compass impact the whole value that the organization creates. The Value Compass is designed to achieve the KP Promise, which ensures our members always have the best health care experience. The KP Promise is a commitment to our members to provide health care that is: » quality you can trust; » convenient and easy access; » caring with a personal touch; and Section 1 presents an integrated approach to service quality, performance improvement, workforce development, education and training, and creation of an environment responsive to organizational, employee and union interests. In addition, it provides a process to solve problems as close to the point at which they arise as possible, respecting the interests of all parties. The Partnership Agreement Review Process in Section 1. L.2Section 1.L.2. applies to disputes arising out of Section 1, but is meant to be used as a last resort. With this Agreement, the Coalition and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente assume a set of privileges and obligations. These include, but are not limited to, employment and income security, union security, access to information, including the responsibility to maintain confidentiality concerning sensitive information, participation in the governance structure and participation in performance sharing plans. There is a joint commitment to identify, and by mutual agreement, incorporate our own successful practices and those of other high-performance organizations into each facility. The parties will work diligently to increase and enhance flexibility in work scheduling and work assignments to enhance service, quality and financial performance while meeting the interests of employees and their unions. We share a willingness to work in good faith to resolve jurisdictional issues in order to increase work team flexibility and performance, and we share a commitment to marketing ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente as the Employer and care provider of choice. In addition, it is absolutely critical for KP to grow its membership and adapt to a changing health care market. We believe that much of the new growth opportunities could come from new government initiatives that emerge out of national health care reform. The parties commit to the involvement of high-level Union, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente and Kaiser Health Plan leaders to work together on growth strategies. The parties will work in a proactive manner on other growth potential, including discussing both contiguous and non-contiguous opportunities, new geographies and regions, mergers and acquisitions that best position opportunities for KP to grow more quickly and respond to opportunities, and will explore new health care vehicles that could be made available to union trust funds, multiemployer trust funds and single employers. Members of the Labor Management Partnership, including ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente and all individual Coalition local unions, shall not pursue, sponsor or support legislation or ballot initiatives, which are specifically targeted at and the primary purpose of which is to harm a member of the other party. Members of the Partnership agree to follow the spirit and intent of the National Agreement, and where disputes arise, the parties will follow the dispute resolution process of Section 1.L.2 toward this end. The parties shall work together to explore and utilize available growth opportunities. This requires positioning to ensure that we are a major player in current and future debates over national health care reform. The parties shall emphasize the unique advantages of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Permanente model.