The management of an organization without evaluating and measuring performance is like guiding a ship without navigation tool. The duty of controlling among five managerial duties of the managers more than anything else requires the existence of an evaluating and measuring performance system. Models of excellence with a holistic attitude and by creating a comprehensive system to evaluate the organization determines the level of organization and its processes in various dimensions and extracts the strength points, fields of improvement and appropriate corrective measures. The comprehensiveness of these methods, on the one hand, and its high flexibility, on the other hand, has led many organizations around the world to feel the need to apply them and they are persuaded to use them, and by adapting the model to their particular conditions, can make use of it desirably. However, the organization should be investigated comprehensively for using them and by doing modifications in the model and creating connection with the model of organization, should exploit necessary interest from that model. In this article, firstly, the theoretical topics of performance evaluation and organizational excellence are investigated, and then, with regard to the Excellence Model of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), the gap between the Iranian companies and the superior companies in the West of England based on the statistics provided by BQF (British Quality Foundation) is analyzed.
