Hp Management Paper

Introduction

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1935. The company established by Hewlett and Packard in Packard’s garage with an initial capital investment of US$538 during a fellowship in 1939. Hewlett Packard Company commonly referred as ‘HP’. HP product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices and diverse range of printers and imaging products. HP Company has been described as one of the most successful companies of the 20th Century. The reason why this company was so successful over such a long period of time may well lie in the management of its corporate culture ‘The HP Way’. The HP Way reflects the personal core values of Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and the translation of those values into a comprehensive set of operating practices, cultural norms, and business strategies (Collins, 2005). However, since the late 1990s, the company has been experiencing a new and different culture is emerging, ‘The New HP Way’. Today, many companies take the tenets of the HP way almost for granted but when first formulated, they were visionary. This report would briefly outline ‘The HP Way’ and ‘The New HP Way’ organisations which is a balance between profits for the owners and shareholders of the company and the rights, job security and working conditions of its employees.

• Organisational Behaviour

Effective communication & Leadership Behaviour

The HP’s way of communicating was unusual and unique. A two-way communication was opened to everyone and allowed employees to share their thoughts each other including the President oh HP. This called the ‘open door’. In effective communication, the sender’s message is fully understood by the receiver. In order to gather rational feedbacks accurately, the senders and receiver should be able to communicate freely without noise (Wiley & Australia 2010). HP practiced effective two-way...