Management and Operations

HP marketing officer revealed that is adopts slow to moderate condition when it comes to
purposes of company while handling various methods and precautions which helps in
securing purpose which brings benefits to company rather than focusing of purposes which
doesn’t brings benefits. HP is a well-known American brand which focuses on such strategies
in order to achieve as much as possible benefits. Focus on HP while selecting employees is
on hiring such people as leaders who have capability of influencing other people while
playing a single managerial role i.e. directing the subordinates. While selecting leaders within
HP the focus is on employees with great sole performance where a person with great
performance and expertise is given a chance to resolve the issue among two team members,
even though the person solves the issues but loses temper and patience which reveals that
there is capability of being manager but not the ability of being a leaders whereas if the
individual does loses temper and happily motivate others he is best suitable for being leader.
HP is choosier when it comes to selecting a person on a specific post as there is need to
certain specific qualities which are compulsory for a specific post in order to bring increase in
productivity of company.
The theories concerned with leaders and managers focuses on differentiating between both
leaders and managers qualities within company. The theories illustrate the managerial
development plan always starts with leaders and managers notion. The HP evaluation
revealed that managers and leaders are having great roles and HP highly focuses on selection
of people exactly meeting their roles. HP adopts a participative leadership style for decision
making as it bring productive results while having great participation of other members.
Situational Leadership, System Leadership, & Contingency theory
There are number of theories adopted by HP for their benefits which includes maximization
of profits and sales. To reach increasing number of customers HP focuses on innovative
technology which helps the clients within their purchasing process which is key to retain
maximum customers. The better way to understand role of manager is understanding theories
and concepts within includes trait theory, contingency theory, situational theory, and system
leadership. These theories helps in differentiating leaders from non-leaders while considering
the personal qualities of individuals.
Situational leadership involves behavior of company and working of employees also named
as life cycle theory which involves understanding the situations and then making decisions.
Situational curve involves 4 leadership styles that incorporate:
1. Telling: one way communication of who will do what?
2. Selling: revealing methods to convince people to perform actions.
3. Participating: task maker and leader participating together to get work done.
4. Delegating: leaders just monitoring while giving total responsibility to a single
person.