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Management and Leadership: Hewlett Packard
Management and Leadership: Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard (HP) is a technology organization that has been around since 1939. They have one hundred and seventy organizations that operate all over the world (Hewlett Packard, 2010). Hewlett Packard explores how technology and the technology’s services can help organizations and people with their problems and challenges. They offer a wide range of the best technology in the world today. This includes desktops, laptops, hand-held’s, and even more. The company believes in having strong ethics and responsibilities (Hewlett Packard, 2010). They take pride in everything they do and only plan on giving their customers the best technology available. Hewlett Packard’s corporate headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. Hewlett Packard has to have a strong management and leadership team to better serve the company’s customers with the latest technology (Hewlett Packard, 2010). This analysis will explore the difference in management and leadership, how the roles and responsibilities of the organizational leaders and managers play in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture, examine the affect of globalization and management across borders, and two strategies that leaders and management can use to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture.
Management and Leadership
Most people today believe that management and leadership mean the same thing. There are some cases where a manager can be a good leader as well as a manager, but usually that is not the case. The separation between management and leadership comes down to how they motivate the employees. Management are in control because they were put there by an organization (changingminds, 2010). Managers are authority figures, which employees must listen to and follow his or her instructions. The employee does this in order to get paid. The employees answer to the managers and in return
Management and Leadership: Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard (HP) is a technology organization that has been around since 1939. They have one hundred and seventy organizations that operate all over the world (Hewlett Packard, 2010). Hewlett Packard explores how technology and the technology’s services can help organizations and people with their problems and challenges. They offer a wide range of the best technology in the world today. This includes desktops, laptops, hand-held’s, and even more. The company believes in having strong ethics and responsibilities (Hewlett Packard, 2010). They take pride in everything they do and only plan on giving their customers the best technology available. Hewlett Packard’s corporate headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. Hewlett Packard has to have a strong management and leadership team to better serve the company’s customers with the latest technology (Hewlett Packard, 2010). This analysis will explore the difference in management and leadership, how the roles and responsibilities of the organizational leaders and managers play in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture, examine the affect of globalization and management across borders, and two strategies that leaders and management can use to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture.
Management and Leadership
Most people today believe that management and leadership mean the same thing. There are some cases where a manager can be a good leader as well as a manager, but usually that is not the case. The separation between management and leadership comes down to how they motivate the employees. Management are in control because they were put there by an organization (changingminds, 2010). Managers are authority figures, which employees must listen to and follow his or her instructions. The employee does this in order to get paid. The employees answer to the managers and in return
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