Weaknesses
The company’s involvement in numerous lawsuits constitutes its first weakness, which is not only a past weakness, but also a current one. These litigations impede the company’s brand image in clients’ and investors’ eyes in domestic and foreign markets, and this contributes to company’s amity deterioration. An example of the of these litigations is the consumer class action that was filed against Hewlett-Packard Company in 2011, alleging that this company’s printers’ software were defective. The plaintiff alleged that the design defect in the printers’ software was could permit hacking, unauthorized access, and/or theft of clients’ personal information, besides making the printers susceptible to effortless physical damage. Such litigation …show more content…
This enhances the effectiveness of information transmission, building of cohesion, and prompt execution of the company’s initiatives. The company is a technology-based corporation, and the impacts of technologizing every operation in the company include augmented inventiveness, competitive value addition to product varieties, and rapid evolution of products and services. With regard to ethics, it was earlier mentioned that the company upholds uncompromising respect, steadfast trust, and unwavering integrity for everyone, among other business ethics. This has significant impacts that include better rewards and compensation, firm employee relationships, health interactions, and positive customer relations. The impacts of the phenomenon of globalization include broadening of clientele, market share expansion, and increased possibilities of new clients.
Leadership Evaluation of Hewlett-Packard Company CEO
In this section, three strengths and three weaknesses of the company’s primary leader’s leadership practices are evaluated using leadership theory. In addition, three theory-based practices which can be adopted to maximize the leader’s and company’s future success are recommended.
Leader’s Strengths …show more content…
Since taking the primary leadership role in this company, Whitman Meg has continually transformed the company’s culture to accommodate employee empowerment, while inspiring them to capitalize on trends in information technology to sustain a competitive edge. Empowering and inspiring competencies are some of the essential traits of a participative leader, as they are ingredients of making collaborative decision-making a fruitful venture. IAAP (2009) concurs with this by remarking that democratic leadership and empowerment, as well as power-sharing are among the traits of the participative leadership style.
The company’s CEO demonstrates a third strength in interaction, and this is manifested in the leader’s habit of leaving office occasionally, and getting into the field to assess progress of processes. During the occasional field visits, the CEO freely interacts with employees, appreciates their work, and makes them feel motivated. According to Myers (1994), participative leadership style place emphasis on group process analysis by the leader, something that this company’s primary leader has achieved until
The company’s involvement in numerous lawsuits constitutes its first weakness, which is not only a past weakness, but also a current one. These litigations impede the company’s brand image in clients’ and investors’ eyes in domestic and foreign markets, and this contributes to company’s amity deterioration. An example of the of these litigations is the consumer class action that was filed against Hewlett-Packard Company in 2011, alleging that this company’s printers’ software were defective. The plaintiff alleged that the design defect in the printers’ software was could permit hacking, unauthorized access, and/or theft of clients’ personal information, besides making the printers susceptible to effortless physical damage. Such litigation …show more content…
This enhances the effectiveness of information transmission, building of cohesion, and prompt execution of the company’s initiatives. The company is a technology-based corporation, and the impacts of technologizing every operation in the company include augmented inventiveness, competitive value addition to product varieties, and rapid evolution of products and services. With regard to ethics, it was earlier mentioned that the company upholds uncompromising respect, steadfast trust, and unwavering integrity for everyone, among other business ethics. This has significant impacts that include better rewards and compensation, firm employee relationships, health interactions, and positive customer relations. The impacts of the phenomenon of globalization include broadening of clientele, market share expansion, and increased possibilities of new clients.
Leadership Evaluation of Hewlett-Packard Company CEO
In this section, three strengths and three weaknesses of the company’s primary leader’s leadership practices are evaluated using leadership theory. In addition, three theory-based practices which can be adopted to maximize the leader’s and company’s future success are recommended.
Leader’s Strengths …show more content…
Since taking the primary leadership role in this company, Whitman Meg has continually transformed the company’s culture to accommodate employee empowerment, while inspiring them to capitalize on trends in information technology to sustain a competitive edge. Empowering and inspiring competencies are some of the essential traits of a participative leader, as they are ingredients of making collaborative decision-making a fruitful venture. IAAP (2009) concurs with this by remarking that democratic leadership and empowerment, as well as power-sharing are among the traits of the participative leadership style.
The company’s CEO demonstrates a third strength in interaction, and this is manifested in the leader’s habit of leaving office occasionally, and getting into the field to assess progress of processes. During the occasional field visits, the CEO freely interacts with employees, appreciates their work, and makes them feel motivated. According to Myers (1994), participative leadership style place emphasis on group process analysis by the leader, something that this company’s primary leader has achieved until