Hewlett-Packard corporate culture

Hewlett-Packard corporate culture

An organization that incorporates culture in the society practices corporate culture in the sense that the organization synthesizes values, management styles, and communication style. Corporate culture influences how things are done in a company in a manner likely to suggest that situations are practiced and not just stated. In this regard, the behavioral aspect of employees is conditioned by the corporate culture. Therefore, this paper talks about cross-cultural perspectives through a business case that ensures cultural integration is achieved in contemporary society. The business case involved in this prospect is the Hewlett-Packard Company. Different organizations have their own set of values and unique culture; however, the Hewlett-Packard (HP) has maintained its cultural relevance for many years. The strong cultural values maintained and employed by the company named above involve a sense of community, respect for others, everyday hard work, team leadership, organizational commitment, mutual accountability, power distance, and honesty.

A sense of community in this regard is a cross-cultural activity in the company in a manner likely to suggest that there is togetherness in the company. A sense of community creates common and consistent goals in Hewlett-Packard Company. Additionally, a sense of community defines an employee’s identity in the sense that an employee feels at home and a member of the team within the society. This narrative shows that the Hewlett-Packard has maintained its cultural values by ensuring that both employees and employers are striving to achieve common objectives in society. Besides, concerning the essence of community in the context also depict the notion that the company’s cultural values reflect the community that is involved in, thus embracing cultural diversity in the contemporary world. The analogy also describes the idea of Hewlett-Packard Company welcoming outside workforce knowledge and perception of a diverse community.

Respect for others is also a cultural value in the company that distinguishes the relationship between employers and employees. Respect for others and leadership facilitates required behavioral competencies in pursuance of attaining the desired goals in Hewlett-Packard Company. On the other hand, hard work also matters in a relative sense because cross-cultural value ensures the prosperity of the company. A company that does not emphasize hard work to its employees is doomed to fail. Therefore, Hewlett-Packard Company is well known for its achievements, and it is through hard work as a cross-cultural value that has seen the company through over these years.

Concerning team leadership, it is a cultural value that all other companies should emulate and embrace in pursuance of achieving positive results. Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) has been at the forefront over the years in reengineering the spirit of team leadership through team orientation in the contemporary world. The company is a known international information company across the world through the essence of cultural values such as team leadership that has seen it thrive and succeed. As described earlier, the nature of the cross-cultural aspect embraces practices of corporate culture that involve practiced situations and not stated. In this regard, organizational commitment as cultural value stems out from the company. Organizational commitment depicts the essence of an employee’s ability to deliver services, thus facilitating the success of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Mutual accountability is also a cultural value in Hewlett-Packard Company, which ensures that every detailed practice in the organization is accounted for by each individual involved in the practice. In other words, each employee is accountable for each deed that he or she has practiced. Also, the cross-cultural activity facilitates efficiency in the company at large. Additionally, power distance distinguishes employers, employees, partners, and stakeholders. There are real and perceived power in most organizations in the sense that employees do not know who or which boss to attend. Therefore, power distance, in this case, is a cultural value in Hewlett-Packard Company to help distinguish the levels of departments in the organization. Honesty is a virtue that facilitates accountability in Hewlett-Packard Company. In this prospect, the narrative is also a cultural value that ensures clarity among team members within the society.

In a business context, most people affect in most companies are women. Women are regarded as a minority in most cases. You find that in most cases, men are domineering in most companies. Also, companies mostly hire men when women do not even rich the two-thirds required by the most institution. These organizations are at the forefront of practicing male chauvinism and undermining women’s abilities in society. Since women are the minority, they are usually discriminated against and looked down upon by men. Leadership roles in business are not given to women, and their qualifications and promotions are left out because of maternity issues, thus known as pregnancy issues. For example, some of the companies sued for discriminating against women because they are the minority in most organizations are Microsoft, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), and Quest Diagnostics and AmeriPath, among others. Therefore, in the light of business context and interactions, women are the minority in most organizations.

In conclusion, the paper talks about cultural values in a business case. Cultural values, as described earlier, begets corporate culture, which involves the situational practice of each employee. In this regard, the context depicted Hewlett-Packard Company as a business case that has maintained culture and values for many years hence the success of the company. Some of the cultural values described in this article include involving the sense of community, respect for others, everyday hard work, team leadership, organizational commitment, among others. In the light of organizational commitment as a cultural value according to the context, it embraces the ability of employees to deliver services in pursuance of achieving the desired positive results in Hewlett-Packard Company.