NORTH AMERICA

The continent of Norh America is componed by Bermuda, Canada, Clipperton island, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the United States. It is the third largest continent in area after Asia and Africa, and the fourth largest in operation.

UNITED STATES.

For historical documents, Americans presidents, achievements and further information about what is happening know in the United States, visit the web page of the government of the United States: www.usa.gov,

Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Over a span of more than five decades, the economy has achieved steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.

Some of the characteristics of the citizens of the United States are: Self-centered, aggressive, nationalistic, arrogant, jump to conclusions, they usually don’t respect cultural differences and some others.

We can refer to Americans through the Football metaphor it reflects their American culture and also the manner in which business is practice by Americans.

The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace.

And from the class presentation.

THE HP WAY

In the early 1990´s HP was passing through a successful time in history, it has a reputation of being one of the most forward thinking companies of the world. It was the best choice for employees and their way to manage the company had a huge impact on other companies.

The HP way involved a participative management style; the success of the company was reattributed to the commitment to their employees. Core values are essential for the employees and for the company; HP is considered one of the companies more secure for jobs.

The main strategies implemented by HP to sustain their organizational culture are :

One of the most important tool for the company was to tell histories in order to convey the employees to the corporate culture, all of the histories had a message in order to everyone to personify the company, is a way of guiding their values, also the employees had an MBO that is called management of objectives which purpose was to divide responsibilities. The Hp purpose when creating the corporate personnel department was to maintain a common purpose within a framework ofFreedom of method and divisional autonomy depended heavily on the openness, trust and cooperation inherent in the HP Way. The employees are hired for life, that’s the idea, the long term recruiting.
Communication was key to transmit and maintain the corporate culture, for example the ¨open door¨ principle that allows the communication and integration between all the members of the company from the junior employees to the senior managers. Freedom and the relax atmosphere incentives the personnel to work better.

In 2001, Carly Fiorina was facing a huge dillemma in terms of organisational culture. "Should Fiorina try to revitalize the HP way or attempt to replace it with a “better” culture than the one established by Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett in the 1940’s?". Explain your answer.

Keeping the HP way is a huge challenge for the company, it is necessary to do it because more than a way it is consider a tradition, this method highly motivates the workers and incentive others to work in the company because of the job security. The core values and the corporate organizational culture are the base for the company and the development, the think is that they have to work with each market and it depends on each process. (each internationalization is different from other). The changes must improve and be better that what they have today in order to keep their strong corporate culture and stay the same and improve.

*Forster, Nick. 2002. “Managing excellence through corporate culture: the HP way” The Management Case Study Journal 2(1): 13-25

An interesting video to watch about Hewlett Packard:


Information taken from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html.