North America

This is a photo of how many people in the world tends to stereotype North america.

Many people tend to believe that North America its just United states, others tend to believe it is USA, Canada and Mexico, what they ignore is that this continent includes, greenland, central america and the caribbean.

North america is the third largest continent of the world. It is composed by Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belice, the caribbean islands, mexico, United States of America, Canada and Greenland.

American people(US citizens)are well known in the world for being a competitive culture, that has a lot of commitment with their jobs, who are in constant changes trying to defeat new challenges, etc. This is an amazing culture and the way they behave, analyze things, and the way they organize is a key factor for their succes. they are the actual world power and prbabbly will be during more decades. One example of how americans are so comitted with what they do is the "hp way", a managing business style that guides Hewlet Packard corporate objectives. This guide has been created since the company began back there in the 30's. It is a long term corporate thinking based on how the company should be managed.

The model they created had a great succes thanks to various strategies they had implemented.

1. The company had pretty good channels of comunication and pretty good relatioship with the employees. their comunication process consisted in telling stories about the company. with this they began to create commitment within the employees with the company, they made the employees feel the company as their own, guided them through the objectives,the corporate culture penetrated each employee, etc.

2. Another strategy implemented is the interaction among the employees. No matter wich was your job, if you where CEO or someone from the plant, there were special spaces created to promote the interaction among them. this helped to improve commuication between the different areas of the company, plus every body had acces to the senior managers, a great strategy because the senior managers had a lot of information about the company directly from their labor force.

3. Finally, the company knew that if they wanted to succeed, they had to have the best personnel, that's why they had a very detailed selection processes. they also knew that they had to keep their employees satisfied as much as they could to achieve their goals. that's why the company payed a lot of attention to have the employees security system, working conditions and rights updated. plus they offerd a special payment program bases on the profits the company had.

The special payment program HP gave their employees began to have problems and the CEO Carly Fiorina had the challenge to fix this, in terms of organizational 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?”

In my opinion company's should evolve according to the circumstances, they must addap to the changes the world economy, market and cultures have. They mus analyze the company internaly and make a comparison of how was the company whe it was created in the 40's and how it is right now. For sure they'll see they have a multinational thata isall over the world and that they have to change some methods. The key point here is to differentiate between which strategies have given the company better results and which ones has't, and also which ones would bring better things. with this the company could restructure the OC for a new one capable to addapt to a world of fast constant changes.

Watch the following two videos, the first one shows how Hp had a touch screen in 1983and the second one is the new milenium touch screen version. If computers had innovated this way according to the consummers neccesities the company inside it should do too.





Bibliography:

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

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zgr7j8OI-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fBjLjC0jg&feature=related

Photos:
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