Leadership Practices in BHP Group Limited

Leadership Paper

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Activities of BHP Group Practices..................................................................................................3
Leadership Practice in BHP.............................................................................................................4
Style of leadership practiced at BHP...........................................................................................5
Leadership challenges..................................................................................................................6
Leadership development activities in organisation......................................................................6
Analysis of identified leadership Practices......................................................................................7
Analysis of strength and weaknesses of identified leadership practices.....................................7
Effect that Leadership Practices have had on BHP performance................................................9
Recommendations............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership can be defined as an art of influencing and encouraging group of people to act
towards achievement of common goal. Leadership in relation with business activities and
organisation leadership involve an act of influencing and encouraging individuals to work and
achieve goals and objectives of organisation. Several leadership practices are undertaken by the
organisations and they have their individual benefits and drawbacks. Leadership style and
practices of leadership gets significantly affected by the style of leadership, style of leadership
refers to way in which leaders carry out their leadership, and this gets affected by organisational
as well as individual approach of leader towards leadership. This report will discuss about
leadership practices within BHP Group Limited. This report will involve discussion about
leadership practices, styles of leadership and challenges of leadership in the organisation.
Activities of BHP Group Practices
BHP group founded in 1885 and headquartered at Melbourne Australia and London,
United Kingdom is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metal and petroleum company.
The Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) Company was founded in 1885 in mining town of Silverton,
South Wales. By 2017 BHP was world’s largest mining company based on market capitalisation.
Along with this based on revenue it was also third-largest company of Melbourne (Ridley and
Lewis, 2019). Concerned with activities of BHP, company is involved in activities such as
mining, metal and petroleum. In relation with its core business activities BHP includes mining of
copper, iron ore and coal. Petroleum segment of BHP involves exploration, development and
production and marketing of oil and gas, copper segment involves of copper, silver, lead, zinc,
molybdenum, uranium and gold. Marketing is another and independent business of BHP, it is the
link between BHP’s global operations and global customers. This suggests that core activities of
the business and BHP are later followed by supportive and managerial activities. This means
supportive activities for ensuring effectiveness of operations of BHP.
Activities of BHP are further divided in different parts based on geographical area that are
Minerals Australia. Minerals Australia asset group includes operated assets in Western Australia,
Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. Assets of Minerals Australia focus on

copper, iron ore, coal, and nickel (Paynter, Halabi and Tuck, 2019). Minerals Americas includes
projects, operated and non-operated assets in Canada, Chile, Peru, United States, Colombia and
Brazil. Focus of Minerals Americas is on copper, zinc iron ore, coal and potash.
Leadership Practice in BHP
Leadership plays important role in organisational operations and success of the
organisations. BHP is multinational company and in order to ensure that organisation functions
well, it is important to practice effective leadership. Leadership in context of BHP also requires
being capable of managing international operations and functioning of the organisation.
Concerned with leadership practice of BHP company practices and considers its graduates as
future leaders. Role of graduate in this is on exciting management path and in order to prosper as
leader graduates need to combine thorough knowledge of technology in work place along with
strong communication, human relations and leadership skills (Fernando, 2016). Leaders in BHP
need to ensure that they are able to achieve results as team and through other people rather than
focusing in bringing individual results. This requires that leaders have desire for continuous
learning and development of new skills.
Leadership practices of BHP need to be of highest order and this is why some of the
leadership practices that are practiced at BHP include see the big picture. This means that leaders
at BHP needs to be and are able to see the big picture. This is very important for leader of the
company operating in around 100 countries and this helps leaders in identifying and
understanding requirements of leadership as per global context. Some of the skills that leaders
have according to this practice is critical thinking skills to analyse big picture, understanding
relationship between events, statements, concepts, and situation. On the basis of this leaders
become able to make decisions.
Focusing on attainment of global objectives through leadership is another practice that is
followed at BHP. In this practice BHP focuses and emphasize on achieving global objectives of
with help of leaders in the organisation.
Inspiring a shared vision is most important for bringing every member of the organisation
on same page (Rosenhead and et.al., 2019). This means that leaders ensure that they inspire