Organizational Leadership Discussion Plan for BHP

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Business overview
Broken Hill Property (BHP) is an Anglo-Australian multinational petroleum, metals, and
mining dual listed public company (BHP, 2018). The company was founded in 1885 in Broken
Hill. Currently, the company has its headquarters in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. BHP
currently ranks fourth best performing company in Australia (Pash, 2018). The company is listed
in London Stock Exchange, New York Securities Exchange, Johannesburg Securities Exchange,
and Australian Securities Exchange. Moreover, BHP is one of the largest companies in Australia
by market capitalization. It has undergone through mergers, BHP Billiton Plc and BHP Billiton
Limited to form BHP. By the end of the trading period in 2017, BHP realized a revenue of
$39,164,000,000, signifying a 23 percent increase (Pash, 2018).
Vision, Mission, and Values of BHP
The vision of BHP is to become a global leading resource company. Moreover, the
mission of the company is to "create long-term shareholder value through discovery, acquisition,
development, and marketing of natural resources." Additionally, the company endeavors to work
with integrity in any part of the world (BHP, 2018). Doing what is right as well as what the
company promises to do. Upholding integrity has seen the organization grow over time to
become one of the leading global mining company.
Communication with stakeholders
Communication is a tool for managers and management in any organization (Uka, 2014).
Growth in any organization relies majorly on the approach to communication since it influences
successful implementation strategies, which leads to high efficiency (Melewar et al, 2017).

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Ideally, stakeholders include workers, managers, investors, customers, government agencies,
financial institutions, and suppliers. As such, communicating with every stakeholder influences
the sustainability and efficiency in performance of BHP Company. This depends on the manner,
they receive instruction or updates. To deliver effective information to stakeholders, Marcus
(2014) recommends the following strategies;
Passing information using visual aids
When the management at BHP incorporates videos and images to pass information, then,
the likelihood of retaining the message is quite high to the target audience. For example,
explaining how certain mining equipment works through video demonstration helps employees
understand the concept better. Therefore, BHP management should utilize Microsoft Office
PowerPoint to communicate to stakeholders effectively.
Organizing a regular meeting with employees
Regular meetings between employees and management help foster a positive working
relationship (McDade, 2013). For example, having morning briefings before embarking on duties
can help BHP to identify weak areas and correct them appropriately. Besides, such briefings can
help the company evaluate daily activities to identify where adjustments are needed. Again,
when employees share their challenges, they tend to encourage one another which enhances
teamwork among themselves for better service delivery.
Moreover, at BHP, the company organizes an annual general meeting to review
company's performance, approve budgets, changes in structure and leadership. Ideally, great
leaders use such platform to marshal support for developing strategies for the befit of all
stakeholders. To achieve this goal, BHP management can take this opportunity to pass a simple

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message that everyone understands. Ideally, simple messages are easier to understand and
comprehend. As such, the stakeholders will not engage in arguments that often paralyzes good
courses of action.
After passing such development information, or changes in organizational structure, BHP leaders
should give room for discussion. Asking questions and replying them appropriately. This
strategy create openness that boosts the confidence of all stakeholders in the company.
Lastly, BHP leadership should take feedback, analyze, and make a final decision based
on the input from the engagement. Incorporating investors' input in decision making help
minimize friction between management and investors for the benefit of the organization.
Influencing groups and individuals in the organization
Teamwork is the driving force for any organization to realize better results. Leaders in
every organization have the mandate to influence employees to works towards achieving
organizational goals (McEwan et al., 2017; Tohidi, 2011). Organizations working as a team
achieve better results than individual oriented companies do. He further asserts that information
technology, motivation, size, wage, goals, training, leadership, and rewards enhance team
productivity and effectiveness. As such, BHP usually empower supervisors to work closely with
other employees to help realize broader organizational goals. Parameters of realizing this
encompass decision making, efficient communication, sharing working experiences, and
evaluating one's weaknesses and strengths. Accordingly, BHP can influence groups and
individuals in the organization by;
Giving employees opportunity of participating in decision making