BHP Career Fit Analysis

This assignment involves evaluating the suitability of a career at BHP Billiton by analyzing the alignment between personal strengths, values, and the company's culture, principles, and work environment. It includes a SWOT analysis of both the individual and the organization, research on BHP's values and practices, and an assessment of how the individual's goals and aspirations fit within the company framework.

Running head: MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
Management Perspective
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s note

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Summary of Organisation................................................................................................................2
BHP..............................................................................................................................................2
Methodology....................................................................................................................................4
Self-assessment tools...................................................................................................................4
Natural occurring data.................................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis...............................................................................................................................6
Diversity..........................................................................................................................................8
Organisation fit................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference list:................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
This assignment has been delegated to management students and the purpose of the
assignment is to learn logically and to analyze the theory and practices of organisational
behaviour, organisational culture, politics and the changes that impact the business environment.
Furthermore, the assignment deals with finding out personal strengths and weaknesses from my
own perspective and also from the point of view of others around. The aim of the assignment is
to find out whether I am fit to work in the chosen organisation and whether the work
environment and the organisational practices are suitable for my career growth and development.
By focusing on culture and the managerial practices of the company I will understand the nature
of the business that the company engages in and will also give me an idea about the practical
world.
A personal SWOT analysis has been undertaken in this assignment which is based on the
self assessment test that has been conducted. This analysis will help me determine whether I am
fit to be employed in the organisation of my choice.
Summary of Organisation
BHP
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, BHP Billiton is a multinational company that
operates in the mining industry and the market leader in providing diversified natural resources.
The company has a long trail of heritage and a history of more than 130 years of incorporation,
which adds to the goodwill of the company. In 2001 Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited

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of Australia and Anglo-Dutch Billiton Plc amalgamated to form the BHP, which is previously
known as BHP Billiton. The company has goodwill with all the stakeholders and is also proud to
boast about their employee retention rate. The organisation ensures an excellent combine of
quality in terms of products and services, low-cost resource assets (Home Page, 2017). The
quality of the product and service is further complemented by a strong management team to keep
the operations of the business aligned with the objectives of the company (Cascio 2014).
Positive: As multinational company that operates in the heavy industry, BHP has the opportunity
of career growth and personal development through training and skill improvement sessions that
are initiated by the company (Terera & Ngirande 2014). The company follows a democratic
leadership style which ensure that all issues and grievances of the employees will be given equal
importance, not only that the company will also recognize the voice of employees while taking
any decision as well. The organisational structure that the company follows is the matrix
structure which perfectly aligns with the leadership style that has been mentioned above. Team
work is given precedence instead of personal focuses and people who are a team player learns
and grown in the business (Terera & Ngirande 2014).
Negative: The organisational structure of BHP encourages team work and hence people might
feel a personal negligence regarding the performance this process also narrows down the
prospect of personal growth as well. The matrix structure can also give rise to internal conflicts
and issues. Internal complexity in this organisation structure has high possibility. The hierarchy
in this structure is not clear and this may give rise to confusion and chances of
miscommunication within the organisation. For example, varied perspective regarding the same
task may be given to an employee. In the long run this may impact the operations of the business
as well.

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Methodology
The methodology that has been followed in order to complete this assignment is
secondary in nature as the data that has been used to conclude the assignment are all taken from
information that was already available. No new information has been gathered in the process of
completion of this assignment. The information that has been gathered is taken form relevant
journal articles and also from analyzing the official website of BHP. As BHP has a very
informative official website information regarding the company was easily available along with
the history of incorporation and the merger. Information regarding the employment policies and
past experiences of the employees are gathered from the internet. Several news articles regarding
BHP has also analyzed to form an insight about the organisational structure.
The information that has been used while conducting this assignment is mostly sourced
from journal articles from Google scholar and Torrens University Library. The news papers or
more specifically the online news papers are one of the most valuable sources of information.
Self-assessment tools
The first tool of self assessment that has been used by me is the personal value survey.
The principles and values that a person follows in life ensure what is important and what is
unimportant to that person. It helps in ensuring the characteristics of an individual in term of the
values the person owns. There are six values that have been taken into consideration while
conducting this survey: wisdom and knowledge, humanity, courage, justice, temperance,
transcendence (Robinson et al., 2013). All these aspects are values as well as strengths in the
personality which will not only help an individual choose what is important it also represents the

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how a person will excel I life using some of these aspects. The wisdom and knowledge value or
strength represents the cognitive development in an individual and the level at which a person is
open to knowledge and learning. Humanity: the strength to think and to act according to the
interest of others. Courage: the use and the power of will that ensures the success of an
individual in achieving the objectives. Justice: this refers to the sense and perspective of a person
in leading a healthy social life. Temperance: anything in excess is not right and this value deals
with that aspect of strength. Transcendence: deals with the intellect and the abstract aspect of life
beyond what can be seen and observed. Thus, this survey provides a holistic approach towards
the personality of an individual (Robinson et al., 2013).
The other tool that has been employed in order to conduct self assessment is the Briggs
Myers & Jung typology personality test, developed from the approach suggest by Carl jung and
Isabel Briggs Myers. Four aspects of general attitude in an individual have been identified:
extrovert and introvert, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling lastly judging and perceiving.
The score of the test that has been undertaken reflect ENTJ (Tananchai, 2017).
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence Area Score
Emotional Awareness 33
Emotional Management 27
Social Emotional Awareness 32
Relationship Management 32

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As far as emotional intelligence is concerned, I am fairly an emotionally aware and
intelligent person. However, I am not very temperamental, and do not believe in showing my
emotions unless required. According to the Quick Emotional Intelligence Assessment tool, I
scored highest under Emotional Awareness. Unarguably I am aware of my emotions and I prefer
to keep them in check, and they form an important element in my life. Nonetheless, I do not
reveal all too easily. I wouldn’t call myself as someone with bottled up tendencies, I prefer to
keep my emotions to myself, and only describe them when an opportunity makes itself available.
As a result, Emotional Management is an area that I need to improve upon. I have felt this need
to, and in order to be competent in personal and professional domain, it is going to be absolutely
necessary that I work in improving the way I manage emotions. As it is, in workplaces, emotions
are secondary and practicality is most important. In my case, as I am fairly aware of my social
awareness quotient, it aids me to socialize well however not use my temperament too much
while I am at it. As a result, I am able to maintain social graciousness as well as showcase
feelings of empathy and sympathy depending on the situation. This particular ability of mine
extends itself to help me in relationship management. I am particularly aware that relationships
need to be managed in order to yield benefits – personally and professionally. Therefore, I am
friendly and approachable and open to meeting new people and expanding my network – all
qualities which are specifically important in one’s career and its advancement.

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Natural occurring data
While conducting the test of self assessment all the information that I have used is
naturally occurring. Some of the examples of naturally occurring data are conversations, casual
observations, information that has been perceived by reading an informal text etc. Data collected
for the any research or analysis purpose can be gathered with the help of two sources firstly the
information that is already available in the topic, this kind of data is known as the secondary data
(Stanley & Rebecca, 2016). Next, is the primary information it is the data that can be collected
from the new information that is gathered from various tools. As discussed before that the
information used in this assignment are data that is already available natural occurring data is a
type of secondary data that is available without any intention of conducting any academic
research (Howard et al., 2016). This is also a source of information in this assignment. Three
kinds of naturally occurring data have been used: casual conversation, information that is
collected from personal log and information that is gathered with the help of entertainment. The
conversations that I have conducted with my peers or professor have helped him understand the
industry in which I am interested in. The personal log that I maintain provides information
regarding the preference and taste that I pursue in terms of my career choice and field of
operation (Naslund et al., 2014). On the other hand entertainment is a great source of naturally
occurring information; with the help of Series, movies and books that I have grown up with has
assured that I want to be associated with a multinational company, I have also learnt
professionalism and about organisational behavior through television series and I aspire to be
like them as well (Alias et al., 2014).

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Common Strength
Themes from Feedback
Examples Provided Possible Interpretation – to my life /
to my leadership
Creative My writing and
communication skills
It will enable me to foray into creative
fields –media and arts
Optimistic Prefer to look at the bright
side
Be able to look for solutions in worst-
case scenarios and emerge winner
Self-motivated Prefer to do things on your
own; minimal support
needed
Able to work independently, a self-
starter

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SWOT Analysis
Strength
 Curiosity and urge to learn
 Optimism at every aspect
 Rationally analyzing situation
 Efficient and can work under pressure
 Communication and academic skills
 Hard working and urge to work
 Creative and innovative
 Focused
 Team spirit and collective working
Weakness
 Can be a little stubborn and swayed by
an idea
 Impatient at times
 Can be deemed as been rude and cold
 Unable to monitor emotional
breakdowns
 Social skills
Opportunity  Motivated and inspired by inspirational
people
 Have the urge to learn and develop

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skills
 Build a career and excel in the field of
choice
 Learn new relevant software to grown
in the career (Personal SWOT
Analysis, 2017)
Threat
 Obstruct decision making in both
professional and personal life
 Possibility of hampering the self
confidence in the long run
 Least knowledge and understanding
about finance and money management
(Addams & Allfred, 2013).
The learner is aware of the strengths and the weaknesses in the personality and aspires to
work on the weakness by harnessing the strengths in the long run. Form the Personal value
survey that has been undertaken it is evident that the strength is transcendence. This shows the
optimism and will power and also how I can balance the stress of life with the help of humor and
spirituality. Form the conversations I can say that I am always a good listener which provides me
with an opportunity to learn in every aspect of life moreover the urge to know more, aligns with
this aspect of my personality. The weakness that I have are directly impacting the threats and it

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can be said that by working on the weaknesses I will be able to overcome the threats that have
been stated as well (Addams & Allfred 2013).
From the management perspective I am in a position where I think I can easily accept the
organisation culture and the management structure of the company of my choice without any
issues as curiosity drives an individual to learn and adopt to the work environment (Personal
SWOT Analysis, 2017). In order to continue working and growing in an organisation it is
important for me to stay in sync with the organisational behavior (Howard et al., 2016).
Diversity
Diversity in organisation is regarded as strength that as it ensure varied perspective form
different back ground. This in turn provides the organisation an understanding of the consumers
who are also usually diversified in nature. For a multinational company it is more suitable as the
organisation operates on the foundation of acceptance of diversity. For example: during ideation
of a strategy is helpful if the inputs are varied in nature (Herring & Henderson, 2015).
Organisation fit
The organisation that has been discussed before is BHP. The analysis of the SWOT
focuses on the creativity and the innovation desire that I have in my career which matches with
the purpose of the organisation. The structure of the organisation discussed before is matrix and
hence the possibility of growth and development in the career with the help of creativity and
innovation is possible. As the strengths that are discussed is aligned with this aspect of the
characteristic, working in this organisation will prove to be helpful for my career (Naslund et al.,
2014).

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Another aspect of the organisational culture and behavior that is in sync with the strength
and opportunity that I have is that the company believes in team work and collective
development of the group more than giving priority to personal performance. This kind of set up
is advantageous for a person who is focused in the work to outshine others and gain personal
development along with the development of the team (Howard et al., 2016).
The values and principle that BHP follows are also suitable for me these are also on the
similar lines the company indulges in CSR activities which uplifts the brand image and also
makes the workers of the organisation feel that their work is also bringing some value to the
people and the environment as well. This will make the acceptance of a new place easier for me.

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Conclusion
There are almost 45,000 workers of BHP and many of these have been a long term
employee proving that the employee retention rate of the organisation is high and the
environment and work culture is works on the favor of the employees. Hence, it can be said that I
can fit in BHP and match up to the organisation behavior and can also grow and explore
opportunities in career. As a multinational organization the employment can also provide me
with an opportunity to travel as well.

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