TBL and Leadership: A Report on Hewlett-Packard's Organization

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Hewlett-Packard's (HP) team-based organizational structure, exploring its historical context and practical applications. The study examines how HP implemented team-based learning (TBL) to enhance productivity and collaboration, detailing the characteristics of a team-based organization, such as shared values, transparent goals, and feedback mechanisms. It delves into the leadership styles prevalent within HP, including transformational and servant leadership, and assesses the impact of team-based settings on leadership power and influence. Furthermore, the report highlights the actions leaders take to foster teamwork, emphasizing empowerment, trust, and shared leadership. The conclusion underscores HP's pioneering role in the TBL model, offering insights for the broader business sector and promoting the adoption of this organizational approach to improve employee engagement and overall business performance.

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Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................2
Organization Learning: Team-based learning............................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Team-based organization: Hewlett-Packard Company..............................................................3
Characteristics and leadership styles of team-based organization.........................................3
Shared values and culture...................................................................................................3
Transparent projects and goals...........................................................................................4
Impact of team-based setting on leadership power and influence.........................................4
Leader’s actions to foster team-work.....................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Abstract
This paper is based on team-based learning in an organization. It is well-aware that all
organizations utilise team-works to achieve organizational goals and targets. With the help of
this paper a research on an organization: Hewlett-Packard which has self-identified being a
team-based organizational entity. In this paper, we have identified the HP firm with a detailed
history on their successful utilisation of team-based learning. Furthermore, to find the
answers of some major questions about the characteristics which make an organization a
team-based one, leadership styles which are utilised in HP organization, the research will be
helpful. Moreover, impacts of team-based setting on leadership power as well as influence in
an organization will be discussed. Thus, this journal has identified the recommended
practices which leaders adopt within an organization to efficaciously foster teamwork.

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Organization Learning: Team-based learning
Introduction
As we know that all organizations utilise teams for an effective operation. Team-
based learning (TBL) is getting popular day-by-day as it provides enhanced productivity with
improved collaboration ( Bevacqua, 2018). The report is based on conducting a research on
an organization which has self-identified as a team-based organization. With the help of this
paper, we have identified the organization as Hewlett-Packard (herein after referred as HP)
with a detailed history on its successful utilisation of teaming (Wisdom , 2018). Besides, the
paper will present characteristics which make any organization a team-based organization
along with the leadership styles which are utilised within selected organization ( Quain,
2019). Moreover, the report will discuss how does a team-based organization setting impact
leadership power as well as influence within an organization.
Team-based organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
In the whole global industry, HP was an early mover towards adopting TBL within
their organization setting. In this context, Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett tried to have an
early as well as thorough understanding about the roles and responsibilities of organizations
in global society ( Bevacqua, 2018). Packard and Hewlett identified that in order to integrate
knowledge as well as the relational network of the workforce in the best positive TBL
approach should be utilised. Thus, the HP Way was a concept that made the difference in
building up an effective organization culture at HP’s workplace. The organization set some
rules for promoting TBL within the organization setting by making teamwork skill a
compulsory skill for the people who join HP and hence they had to learn TBL quickly. Thus,
to adopt TBL within HP’s workplace coaches as well as trainers took care of organization
teams comprise of recently joined workforce (Deloitte Insights, 2016).
Characteristics and leadership styles of team-based organization
The research conducted on TBL within an organization resulted in following key
characteristics, which make any organization a team-based organization:

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Shared values and culture
This characteristic of a team-based organization is driven through organization’s
mission, culture and core values (Bersin, 2016). An organization should have guidelines as
well as value systems to assist people who are working in globally dispersed teams to be
closer to the company’s consumers. Hence HP is having this characteristic of understanding,
measuring as well as aligning culture of their workforce through adopting a trend ‘Shape
Culture, Drive Strategy’ (Wisdom , 2018).
Transparent projects and goals
This characteristic makes any organization a TBL organization as by providing
transparency of company projects and goals, the firm evolves harmony as well as faith among
their team, which allow people to perform efficiently in a team. As we know that employees
working in teams as well as small groups work with other teams and they cannot do so unless
the company goals are clear, company’s financial goals are well communicated and
employees know what their colleagues are operating on. In this way, this characteristic also
allowed HP to grow as a TBL organization ( Quain, 2019). In this way, along with above
mentioned characteristics there are following essential characteristics which make an
organization a team-based organization:
 Feedbacks and free flow of Info
 Employees are rewarded for contribution and skills, not for position
Apart from essential characteristics, leadership styles utilised by the team-based
organizations include transformational, servant, democratic and shared leadership (Rita,
Neda, & Nasrin, 2016).
Impact of team-based setting on leadership power and influence
The team-based setting in HP organization considerably affect the leadership power
and influence as teams are easy to be handled and managed (Markovich, 2018). When the
entire organization is split and organized into different teams for different functions then
leadership power as well as influence will be having great importance as well as effect from
the organizational success viewpoint. For an example, leaders of different teams of the
organization will have more power to understand, manage as well as influence their team
members to get better work than that of non-TBL based organizations (Lubeck, Lois, &
Heidi, 2013).

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Leader’s actions to foster team-work
Leaders of HP put so many efforts within organizational functions to successfully
foster teamwork. HP’s leaders, supervisor or managers focus on facilitation hence their
teams automatically focus on attaining company objectives together. In this way, above
actions of leaders enables true collaboration within the company workplace (Deloitte
Insights, 2016). Hence, leaders of team-based organization introduce and promote
empowerment, trust, goal setting, team accountability, autonomy as well as shared leadership
among their sub-ordinates so that an effective team-work can be fostered in a TBL based
organization ( Bevacqua, 2018). Leaders’ action in team-based organizations also focused on
conflicts management strategies in order to avert team-conflicts to a large extent. Likewise
HP company, leaders’ actions should be always their team-oriented so that team-work can
establish company’s goals, mission as well as vision effectively (Bersin, 2016).
Conclusion
In conclusion, research over team-based organization has been conducted successfully
with the help of Hewlett-Packard organization. The history of the organization within the
context of TBL has been explored and analysed to quote learning for the rest business sector.
With the help of characteristics of TBL organization as well as suggested leadership styles
team-based organizations have been explored. We also studied the impact of team-based
setting on leadership power as well as influence within an organization setting. Moreover,
adopted actions and desirable practices of leaders of HP organization have been studied so
that this new organizational model can be promoted as well as utilised for the betterment of
the global business sector. Hewlett-Packard has been seen as the early mover of this team-
based organizational model which used team-based functioning to enhance the productivity
as well as interest of the employees while working at the workplace.
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