Hewlett Packard Case Study

Hewlett Packard Case Study

How HP Trains Its Employees on Project Management

There are several ways and techniques that HP corporations use to train their employees on project management. The major steps they take for this purpose are;

HP develops business and project management skills and capabilities of employees by supporting them with fulfilling their professional needs.

They provide a career and professional development to every employee of the project community

They have taken a hybrid model on the job learning, training courses, interaction with others and networking by formal mentoring (Camilleri, 2016).

HP trains employees on project management through the routine experience and occurrence with it.

Beyond that, the company trains around 30% of its employees on project management networking and participation in a professional association as well as train them through the development of webinar and classroom-based training.

How Training Enables HP Employees to Be Innovative and Manage Multiple Priorities

The way HP trains its employees on project management enables HP employees to be innovative and manage multiple priorities in many ways. Some of those are;

It assists employees to know the importance of innovation for the company's competitive advantage.

It identifies relevant skills and knowledge regarding creativity and innovation

This makes employees be more solution-oriented instead of problems

Training makes employees to mentors and multitasks performers

Such training identifies issues and barriers that affect the innovation and performance of employees (Noe, et.al, 2017).

Being a manager, I would be implementing the aforementioned strategies by; 1) establishing an environment where employees communicate their professional needs and gaps to be filled, 2) introducing opportunities for professional development and allowing every employee to utilize, 3) developing a friendly and high cooperative organizational culture where learnings and experiences are valued and shared so that any of the changes would be implemented and managed accordingly (Zell, 2018).

Challenges

The major challenges include;

The use of similar certified training management systems by all rivals

Retirement of around 20% of trained employees of HP

Gaps between employee knowledge and training

In terms of value, the training program of HP Corporation has considered as the most advanced international/global training program than any of the competitors’ training program (Press Center, 2019).

References

Camilleri, E. (2016). Project Success: Critical Factors and Behaviors. Routledge.

Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

Press Center. (2019). HP Introduces Industry’s Most Advanced Global Partner Training Program–HP University. Press.ext.hp.com. Retrieved 14 September 2019, from https://press.ext.hp.com/us/en/press-releases/2017/hp-introduces-industrys-most-advanced-global-partner-training-pr.html

Zell, D. (2018). Changing by Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard. Cornell University Press.