Question

We make IT environments more efficient, productive and secure, enabling fast, flexible
responses to a rapidly changing competitive landscape. We enable organisations to act
quickly on ideas by delivering infrastructure that can be easily composed and
recomposed to meet shifting demands so they can lead in today’s marketplace of
disruptive innovation.

This extract, especially the repetition of “we” is indicative of the fact that groups and
teams are at the core of the company’s success. Do you agree? Provide a balanced
debate by focussing on the HPE employee’s desire to form teams and groups and work within
those structures.

In your answer, by considering certain assumptions, comment on group characteristics that may
have unfolded at HPE over time.

Answer 1

Every organization is human oriented.Every sector is human oriented. It is the humans who are the sole of the organisation thus how can the soul be not part of the body that is when companies refer to "We", it means not only the promoter or the CEO or the CMD but entire company consisting of staffs.

HPE here is talking about the soul of HPE which is the employees and staffs. If we go intra company or organization the team consisting of team members become "We'. When the performance or contribution of employees are looked at, the first thing that is noted is the manager who has contributed effectively and efficiently and the managers then says "We" for his team but this is intra organization thing that we are referring to however this "We', a feeling of belongingness, that is imbibed and felt among the employees of an organization is the most satisfying thing for an employee of course remuneration too is important.

Now to get to the point of "We", the management and human resource department has to come up with an "Organisation Chart" which clearly stipulates roles and responsibilities of the employees. It mentions the hierarchy which needs to be followed and based on the assigned work the employee is evaluated.

Thus here it is very important to make sure that a set of roles,responsibilities and hierarchy is followed to have a team and proper functioning of the team. The team has an assigned manager who not only has get the work done on time and within budget but also to make sure that his or her team members are well looked at and after. This second part is a bit difficult as the manager has to look for personal traits, individual behaviour and group behaviour.

It is difficult to make everyone happy within a team or organisation and that is why training and different activities are planned for employees either as a group or team wise so that all the team members or group members can interact with each other and can develop a good bond.

This is when "We" is justified where every team member or staff is considered a own and assimilated to form a one family and that is how HPE uses "We" despite facing difficulties but finding solution to get over them.