Involving active participation.
Someone with a
hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and
organizing things and in making decisions.
Someone who has hands-on experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it.
"
Hands-on investor" is an investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management.
1.) I'm a 'hands-on' kind of
manager so I don't stay in my office with the door always closed.
2.) Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as
academic qualifications.
3.) She's very much a hands-on manager.