Google's Culture of Innovation and Employee Satisfaction
1. Culture In By DIANE C`HAN MOI PING 10T0053Lecturer: Pg HjhRohaniah Pg HjMetussinModule : UB0201–Introduction to University Studies Date : 29th March 2010 1
2. has a very interesting organizational culture Organization culture underlyingvalues, beliefs, and principles or the set of practices and behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles by the Organization management system define by Denison (1990) 2/8
6. Headquarter located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View , California 69 Branch offices located in cities such as New York, Canada, London, Russia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China ~10,000 employees 4
11. t not the first search engine one of the best, fastest and reliable search engines in this century design to suits its nation language like remarkable powerful in multi-cultural languages 8
12. The company’s phenomenal success is from Google’s corporate culture: Philosophy -Ten things we know to be true Employee satisfaction Innovations technology Green initiatives 9
13. Employee Benefits: free healthy food free laundry free massage free medical attention gym facilities perpetual wave pools. snacks and drinks within 100m most meetings held in cafeteria 20% of their time on their own choice of projects 10
14. Fortune's latest “100 Best Companies to Work For” Number 4 in 2010 Number 1 in 2008 according to NBC news 11
15. Isn’t it good to work with friendly and flexible environment? Goolife: How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (Swartz A., Goolife, 2006) 12
16. Their innovations Google Black www.freechromethemes.com/Download-Black-Google-Chrome-Theme.php 13
20. Conclusion: Google’s has healthy organizational culture Google is a muti-cultural company Thus good guideline for others not only looking into the profit value Stress is the “root” to most health problems Practice green initiatives 17
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