Google vs. Facebook Organisational behaviour12/6/2012Durrell carter|

GOOGLE VS FACEBOOK ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES

In this assignment we will explore how Facebook and Google have different organisational structures and how this affects their businesses and staff members. Facebook and Google are both very large companies and have organizational structures which are similar and also different in the ways they structure their businesses. For example David Braginsky who worked for both Facebook and Google over the past five years wrote that "Google is really big. There are multiple teams doing the same thing and don't know about each other. There are teams that strongly believe that other teams should not exist. There are giant sections of Google that have been described as "non-Google" because of culture drift and acquisitions. When you go to the holiday party, you will not know 95% of the people there”. These groups at Google are informal work groups with set tasks working on a set activity to complete for the business with that task being there only goal until they are issued a new one. Also Google really big task groups offer a lots of different skill sets to the organization with the work being spread out and people carrying out lots of different tasks for the organization, performing them at a high level making the division of labour possible. However with Facebook David Braginsky also says that "Facebook is much smaller, and while you won't know everyone (or even the majority), you will probably recognize 25% of the engineers. There is sometimes duplication of work, but it is almost always intentional, Facebook also only has a tenth of employees as Google has with five having 2,500 and Google having 24,000 as of 2011 as stated on computer world.com.This small work unit from the company which is easier to control. With Google being a tenth the size the