...Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 2. Explanation of Google’s success from a motivational theory perspective-----------2 2.1. Brief introduction of Google’s culture------------------------------------------2 2.2. Hierarchy of Needs Theory and ERG Theory---------------------------------3 2.3. Expectancy Theory---------------------------------------------------------------4 2.4. Three needs theory--------------------------------------------------------------4 3. Hiring practice in Google-----------------------------------5 4. Job design in Google-----------------------------------------6 5. Many questions on hiring practice and job design in Google--------------------------6 6. Practical implications-----------------------7 7. Conclusion--------------------7 8. Reference list---------------------8 Executive summary Google is a successful company among employees and IT industry that vast candidates want to join into Google and become a ‘Googler’ (Page & Brin, 2012). Based on its success, it is obvious that there are many unique strategies implemented in Google. For example, motivational company value, rigorous hiring practices and autonomic job design principles. This report attempts to explore these main tactics behind Google’s success. Besides, it also analyses many motivational theories to evaluate Google’s practices. While all information within this report has come from vast resources, ranging from academic...
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...well-founded salary program with appropriate base pay. Effective incentive pay systems are based on three assumptions; Individual employees and work teams differ in how much they contribute to the company, both in what they do as well as in how well they do it. The company’s overall performance depends to a large degree on the performance of individuals and groups within the company, To attract, retain and motivate high performers and to be fair to all employees, a company needs to reward employees on the basis of their relative performance. There are very few companies in the world that are successful in two realms: its personnel realm and the business realm. It has become common knowledge that Google’s employees love working at Google. They don’t simply like it, they love it. Many of Google’s employees are computer programmers and coders, and it takes more than money to both motivate them and keep them content....
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...what you want them to do because they want to do it.” In the workplace, motivation is a highly studied concept that managers are always seeking to better understand. Knowing what motivates employees can lead to improved productivity, loyalty, and overall employee job satisfaction. Companies like Google are known for a culture of keeping employees happy by offering countless perks such as free health and dental benefits, first class dining facilities, on-site oil change, car wash, dry cleaning, massage therapy, stylists (Cook, 2012). Google understands that people are not motivated by just extrinsic rewards but intrinsic rewards as well. Having no real hierarchy and tiny work groups allow for more independence (Cook, 2012). Google’s success is a reflection of the employee friendly culture that has been fostered and embraced throughout the company. While companies like Google give their employees several reasons to be motivated, many other employers struggle to keep employees engaged and productive. Not every person is motivated by the same thing and the key to keeping employees motivated is knowing what that motivating factor is. Motivation can be very fluid and what motivates an employee today may be different in six months. There are many theories on motivation but the one that this paper will focus on is McClelland’s Need Theory and how it can used to explain a motivational problem as well as describe an intervention to change the behavior. Although many jobs come with its...
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...How Motivational Techniques Affect an Organization: Full Sentence Outline Submitted To: How Motivational Techniques Affect an Organization I. What is motivation? A. “Motivation is defined as the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviors” (Cherry, 2014, para 1). 1. Motivation is what causes a human begin to act in particular way, and defines why a person does something. 2. Motivation involves biological, emotional, social and cognitive factors within a person that initiate or activate a behavior. B. There are three major components to motivation. 1. Activation, persistence, and intensity are the three major components associated within motivating an individual. II. There are two major categories involved with motivation: Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation, and the balance that lies between them, known as the overjustification effect. A. What is Intrinsic motivation? 1. Intrinsic motivation refers to behavior that is driven by internal rewards. a. “Intrinsic motivation occurs when we act without any obvious external rewards” (Coon & Mitterer, 2010, para 2). b. “Intrinsic motivation refers to the reason why we perform certain activities for inherent satisfaction or pleasure” (Brown, 2007, para 1). 2. There are many factors that have been identified as increasing intrinsic motivation. a. Challenge, curiosity, control, cooperation, competition, and recognition are all factors shown in studies...
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...Teamwork at Google Organizational Behavior February 22, 2012 . Teamwork at Google Abstract Teamwork is an increasingly a growing phenomenon in learning organizations. The concept is gaining popularity in this highly competitive business world as it allows organizations to maintain a creative edge and retain innovativeness and synergy in its operations. One of the most popular organizations for making effective use of teamwork is Google. Google fosters a corporate culture which not only supports but also encourages team work through project management and entrepreneurial ventures. This paper explores how Google makes use of team work and how teamwork has led Google to gain the success that it has. It also discusses the importance of teamwork and how it is rewarded at the organization. Research for this paper has largely been done through a thorough examination and literature review of academic sources and company profile. Teamwork at Google Introduction: team work and culture A team has in essence been defined as ‘Groups of employees who have at least some collective tasks and where the team members are authorized to regulate mutually the execution of these collective tasks’ (Delarue, 2003). Effective implementation of teams and team members and tasks can enhance the motivational levels of the employees and give way to higher job satisfaction. However, job satisfaction of employees...
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...Organizational Commitment and Communication - Google Com/530 How can an organization be successful? What does it take? There are many factors that make an organization successful. Google is a great example of an organization that meet the following factors: great leadership, sources of power, motivational theories, and commitment of the workforce. The most important factor is leadership. Bonita C. Stewart, is the vice-president of U.S. sales for Google. According to Stewart, “It is very important, especially today, to lead from behind, and to inspire risk taking as well as innovative thinking. It takes courage to be able to do that. But at the same time, you have to have a depth of knowledge and expertise” (Chappell, 2011, para. 2). It is very important to have discipline to achieve your goals. At Google they have a flat structure rather than a bottom up hierarchy; they believe everybody can come up with great ideas. Having a flat structure makes every employee feel equally important. Eric Schmidt said in an interview, “Google is run by its culture and not by me….We operate under the assumption that everyone including me is extremely dispensable, because ultimately Google is bigger than the individuals who make it. Google is about a mission” (Carlson, 2009, para 3). Organizations use different sources of power that affect group and organizational communication. There are five sources: expert power, positional power, reward power, coercive...
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...employment relationship including: * 2 Internal and 2 external factors which can impact on the employment relationship * 3 different types of employment status and 3 reasons why it is important to clarify/determine an individual’s employment status Employee rights during the employee relationship including: * The importance of work life balance and related legislation concerning holidays, rest periods, working hours and night working * Family/parent related legal support, including maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave and dependents leave * 2 reasons why employees should be treated fairly in relation to pay * The main points of equalities legislation including the concepts of direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation * The concept of the ‘psychological contract’ and examples of policies and procedures which can underpin this Issues to be addressed at the termination of the employment relationship including: * The difference between fair and unfair dismissal * The importance of exit interviews to both parties * The key stages to be followed in managing redundancies and the impact of redundancy on the whole organisation The impact of employment law at the start of the employment relationship, including: * 2 internal and 2 external factors which can impact on the employment relationship There are a number of factors that can hugely impact on the relationship between employees and employers which can be identified...
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...Assessment Brief Distribution date: w/c 20/05/2013 Submission deadline: 29/07/2013 Result and feedback date: 4 weeks from the deadline Assessment Brief Unit Details: Unit Code: Organisations and Behaviour (Unit 3) Programme Name: BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Awarding body: Edexcel Unit Level (QCF): QCF-4 Academic term: May - July 2013 Course Details | Course Name | BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business | Unit number | 3 | Unit Name | Organisations and Behaviour | Credit Value | 15 | Lecturer | Antonios/Hillary/Ousman/Raazia/Sunday/Victor | Hand Out/Issue Date | w/c 20.05.2013 | Submission Deadline | 29 July 2013 | Introduction Students are expected to write a report covering the points listed under each of the learning outcomes. To achieve a pass in this unit, you must successfully address all of the assessment criteria listed (P1-P12). We expect all students to achieve their potentials and would encourage you to address all pass criteria, merit and distinction descriptors. For certain tasks students are encouraged to use real life examples and/or the scenario provided below. There is not set format for this report. However, like all business report you should have an introduction and a conclusion. Scenarios A Coca-Cola Great Britain People often assume that The Coca-Cola Company bottles and distributes its own beverages. For the most part, it does not. The Company's primary...
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...Company Motivational Profile Google is a company which was formed in 1998 by two men; Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The search engine was named “Google” after a similar word “googol” which means a number “1” followed by “100” zeros, meaning “a lot” of information. The two men shared one mission which was to organize information on the internet, making it so everyone could access, making it more useful overtime. When Google.com was formed in 1998, it was basically a search engine which allowed people to search for basic information. Today’s Google.com offers a much broader selection of services which can be found through their search engine. Google also offers many services along with its famous search engine such as Google Maps, You-Tube, Google Apps, Google Earth, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs which are all programs designed to help users find information more efficiently. Google also earns profits through advertising; from displaying text ads for mobile advertising to large and small companies as well. Google first came to light with their first advertising program in 2000 called Ad Words, which was a program that allowed people to see how ads can be useful. Currently, the company is involved into display advertising which is growing rapidly due to products such as their Google Display Network, comprised of over 1 million partnered websites including other Google-owned websites such as YouTube. Google has recently posted a third-quarter revenue of $7.20...
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...Company Motivational Profile In the late 60’s, Dr. Edwin Locke proposed a Goal-setting theory on motivation. His theory asserted that “(1) hard goals produce a higher level of performance (output) than easy goals; (2) specific hard goals produce a higher level of output than a goal of “do your best”; and (3) behavioral intentions regulate choice behavior.”( Locke, Shaw, Searl & Latham,1981) When people are given the appropriate goals and corresponding feedback, they will be more motivated. The Goal-setting theory hinges on five Principles. The goals must contain the following qualities in order to motivate; clarity, challenge, commitment, feedback, and task complexity. The first quality, clarity or specificity, “refers to how clearly a goal informs the performer precisely what he is to do.”( O'Neil, & Drillings, n.d.). Locke’s studies found that test subjects performed better when given a concise goal rather than a vague “do-your-best” goal. In order to posses this quality, a goal should have a specific time frame for completion. The second quality, challenge or difficulty, refers to the fact that the goal must be a significant enough endeavor in order to motivate. Easy goals do not motivate, but goal with a level of difficulty” energize behavior, which is to say that they increase the performer’s effort and persistence.” The challenge provides the impetus, while the clarity quality provides a clear guide of what to do. The goal can’t be unattainable, though, as failure...
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...Asignment Brief Orgin Assessment Brief Distribution date: w/c 20/05/2013 Submission deadline: 29/07/2013 Result and feedback date: 4 weeks from the deadline Assessment Brief Unit Details: Unit Code: Organisations and Behaviour (Unit 3) Programme Name: BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Awarding body: Edexcel Unit Level (QCF): QCF-4 Academic term: May - July 2013 Course Details | Course Name | BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business | Unit number | 3 | Unit Name | Organisations and Behaviour | Credit Value | 15 | Lecturer | Antonios/Hillary/Ousman/Raazia/Sunday/Victor | Hand Out/Issue Date | w/c 20.05.2013 | Submission Deadline | 29 July 2013 | Introduction Students are expected to write a report covering the points listed under each of the learning outcomes. To achieve a pass in this unit, you must successfully address all of the assessment criteria listed (P1-P12). We expect all students to achieve their potentials and would encourage you to address all pass criteria, merit and distinction descriptors. For certain tasks students are encouraged to use real life examples and/or the scenario provided below. There is not set format for this report. However, like all business report you should have an introduction and a conclusion. Scenarios A Coca-Cola Great Britain People often assume that The Coca-Cola Company bottles and distributes its own beverages. For the most part, it does not. The Company's primary business consists of manufacturing...
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...Executive summary The Main aim of this study is to show that the organisation culture actually influence the ability of a business in getting good outcomes by motivating the employees. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANISTION'S CULTURE It can be noticed that now organisation's culture have great importance in the management of human resources for having a growth in corporation or organisations performance and for the better achievements. In many developed countries organisation's culture has been recognised as main source of difference in performance practices. organisation's culture helps us to identify the organisation's beliefs, meanings, values, norms and rituals in which things are done in the organisation. The concept of culture is the environment and executions that organisation develop around their employees working, or to promoted values and statement of beliefs of an organisation (Schein, 2004). In short organisation's culture contains what it has been good at and what has worked in past. these executions and practices are easily accepted by the long term employees often called legends of organisation. these legends helps to new employees to learn things. apart from practices, norms have its own importance within organisation. A norm is a expected behaviour pattern that is part of culture. employees worked according these norms under a organisation. As personality and character shows a person's behaviour similarly, behaviour of a group through the shared norms of organisation...
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...opportunities; converts those opportunities into marketable ideas; adds value through time, effort, and money; and realizes the rewards from these efforts [1]. Entrepreneurs are creative in the form that they think and reason genuinely, are highly motivated and are equipped with the acute amount of knowledge to bring about innovative changes or ideas that can directly impact the economic development. They should possess the willingness to learn take risks as introducing new industries, products, and sectors will not be successfully implemented without having the self-confidence and self-reliance to do so. Ultimately, passion is one of the most vital quality of an entrepreneur because without it, these concepts will most likely be destined to fail eventually. Moreover, a famous motivational speaker and author said “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”- John Maxwell. Innovation is the molding of current ideas and methods of the development of new ideas based upon products already launched in the market. Without innovation, economic growth and development would not be possible and therefore we would be using the same products for decades as well as not increasing our standard quality of living. One of the pioneers...
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...our friends and family for their support and encouragement. Sincerely, Sabine Helou & Timo Viitala Umeå, May 25, 2007 i ~ Summary ~ SUMMARY Motivating employees is essential for any organization aspiring to succeed. However, the process of motivating is not a straightforward one due to the diversity of individual’s needs. The task has been made even more difficult by the fact that personalized needs have altered in recent years. For instance, in many circumstances financial compensation is not considered as the main motivational factor of employees. Due to its innovative and youthful nature, the Information Technology (IT) industry has been considered to be at the forefront of dealing with organizational issues, such as how to motivate employees. Organizations that lie within this industry have adopted various innovative motivational practices. Examples of those include opportunities to work from home, used in parallel with traditional motivational practices, such as pay-for-performance. In general, not all industries have adopted innovative practices in a broader scale, despite the fact that numerous studies have proven their success. This can be due to issues such as general...
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...chosen strategy into organizational action so as to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Strategy implementation is also defined as the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and a better performance. Organizational structure allocates special value developing tasks and roles to the employees and states how these tasks and roles can be correlated so as maximize efficiency, quality, and customer satisfactionthe pillars of competitive advantage. But, organizational structure is not sufficient in itself to motivate the employees. An organizational control system is also required. This control system equips managers with motivational incentives for employees as well as feedback on employees and organizational performance. Organizational culture refers to the specialized collection of values, attitudes, norms and beliefs shared by organizational members and groups. Follwoing are the main steps in implementing a strategy: Developing an organization having potential of carrying out strategy successfully. Disbursement of abundant resources to strategyessential activities. Creating strategyencouraging policies. Employing best policies and programs for constant improvement. Linking reward structure to accomplishment of results. Making use of strategic...
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