Google’s Organizational Structure
Google is the fourth-most admired company in the United States. Google was also listed as the top company to work for in both 2007 and 2008. The main reason for this employee admiration is Google’s cross-functional organizational structure, which the company maintains though stellar leadership and innovative management techniques. Read more: Google's Organizational Structure | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6692920_google_s-organizational-structure.html#ixzz21s1Ugo00
Instead of setting goals for them, Google’s management helps their employees meet the objectives that the employees set for themselves. The company sees its managers as leaders who facilitate inspiration and empower employees. Google’s management function controls employee responsibility in similar way to the United States government, through a series of checks and balances. All employees set out and evaluate goals on a quarterly basis. Although Google’s management makes suggestions, employees use metrics that they choose themselves to measure their progress toward their goals. Supervisors act as managers to ensure that the employees meet their own goals, but employees see them as leaders because the employees themselves set the benchmarks.Read more: Google's Organizational Structure | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6692920_google_s-organizational-structure.html#ixzz21sjzc1Hq
Yahoo’s and Google’s organizational structure
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Yahoo first emerged as a personal project of founders David Filo and Jerry Yang in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal Internet interests. The name Yahoo! is actually an acronym for “Yet another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” – which sheds some light on the value that Web community continues to place on its directory-based system – it has for the most part retained a communal