Research and analysis

Research and analysis

2A: ARTICLE ANALYSIS

In an organisation, managers lead people towards meeting its objectives. ‘The process of planning, organising, leading and controlling the effort of organisation members and of using all organisation resource to achieve stated organisational goals’ has been described as management. Managers has been a part of organisation from very early stage of its history.

1. In the article we are analysing, I believe the main argument is about if we actually need managers, especially in fields like engineering where workers want to spend their time designing and debugging, not communicating with bosses or supervising other workers’ progress. 2. Google, as stated in the article, has used data to determine whether managers are essential or not. They have used a small group and test data within the company. 3. By using data, they have examine this issue. Processing data which has been collected from people in google, they have tired come to a solution which has been called people analytics. 4. Managers has been a part of organisation from the beginning. This research clearly indicates that for success, we really need to keep with the basic while most of the organisations are looking for shiny new ideas. The model of Google is not unique to Google. It focuses on the basic and with every organisation and manager. Management is skill, not knowledge. The best cyclist becomes even better only by practicing hours after hours. They cannot improve themselves just by reading few books about cycling. 5. By reading this article and analysing Google Oxygen finding I think business managers can learn followings: * Being a good coach – Managers should be a good coach to train and improve their team members. Providing feedback and having one-on-one meeting can improvise managerial skills.