Case Study: Google Inc.

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Google is a multi-billionaire company that was founded by Larry Paige and Sergey Brinn in September 1998. Google housed more than 40,000 employees and it is now still increasing. In 2014, the company has 53,600 employees. There are several products created by Google, some of the well-known are Google Search, Google Scholar and Google App.
As any other company that managed to rise to fame, it was successful due to an exceptional organizational belief and value, Google company is no exception. Google Inc. practices a routine type of working condition for the scalability and its storage solution, managing the large scale application, as well as making a new platform. It is well known that a routine work is more stressful than any other work. …show more content…

Social needs include the need to be in a close relationship with the other employee for a sense of belongingness. Google is always open to suggestion and feedback, both from its employees as well as the users. Most of the time, after google was about to introduce its new product, other employees were allowed to ask questions that they are unsure of to the company’s executive. The communication within the company is almost unrestricted as they are encouraged to socialize and enjoy the company of the other employees and they also provided the employees to socialize with each …show more content…

also practices Job Enrichment as well as Job Enlargement within the organization to further expand the employees experience and skill. Job Enrichment is the practice of giving employees a high degree of control over their work, from planning and organizing through implementation and evaluating the result. Google Inc. in particular, gives its more specialized and professional engineer a greater responsibility and control over their jobs
Job Enlargement is the practice of expanding the content of a job to include more variety and more tasks at the same time. Job enlargement is used to increase the job horizontal loading. Usually, job enlargement is practiced for those who work in a less specialized area. It is used mostly to let the non-specialized employees to gain more experienced trying new position while giving them little by little skills from working in variety of work. This is usually applied to the general clerk and some other low level employees of the

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