Motivation And Motivation At Google

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Motivating and Rewarding
We are about to dive into great detail about how Google goes about making their employees happy and how they are rewarded, we will also compare these to the HR theories used by the likes of Guest, Pfeffer ,Hawthorne and Scientific Management by Frederick Taylor.
Motivating
has various methods of motivation and rewarding their treasured employees. These motivational factors serve as long term strategy for the company and ensure that their staff work at an optimum level while being rewarded appropriately and maintaining high morale in the process. One of Google’s long term objective is to create challenging jobs to attract unique individuals whom have far beyond average skills for example Engineers at Google are encouraged to take up to 20% of their time for developing new products or improving of existing ones this is normally done through team work Just as Pfeffer Best practise describes “Employee involvement and information sharing” to further elaborate on this point one of the founders of Google stated “Google tends to hire problem solvers, Do it yourself spirit, they are some of the nicest and brightest people I’ve met. Thats the most pleasant part about working at google”-Ben Stoddard (Lyubomira Angova & Nevena Dragoshinova,07/02/2013) This organization also provides many incentives that make working at Google an immense experience, in order to keep their workers at the top of their game in terms of innovation, work ethic and creativity, Perks such as Employees being referred to as “Googlers” rather than workers thus eliminating or reducing status differentials as stated by Pfeiffer’s best practise. Hrm department at Google is in sy...

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...t work at for the money, People work at Google to change the work with it enjoying their lives.” (Pradeep 03/20/2010) this is testimony of how well Google rewards their employees to an extent that salary is of secondary importance,as contribution is of primary importance. The innovative culture at has played a major part in moulding its employees perception when it comes to salary unlike any other organization as this is not viewed important than the work carried, it’s almost as if Googlers are both rewarded and motivated by the great work they do of changing & improving the web interface in an attempt of internet dominance making Google the best browser out there, This is the same level of commitment, flexibility, and quality demonstrated in Guest model of HRM.
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