Google Hr Strategy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of the project is to give information about Google Company, its organizational culture, its recruitment & selection process, to discuss the concept of empowerment and its relevance to Google, to discuss the management problems that Google faces in the coming years because of growth rate. The information about co-founders of Google is given. Their backgrounds and their experiences about how to create Google are introduced. Since a company’s organizational culture is very important for its success, Google’s organizational culture is deeply examined. Its very different and untraditional organizational culture can attract most talented engineers in IT industry. It is discussed that Google is one of the companies who combines technological innovation with its strong organizational culture. The workplace of Google is explained by some examples. The recruitment & selection process of Google is also provided in details. How Google recruits most talented engineers, whose academic careers and technical qualifications are very strong, is mentioned. When selecting employees among very huge amount of candidates, what kind of questions Google recruitment team asks in interviews are all examined. The empowerment concept is explained and how Google’s empowerment model is illustrated. The roles of manager have been changed because of new waving management thinking. Instead of giving commands and keeping employees under control; sharing information, trusting managers, being concentrated on the company’s goals are being preferred in the concept of empowerment. Some management problems are criticized and the points being not agreed are explained in details.
1. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE
The founders of Google, Larry Page and Serge Brin studied computer science at Stanford University and they were graduated from the university in 1995 (Google, 2007). Larry and Serge had a summer project about a search engine and they started working for
The purpose of the project is to give information about Google Company, its organizational culture, its recruitment & selection process, to discuss the concept of empowerment and its relevance to Google, to discuss the management problems that Google faces in the coming years because of growth rate. The information about co-founders of Google is given. Their backgrounds and their experiences about how to create Google are introduced. Since a company’s organizational culture is very important for its success, Google’s organizational culture is deeply examined. Its very different and untraditional organizational culture can attract most talented engineers in IT industry. It is discussed that Google is one of the companies who combines technological innovation with its strong organizational culture. The workplace of Google is explained by some examples. The recruitment & selection process of Google is also provided in details. How Google recruits most talented engineers, whose academic careers and technical qualifications are very strong, is mentioned. When selecting employees among very huge amount of candidates, what kind of questions Google recruitment team asks in interviews are all examined. The empowerment concept is explained and how Google’s empowerment model is illustrated. The roles of manager have been changed because of new waving management thinking. Instead of giving commands and keeping employees under control; sharing information, trusting managers, being concentrated on the company’s goals are being preferred in the concept of empowerment. Some management problems are criticized and the points being not agreed are explained in details.
1. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE
The founders of Google, Larry Page and Serge Brin studied computer science at Stanford University and they were graduated from the university in 1995 (Google, 2007). Larry and Serge had a summer project about a search engine and they started working for
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