Learning Team A
Management Theory and Practice/MGT 230
Management Essay on GOOGLE
There should be no doubt that the four functions of management (Planning, Organizing, Staffing and Controlling) is effected by internal as well as external factors. When dealing with internal factors it is easy to note that the companies with the most success tend to manage this area the best. Companies that capitalize on the diversity of their employees can incorporate a ethics statement into the company are far ahead of their competitors. These internal factor can touch functions of management. How the company plans the future, how they staff the company, how they control, and organize the direction of the company. The company will look to make both ethical, and that allow the diversity of the company to be an asset. External factors can be just as important to a company’s success or ultimate failure. The difference is these factors are outside the span of control of a company. Such factors are Globalization, Technology and Innovation. These factors will have an influence on who they may try to hire, how companies plan and control the company vision going into the future as well as how they decide to organize assets for the coming years. Our team will use the GOOGLE Company as an example to show these various ideas. Google is the youngest and number three leading company according to (Sullivan, 2013)! It believes in continuous innovation through great people management versus “hunch-based” and recommendation dominated management decisions. They are the only data-driven based human resources organization (Sullivan, 2013)! This form of management is called people management through analytics, and consists of a plethora of charts, graphs, and data as a basis for making decisions (Sullivan, 2013). Google’s internal factors approach affects the way that they
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