The google organization
The Google Organization
Nicole Northrop
COM/530 COMMUNICATIONS FOR ACCOUNTANTS
October 23, 2009
Lisa Siegal
The Google organization maintains a small company feel. They want their employees to be comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. They want the employees to maintain and healthy life and work balance. So they provide them with benefits at work, like workout rooms, locker rooms, washers and dryers, massage room, video games, and so much more (Farfan, 2009). It seems to be relaxed with open communication. The culture at Google is informal (Robbins & Judge, 2007). Google takes risks with the way they innovated the culture. Employees can take their dogs to work and they sit on couches with their laptops. They ride bicycles back and forth to meetings to get there faster. The breakfast, lunch and dinner is free at the café which has a chef on hand.
Google has a mission statement which lists the core values that they want the employees and the company to follow. The mission statement states: To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Gaddam, 2008). The core values are things that make the mission statement effective. The core values are as follows:
1. We want to work with great people: we value diversity in people and ideas.
2. Technology innovation is our lifeblood: build the world’s best technology and products.
3. Working at Google is fun: we have a challenging and energetic work environment.
4. Be actively involved: You are Google: honor commitments.
5. Don’t take success for granted: think and act like an underdog.
6. Do the right thing: Don’t be evil: honesty and integrity in all we do.
7. Earn customer and user loyalty and respect every day: create, enhance, and maintain great products and services.
8. Sustainable long-term growth and profitability are key to our success: think scale and efficiency.
9. Google cares about and supports the communities where we work and live: We
Nicole Northrop
COM/530 COMMUNICATIONS FOR ACCOUNTANTS
October 23, 2009
Lisa Siegal
The Google organization maintains a small company feel. They want their employees to be comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. They want the employees to maintain and healthy life and work balance. So they provide them with benefits at work, like workout rooms, locker rooms, washers and dryers, massage room, video games, and so much more (Farfan, 2009). It seems to be relaxed with open communication. The culture at Google is informal (Robbins & Judge, 2007). Google takes risks with the way they innovated the culture. Employees can take their dogs to work and they sit on couches with their laptops. They ride bicycles back and forth to meetings to get there faster. The breakfast, lunch and dinner is free at the café which has a chef on hand.
Google has a mission statement which lists the core values that they want the employees and the company to follow. The mission statement states: To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Gaddam, 2008). The core values are things that make the mission statement effective. The core values are as follows:
1. We want to work with great people: we value diversity in people and ideas.
2. Technology innovation is our lifeblood: build the world’s best technology and products.
3. Working at Google is fun: we have a challenging and energetic work environment.
4. Be actively involved: You are Google: honor commitments.
5. Don’t take success for granted: think and act like an underdog.
6. Do the right thing: Don’t be evil: honesty and integrity in all we do.
7. Earn customer and user loyalty and respect every day: create, enhance, and maintain great products and services.
8. Sustainable long-term growth and profitability are key to our success: think scale and efficiency.
9. Google cares about and supports the communities where we work and live: We
References: 1. Ajit Gaddam. (2008). List of Google Core Values. Retrieved from http://www.askstudent.com/google/list-of-google-core-values/ 2. Barbara Farfan. (2009). Google profile – mission statement, history, founders, name, culture and quotes. Retrieved from http://retailindustry.about.com/od/topusretailcompanies/p/googleprofile.htm 3. Google. (September 2009). Corporate Information: Our Philosophy. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html 4. Google. (September 2009). Corporate Information: the Google culture. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/culture.html