By DIANE CHAN MOI PING

By DIANE C`HAN MOI PING 10T0053

Lecturer: Pg Hjh Rohaniah Pg Hj MetussinModule : UB0201Introduction to University StudiesDate : 29th March 2010

Culture In

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has a very interesting organizational culture Organization culture underlying values, beliefs, and principles or the set of practices and behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles by the Organization management system define by Denison (1990)

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Founded in 1997 by Larry Page & Sergey Brin

a mathematical term googol the numeral one followed by a hundred zeros objectives - organizing worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful

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Headquarter located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View , California

69 Branch offices located in cities such as New York, Canada, London, Russia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China ~10,000 employees

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For example: ski gondolas in Zurich (BBC, Wakefield J. 2008)

This indicates that Google itself is a multi-cultural company.

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Who does not Google nowadays? In fact most people google

Compare 20 years ago, search information in nearest libraries or book stores Need transportation, availability, time consumingNow

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not the first search engine

one of the best, fastest and reliable search engines in this century

design to suits its nation language like

remarkable powerful in multi-cultural languages

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The companys phenomenal success is from Googles corporate culture: Philosophy -Ten things we know to be true

Employee satisfaction Innovations technology Green initiatives

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Employee Benefits:free healthy foodfree laundryfree massagefree medical attentiongym facilitiesperpetual wave pools. snacks and drinks within 100mmost meetings held in cafeteria20% of their time on their own choice of projects

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Fortune's latest 100 Best Companies to Work For Number 4 in 2010 Number 1 in 2008 according to NBC news

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Isnt it good to work with friendly and flexible environment?

Goolife: How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (Swartz A., Goolife, 2006)

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Their innovations

Google Black www.freechromethemes.com/Download-Black-Google-Chrome-Theme.php

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Life at the Googleplex

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Conclusion:Googles has healthy organizational culture

Google is a muti-cultural company

Thus good guideline for others not only looking into the profit value

Stress is the root to most health problems Practice green initiatives

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References:

Brown A. (1995), Organizational Culture, Pitman Publishing, Great Britain.

Battelle J. (2005) The search how Google and its rival rewrote the rules of Business and transformed our culture, Accessed on 27th March 2010Website: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/aksoy/files/foreign/HBR%20-%20October%202005.pdfBBC, Wakefield J. (2008) Google your way to a wacky office, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7290322.stmCnet News, Mills E (2007) Meet Googles culture czar, Accessed on 20th March 2010Website: http://news.cnet.com/Meet-Googles-culture-czar/2008-1023_3-6179897.htmlCNN, Fortune Magazine (2010), 100 Best companies to work for, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/

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Ecoiron, Ontkush M., (2007), Black Google would save 750 megawatts- hour a year, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html

Google (2010), Corporate, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.htmlWebsite: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/

Swartz A. (2006), Goolife, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googlifeSelf made mind survey, Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://selfmademinds.com/wp-content/uploads/workfor.JPGTaragana, Chakraborty A (2005), Accessed on 25th March 2010Website: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/work-culture-at-google-an-inside-story/

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Thank you for your patience & listening

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