1. Culture In
By DIANE CHAN MOI PING10T0053Lecturer: Pg HjhRohaniah Pg HjMetussinModule: UB0201Introduction to University StudiesDate : 6th April 2010
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2. has a very interesting organizational culture
Organization culture
underlyingvalues, 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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3.

Founded in 1997 by

Larry Page
& Sergey Brin

a mathematical term googol

4. the numeral one followed by a hundred zeros 5. objectives - organizing worlds information and make it universally accessible and
useful
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6. 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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8. For example: ski gondolas in Zurich (BBC, Wakefield J. 2008)
This indicates that Google itself is a multi-cultural company.
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9. 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 consuming

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10. t
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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11. 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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12. Employee Benefits:
free healthy food
free laundry
free massage
free medical attention
gym facilities
perpetual wave pools.
snacks and drinks within 100m
most meetings held in cafeteria
20% of their time on their own choice of projects
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13. Fortune's latest 100 Best Companies to Work For
Number 4 in 2010
Number 1 in 2008according to NBC news
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14. 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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15. Their innovations
Google Black
www.freechromethemes.com/Download-Black-Google-Chrome-Theme.php
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18. Life attheGoogleplex
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19. Conclusion:
Google has healthy organizational culture
Google is a multi-cultural company
A 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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20. 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 2010
Website: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/aksoy/files/foreign/HBR%20-%20October%202005.pdf

BBC, Wakefield J. (2008) Google your way to a wacky office, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7290322.stm

Cnet News, Mills E (2007) Meet Googles culture czar, Accessed on 20th March 2010
Website: http://news.cnet.com/Meet-Googles-culture-czar/2008-1023_3-6179897.html

CNN, Fortune Magazine (2010), 100 Best companies to work for, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/

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21. Ecoiron, Ontkush M., (2007), Black Google would save 750 megawatts- hour a year, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html
Google (2010), Corporate, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html
Website: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/
Swartz A. (2006), Goolife, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googlife

Self made mind survey, Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://selfmademinds.com/wp-content/uploads/workfor.JPG

Taragana, Chakraborty A (2005), Accessed on 25th March 2010
Website: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/work-culture-at-google-an-inside-story/
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22. Thank you
for
your patience & listening
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