Reflection #2: The Ideal Workplace
After watching informative videos in class, the company that stood out to me was Google from hearing about what their company has to offer. I am very familiar with Google as I use their website or a regular basis to search up information or for school work. It is the most popular and trusted search engine used by 1.17 billion people to make 3.5 billion searches each day. Google is evolving to not only just being a search engine but have now released their own smart speaker call Google Home which allows you to use voice commands to interact with services through Google's intelligent personal assistant called Google Assistant.
To keep Google up and running they rely on their 62,000 hardworking employees.
This is not a workplace I would see myself in as the company only is focused on the work that gets put out and not their employees. An ideal work place which I’m looking for is where the company or business recognizes you for who you are and not for the work you do also supports their employees and their personal lives. I would want to work where you are able to advance your career and are able to grow in the company, whereas google is such a big company and has many employees which some may find it hard to grow or have their ideas and work shared among the
The lighting in the office or facility would have to be soft and not harsh where it irritates your eyes. It will have to be inviting and comfy for both employees, customer or patients to enjoy and feel welcomed to want to come back. large open areas to work and collaborate would be ideal for me as most work places only offer small work spaces that may be being used or taken up by others.
The staff in this workplace are friendly and helpful. Everyone at the job get along and there are very few disputes between employees. All are treated fairly and there’s minimal to no drama in the workplace. Many of the employees are young and will only be working for extrinsic rewards as they would be just starting their careers. As they adjust and adapt to the work and environment they’re attitude will lean more to do their job for intrinsic rewards and the satisfaction of helping others since you will no longer be focusing on your status and the job you
To discuss work, one must first of all try to define work. Once one starts to think about this definition however, one finds that there are as many definitions of work as there are people. Experts such as sociologists have been trying to reach a definite answer, yet they can never agree between them. Although it is accepted that work is that time which is not leisure, one is then confounded with trying to find a definition for leisure. Stanley Parker reached a compromise by dividing our time in five sections, merging from pure work to pure leisure. However this difficulty in defining work should point out that these many different definitions lead to different attitudes, with the result that one can never generalise.
A big thing to me when it comes to what I look for in a working environment, is that the employees get along with one another as well as the employers and their employees. Having tension in a workplace in a nursing setting the patients can see it, and in return have them feeling uneasy by the environment; which is something we as noses never want to do. A major thing with me is that I feed off of energy, so being able to work in a positive setting is very important, because it makes the hardest days not as dreadful. Some other factors that I think result in a great working environment is open communication, being helpful towards others in your workplace, leadership, trust, understanding, and overall for the working environment to have a strong team
One of the Google`s strategies is the motivation of employees based on benefits and facilities; it is possible to see cases when people prefer to work at Google instead other companies where the salary is higher. However, by analyzing the case it is possible to find not only positives, but also negatives points in the company`s environment that may affect the employees` motivation.
Google is an example of a business that employs an intrapreneurship approach, giving staff time for personal projects. As a result, Gmail was created and launched in 2004. Currently Gmail is one of the world’s most popular webmail
The Google company has engaged the controlling location and position in its industry since the launching due to its unique product which is a result of its unparalleled working location. Google has moved out on to achieve the largest share of online searching engine as it affords its users with a product that is difficulty exchanged even though there are a lot of challengers. By analyzing and examining the internal and external environment of the company, it is obvious that Google company is running un efficient machine, giving attention to the most of customers and it ensure that it offers a quick and reliable product to its customers.
Google tries to retain its employees and evaluate them in a quantitative but also qualitative manner. In fact, the company made its work environment colorful and vehicles the image of a fun place to work through what it proposes. For example, employees can have free snacks or bring their pet at the office or go to the gym etc... Employees can benefit from flexible working hours and have some time for their self-directed projects which shows the importance of the creativity and innovation from each and in every departmen...
Google and Apple. You know, the companies that teenagers adore, adults love, and children enjoy. Google is your best friend for homework, and their phone operating system, Android, has a plethora of apps, not to mention numerous OEM's. Apple is the company that creates high end, easy to learn products. They make you pay a premium for their products ($2,000 for a MacBook Pro, everyone!). Apple is one of the few companies that doesn't have to do anything to be cool, they just are cool. Lots of people think of Apple as the cool one, while Google is considered your best friend for homework. What about Microsoft?
Working in today’s society has changed in the last few decades. The economy and technology are the main reasons for this change. The type of job and environment where one works has also changed. The fact that many people work from home via the internet has drastically changed the workforce and the environment surrounding it. With this change have come new demands, expectations, and opportunities for employers. Everyone deals with these demands differently, affecting the employee’s quality of life and job satisfaction. Though the job and office types and locations have changed over the years the need for job satisfaction has not. In today’s economy the job is not as stable as it used to be. One must be prepared for changes in the future.
Google is a public corporation that deals with Internet searching, advertising, and Web-based computing technology. All these have developed from an initial search engine and the company continues to advance even to date with partnerships and acquisition of other companies and products. All of these are due to its formulation and maintenance of a unique corporate culture that other organizations have to follow in order to be as successful (Rachet, B. 2014). What makes up Google 's strong culture are values that are widely accepted and strongly held (Rachet b. 2014). Google has topped the list of Fortune 100’s Best Companies to Work for 4 times (Kim, J. 2013). Although Google has many perks on their work campus, the real formula behind their
Google’s approach towards their employees is also obvious in CEO Sundar Pichai’s leadership style of ‘Letting others succeed’, by empowering people at all levels of the organization and trusting them to doing the right thing. He said,
innovative companies of the world due to the creation of differentiated products such as iPod,
It was once a common belief that if employees worked hard, showed up on time and followed the rules that they would be guaranteed a job for life. However, over the last decade there have been changes in the workplace. There are two main causes for this change. The changes in the work place in the twenty-first century are being caused by advancements in technology and expansions in globalization through the Internet.
At my work place, each member of the team is influenced and guided by the teams overall vision and strategic direction. We do have policies and procedures, which reflect the vision and strategic direction of the team. If we look at the governments vision‘Your health, your care, your say’, one area of this vision is ‘Protection’. The importance of ensuring, that there are sensible safeguards policy in place, against the risk of abuse or neglect as risk, is no longer an excuse to limit people’s freedom. My workplace has policies and procedures, to safeguard the service users e.g. risk assessments, care plans, adequate training etc. These policies and procedures, influence the way the team meet that vision and also provide the staff
Employee focus (Google has a unique culture and policies to promote innovation. The company strives to employ the most qualified applicants and reward the greatest contributors, in order to promote good performance and facilitate hiring and retention)
To excel in the workplace, the expectations of an employee include more than what they do physically. They also include the mental and social aspects, particularly if that employee is expected to work with a diverse set of individuals to complete certain tasks. After all, all types of people seek out employment and discrimination in the workplace is unacceptable since all people deserve a chance to work for a living. Each individual has the responsibility to not only be able to work with others, but to make working with each other a pleasant experience so as to make teamwork and communication easier.With all parts of a company working smoothly, the success of the overall company is assured.