Google Company Case Study

1.0 Introduction

Overall this case study about HR issues occurs in Google’s among the employees and employers. Besides that it also explains about causes, solutions and implementation taken by the Google to cope with the issues. There are few issues occurs in Google are Ineffective working environment, High job requirement, Rising tide of retirements, Challenge in recruitment and Difficulties in culture adaptation. Beside that the causes to the issues are Overnight Operation, Selection focus on merit, early retirement, Challenge in hiring the right person and Complication to fit its policy and benefits. The solutions taken is provide package of services and financial benefits, revised selection criteria, Stock option given to seniorities, Crowd sourcing and Global Human Resource Network. The solution taken had been implemented in Google’s using following implementation benefits according to experience, Diversity Hiring, Restructure of remuneration package, Google Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and Form a Global Human Resource Planning Team. The issues, causes, solutions and implementation are explained briefly in the following chapter.

Moreover there are current issues about HR policies and practises, such as “Monster Malaysia Redefines the Way Employers Search for Talent” (Modi, 2012), where monster Malaysia come out with new application (refer figure 1) which can found the candidates for a job vacancy. Besides that a survey of 405 employees in Malaysia also found that 64% of respondents believe there will be a lack of highly qualified staff in next three years and nearly 40% believe their present employer is not spending appropriately in additional career training and education. More than 54% of employees in Malaysia believ...

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...er the world. Google’s appreciation is the best innovation and this innovation is Google’s bloodline. In all, employees and stockholders of Google vended their Google share, where it is the first year as a public company. This made a large number of early employer’s become millionaire. Overall this case study investigation outcome help Google to improve the issues in their organization and found way of implementing solution that founded for each issue. Moreover GOOGLEPLEX at GOOGLE, every engineer is encouraged to dedicate his 20% of the office hours, to the project of his choice. As an example ORKUT, Google news is the products of that time. The employees of Google are remunerated with many of the office advantages. Moreover HR roles and guidelines bring into line with business model and idea creates Google the greatest exciting young technology firm to work for.