Book : Organizational Behavior Author : P.Robbins & Seema Sanghi Case Incident "Data Will Set You Free"

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ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY & BEHAVIOR
(MGT-241)
ASSIGNMENT NO 01
NAME: M. SULEMAN AMJAD CHEEMA
ENROLLMENT: 01-235162-058
CLASS: BS (IT) SECTION: 4B
DATE: 19-02-2018
SUBMITTED TO: Talat Rehman
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Department of Computer Science
BAHRIA UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
Case Incident 1:
DATA WILL SET YOU FREE
Summary:
 Frees scale is a semiconductor manufacturing company.
 Free scale has developed an elaborated and extensive set of metrics in order to manage its
24000 employees in 30 countries.
 To them retaining employee is the top priority.
 To them, if a tenured employee walks out of the door it’s not just the person leaving, it’s that
persons skills, network and knowledge.
 Free scale holds its line managers accountable for recruiting, hiring and retaining employees.
 Patel (DirectorGlobal Talent) providescensus datatoits line managersbutat the endof the day
it’s the responsibility is theirs.
 Patel alsoprovidesbenchmarkdatatoits managersso that theycan compare theireffectiveness
with other units.
Questions:
1. Why do you think Freescale focuses on matrices? Why don’t more organization follow its
approach?
Ans. “Freescale has discovered that in order to have the right people at the right time to do the
right job, it need an extensive and elaborate set of metrics to manage 24000 employees in 30
countries”. By focusing on metrics and set metrics, organization will know what they need form
employees and for what. To set metrics for any organization require lot of data, collecting and
maintain of past data is very difficult. So many organizations don’t follow this approach.
2. As a manager, would you want to be accountable for the acquisition and retention of
employees you supervise? Why or Why not?
Ans. Yes, as a manager I would want to be accountable for the acquisition and retention of
employees I supervise because, I can know what they capable off and use them more
efficiently.
3. In general, what do you think are the advantages and limitations of such metrics?
Ans. Foremost the main advantage of the metrics is that it arranges huge data in a very
presentable way, which in turn is very easy to analyze and interpret.
On the other hand it has some limitation as well, initially though it elaborates a lot on my
other factors but very little difference can be seen on the same column of the metrics making it

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ineffective if you are to compare on only one standard.
4. Freescale focused on metrics for the acquisition and retention of employees. Do you think
metrics can be applied to other areas of management, such as employee attitudes, employee
performance, or skill development? How might those metrics be measured and managed?
Ans. Yes, metrics can be applied to other areas of management, such as employee attitudes,
employee performance, or skill development. These metrics can be measured by using ability,
capacity, workload and productivity of employee.These metrics can be managed by manager.
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