Google has a unique organizational culture that emphasizes employee satisfaction and innovation. It provides many benefits like free food and laundry, massage, medical care, and gym facilities to keep employees happy. Meetings are often held in cafeterias to foster collaboration. Employees are also given flexibility, being allowed to spend 20% of their time on self-directed projects. This flexible culture has helped Google become one of the best companies to work for and led to innovations like its black theme.

1. Culture In By DIANE CHAN MOI PING 10T0053Lecturer: Pg HjhRohaniah Pg HjMetussinModule : UB0201–Introduction to University Studies Date : 6th April 20101/20

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)2/20

3. Founded in 1997 by Larry Page & Sergey Brina mathematical term “googol”

4. the numeral one followed by a hundred zeros

5. objectives - organizing world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful3/20

6. Headquarter located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View , California69 Branch offices located in cities such as New York, Canada, London, Russia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China~10,000 employees4/20

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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.6/20

9. Who does not Google nowadays? In fact most people googleCompare 20 years ago, search information in nearest libraries or book stores Need transportation, availability, time consuming7/20

10. tnot the first search engineone of the best, fastest and reliable search engines in this century design to suits its nation language like remarkable powerful in multi-cultural languages 8/20

11. The company’s phenomenal success is from Google’s corporate culture:Philosophy -Ten things we know to be true Employee satisfaction Innovations technologyGreen initiatives 9/20

12. 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 projects10/20

13. Fortune's latest “100 Best Companies to Work For” Number 4 in 2010 Number 1 in 2008 according to NBC news11/20

14. Isn’t it good to work with friendly and flexible environment? Goolife: How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (Swartz A., Goolife, 2006)12/20

15. Their innovationsGoogle Black www.freechromethemes.com/Download-Black-Google-Chrome-Theme.php13/20

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18. Life attheGoogleplex16/20

19. Conclusion:Google has healthy organizational culture Google is a multi-cultural company A good guideline for others not only looking into the profit valueStress is the “root” to most health problemsPractice green initiatives17/20

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 Google’s 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/ 18/20