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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Topic Introduction
The performance of the employees in an organisation is an important factor that
determines the success of the organisation. In such case, the policies of the
organisation are such that it also contributes to the performance of the employees. This
is a significant factor owing to the fact that the performance of the employee will affect
the overall productivity of the organisation. In turn, it increases the efficiency of the
employees and reflects on the career graph of them. The growth-oriented policies that
are adopted by the organisation ensure that the company is concerned about its
employees.
1.2 Position of the topic as per present scenario
Amazon.com Inc. is a global organisation working as Amazon is an electronic
commerce as well as cloud computing organisation based in Seattle in the United
States of America. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on the 5th of July in
1994(Amazon.com, 2018). Since then the company has strived and is the biggest online
retailer in the world as per the market share and the revenues collected by the
organisation worldwide. Amazon has been facing issues regarding the performance of
the employees due to some of the policies adopted by the organisation (Segar, 2018).
Amazon considers its employees to be always available if they find them to be able to
endure a lengthier stay at the office. The company then sets work schedules for such
employees which claim to the fact that they should prioritise their work over any other
thing in their lives that is even their families.
Added to this, the policy of allowing the fellow colleagues in the team to give feedback
to others in the team by means of the tool of anytime feedback is also different from any
other organisation. Recent protests in various parts of the world raise the issue of low
wages to the workers compared to the backbreaking workload. The issues of increased
workload and lower pay have direct impact on the performance of the employees as

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