Human Resource Management at Google

Human Resource Management at Google
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Human Resource Management at Google
Table of Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................................................3
Human Resource Management....................................................................................................3
Company Background..................................................................................................................3
Human Resource Management at Google..........................................................................4
Recruitment and Selection...........................................................................................................4
Performance Management..........................................................................................................6
Retention and Motivation............................................................................................................7
Workplace Flexibility....................................................................................................................9
Recommendations for Improvement................................................................................10
Performance Management........................................................................................................10
Work life balance.......................................................................................................................11
Recruitment and retention.........................................................................................................11
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................12
References.......................................................................................................................13
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Introduction
Human Resource Management
Human resource management is a strategic approach that helps contemporary business
organizations in the effective management of their people in order to optimize their
performance (Noe, et al., n.d.). To optimize the performance levels of the individuals, human
resource managers tries to improve the workplace conditions for the employees and the
relation between employers and the employees. Some of the core functions performed by
human resource managers are training and development, recruitment and selection,
compensation and benefits, rewards management, performance management, etc. while the
non-core functions performed by human resource managers are employee motivation,
attraction & retention of employees, employee engagement, empowerment, etc. (Bailey, et
al., 2018)
Since the spread of globalization, the competition between business organizations has
reached its pinnacle. The increased competition can also be attributed to the fact that
globalization has made replication of resources, processes, operations & technology very
easy. In such a scenario, only human resources of an organisation are unique and can help it
in achieving market competencies (Delery & Roumpi, 2017). This has made business
organizations consider their human resources as the most important asset and they are leaving
no stone unturned to develop a competent workforce and retain it by ensuring effective
management policies. In this report, we will discuss the human resource management policies
that Google, which is one of the top multinational companies in the world, has been
implementing to ensure proper management of its employees. We will also discuss certain
inefficiencies that will be present in the existing policies of the company and provide
recommendations on how they can be improved.
Company Background
Google is an American technology company that is operating throughout the globe to provide
internet related services, such as online advertising, search engine, cloud storage, e-mail
client, etc. to the global population. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin in 1988, while they were studying in the Stanford University in California. Today, the
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company is considered to be one of the big four companies in the world, alongside Amazon,
Apple and Facebook (Schneider, 2018).
The company has registered exponential growth in the past few decades and has entered
almost all technology related fields, such as mobile platforms, smartphones, etc. The
company has around 98,770 employees working for it in different parts of the world and is
considered to be an employer of choice for almost all potential candidates throughout the
world. The mission statement and the corporate culture of the company sends out a message
that money can be made without doing evil and that the work should be made challenging
and fun for the people. The mission statement of the company is to organize the world’s
information and make it universally accessible and useful (Bellis, 2019). The company has
formulated very strong and efficient policies over its course of time and has become a trend
setter for human resource management strategies. The human resource management at
Google are so efficient that it records the highest average revenues generated by its
employees and has also been able to retain a large pool of talented employees.
Human Resource Management at Google
As discussed above, Google is one of the most valuable firms in the world. The success of the
company has also been attributed to its ability to utilize people analytics for shaping
extraordinary people management practices. Human resource management is entirely
different at Google when compared to most of the other companies as Google uses ‘people
operations’ to define its human resources (Danaldson, 2013). Some of the human resource
practices or people operations that are used by the company to manage its workforce are
discussed below;
Recruitment and Selection
Recruitment and selection is a process that is used by business organizations to advertise and
invite applications for job openings and screening the received job applications for finding a
perfect fit for the vacant job position (Farndale, et al., 2018). Google’s people operations use
a mixture of internal and external recruitment practices to fulfil the demand of its workplaces.
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