SAS Institute's Employee-Friendly Policies: A Case Study

Running head: PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
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1PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Read the mini-case study in section 2.1. “Case in Point: SAS Institute Invests in Employees.”
The study generally discusses the approach of a major software company to its employees.
Then, consider the “Factors That Have the Strongest Influence over Work Behaviours” from
figure 2.15. Describe how each of the four factors is managed by SAS. Do you agree with the
firm’s policies?
SAS institute has been listed as one of the leading institutes that exclusively deals
with the production of comprehensive and complicated data mining softwares. SAS
technology has produced a number of brilliant data mining softwares that has been used by
leading companies including Google in light of the occasion of the launch of its first ever
legendary campus in California (Florida & Goodnight,2005). The USP of the company
includes employee friendly strategies and a strong and positive organizational structure, so
much so that SAS institute makes it to the ‘best places to work for’ in “Top organizations to
be associated with list” published by Forum magazine every year (Karlgaard,2006). Positive
work environment promotes a high rate of employee retention for any organization
(Dobre,2013). SAS institute has catered to the need of the employees and ensured a happy
and healthy work environment for them, as a matter of fact, when the huge economic
recession struck the corporate sector in the year 2009, and almost every company resorted to
terminating employees in order to combat the financial crisis; SAS believed in retaining its
employees and believed that the employees are an asset to the organization (Karlgaard,2006).
Employee satisfaction is strictly governed by the factors that include, Employee
personality, Positive work outlook, Professional and Personal life balance, Stress
management and Physical and mental abilities in general (Habib et al.,2014). An organization
that has managerial policies keeping in mind all the above said factors happens to serve as the
most desirable organization to work for (Lazaroiu, 2015). SAS institute qualifies as the most
ideal institute to work for which is evident from the statistics of the employee turnover rate