University Report: Factors Affecting General Conduct of Employees

This report examines the factors influencing employee conduct, using the SAS company as a case study. The report identifies four key factors that affect employee behavior: providing exciting and complex projects, treating employees well in both good and bad times, offering attractive staff perks, and ensuring employees understand the significance of their work. The company's focus on analytics and eliminating obstacles to productivity are also highlighted. The report emphasizes the importance of employee-centric policies and the impact of these systems on employee loyalty and overall company success. The author agrees with SAS's approach, recognizing that employees are crucial to a company's success or failure, and that their well-being and engagement are paramount. The provided references support the analysis by providing external sources to back up the findings.

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The company has perfected the art of employee management and all its personnel are
unusually attached to the organisation and do not even think of voluntarily leaving the
company to go work somewhere else (Crowley, 2013). The four main factors that affect the
behaviour of employees according to the company include providing the employees with an
opportunity of undertaking exciting and complicated projects, treating employees well both in
bad and good times, offering the attractive staff perks, and they ensure that employees
understand the significance of their work.
The software developer company are known for developing the best software
globally. The organisation focuses its projects on analytics, and this brings the most
significant value and aids firms to best evaluate disparate data for making decisions, thus
providing opportunities for SAS employees to be tested. Additionally, the organisation
supports the workers by eliminating any hindrances to productive work such as unnecessary
policies (Florida & Goodnight, 2005).
Another factor is that the organisation has always treated its staff the same way be it
in bad or good times. SAS works oppositely compared to most organisations; they do not lay
off employees to cut costs when its production is low but instead reward the worker's loyalty
and general success (The Economist Newspaper Ltd, 2007).
The company also offers carefully planned and chosen attractive perks to their
employees. The organisation carries out employee satisfaction surveys on a routine basis, and
any perks that are granted are as a result of the outcomes. Additionally, the organisation is
determined to do away with anything that hinders efficiency at work. To cater for the health
of workers, the campus has regular gyms, swimming pools, and tennis and baseball courts.
SAS Company also ensures that the staffs understand the importance of the work that they
undertake. Software programmers are encouraged to own their work as long as they work for

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the company. With the understanding that the products they create are likely to be used by
customers for over a decade inspires them to invest themselves in doing quality work (Ideas,
2010).
I agree with the policies that SAS has implemented in managing its employees.
Besides of the evidence of the effect of the systems on its workers, I agree that much focus
should be on the employees for they are the ones that are under the success or failure of the
company.

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References
Crowley. (2013). How SAS Became The World's Best Place To Work. Fast Company.
(Accessed on Feb 2018).http://www.fastcompany.com/3004953/how-sas-became-
worlds-best-place-work
Florida, R., & Goodnight, J. (2005). Managing for creativity. Harvard business review, 83(7),
124.https://ideas.com/news/sas-ranks-no-1-on-fortune-best-companies-to-work-for-
list-in-america/
Ideas. (2010). SAS ranks No. 1 on Fortune “Best Companies to Work For” list in America.
Accessed on Feb 2018). https://ideas.com/news/sas-ranks-no-1-on-fortune-best-
companies-to-work-for-list-in-america/
The Economist Newspaper Ltd. (2007). Doing well by being rather nice. (Accessed on Feb
2018).http://www.financialexpress.com/archive/doing-well-by-being-rather-nice/
247090/