Facebook: The Best Place to Work?
Facebook Inc. has been elected as the best company to work for in 2013. With the score of 4.7 out of the possible 5 (Forbes, 2012) it is underpinning its strong culture by encouragement of individuals to ‘make an impact’ (Appendix 1.) with the focus on environment as a part of the culture and flat hierarchy, which encourages both communication and interaction within the organization. However, in September Business Insider (2013) published the article with a controversial title ‘Facebook employees reveal 16 awful things about working at Facebook’ (Business Insider, 2013) with the links to ‘Quora.com’ where both past and present employees described their experience.
The elements of Facebook’s organizational culture and the work organization, which has been generally considered as the uneasily copyrightable competitive advantages were presented as the main problems and were strongly criticised. The study revealed certain dysfunctions in the organization’s smooth running. The comments of the employees challenged the idea whether Facebook really is the best place to work at. According to Dr. Sullivan (2013) “the physical space encourages openness, collaboration and innovation” but his view can be also challenged as a mere ‘’utopian idea of post-bureaucratic precedents which comes into focus as potentially a set of prejudice and incompetence” (Grey, 2005, p. 86) as a result of a war against bureaucracy which can be considered to be “the death of all sound work” (Einstein, 1921).
Facebook presents ‘environment as a culture.’ What they probably mean by this is that internal environment, from Facebook’s point of view, is everything that surrounds employees as Facebook’s culture is strongly connected with words such as open space and flat structure or decoration of the interior with company mottos, leave out the elements of external environment. The case study mainly concentrates on the organizational culture and work organisation which is why these 2 topics can be used
The elements of Facebook’s organizational culture and the work organization, which has been generally considered as the uneasily copyrightable competitive advantages were presented as the main problems and were strongly criticised. The study revealed certain dysfunctions in the organization’s smooth running. The comments of the employees challenged the idea whether Facebook really is the best place to work at. According to Dr. Sullivan (2013) “the physical space encourages openness, collaboration and innovation” but his view can be also challenged as a mere ‘’utopian idea of post-bureaucratic precedents which comes into focus as potentially a set of prejudice and incompetence” (Grey, 2005, p. 86) as a result of a war against bureaucracy which can be considered to be “the death of all sound work” (Einstein, 1921).
Facebook presents ‘environment as a culture.’ What they probably mean by this is that internal environment, from Facebook’s point of view, is everything that surrounds employees as Facebook’s culture is strongly connected with words such as open space and flat structure or decoration of the interior with company mottos, leave out the elements of external environment. The case study mainly concentrates on the organizational culture and work organisation which is why these 2 topics can be used