Google
Amity School of Business
Amity University
Uttar Pradesh
Weekly Progress Report
Topic: Human Resource Pratices at Google. (Executive Summary)
Objectives of the week: Giving a brief look into the project, and making its outline, fit for successful completion of the project.
Work Done/Objectives Achieved: INTRODUCTION OF ORGANISATION:
The Google search engine has become so popular that it is now listed as a verb in the dictionary (Merriam-Webster 2009). The American Dialect Society members voted “Google” as the most used word of the year 2002 (Google, Google Milestones, 2009). Co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while students at Stanford University, Google was incorporated as a privately held company in 1998 (Google, Google Milestones, 2009) and is a textbook example of modern ‘employee-centric’ policies and benefits. Google has come a long way from its modest beginnings as a university project called the Backrub (Google, Google Milestones, 2009) to a billion-dollar company; but they have retained the collegiate vision of creative campus-like corporate environs and unparalleled employee perks and benefits throughout this phenomenal growth. The corporate headquarters of Google - Googleplex is located at Mountain View, California and has been a favorite download on YouTube displaying the cornucopia of hard-tobelieve fringe benefits the company boasts. Google currently has offices in 14 states and in 36 different countries worldwide, including Australia, India, China, Mexico, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates (Google 2009). Google has a wide variety of products and services like web search, image search, and product searches to blogs, online translations, document sharing and remains on the cutting edge of information technologies and services. Millward Brown Optimizer’s Brandz ranks the 100 most powerful brands in the world, and Google has been in the top ten since 2006 and has the position of the most valuable and
Amity University
Uttar Pradesh
Weekly Progress Report
Topic: Human Resource Pratices at Google. (Executive Summary)
Objectives of the week: Giving a brief look into the project, and making its outline, fit for successful completion of the project.
Work Done/Objectives Achieved: INTRODUCTION OF ORGANISATION:
The Google search engine has become so popular that it is now listed as a verb in the dictionary (Merriam-Webster 2009). The American Dialect Society members voted “Google” as the most used word of the year 2002 (Google, Google Milestones, 2009). Co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while students at Stanford University, Google was incorporated as a privately held company in 1998 (Google, Google Milestones, 2009) and is a textbook example of modern ‘employee-centric’ policies and benefits. Google has come a long way from its modest beginnings as a university project called the Backrub (Google, Google Milestones, 2009) to a billion-dollar company; but they have retained the collegiate vision of creative campus-like corporate environs and unparalleled employee perks and benefits throughout this phenomenal growth. The corporate headquarters of Google - Googleplex is located at Mountain View, California and has been a favorite download on YouTube displaying the cornucopia of hard-tobelieve fringe benefits the company boasts. Google currently has offices in 14 states and in 36 different countries worldwide, including Australia, India, China, Mexico, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates (Google 2009). Google has a wide variety of products and services like web search, image search, and product searches to blogs, online translations, document sharing and remains on the cutting edge of information technologies and services. Millward Brown Optimizer’s Brandz ranks the 100 most powerful brands in the world, and Google has been in the top ten since 2006 and has the position of the most valuable and