Google Inc
Google Inc. is an American public corporation that been founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin since September 1998. Its revenue is made from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services. The company keep emerging through new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. The Company has been awarded by Fortune Magazine as the Best Working Place in 2007 and the most powerful brand in the world.
In to create a healthily successful working environment for their workers, Google use its “20% Time” slogan. According to Google Vice President, Marissa Mayer, “it’s a slogan that give a creative license for the employees to be empowered by spending 20% of their time to do whatever it is they feel most passionately about” (David Eckoff Block, online, 2009) . In Google, Job evaluation is a critical point in its human resources management (HRM).
What challenges the HRM department is to connect the staff with their working outcomes which is supposed to meet relatively in order for the company to accomplish the objective tasks. That’s what Michael Armstrong illustrates; the job evaluation is a “systematic process of assessing and determining the value of jobs performed within the organization in relation with the employee’s efforts”.
