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Controlling Function at Google
Analysis of the Control Management Function at Google
Google's ability to innovate quickly indicates how agile and quickly adaptive the company is in interpreting opportunities and threats. The highly innovative culture of the company is continually being improved through intensive hiring, management and management control processes. One of these is the highly successful Rule of 20%, which provides engineers the freedom of using up to 20% of their time on potential new product concepts and ideas (Machlis, 2009). The challenge for Google is controlling the very rapid pace of innovation and growth from a managerial perspective without stopping the momentum of new venture creation and development. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate the controlling function at Google.
Analysis of the Control Management Function at Google
The Google culture is highly collaborative...
Management control rarely is authoritarian in nature; it is rather it is more focused on how to create the right combination of skills and innate strengths in a given team to accomplish exceptionally difficult programming tasks and projects (Stone, 2011). Google tends to blend the planning, organizing, leading and controlling aspects of management together towards a common foundation of shared ownership for the fulfillment of the vision of the company (Hamel, 2006). By doing this, control becomes internal to the engineers working on critical projects, they begin to see the projects as much as their own as the company's (Stone, 2011). Google is also a culture that highly values engineering acumen and intelligence, and regards those with exceptional insight in these areas with a rapid career path. This is also…
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