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These modes of communication may contain important information for instance between employees and the managers, to more trivial issues like passing rumors or hearsay from one employee to another as noted by Reference for Business (2011). It is upon the business fraternity to channel the numerous pieces of information passed from one point to the other towards bolstering employee satisfaction, ensuring customers are satisfied with the services, enhance sharing of knowledge among the staff members as well as boost the organizational competitiveness.
Culture and behavior of Microsoft Corporation
The Microsoft Company has a peculiar culture that defines and sets apart the company from other organizations. In order to deal effectively with the external competition, Microsoft picks the top and best talents that are in the market, these people are the trained to act as magnets to attract others of their ilk into the organization and into their research labs. The end effect of this is the formation of a virtuous circle of talents since to Microsoft research work always relies on the brains of the company.
Once Microsoft has attracted the best of the best brains, they are modeled by senior researchers and are involved in numerous researches, even of programs that mat not be used today or tomorrow. Microsoft believes that the research initiations of the young researchers in the firm will benefit the organization in the day after tomorrow (Jia Wu, 2009). This is a way of...
They are widely accredited for being the organization with one of the best brains in the world and best research in the information technology and computers software, this is as a result of this culture they have formulated and the culture that sets them apart from other organizations.
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