Meg Whitman eBay, Inc. EBay is an online place in the internet where buyers meet sellers. Before the arrival of Whitman's as CEO of the company, the value given at EBay to its customers was very high as compared to any other website or working place. This is why EBay was often referred to as a site of the people, by the people and for the people. The values given to people were so strong that the people, who used this site for doing transactions, proudly called themselves as the user of this site and referred themselves as E-Bayer's. This clearly indicated that this site was not just a place where people come to buy and sell their goods and services. Moreover, it was a site where the people interacted with each other tried to know each other and tried to develop strong sense of working relationship together with trust being the binding factor as all these things were merely done in good faith (Hill, 1999). Therefore, EBay had a unique and healthy culture as it was totally based on trust, respect autonomy, empowerment and equality. Most companies often say that customer is always right but not only EBay believes in this sentence but it goes way beyond it. Since EBay had no control over the buyer and seller decisions or discussion on their site the only way they could influence them was by telling everyone on the site to respect each other just like that a person require for himself just setting a very positive trend at EBay. All these ideas were influenced by Omidyar as previously before EBay came into existence Omidyar use to work in General Magic as a software developer. Over there he was very much frustrated, as he was not given the access to shares of stock from the initial public offerings as the institution brokers had. From here onwards, Omidyar decided to setup an efficient market where everyone was provided with an equal opportunity and equal access to information...
All these factors were quite visible in the values and culture at EBay (Hill, 1999).Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
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