Internal environment is one of the essential factors in company management, and it includes the employees, managements and phenomenon in the company. In addition, the main point of internal environment is the organization culture it creates, which affects what the people think, feel and behaviour in their works. Consequently, the organization culture is also defined as the values beliefs and attitudes shared by the members in the group.
The reason that it is important to keep a good internal environment is because it can indirectly motivate the employees and help the company becomes more attractive and creative. For example, some of the managers make effort to construct a comfortable environment that working in the company just like staying in the house. Therefore, the staffs can work happily and will not plan to quit when the company provides such an appropriate workplace. Additionally, the internal environment also involves the sense of participation, which is an indispensable factor in company foundation. If the managers promote higher levels of staffs participating in decision making, the staffs will feel a sense of ownership and become more responsible for their duty. In this case, it can eventually generate benefits return to the company. What is more, as internal environment is mentioned, it is necessary to understand that the company founders perform indispensable roles in it. What the company founder acts will deeply affect the culture in the company and establish the company’s development direction. For example, people who founded Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have designed a successful internal environment for Google.
In fact, Google was not Google in the past, it was googol which meant a number. However, in 1998, two Stanford students, Larry and Sergey, changed googol into Google and launched it as a company’s name.Since then, googol and Google has became the world’s most widely recognized name. (Smith, 2010.)
However, how can Google become so successful? It is because that Google has owned incredible internal environment since it was founded while other company just starts to try hard to change. What is more, the reason that Google maintain such an excellent internal environment is that Larry and Sergey have focused on this area since a long time ago. With their founders’ lead and contribution, Google has become one of the most powerful and credible company in the world. T
In the journal ” A 10-step guide to using the “Google effect” to engage employees”, in order to make it easy to collaborate and let its employees feel a sense of participation. One of the methods Google used is to establish a platform for its employee. “Create guidelines that encourage employees to post online. Provide best practices and off-line communities where interested employees can learn about the potential and technology, and how they can easily participate”. (Rudnick & Kouba, 2006, p.8 ) What is more, another way to encourage employees is to offer a convenient and interesting environment to them. At lunch time, Google offers plenty of free food and drinks and snacks for employees at its cafeteria, and it also has out door seating with sunshine for them to take a rest. In addition, to amuse employees, Google usually has entertainment center in each company, and it consist of something like bowling, video games, ping pong tables, swimming pools, yoga and dace classes. With this sort of internal environment, Google finally become one of the most successful companies in the world.
Reference list
Google website- About Google.
retrieved from http://www.google.com.au/about/company/
Smith, Roger. 2010. “GOOGLE MEANS EVERY”. Research Technology Management 53, no. 1 67-69. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost.
Rudick, M., Kouba, W., 2006~2007. “A 10-steps guide to using the Google effect to engage employees”. The business communicator, Dec 2006/Jan 2007; 7, 7; ProQuest Central.
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