Assignment 5: Change Management Plan
COMPANY SELECTION 4
Company Selection
Eric Brown
HRM 560
Dr. Waldo
Company Selection
The company selected is Google Incorporated. Google’s Human Resource Management policies are necessary because human resource forms the baseline for the company’s success in the knowledge-based industry and market. The various Human Resource Management policies focus on attrition, confidentiality, and loyalty of the company’s workers. Since employees use their knowledge, skills, and expertise as a tool for bargaining power in the enterprise, human resource management policies aim to keep this power in check while maintaining a warm environment for working. Google Inc. offers medical Insurance, life insurance, child care services, flexibility in work schedules and global travel assistance as the programs and initiatives for the Human Resource Management (Lombardo, 2015). Another program is employee recognition regarding prizes, certificates, and trophies.
The human resource programs are effective. The employee recognition programs can improve the motivation of employees hence enhancing the productivity of employees. Medical cover and child care services increase employee satisfaction with the company. Employee satisfaction and motivation leads to high performance at the workplace contributing to the overall improvement of Google Incorporation. Google has a problem when it comes to overcompensation of employees which leads to the wastefulness of resources. For example, Google Inc. pays the spouse of a Google Inc. employee who died (regardless of the cause) the employees’ salary for ten years. The perks are nice but are too excessive.
Google Inc. can change such human resource management policies by rigorously monitoring the data related to the human resource management policies and procedures. Organizational Change should be encouraged on all employees ensuring that all employees are comfortable with the change (Palmer, 2016). Google can provide incentives to encourage organizational change. Organizational change should involve the employee's input to allow them to have a say in the changes making them feel involved.
References
Lombardo, J. (2015, Augast 25). Google’s HRM: Recruitment, Selection, Retention. Retrieved January 2017, from Panmore Institute: http://panmore.com/google-hrm-recruitment-selection-retention
Palmer, I. (2016). Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach. Palmer Press.