Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Marissa Mayer, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada, Organizational Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Kevin Thompson

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Oct 31 readings/class notes mos (hr class 2) Most powerful technology company in the world. People stay in companies because they can achieve something. Making work fun for employees is important. Benefits such as free laundry, food, casual dress etc. Benefits = motivation to keep employees working all the time. Fast, easy, simple logo, unlike aol, altavista. less simple. New competition: bing banding together with yahoo! Marissa mayer, formerly of google hired as ceo of yahoo! Criticisms of google: too focused on their company, not enough on the real world. You must care for your human assets just as much as physical aspects such as machines. To help the organization achieve its goals. The work force is however changing dramatically! Over 15% of the workforce is over 55. Most canadians are behind for saving for retirement. 50% of the population is in the labour force. 21% of the workforce was born elsewhere!