Management and Organizational Studies 4485F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Insomnia, Occupational Safety And Health, Reasonable Accommodation
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2006: lazlo bock hired to head up people operations. 2007: prasad setty hired by bock to lead the people analytics group. Setty in turn hired several phds with serious research chops . Key challenge: approach hr with the same empirical discipline google applies to its business operations. Goal: to be hypothesis driven and help solve company problems and questions with data. Launched project oxygen a multiyear research initiative that grew into a management development program. 2012: project oxygem prgoram: designed to differ granular, hands-on guidance: identified desirable mangemnt traits and, pinpointed specific measureable behaviours that brought such traits to life. Project oxygen mirrored the decision making criteria of google employees respected their need for rigorous analysis and made it a priority to measure impact. Data driven cultures respond well to data driven change. Next: examined googlegeist ratings and semi-annual reviews.
