WORK FORCE

4.1. Management team and process of decision making:

Balance Team

When forming a team, the ideal is to balance the skills of one team
member with the complementary abilities of others. In this way, each team
member plays to his unique strengths, such as strategy, leadership or
operations, while rallying around the team’s shared purpose. The planned
team objectives determine the team work roles, which, in turn, decide the
necessary skills of the employees who make up the team.

It as important for blancing a management team to possess

complementary skills as for a functional team to do so. Bill Gross describes
management team complementary skills in terms of four personality types:
 Entrepreneur
 Producer
 Administrator
 Integrator
They complement another, in so doing, may be more important to a
company's success than a business idea. For example, whereas the
producer effectively manages the production, sale and delivery of products,
the entrepreneur provides the company vision. In turn, the administrator
implements processes, procedures and controls that ensure the company
runs smoothly and the integrator is the "people person" who assumes the
negotiator or intermediary role for the team.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/complementary-skills-team-
81389.html

Learder style (following Eric Schmidt’s pratices)

1. Get to know your employees.

2. Create new ways to reward and promote your high-performing

employees.

3. Let your employees own the problems you want them to solve.

4. Allow employees to function outside the company hierarchy.

5. Have your employees’ performance reviewed by someone they respect
for their objectivity and impartiality.

Google’s Corporate Structure

Google has a cross-functional organizational structure, which is
technically a matrix corporate structure with a considerable degree of
flatness. This flatness is a defining structural feature that supports the
company’s growth and competitiveness. The main characteristics of
Google’s corporate structure are as follows:

o Function-based definition
o Product-based definition
o Flatness

(Google Alphabet Structure)

 Google’s Corporate Culture
Google’s organizational culture is not typical, partly because of the
effects of the company’s organizational structure. In essence, the structure
and the culture interact to influence the capabilities and cultural
characteristics of the organization. Google’s corporate culture has the
following primary characteristics:

 Open
 Innovative
 Smart with emphasis on excellence
 Hands-on
 Supports small-company-family rapport
http://panmore.com/google-organizational-structure-organizational-culture