Three people-related management innovations at Google that are considered most innovative are:
1. Open Culture: Google promotes an open culture where employees are encouraged to voice their ideas and opinions. This fosters creativity and innovation, and makes employees feel valued and involved in the company's success.
2. Work-Life Balance: Google has always prioritized the work-life balance of its employees. They offer flexible work hours, telecommuting options, and various on-site amenities like gyms and cafes. This not only increases employee satisfaction but also productivity.
3. Employee Empowerment: Google trusts its employees and gives them the freedom to work on projects they are passionate about. This empowerment leads to high job satisfaction and innovative solutions.
These innovations are significant because they focus on the human aspect of the organization, recognizing that happy, satisfied employees are key to a company's success.
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Laszlo Bock, Google’s innovative Senior Vice President of People Operations, offers his best answers to these puzzling questions in his book Work Rule...
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Work Rules! is a detailed playbook for leaders who strive to emulate Google's people success in their own teams and organizations. This manifesto of simple truths offers transformative guidance to leaders who want to improve teams from the inside out instead of top down. That will not happen by institutionalizing some complex quality or productivity improvement methodology such as Six Sigma or Total Quality Management. This is about human beings and how we treat one another. Everything that has made Google wildly successful in the past 22 years is rooted in the fundamental belief that people are good and can be trusted. This is what has enabled Google to design a workplace where Googlers feel free, fulfilled, happy and able to efficiently manage both their personal and work lives. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
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