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Organizational Culture

Robert Preston, Rachel Reiter, Rhamell Stevenson

Robert Keele

PSY/450

November 26, 2018

There are many things that make a business. One of the most important parts of a company is the people that are a part of it. They make the company run. In order for a company to appeal to all people you have to have a makeup of a workforce that is very diverse in culture and races as well as organized. This week we have learned a lot about cultural organization in regards to psychology. In this paper we will use the company Google Inc. to shed light on what cultural organization is.

Who is Google?

As most of us know Google is a search engine that provides us with a lot of knowledge which can be good and bad being that a lot of the information is not peer reviewed. However it has been a staple in the last couple decades as far as how we retrieve and utilize information. On the company’s website they state that their mission statement is “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”(Google.com); some may not realize just how many people actually work for Google.com. As of 2017 google had 88,110 employees (Statista.com). This is a lot, and with so many people there are bound to be problems in regards to cultural differences.

Organizational Culture

Google is an organization that has offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. I’d say with offices in all of these locations, and employees from literally around the world, they are the perfect company to be a poster child for raising awareness against stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. In 2013, Google started rolling out “bias-busting” workshops to target hidden prejudices within their company (Guynn, 2015). Since Google employs individuals from all over the world, it only seems right that they provide this type of training and instill this mindful outlook on them. Working in a place that is also working for you to make sure that all employees are educated about the culture of those who work for them is a huge plus.

An organization is only as strong as its weakest link. If the organization can work to strengthen that link, then they are that much better. Knowing that the stereotype of most technology companies is that they almost only employ men who are white or Asian, Google wanted to make sure they were not living up to that. By educating their employees and working hard to break down stereotypes and discriminations, they have built a company that is openminded, that gives back to the community, and that continuously educates their staff.

The only hinderance I can see that could come from continuously educating a company’s employees would be that they could get burnt out on all of it. However, if the training and information is done in such a way that they do not feel like they are being punished for something that was inappropriately done, and the information is relevant to today’s culture and times, then the hinderance should be minimal if at all.

Reference

Guynn, J. (2015, May). Google's 'bias-busting' workshops target hidden prejudices. USAToday, Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/12/google-unconscious-bias-diversity/27055485/

Statista.com (2017) https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-time-google-employees/

Google.com(2018) https://www.google.com/about/