Color cases should be printed in color to optimize their effectiveness. Google's Project Oxygen commenced with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do supervisors matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately resulted in an all-inclusive program, built around eight key management aspects, made to help Google workers become better supervisors.
By November 2012, the software had been in place for many years, and also the company could point to statistically significant developments in performance and managerial effectiveness. Now executives were questioning: how could Google build on the success of this endeavor, expanding it to team’s senior leaders, and other constituencies while striving to create truly amazing managers?
PUBLICATION DATE: April 03, 2013 PRODUCT #: 313110-HCC-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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