Microsoft Motivational Practices
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Microsoft Motivational Practices
Abstract
Business today’s global markets is highly competitive. Top companies strive to employee the best and brightest minds to maintain that competitive edge. While attracting the best and brightest is a difficult task, keeping these highly sought after employees motivated and content is the true challenge. The top professionals in a field are always sought after and constantly approached by competitors. They are offered lucrative benefit plans, better wages, and employee perks. Many times these efforts pay off as the employee leaves for greener pastures. While this happens in most business arenas it is most prevalent in the technology and software organizations.
Microsoft is considered the premier software company. It has established itself as the benchmark in which all software companies strive to achieve, and has made itself a household name throughout the world. Because of it's enormous success, it has grown into a multi-faceted organization with operational centers in all comers of the globe. This broad scope of operations requires many levels of management, corporate, departmental and divisional. While the immense scale of it's operations are daunting, basic concepts are still needed at every level with respect to managing personnel., and while most new young software engineers, developers, and workers consider being hired on by Microsoft as a career high point, they still need leaders to give them vision, purpose and motivation to keep them satisfied in their work. After all, Apple is just a phone call a way.
This paper will look one position within the Microsoft Corporation, the Divisional Vice President, and detail it's motivational philosophy with respect to employee retention and ensuring employee's perform to the level excepted from the largest software company in the world.
Major Components and Motivational Practices
Microsoft's...
Microsoft Motivational Practices
Abstract
Business today’s global markets is highly competitive. Top companies strive to employee the best and brightest minds to maintain that competitive edge. While attracting the best and brightest is a difficult task, keeping these highly sought after employees motivated and content is the true challenge. The top professionals in a field are always sought after and constantly approached by competitors. They are offered lucrative benefit plans, better wages, and employee perks. Many times these efforts pay off as the employee leaves for greener pastures. While this happens in most business arenas it is most prevalent in the technology and software organizations.
Microsoft is considered the premier software company. It has established itself as the benchmark in which all software companies strive to achieve, and has made itself a household name throughout the world. Because of it's enormous success, it has grown into a multi-faceted organization with operational centers in all comers of the globe. This broad scope of operations requires many levels of management, corporate, departmental and divisional. While the immense scale of it's operations are daunting, basic concepts are still needed at every level with respect to managing personnel., and while most new young software engineers, developers, and workers consider being hired on by Microsoft as a career high point, they still need leaders to give them vision, purpose and motivation to keep them satisfied in their work. After all, Apple is just a phone call a way.
This paper will look one position within the Microsoft Corporation, the Divisional Vice President, and detail it's motivational philosophy with respect to employee retention and ensuring employee's perform to the level excepted from the largest software company in the world.
Major Components and Motivational Practices
Microsoft's...