Microsoft: Building a Collaborative Work Culture to Foster Innovation
| Case Code: HROB206 Case Length: 12 Pages Period: 2013-2019 Pub Date: 2020 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.300 Organization: Microsoft Corporation Industry: Technology & Communications Countries: United States Themes: Organizational Culture, Corporate Strategy, Leadership Style, Employee Development |
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Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, was incorporated on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Microsoft had more than 140,000 employees working around the world. It employed a stack ranking system for performance appraisal. Employees were evaluated twice a year by their supervisors who were also subjected to ranking. In the stack ranking system, every team rating had to include a certain number of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and poor. This system led to a lot of unhappy employees and created a bad environment among the teams..
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