The company/entity name (or company type/industry if the information is confiden
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Question
The company/entity name (or company type/industry if the information is confidential), The type of company (above categorizations or similar) & number of employees (range is acceptable), List the competencies and defining information including a) descriptive information for each competency, b) what are the expectations of the company for the competency and how do they communicate, c) the employee’s opportunities to develop skills for the competencies and d) define the employee rating or assessment processes for the competencies (development goals, assessment system, etc.) and Provide your perspective on the effectiveness of the competencies to aid employee’s in their career success and why you reached this conclusion
Explanation / Answer
Company Name - Google Inc
a)Competence -
Innovative, To come up with innovative ideas every time. - Google looks for people with high level of innovativeness and who can comeup with innovative ideas and contribute towards the success of the company.
Google looks for people with high cognitive ability - Employees at Google should learn the things with their own interest ,curious and come up with new solutions for the problem.
b) Company communicates the same at the time of giving the job description that the candidate should be innovative and ready to learn as and when the requirement arises. Company expects that the employees would come up with new product development ideas and with their curiosity and knowledge come up with new ideas and solutions to the problem.
c) Training and Key Guest lecturing sessions are being organized by the company for the benefit of the employees. At the same time, workshops where employeesare encouraged to participate and come up with innovative ideas, which would be awarded are the opportunities offered to the employees to develop their skills.
d) Goal sheet and Perfromance based appraisal system are being designed to assess the competencies of the employees. Goal sheet is being circulated where employees have to markthe number of innovative ideas they have come up in a year. Performance based appraisal system assesses the employees based on their achievements and skills and competencies developed in a particular period of time.
Google is a company which is built around the innovative ideas and problem solving solutions. If the employees contribute with their innovative ideas and problem solving solutions, the company would prosper and at the same time,the employee is also being awarded.