Case Analysis: Google: Modern Management

Read the Case Study: The study of management theory is important for various reasons. Knowledge of theoretical perspectives can help managers understand and interpret the present, guide their actions, provide a source for new ideas, give clues to the reason behind other managers’ decisions, give clues to the meaning of outside events, and reveal the reason for productive results. You are asked to demonstrate your knowledge of these concepts in this activity.

Google has done a good job exhibiting Theory Y, but is it proper to assume that employees need not have extensive supervision and are looking out for the benefit of the organization independently? Compare the results of Project Oxygen with the dangers of providing employees with the benefit of the doubt. Is there a happy medium between the two?