Running head: CHAPTER 1, DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 0
Building a better boss, Google doesn’t do anything halfway
Student Name: Yahaira Cabrera Barreto
Course Name: BU105 Management Principles
Instructor Name: Mrs. Green
Date of Submission: October 18, 2015
Miller-Motte College Online Programs
1. Describe the findings of project Oxygen using the functions approach. Mintzberg’s roles
approach, and the skills approach.
2. Are you surprised at what google found out about “building a better boss?” Explain your
answer
3. What the different between encouraging manager to be great managers and knowing
what being a great manager involes?
4. What could other companies learn from Google’s experiences?
5. Would you want to work for a company like Google? Why or why not?
1. Describe the findings of project Oxygen using the functions approach. Mintzberg’s
roles approach, and the skills approach.
This function approach is the approach that run this categorization of actions that happen
in the market procedures by getting it detach into functions. A market purpose is well
defined as a key that it has specialized in the activity performance to pursuit the market
procedures.
● Selling, Storage, Transportation, Processing, and Buying Function
The Mintzbergs approaches have the:
● Negotiator, Resource Allocator, Liaison, Disturbance Handler, Figurehead, Leader,
Entrepreneur, Disseminator and Spokesperson.
The Skill Approach have the:
● Conceptual, Human, and Technical Skill
2. Are you surprised at what google found out about “building a better boss?”
Explain your answer
This have amazed me? Yes, it have; that this teams project collected 10,000 obseratitors
from multiples surveys, feedback, reports, and other performance reviews. This is
something that will help all managers, supervisor “bosses” on how to be a better boss if
