presentation

on
case
study

Presented by:
presented by:
Prof .Yogesh Jadhav Gagan Singh
Mamata Bhojwani
Pooja Gupta
Praveen Mayar
Rahul Patidar
Namrata Bajpai
 Introduction of case

 Success behind the SAS is Fun place to work.

 Focus on essential elements of SAS institute culture

like employee-centered values ,freedom, risk taking.

 Focus on the goodnight’s own value system and

philosophy of work.

 Maintaining of the work environment using four

strategies.
Company background
 SAS is world largest private held software company

 Founded by Jim Goodnight after quitting NASA in 1976.

 John sall senior vice president.

 Employee strength of 3400, located in Cary, North Carolina

on a 200 acre campus.

 Also having 1900 employees worldwide

 In 1998 sales is $870million and in 1999 exceeded $1 billion

Uniqueness in SAS’ work
Environment
 Employee-centered

 Employees interdependence

 Spirit of risk taking

 Physical surrounding and facilities

 Maintaining the work
environment
 Hire hard recruitment philosophy

 35 hours workweek

 Employees and manager survey

 Compensation system
 Issues in the case
 Poor work environment experienced in NASA – Mistrust

 Poor communication between people

 Absence of trust among people

 Using time cards to force all employees to stick on to timings

 Metal detectors to check whether anybody is stealing

 Discrimination among employees such as M.D, executives,

workers etc.,
 Analysis(leadership
grid)
SAS
high
9 1.9 9.9
8
7
Concer 6
n for 5.5
5
people 4
3
2
1 1.1 9.1
low 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
low high
Concern for
production
 learning
 The employees value

 Competition among the group create the new idea.

 For the success of the company ask for help

 Working environment should be good

 Managers are the key

 Not only the technical skill but also attitude matters

more
thank you