Amazon Workplace Practices

The Article, “Companies like Amazon Need to Run More Tests on Workplace Practices”, by Francesca Gino is a critique of the management practices of large corporations, specifically amazon. Amazon has created a unique work environment for its employees which has turned the workplace into a hostile habitat for its workers. Employees are encouraged to openly criticize coworker’s ideas in meetings, they are expected to respond to an email even if received after hours, and many employees are being severely over worked.
Gino, who is a professor at Harvard Business School chastises the environment that Amazon has created in this article. She questions the lack of research done to ensure that the current method of managing employees actually working. A reason Gino states for the lack of testing is “one is they do …show more content…
One group received no gratitude, while one received thanks from coworkers, and the final group who received thanks from the customers. Each group’s production was then monitored and it was discovered that the group who received thanks from a coworker became more motivated and worked harder, while the others did not change. The other tests had similar results. Gino ends this article by stating that it may not always be convenient to perform these workplace evaluations, but the results prove that they do increase workplace productivity as well as employee happiness.
To think that companies such as Amazon have such a hostile work environment came as a shock. For most consumers Amazon is a view as a progressive, revolutionary company, and yet it seems that it has issues with managing their human resources. Amazon is a company that is constantly doing test to create the next best product or make its website run smoother for its customers, yet