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In Part 2 of this case study on the practices of Apple management talent, I look at its approach to innovation, compensation and benefits, careerpathing and online recruitment (on its career site). Some approaches discussed are unique to sub-factions within Apple, as one would expect in any large organization. It is also rare for organizations that design, manufacture and sell direct retail through to have a consistent approach in all units.

You should not be surprised to learn that the firm that has the word "think different" brand used approaches to talent management that are well outside the norm. In addition to the lessons presented in Part 1, some approaches of other companies can learn from Apple include:

Career paths to reduce the autonomy and cross-pollination - in most organizations, HR speeds up the career progression of employees. The underlying premise is that retention rates will increase if career progression is easy.Apple's approach is quite different, he wants employees to take full responsibility for their career move. The concept of having employees' own career "began years ago when Kevin Sullivan was vice president of human resources. Apple does not fully support career help because he does not want its employees to develop a "sense of entitlement" and think they are entitled to an ongoing promotion.

Apple believes career to weaken the autonomy of employees and indirectly decrease collaboration between services and learning.The lack of a career, employees are actively seeking information about jobs in other functions and business units. In a society where creativity and innovation are the king, you do not want to reduce the curiosity of your employees and cross-pollination between different functions and units. Automatically moving employees to the next functional task can also severely restrict the range of internal movement within the organization, which could reduce the level of diversity of thought, in some groups.

Zuckerberg's social network to pay reward to security holes ...

Researchers need to follow the responsible disclosure policy of Facebook according to which they cannot disclose sensitive security information publically until the social networking site fixes it. And the amount they are paid for this is huge! A compensation of $500 and plus is set for these bug hunters. As stated by Joe Sullivan, the Chief security officer of Facebook, in his conference call with CNET, fixing a bug need not take more than a day. The security team of the company has regarded the compensation program as a nice means of offering incentive and appreciation to the study community which is always on its toes to keep Facebook secure and safe for its users. It is a good way of inspiring the work team of the company as well.

Prior to this compensation program, bug hunters used to receive recognition on Facebook’s Whitehat page and if they are fortunate- can get a job at the social network. Recently Facebook has hired Sony PlayStation 3 hacker and iPhone Jailbreaker George Hotz who works over the security concerns. Also, as stated by Alex, head of product security at Facebook, many of the finest engineers at the office of the social networking site are appointed here after they reported a security hole on the site. In the mean time, the company is opening passage for the security researchers for creating accounts for testing on Facebook. McGeehan and Rice said this will ensure that they are not violating the terms of use or affecting any other user on the site.

Facebook is not the first to launch a compensation program like this. Mozilla in 2004 launched a bug reward program and Google offers a bug reward program with compensations of $500 and more, even more than $3000 for searching a web security bug. Facebook has surely followed their footsteps.

In this way, Facebook in inspiring the research community to look at security issues with great attention in order to create a social network which is secure for its users and furthermore flawless!

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