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Case Study

Presented By:

Salil Shrivastava Kunal Assudani

Pradeep Sahu Shailesh Patel Kamal Sewani

Varsha Nathani

Introduction•SAS institute is the world’s largest privately held software company.

•Founded in 1976 which makes statistical software which lease to widely diverse group of customer.

•John Goodnight is the founder and CEO owns two third of the company.• SAS institute has 54000 employees ,3400 are at the company’s campus headquarter in Cary, North Carolina .

•It defines the sas Indian culture, employees centered values, employee interdependence, a spirit of risk taking, freedom, challenging work, richness of resources.

•Goodnight’s own value system and philosophy of work.

•Describes four strategies that have been initated to support the company culture “hire hard” recruitment strategy, the 35 hour work week, employee and manager survey, and compensations system.

Company and software

• SAS is a fourth-generation programming language consisting of a suite of modules designed for business intelligence and customer relationship management.

• SAS also provides data mining, data warehousing, business intelligence, sustainability and business performance management software.

• SAS Institute remains a wholly owned private company, enabling the management, led by James Goodnight, to run the company in the manner they think best, without worry about the demands of shareholders.

• SAS Institute has frequently been included in lists of the best places to work in America.

Why SAS is Diff from Others • SAS Institute as a family-friendly employer

• SAS Institute is an international leader in data warehousing and decision support software. Some 3,400 employees work at the company’s headquarters on the 200-acre campus in Cary, North Carolina.

• SAS leases to its customers — a strategy of immense importance in understanding the company’s relationship to its users.

• SAS Institute sees it, the leasing strategy “helps keep the company sharp” by ensuring that technological advances are driven solely by customer needs.

Contd….• SAS Institute reinvests more than 30 percent of revenue in R&D.

• Nearly 90 percent of SAS Institute customers renew their annual leases, and 70 percent of these, on average, increase their business.

Working Atmosphere• The physical surroundings and facilities make a big difference at SAS

Institute. There’s a gym, healthcare center, and childcare center.

• Each Wednesday, the break rooms are stocked with large canisters filled with M&M candies

• All employees have the same exact bonus plan potential (of course, higher-paid people are paid out at a higher rate).

• No designated parking spaces and no executive dining room.

• Goodnight and other senior executives eat lunch regularly in one of the two company cafeterias.

Contd…

• Goodnight’s original vision has spawned a self-perpetuating culture, and “new” decision makers now share his vision — which governs the variety of philosophies, strategies, and practices adopted by the company over twenty-three years. Four practices stand out.

• 35-hour workweek. SAS Institute’s written policy is that the standard workweek is thirty-five hours.

Analysis of the issues

• Jim Goodnight gives the people below a lot of autonomy.• With the involvement in the issues which appears to give his direct

report give the direction where SAS institute product $ technology is going.

• CEO spends almost 50% of his time programming• The passion for the technological side of the business is very clear to

the employees.• Providing an employee friendly work environment.• Employees are given benefits.• The company teach and enhance professional skills related to the

areas through professional training programs.

Learning

• With the proper working environment makes the organizational growth.

• The employees satisfaction will makes the success of the organization.

• They provide benefits to the employee according to the position of the employee.

• All the employees are treated equally.