Essay - Will the Use of a Performance Management System Within Sun...

Will the use of a Performance Management System within Sun Microsystems Limited Ensure High Organisational Performance?

Whenever we try to understand ***** possible responses of an organisation to the application of a management system to the organisation, one has to first study the organisation and its historic culture. In the case of ***** Microsystems ***** first step that ***** will take is the study of ***** top manager currently. The new head of UL operation ***** Trudy Norris-Grey and in the earlier assignment, was a Vice-President at Oracle UK. This is due to Leslie Stretch be*****g promoted to handle an international role at the ***** office. It is well known that UK has been one of ***** most successful regions for Sun Microsystems at the time when the company was suffering ***** ***** the difficult years. Previously ***** organisation ***** best ***** for Sparc servers and Solaris operating system, ***** Sparc had ***** developed by the company. Now it is promoting x86 based systems and also a stress on the development of the Java development environment. It is ***** trying to become important in grid comput*****g and open source s*****tware. ***** company had not been viewed as a strong comp*****ny as it had ***** grown in the dot com age and lost money later. When the dot com period ended, ***** *****pany had a lot of expensive equipment ly*****g around. The new ***** has been an accountant and according to her the company ***** performed well after ***** dot com years. (Trudy Norr*****-Grey, ***** Microsystems UK managing direc*****r)

The achievement ***** the company can be seen from what they have done together with some volunteer programmers. They have come out with a Free Office suite progr*****mme. The word processing in this program is called Writer ***** that is able to read documents which ***** been written ***** Word or **********. There is also a *****me called Calc which ***** able ***** open Excel spreadsheet files. The database programme is called Draw and that is ***** to perform al***** as well as Access and can open those files. Similar to PowerPoint there is a programme ***** Impress. While the programme ***** ***** perfect, yet this is available free and in ***** beta version. This programme ***** even write into a PDF. The major item lacking is for something similar to Outlook for email. The group of ***** ***** created Open***** but soon found ***** that they could not compete with Microsoft ***** had an ********** monopoly over the office man*****ment software. The MS Office is rather expensive and costs around $400 and that ***** difficult for a home user or sm*****ll office to shell out. This gave the developers the idea of not ***** ***** sell ***** programme, but give it for free. (Open Office Is Open Season on MS*****)

***** is some *****s which has come ***** recently and it makes it clear that the company certainly has software development capabil*****ies. The aim of the top management regarding the company