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Hand Out Date: 6th December 2018 Submission deadline: December
2018
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1. Background 1–2
2. Introduction 3
3. Management Style 4
6. Conclusion 11
7. References 12 – 13
8.
Marking Criteria & Student Feedback 14 – 17
Facebook Inc.
The idea for Facebook started out with “Facemash” – an online programme that
compares photos of students and users selecting who is “hotter”. This birth the framework for
today’s Facebook. The first version of Facebook was known as thefacebook.com – an online
network exclusively for Harvard university students. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg,
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. As Facebook was
popular with Harvard students, they soon made it available to other colleges such as Stanford,
Yale, and Columbia. By 2005, “TheFacebook” has officially become “Facebook” and by 2006,
Facebook was made available worldwide, anyone can make an account now.
Mission
To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
Vision
People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s
going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
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Twitter Inc.
Odeo was a podcasting company that started Twitter back in 2006. They needed to
reinvent themselves. Jack Dorsey sparked an idea of creating a platform for SMS (Short
Message Service) that would allow a small group of people to communicate. It was called
“status” until later which they named it twttr. Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
formed Obvious Corporations with members from Odeo, and then bought out Odeo from
investors and shareholders. It was not until April of 2007, only did Twitter became its own
company.
Mission
Reach the largest daily audience in the world by connecting everyone to their world via
our information sharing and distribution platform products and be one of the top
revenue generating Internet companies in the world.
Vision
We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world.
(141 words)
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2. Introduction
The term ‘Social media’ is reference to websites and applications that are designed to
share content instantly, efficiently, and in real-time. (Hudson, 2018) The first social media site
was not MySpace, it was a site called Six Degrees that launched in 1997. It allowed users to
create a profile and befriend other users. The site was bought over by Youthstream for $125
million in 1999 (Jones, 1999) but by the year 2000, it was shut down. (Baker, 2012)
After Six Degrees, Myspace and LinkedIn began in 2003. It was not until 2004 that
Facebook launched; Twitter launched in 2006. Today, we have 4.021 billion internet users with
3.196 billion being active social media users.
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3. Management Style
Both Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. are American organizations in the social
media industry, they adopt the transformational management style.
Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter Inc.) leans towards a more democratic style of
leadership where users of the platform are part of the decision-making process because they
contribute ideas and express perspectives on company strategies. With an 86 per cent
approval rating on Glassdoor, Jack Dorsey is a true visionary and innovator. Unlike
Zuckerberg who runs only Facebook Inc., Dorsey runs both Twitter Inc. and Square (a
plugin that turns smartphones into credit card processing terminal). Running two
companies as CEO is a juggle but Dorsey manages his time whereby:
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4. Role and impact of culture on the management.
Based on Robert E. Quinn and Kim S. Cameron, there are four types of universal
organizational culture, which are: Clan, Adhocracy, Market, and Hierarchy. Facebook Inc.
and Twitter Inc. can be described as having an adhocracy culture within their organization
as both these companies create a dynamic and creative working environment that values
innovative outputs, transformation, and agility. The type of leadership in the company
determines the type of culture it adopts.
While Facebook Inc. has been staying strong with their CEO, Twitter Inc., on the
other hand, has experienced 4 CEO cycles in the past decade. After Jack Dorsey stepped
down in 2008, Evan Williams stepped up as CEO. He then stepped down as CEO in 2010,
and Dick Costolo took over as CEO until the year 2015. Jack Dorsey returned as Twitter
Inc.’s CEO and the CEO of Square (a payment site which he founded after leaving Twitter
Inc. in 2008. Based on Glassdoor reviews, a recent statement by an employee stated that
the turnover rate is high in the senior management of the company which makes the
company directionless. Employees often state that Twitter Inc. lacks proper direction,
which means the company doesn’t have a clear vision. A vision usually starts from the
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leader at the top, if the leader keeps stepping down, it’s definitely challenging to build the
vision for employees to follow through. However, it’s been 5 years since Jack Dorsey
stepped in as CEO and Twitter has been growing.
Both Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. continuously work on experiments and
innovations to bond the materials in the organization. This is also because their CEOs play
an important role in encouraging failure as a learning avenue and are risk-takers themselves.
This cultivates an organization culture that appreciates growth and strives to move forward
together.
Taking into consideration that both these companies are American companies. Based
on the Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions, Americans score low for Power Distance (40) and
high for Individualism (91) signifying that American organizations establish hierarchy for
convenience purposes. Superiors and managers are reliant on individual employees and
teams for expertise. Both parties share information frequently and expect decisions to be
consulted. This can justify why these two companies value openness as a culture in their
organization. Besides that, they also equally value freedom of expression.
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5. The organization structure and control systems that are utilised.
CEO
Mark Zuckerberg
Corporate
Geographic Product-Based
Function-Based
Divisions Divisions
Teams
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Facebook has a matrix organizational structure. The key features of this structure expect to
meet the organizational needs of the company, especially the need for creativity and innovation.
Facebook has divided its organization into three notable structures:
2. Geographic Divisions
These divisions exist due to differences in social networking and online advertising
market dynamics. Here, the company can highlight the differences in behaviours of
people and advertisers from various regions of the world. Some of the geographic
divisions share resources and managers with function-based teams to avoid
duplication of information.
3. Product-Based Divisions
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Technology Lead
Customers Lead
Lead Counsel
CFO
CEO
Product Lead
Jack Dorsey
Revenue Product
Lead
Engineering Lead
Twitter Inc. made a decision to transform their general manager organizational structure
to a functional organizational structure in June 2018. (Dorsey, 2018) Dorsey announced the
change on his official Twitter account, stating that a functional organizational structure will
drive clearer decision-making, foster stronger culture, increase agility in engineering trade-
offs, and set the company for more creativity and inventions.
The company coordinates the moderation of their content with the Twitter Trust &
Safety Council which consists of safety advocates, academics, and researchers. They provide
Twitter Inc. input on policies, safety products, and programs. The company itself has their own
Trust & Safety department headed by a VP – Del Harvey. The department aims to ensure user
trust, protect users, and enforce policies for areas pertaining legal components.
Both Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. moderates their platform for any form of
harassment when it is not in line with their vision for their services. For Facebook, community
is a positive word that signifies support from like-minded people without being discriminated
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or judged, it is a platform to share life stories with friends and family abroad, and nowadays it
has transcends connecting, it has built a space to network people through events and pages.
Similarly, Twitter Inc. has grown from a 140-characters microblogging site to a 280-characters
limit that promotes freedom of expression and storytelling in the form of instant messaging.
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6. Conclusion
The social media industry promotes openness and connection. Both Facebook Inc. and
Twitter Inc. envisions a world of connection with transparency but this feature of the internet
is always prone to abuse. People tend to abuse the platform to share unsettling content such as
suicide on the live feature of the platform, or even gruesome murders of animals. Going global
for these companies have been a challenge since the beginning as the internet is available
worldwide. Which is why it is extremely important for these two companies to be able to
manage and monitor they global operations via direct and indirect coordinating mechanisms.
The leadership style in companies influence the type of organization culture that it
births. Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. both offer lucrative employment benefits where the
companies try to ensure work-life balance for their employees. According to Glassdoor, 80 per
cent of reviewers would recommend a friend to work with Twitter Inc. and 87 per cent of
reviewers would recommend a friend to work with Facebook Inc. Of course with upsides,
there’s also downsides to working with large corporations, which is the probability of not being
able to achieve a work-life balance (notably in specific departments) and there will definitely
be political agendas that trickle down.
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References
2. Barr, S. (2018, August 23). When did Facebook start? The story behind a company
that took over the world . Retrieved from Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-when-started-
how-mark-zuckerberg-history-harvard-eduardo-saverin-a8505151.html
5. Elias, J. (2017, May 3). Facebook to hire 3,000 more moderators to curb violent
videos, offers psychological support to workers . Retrieved from Silicone Valley
Business Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/05/03/facebook-
live-video-moderators.html
9. Hudson, M. (2018, June 23). What is social media? Retrieved from The Balance
Small Business: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-social-media-2890301
10. Kemp, S. (2018, January 30). Digital in 2018: World’s internet users pass the 4
billion mark. Retrieved from We Are Social:
https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2018/01/global-digital-report-2018
11. Kosoff, M. (2018, February 19). “Just an Ass-Backward Tech Company”: How
Twitter Lost the Internet War. Retrieved from Vanity Fair:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war
12. Lombardo, J. (2018, June 6). Facebook Inc.’s Organizational Culture (An Analysis).
Retrieved from Panmore Institute: http://panmore.com/facebook-inc-organizational-
culture-characteristics-analysis
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13. Lombardo, J. (2018, September 8). Facebook Inc.’s Organizational Structure
(Analysis). Retrieved from Panmore Institute: http://panmore.com/facebook-inc-
organizational-structure-analysis
15. Merrell, K. (n.d.). The History of Social Media: Social Networking Evolution!
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social-media/
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https://www.ocai-online.com/about-the-Organizational-Culture-Assessment-
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17. Savitz, E. (2012, November 5). Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And
Square. Retrieved from Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/10/17/jack-dorsey-the-leadership-
secrets-of-twitter-and-square/#545fd97d5e2b
18. The Twitter Trust and Safety Council. (n.d.). Retrieved from Twitter:
https://about.twitter.com/en_us/safety/safety-partners.html
19. TWITTER HELP . (n.d.). Retrieved from Profile Rehab: Recover from Bad Designs:
http://profilerehab.com/twitter-help/history_of_twitter
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MARKING CRITERIA AND STUDENT FEEDBACK
available
awarded
Marks
Marks
Common Assessment Criteria Applied
1. Research-informed Literature 10
Extent of research and/or own reading, selection of credible sources,
application of appropriate referencing conventions.
3. Analysis 30
Analysis, evaluation and synthesis; logic, argument and judgement;
analytical reflection; organisation of ideas and evidence
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This section details the assessment criteria. The extent to which these are demonstrated by you determines your
mark. The marks available for each criterion are shown. Lecturers will use the space provided to comment on
the achievement of the task(s), including those areas in which you have performed well and areas that would
benefit from development/improvement.
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COMMON ASSESSMENT AND MARKING CRITERIA
Conditional
pass/very
OUTRIGHT FAIL SATISFACTORY GOOD VERY GOOD EXCELLENT EXCEPTIONAL
likely to
require resit.
Assessment
Criteria 0-44% 45-49% 50-59% 60-69% 70-74% 75-79% 80-100%
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appropriate the context of and and/or Good appreciation the context of the considered, with
the application. competence. techniques. of the context of application, with extensive use of
methods, Flawed Basic appreciation the application, perceptive use of relevant
materials, appreciation of the context of with some use of examples, where examples.
tools and of the context the application. examples, where relevant. Application and
of the relevant. Evidence of some deployment
techniques; application. innovation and extend beyond
extent of skill creativity. established
demonstrated conventions.
Innovation and
in the creativity evident
application of throughout.
concepts to a
variety of
processes
and/or
contexts;
formulation of
innovative and
creative
solutions to
solve
problems.
5. Skills for Communication Media is Can communicate Can communicate Can communicate Can communicate Can communicate
media is poorly in a suitable effectively in a well, confidently professionally with an
Professional inappropriate designed format but with suitable format, and consistently and, confidently in exceptionally high
Practice or misapplied. and/or not some room for but may have in a suitable a suitable format. level of
Demonstrates Little or no suitable for improvement. minor errors. format. Can work professionalism.
evidence of the audience. Can work as part Can work Can work very professionally Can work
attributes autonomy in Poor of a team, but effectively as part well as part of a within a team, exceptionally well
expected in the completion independent with limited of a team, with team, with very showing and professionally
professional of tasks. or involvement in clear contribution good contribution leadership skills as within a team,
Work is poorly collaborative group activities. to group activities. to group activities. appropriate, showing advanced
practice structured initiative. Work lacks Mostly coherent Work is coherent managing conflict leadership skills.
including: and/or largely Work lacks coherence in work and is in a and fluent and is and meeting Work is
individual incoherent. structure, places and could suitable structure. well structured obligations. exceptionally
organisation, be better and organised. Work is coherent, coherent, very
initiative and and/or structured. very fluent and is fluent and is
collaborative coherence presented presented
working; professionally. professionally.
deployment of
appropriate
media to
communicate
(including
written and
oral); clarity
and
effectiveness
in
presentation
and
organisation.
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