OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION-MOZILLA

Collaborative Computer:


I just read the interview made to the mozilas company chairman Mitchell Baker. And I think it is very fascinating and creative the way this company is structured.
Part of the amount of the company’s employers is paid employees and the rest are just volunteers. How can a company survive like that? Would anybody work for free? Well, Mozila have proved someone will.

Last semester, I took a class on management, and we spent a lot of time on theories about managing people since is one of the harder parts of this science. Not a long time ago, when not many studies have been made on the theories of management, people believed the only motivation that stimulated people was money. Today, management studies have dropped information that shows that money is one but not the only motivation needed, other basic human needs, such us success, realization, and socialization are now considered more important and fundamental for the cooperation of people.
Even tough it sounds very easy; dealing with human being necessities is enormously more complex than just having to pay for a work done, and it is really a case that I would have liked discuss when I was on that class because the company is successful thanks to its volunteers, other companies and managers and CEOS should study the successful system Mozilla have created so it can be adapted to other companies too.

If I would had known about how important feelings and desires are for managing people, I would think the companies strategy is crazy but because I know about it, I can understand why it works. The fact that people can make a good to the community, and that they can work on an important project where they can be the leaders is such as rewarding situation that many people don’t care about money.