Introduction of Red-Gate Software

Introduction of  Red-gate Software

The purpose doing this report is to discuss two issues that happen in the Redgate software company that they implement in their management. This report will cover the Approach to Management and Job Satisfaction in Redgate and also will cover how Redgate give motivation to their staffs. The method used to find information and to complete the report is by do some research on the company website, articles and journal. The annual report also helps a lot during doing this research.

             Redgate was founded in 1999 and joint chief executives to run the company. As CEO, Simon carried the responsibilities that include developing the leadership team and make sure that the company run smoothly for the whole day operation. Neil is taking time off from shipping the software to return to full-time study after 12 years being a CEO.

           They named the software company “Redgate” after the street that Neil lived while him staying in Florence, Italy. Redgate has nearly 300 staffs nowadays. This is because the Redgate provide a great environment to work to their workers. They used the “brainstorm” concept to form the company. Redgate also prefer listening to their customer feedback to improve their quality of product and works.

          Redgate is aiming their goal to make sure that their team working together to do something that they found personally to fulfilling. Secondly, they want to make technical contribution to the market in creating new and good software and enable public to the working lives of our users. They also want to represent our moral value in building a company culture and to build a good person as a people. For staff, to having a working place where the organisation has humanity to the employees was seen by their company management as an annoying convenience in the reaction.

          Recently, Red-gate was produced a lot engineered software product fantastically and awesome. Redgate exceptionally hired good worker and treating their worker greatly to make sure that their workers can produce great product in the best production level. They also sold and marketed their product with their highest integrity. Therefore, they able to came up variety of their product with a potential blockbuster.

          Redgate starting their operation with hired the small office instead of Neil’s bedroom at 2002 meanwhile, Redgate release their ANTS Load, a net load tester in 2001. The ANTS Profiler released in 2002. First version of SQL Compare that used 71% of the Fortune 100 released by the Redgate in 2002. They also launched Simple Talk, a technical journal for Microsoft technology professional in 2005 and SQL Backup Pro and buy SQL Servercentral.com the leading education community or SQL server in 2006. In 2007, Redgate placed highly in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small companies to work for. Redgate have bought net reflector in 2009 and moved to Redgate Tower which officially their office until today the following year 2010, Redgate introduced SQL Source Control, a revolution to source control SQL server changes especially for Oracleand SQL monitor.

          However, Neil, the co-founder decided to continue back his study as full-time student. Then, only Simon managed the software company as sole CEO of Redgate in 2013. Redgate brought another all the advantages of Application Lifecycle Management to the database, Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) in 2014. First in 2015, they released SQL Developer Suite, DLM Automation Suite and DLM Automation Suite for oracle. They also released DLM Dashboard, a new free tool. Redgate also running DLM training workshop for the first time.

APROACH TO MANAGEMENT THAT LEADS TO JOB SATISFACTION

The important thing to establish the total quality of a company is the job satisfaction among staff. Here where we can measure how the staff’s sincere commitment to work of the corporate employees or managers and being satisfied with jobs, are they doing jobs fondly. This is because the employee’s skills and willingness lead to company’s success. There are 2 theories, Taylor and Ford which is in scientific management, managerial activity’s theory, Fayol and the last one bureaucracy’s theory, Weber. Fayol and the six managerial activities include the worker to controlling, co-ordinating, commanding which they have to directing and motivating the staff, organising their organisation and team, planning their work structure and activities and lastly they have to forecasting their business plan. Fayol have 14 principles of management in the theory. The primarily structural principles are the division of work, authority and responsibility, unity of command, unity of direction, centralisation, scalar chain and order. There are also other principles in Fayol’ theory, there are discipline, subordination of individual in interest, remuneration of personnel, equity, stability of tenure of personnel, initiative and esprit de corps.

Engaged culture strengthened by informal culture while to encourage employee-led innovation by using many kinds of method and initiative. Red-gate tries maintaining its original start-up even the company growing up. Red-gate setup their goal to make sure that they working with each other in doing something that was personally fulfilling and creating software that made a technical contribution. Red-gate also aligned with our moral values such as humanity of the people in the organization.

In Red-gate also they practices ‘no politics’ and ‘do what works’ as their work cultural in their offices that can bound a spirit of restless creativity. These values also can booster their work momentum and create more realistic evolution. So, all the staff can contribute their idea in the right way. According to the Coding by the Sea, Neil challenged staff to generates new ideas for commercial products, fixing problems with internal systems and processes, learning new technologies, learning new skills by working with different people, allowing people to scratch itches without any expectation by the company of producing a commercially viable product, allowing people to do something for any other reason they like.