Sun Microsystems: Inching Up the Ranks

Hemant Sharma, head, HR

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High Scores
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	Score	Industry Rank
Encouraged to take risk in work	100.0	1
Work-life balance	93.3	3
Less stress at work	90.2	3

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Low Scores





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agree"

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Score

Industry Rank





Exciting growth opportunities 

82.7 

13



Regular and constructive feedback 

83.9 

11



Top management doing enough for growth 

81.9 

18

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Dream Job





"Strongly

agree"

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Score

Industry Rank





Work-life balance 

79.1 

1



Organization culture/work climate 

52.3 

4



Growth opportunity/career development 

30.2 

16

Though Sun Microsystems featured at the bottom of the Top 20 list on overall

HR score, it partially made up for it by bagging the #11 position on the

employee score. Surprisingly, from a very low score in the key employee

satisfaction parameter of company culture last year, it leapfrogged to #3

position this year. Organizational culture/work climate, along flexible office

hours, emerged as a major reason for employee satisfaction.

However, it did not come out as strongly on other important employee

satisfaction parameters: job content (#15), salary (#15), and people (#12).

Understandably, as the preferred employer, the company slipped from its last

year's #2 position to #10 this year, with only 31.4% of its own employees

voting for it as their dream company. However, it was placed higher at #5 as a

dream company for the industry.