Businesses need to have a remarkably fluid organizational structure and culture in order to operate efficiently and be successful or profitable as a company. The organization structure ranks the hierarchy, which identifies specific policies and measures that are immensely crucial to completing company objectives. Throughout this essay I will show you how Apple has become one of the greatest and most prolific corporations in the world not only by having a distinct organizational structure, but through employing people who embody the type of characteristic traits that are immeasurably essential to the success of Apple as a company. I will also detail a plan and proposal for Apple’s new and improved organizational culture and structure
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Jobs decided to change the divisionary structure into three main subgroups: engineering, hardware, and retail. (1) In each of these three groups he implemented, Jobs would select one manager that would be directly responsible for overseeing the success and output of the department while keeping track of individual employees and emphasizing collaboration between teams. With this set up, Jobs was able to oversee every part of the extremely collaborative Apple process being completed on a day to day basis. This new model entailing amalgamation and uniformity still serves as a prototype for what most businesses strive to match and outdo. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying to former Apple employee Glenn Reid that, “part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that no one could tell him that he wasn 't allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design.” (2) As one of the greatest innovators and designers ever, his product design skills made Apple far superior with placing great product simplicity on devices that other people deemed as difficult or intolerable to use in the past.. Jobs served as the “all – seeing eye” that would appear not only as a Chief Executive Officer, but also as a participant and collaborator in the middle of all the makings and innovations going on at Apple, while simultaneously working on small projects that we now know as the likes of iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes. When …show more content…
Secrecy is one of the most imperative traits of being an Apple employee. Apple wants the type of person that appreciates views of different people, a person who can privately celebrate a big achievement within the company, not someone who will go home and post all about what they did at work on Twitter or Facebook. Apple wants employees that are not only highly intelligent, but employees that possess integrity, tenacity, and above all are confidential in nature. Apple keeps a competitive edge via secrecy to preserve its innovations and practices hidden from competitors and the rest of the outside world. (3) This is an example of external secrecy, there is also major internal secrecy going on inside the headquarters of Apple located on 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. Ex-Apple employees recall seeing construction crews inside the building as a sign that a colossal new product is about to be developed. One employee said that employees working in secret project rooms at Apple must “pass through a maze of security doors, swiping their badges again and again, and finally entering a numeric code to reach their offices.” (4) All companies have their own little secrets, but at Apple everything is a secret and must not be mentioned outside of the workplace. Another shocking fact is that next door at BJ’s restaurant and brewery
Jobs decided to change the divisionary structure into three main subgroups: engineering, hardware, and retail. (1) In each of these three groups he implemented, Jobs would select one manager that would be directly responsible for overseeing the success and output of the department while keeping track of individual employees and emphasizing collaboration between teams. With this set up, Jobs was able to oversee every part of the extremely collaborative Apple process being completed on a day to day basis. This new model entailing amalgamation and uniformity still serves as a prototype for what most businesses strive to match and outdo. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying to former Apple employee Glenn Reid that, “part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that no one could tell him that he wasn 't allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design.” (2) As one of the greatest innovators and designers ever, his product design skills made Apple far superior with placing great product simplicity on devices that other people deemed as difficult or intolerable to use in the past.. Jobs served as the “all – seeing eye” that would appear not only as a Chief Executive Officer, but also as a participant and collaborator in the middle of all the makings and innovations going on at Apple, while simultaneously working on small projects that we now know as the likes of iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes. When …show more content…
Secrecy is one of the most imperative traits of being an Apple employee. Apple wants the type of person that appreciates views of different people, a person who can privately celebrate a big achievement within the company, not someone who will go home and post all about what they did at work on Twitter or Facebook. Apple wants employees that are not only highly intelligent, but employees that possess integrity, tenacity, and above all are confidential in nature. Apple keeps a competitive edge via secrecy to preserve its innovations and practices hidden from competitors and the rest of the outside world. (3) This is an example of external secrecy, there is also major internal secrecy going on inside the headquarters of Apple located on 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. Ex-Apple employees recall seeing construction crews inside the building as a sign that a colossal new product is about to be developed. One employee said that employees working in secret project rooms at Apple must “pass through a maze of security doors, swiping their badges again and again, and finally entering a numeric code to reach their offices.” (4) All companies have their own little secrets, but at Apple everything is a secret and must not be mentioned outside of the workplace. Another shocking fact is that next door at BJ’s restaurant and brewery