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1 Assignment 1 Analyze the Organizational Structure of a Company Assignment 1 Nicole Sime Principles of Management and Organizations, National University MGT309 Principles of Management and Organizations Professor Steven Schaefer January 14, 2024
2 Assignment 1 Analyze the Organizational Structure of a Company The company I chose to analyze was Apple. Apple is a global technology company. In 1976, three individuals, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, created Apple with the purpose of selling Wozniak's hand-built Personal Computer known as the Apple 1. The Apple 1 was supplied as a motherboard that had a CPU, RAM, and rudimentary textual-video chips. It didn't have a built-in keyboard, display, casing, or any other Human Interface Devices at the time. Ronald Wayne opted to depart the firm only a few weeks after it was created. Wayne then accepted a $800 check, which would have been worth nearly $72 billion 40 years later. Wayne was the one who hand sketched the initial Apple logo, which was later replaced with Rob Janoff's bitten apple emblem in 1977. Apple II is then released in April 1977. The Apple II series had an open system, which meant that all critical design information were made public. This design approach was eventually duplicated and commercialized as the IBM PC. The Apple II was the first widely deployed microcomputer. At debut, it cost $1,295 USD (Faizal, 2019). The type of organizational structure that Apple uses is functional organization. What exactly is organizational structure? While managers run their large corporation through their own organization structure, an organization structure is a framework that comprises of activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision that are aimed towards the fulfillment of organizational goals. “A functional structure groups employees into different departments by work specialization. Each department has a designated leader highly experienced in the job functions of each employee supervised by them. Most often, it implements a top-down (centralized) decision-making process where department managers report to upper management. Ideally, leaders of different teams communicate regularly and coordinate their strategies while lower-level employees have little idea of the processes taking place outside their department”
3 Assignment 1 (Olmstead, 2022). In other words, a functional organization divides people into departments based on their work specialty. Each department has a designated leader who is well-versed in the job tasks of each individual they manage. There are two types of generic organizational structure models: mechanistic and organic. Let us now examine the organizational structure of Apple Incorporated. This is determined by four key contingency variables: strategy, size, technology, and environment. First, I am going to go over the strategy. To compete with other large corporations like as Samsung, Motorola, and Google, Apple Inc. employs a differentiation approach. Apple Inc.'s differentiation strategy is to have its own OS X and iOS operating systems as leading products, as noted above. For example, the iPhone uses iOS, which is exclusive to Apple Inc. and is very different from its competitors, such as the Android operating system. (Podolny & Hansen, 2020). The Android operating system is used by the majority of mobile firms, including Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, and LG. Apple Inc. provides complex technology to the globe, however ideas or technology during product manufacture can easily leaked if Apple Inc. does not have an appropriate framework to organize Apple Inc. Size is the second contingency variable. According to a September 24th, 2011, study, Apple Inc. has 60,400 permanent full-time workers and 2,900 temporary full-time employees globally. The huge number of Apple Inc. workers, which exceeds 2000, is considered a large company, and it has more specialization, departmentalization, rules, and regulations than a small business (Johnson, n.d.). The third factor is technology. Technology is the process of converting a company's inputs into outputs more effectively and efficiently, or in other words, the way activities are completed utilizing tools, equipment, procedures, and human knowledge. We can also see from
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