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Personal and Business Transformation Assignment (PDP)
Report
6/17/2018
Student Name

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
About Apple Inc....................................................................................................................................3
Organizational Structure....................................................................................................................3
Features of the Apple Structure.....................................................................................................4
Culture...............................................................................................................................................5
Hofstede Cultural dimension theory..............................................................................................6
Leadership.........................................................................................................................................8
Organisational behaviour...................................................................................................................9
Evaluation of Apple Inc. and HR strategies.........................................................................................11
Evaluation of Apple.........................................................................................................................11
HR strategies...................................................................................................................................12
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
References...........................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology-based company. The company is
developing, designing and sells the consumer electronics, online services and software. The
company is producing hardware such as smartphones, iPod tablet computer, Apple
smartwatches, Apple TV digital media player, iPod media player etc. The company was
found in the year in April 1976. Apple considered is to be the world largest data technology
company by profits and the world second largest mobile phone producer aster the Samsung.
The organization has to have the good customer base which is waiting for the innovative and
creative model develops by employees. The company has around 123000 full-time employees
and are able to maintain more than 500 retail stores in 22 countries (Hotelling, 2010). All this
can be done with the help of the organizational structure, culture and behaviour followed in
the organisation. Leadership given by the Tim Cook is giving the back to back success in the
market.
In the year 2017, company is able to earn around $229 billion. The company is enjoying the
high level of brand loyalty from their customer as well as the employees. The company can
easily retain its most of the employees for the long period of time (Csaszar, 2012) due to the
policy and rules adopted by Apple. In the report, the matters related to the structure followed
in the organization are discussed which depicts whether the organization is working in the
functional structure or the divisional structure. Culture followed in the organization like
Apple is that it provides the flexible environment in which easy work and implementation of
the new policy can be done in the organization. The leadership strategy and the
organizational behaviour followed in the organization are discussed which considered the
Tim Cook strategy followed in the organization (Anton, 2009).

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The HR strategies followed in the organization by the managers in the organization are
considered which depicts the change in the organization is done due to the changes are done
in the environment. The organization has to make a change in the organization due to changes
made in the internal and external environment. The implementation of these changes can be
done by the human resource department as they are liable for scanning the environment and
implement the changes that will occur in the business. For this, the human resource
department does the work of planning; provide leadership to make certain changes when
required in the business (Albrecht et al., 2015).
About Apple Inc.
Organizational Structure
Every company has its own structure irrespective of its size and nature of its business.
Similarly, Apple has its own and unique organizational structure. This structure is seen in the
hierarchy in which there are different levels of the organization. This structure in Apple is
established by the founder and former CEO late Steve Jobs in order to ensure focused
understanding of his innovative ideas and a clear idea for the business (Martin, 2012).
In the company, the organizational structure has been using the decentralization in the
business. Using the decentralization in the business the decision making is increased by two
folds. Decentralization in business leads to encouraging the innovation and creativity in the
business at various levels. After using the decentralization in the business the hierarchy in the
organization will be retained in the business (Claver, 2012).
The organizational structure is grouped under various heads which include the product based
grouping. Every product of the Apple such as iPad, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod and watch a
outcome of the collaboration of product based groups.

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(Source: Research Methodology)
In Apple Inc. board of Managers consist of eight members which are following the strong
leadership in the organization. Three are acting as the CEO’s of the company and other two
are the former chairman. The advantage of hierarchy in the organization structure is that it
maintains the control over the organization and its functioning. In Apple, all the functioning
are operated and controlled by the top level management. The promotion strategies and
opportunities by the company motivate the employee to achieve well and there are clear
stages of power and responsibility (Damanpour and Aravind, 2012).
Features of the Apple Structure

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The Apple structure is working with the innovation that enables the business to grow rapidly
in the business. The production of new product and services offered by the company can be
seen through its new innovation in the organizational structure.
Spoke and wheel hierarchy
In this type of hierarchy, all the judgements are taken by the top level management of the
company that is the decisions are taken by the Steve Jobs. But after the leadership of the Tim
Cook, there are slight changes in the organization are find out in which there is collaboration
with the other department also. These departments include the hardware and software
departments. This will give employees autonomy which is absent before, so the workings will
be faster. Thus now the company structure is less stiff now (Belschak and Hartog, 2010).
Function-based grouping
This structure is basically for the top level and middle level of managers group. In this type of
structure, the department and decisions are taken according to the functions performed by the
individual. For example; Apple has an SVP for industrial design, an SVP for marketing etc.
Product based grouping
The lower level of the Apple’s administrative structure has product based grouping. In this
type of structure, the organizational structure is divided into the subparts, for example, Apple
has VP for iOS apps and VP for consumer apps. This type of organizational structure is good
for identifying a specific product or product components (Van and Patterson, 2015).
Culture
Culture is the values and ethics followed in the organization by the individuals working in the
company. Apple is following the culture which is considered to be the factor of the success.