Organizational Structure of Apple: Factors, Characteristics, and Management

Organization Theory (case
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Factors influence organizational structure of apple.................................................................3
2. Characteristics of divisional and functional matrix structures of company.............................4
3. Apple manages dynamic process which shape growth and evaluation...................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Organizational theory is used for organization analysis. Organization consists of human
resource who are managed to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Apple is the
multinational company having its headquarters in California. Company deals in consumer
electronics, computer software and provide online services. Its product portfolio involve iPhones,
pads, iPods, mac etc. this study will discuss factors which influence company's organizational
structure. Further it will analyse features of functional and divisional structure of apple. The
report will also discuss steps that how apple manage dynamic process which shape the growth.
MAIN BODY
1. Factors influence organizational structure of apple.
There are many factors which influence the organizational structure of apple are:
hierarchical organizational structure:
By the CEO of apple many changes are applied in the organizational structure. But the structure
is still hierarchical in nature. The reason of hierarchical structure is the large number of
employees in the organization (Connolly and et.al., 2017). This structure brings many advantages
like senior people of the organization have high control over the business. Company gives
promotions to their workforce which is reason for employee motivation. Motivation encourage
employees to work hard and that will increase their productivity. Superiors also give authority
and responsibility to their subordinates. Employees are answerable for the decisions they had
taken. Along with positive side, the organizational structure have negative side as well.
Organization sometimes compromise on the flexibility of the workforce. In hierarchical
organizational structure communication does not follow proper in different departments as
compare to flat organization.
Product based grouping:
It is the main feature of organizational structure of company. This international company divides
its operations into the product based group. For different products there are vice presidents and
senior vice presidents. Senior vice president handles software and hardware engineering like
mac, iPhone, iPad, ios etc. the corporate structure of company manages products and its
components which company supply to the target customers (Kraśnicka, Głód and Wronka-
Pośpiech, 2018).
Collaboration of different groups and divisions: