Managing People in Apple Inc.: A Line Manager's Presentation

This presentation, designed for Apple Inc.'s board of directors, provides a comprehensive overview of people management within the organization. It begins by detailing the recruitment, selection, training, and induction processes, highlighting key steps and procedures. The presentation then explores factors that influence individual behavior and teamwork effectiveness, such as ability, perception, attitude, and motivation. It analyzes Apple's democratic management and leadership style, emphasizing its impact on decision-making and team dynamics. Furthermore, the presentation examines the influence of organizational structure and culture, specifically the power culture, on leadership styles and employee actions. Finally, it provides an analysis of the relationship between organizational structure and culture, summarizing key takeaways regarding Apple's approach to people management and its implications for overall organizational success. The presentation concludes with a review of the advantages and disadvantages of the discussed management and leadership styles, supported by relevant academic references.

Managing People in
Organisation

Introduction
 As a Line manager this presentation is made for board of directors of Apple Inc.
for managing people in the organization.
 Management of people in an organization helps in understanding and managing
the relation between human resource management, strategies, employees,
management action in relation to the business strategies of an organization.
 This presentation will lay emphasis on the recruitment, selection, training and
induction process, Factors that affect team work and individual behaviour,
Different types of management and leadership styles and lastly organizational
structure and culture. All the above points will explained in the context of Apple
Inc. organization.

Recruitment, selection, Training and Induction
Recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection process in Apple Inc. goes through following steps.
 Commence Recruitment
 Before any job position is announced Human Resource director does some
document work such as: Recruitment request form, Job classification, job
description, range of the suggested salary, test or evaluation process, Interview
questions and criteria for evaluation of candidates.

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 Position Announcement
 Then an advertisement is drafted for the open position based on the announcement made
by Human resource department and job description is circulated (Rivas, 2016).
 Application Selection
 Through screening process applications of applicants are selected.
 Interview
 All the candidates need to go through four rounds of interviews.
Training and Induction Program
 Induction and training program in Apple goes on for one week. During this induction
and training process continuous monitoring of employees is done for evaluation and
after this they are assigned with mentors to understand their job role more clearly.

Factors affecting behaviour and team
work
In this various factors will be explained that affects the behaviour of a person or
reduces the effectiveness of a team. Following factors affect behaviour and
teamwork such as:
 Ability: Ability mostly influences an individual's behaviour at workplace for
example intellectual ability of a person define their level of intelligence and the
way they think.
 Perception: Perception about someone or something also influence an
individual behaviour which always differ from person to person according to the
way they think about that task or person

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 Attitude: All the team members in an organization should havve a positive
attitude towards their work as well as towards other team members. Negative
attitude or thoughts of the people should be removed as it might hinder the
performance of the team or might affect an individual's behaviour.
 Motivation: Motivation is one of the major factor that influence an individual's
behaviour in various ways. There are various motivational theories that explains
the way an individual gets motivated to work at workplace.

Management and leadership style
 Apple uses democratic management and leadership style (Arnold and et.al.,
2015).
 In democratic management style managers offer their employees an
opportunity of engaging in decision making, i.e. all the decisions are agreed
upon the basis of majority.
 In democratic leadership style leaders take input from all the team members
and then take any decision.
 This helps Apple in taking all the majority decisions and helps them in managing
effective team.

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 Organization culture and structure affects leadership style by affecting decisions
and actions of employees and managers.
 In Apple there is power culture so they follow participative leadership style. It
also has some advantages as well as disadvantages.
 Advantages:
 More effective decisions can be taken.
 Increases job satisfaction of employees as well as encourage innovation
 Disadvantages:
 Leader cannot take any decision themselves without the majority.
 Efficiency of the leader can be reduced i.e. they may struggle to define clear
leadership.

Organizational structure and culture
 Organizational structure directly affects organizational culture because of
placement of individuals within that structure.
 Many times type and business of an organization also affects the structure of
the company which further hinders the culture of the organization.
 For example: if one part of a company is compliant and another one is
innovative then in this situation, Organization will be needing two different types
of structures and as a result culture of both the parts of the organization will be
different according to their structure.

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 Apple uses power culture which is a tall i.e. top down structure where all the
objectives are determined by individuals or individual. According to their
business and their structure they have both power and role culture in their
organization.
 This structure has its own advantages as well as disadvantages such as:
Advantages: it gives clarity and managerial control.
 Disadvantages: Communication takes way too long to travel through all the
levels and as a results in hindered progress and hampering in decision making.

Conclusion
 From the above presentation it has been summarized that Apple follows a
totally different recruitment and training process and based on it they provide
induction and training to their employees.
 Then different type of factors have been explained that influences or affect an
individual's behaviour as well as affect the effectiveness of the teamwork.
 After this the type of leadership and management style used by apple has been
explained with the influence of structure and culture on it and lastly Apple's
organizational structure and culture and lastly analysis of relationship between
organizational structure and culture has been done

References
 Arnold, K.A., and et.al., 2015. Leadership styles, emotion regulation, and
burnout. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 20(4). p.481.
 Dulebohn, J.H. and Hoch, J.E., 2017. Virtual teams in organizations.
 Rivas, R.C., 2016. International Recruitment and Selection–More than a Simple
Extension of Policies and Practices Across National Borders. Available at SSRN
2795580.
 Velmurugan, A. and Rajan, S.N., 2018. A Study on Effective Recruitment
Process by a Recruitment Consultancy in India. Indo-Iranian Journal of
Scientific Research (IIJSR). 2(3). pp.23-37.