Leadership and HRM Report: Apple Inc. Case Study and Future Trends

This report provides an analysis of Apple Inc.'s Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, focusing on the return of Steve Jobs and its impact on the company. It examines the restructuring efforts undertaken by Jobs and the subsequent financial turnaround. The report also discusses recent trends in HRM, such as the shift from annual salary increases to variable income, the use of bonuses, and the preference for quarterly performance reviews. Furthermore, it predicts future developments in the field, including the downsizing of in-house HR departments in favor of outsourcing and the need for HR professionals to develop strategic thinking skills to become strategic partners within organizations. The report references relevant sources to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
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Answer to Question 1
Apple Inc is one of the suitable examples wherein the co-founder Steve Jobs return to
the organization in the month of July, year 1997. It was marked as the beginning of the
resurrection of Apple and after twelve years of the financial loss, Gil Amelio was being
ousted from the position of CEO (Businessinsider.com, 2020). The company was totally
bankrupt wherein Steve Jobs returned and he was capable of taking interim position and he
was being tasked with the major restructuring of the company as a whole for improving and
bringing the effectiveness of the company as a whole (Wackernagel et al., 2019).
Answer to Question 2
In the last few years, the main trend which is being noticed is the fact that there is
steep drop in the yearly raise in the salary and increase of the variable income each year.
There has been high increase in the bonuses for the different occasions which improved the
morale of employees and their performance as a whole (Wackernagel et al., 2019).
There has been end of the annual reviews as the main employees are millennials who
prefer the systematic feedback process is the vital element which needs to be implemented. In
such scenario, there are quarterly performance reviews taking place which is capable of
making the employees satisfied.
In the future, there are different other aspects which can be taking place in the HR
field are as follows:
Firstly, the in-house HR will be downsizing, and there will be increase in the
outsourcing as there are many businesses which are capable of better technology or more
self-service reliant (Groeneveld & Steijn, 2016).

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Moreover, strategic kind of thinking will be the new core competence of HR that will
be capable of repositioning themselves as the strategic partner (Groeneveld & Steijn, 2016).

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References
Businessinsider.com (2020) The Greatest Comeback of Apple Inc of All Time (Online)
Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-comeback-story-2010-10?
IR=T [Accessed on 13th March 2020]
Groeneveld, S., & Steijn, B. (2016). Management of Human Resource: Trends and Variation.
In Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform (pp. 178-193). Routledge.
Wackernagel, M., Lin, D., Evans, M., Hanscom, L., & Raven, P. (2019). Defying the
Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends. Sustainability, 11(7),
2164.