Apple’s Organizational Structure and Workplace Practices

Apple’s organizational structure and workplace practices not only allow for increasingly creative and innovative ideas to emerge, but are also undoubtedly positive for employee’s well-being. Critically discuss this statement by drawing on the literature related to motivation, and either leadership or culture. Provide practical examples by referring to the practices of Apple.

This assignment will be discussing on some of the factors of employees motivation and leadership in Apple Inc. This essay also focuses on understanding the organization and people from the mainstream or critical perspective. Both the motivation and leadership are highly regarded as one of the key factors for employee’s job satisfaction. Companies who motivates their employees tend to have high retaining and are successful in their specified business. Similarly companies with great leadership thrives more and has extra positive impact on the employees on their work and their organizational behavior. Since most prominent leaders are highly motivated people, the energy within them powers the ultimate desire to take the organization in to higher levels. My main argument is that Apple Inc. has been led by people who has a very positive attitude towards a specific goal and they have motivated people to work towards the same specific goal throughout their career in the organizations.

Every business organization requires flexible leadership styles, motivation, empowerment, ingenuity, creativity and innovation to drive an organization to it maximum performance and strength. The fundamentals of today’s organizations relies on how much the employees are recognized, based on the rewards, how much the job satisfies, the relationship between the top management and the lower management. Employees perform more when their top management people engage more in the day today activities and does not have any restriction in the communication with them. It helps the staffs to be open in their work environment and be creative and thus innovative.

 Mainstream motivational comprises of how it relates to the behavior of individuals in an organization. Mainstream approaches emphasizes the unitary nature of interests of the employees and the employer. So, the managers take keen interest in evaluating the behavior of the employees and guide them in designing of the policies which directs the organizations in to motivating the employees to perform effectively and efficiently. According to Victor (Essay, 2013) Motivation is the course by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed and developed towards attaining a certain goals.  Moreover, taking a look in to the Fredrick Herzberg’s two- factor theory, it proposes two main ideas which are, Intrinsic factor, in relation to the job satisfaction and extrinsic factor which is related to job dissatisfactions. Intrinsic factors are motivators, that contribute the employee’s achievements, recognitions, opportunity for growth and development, create a creative and challenging work environment. Furthermore Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of need give further explanation on why employees at apple Inc. are highly motivated employees. The management of apple Inc. has taken careful considerations on how essential play in the job design, compensation and management style.

From critical perspective the motivation argues that people will only work well if they expect their efforts to produce good performance. More of making the employee believe in themselves that they can be the best in their certain field. The employees expect rewards for the good performance. To add weight to the Adam equity theory states that most important thing in a person’s job is the degree of equity or injustice that the individual perceive in the working environment. (Anon, 2013) Furthermore the Herzberg’s two factor theory gives the explanation as if the employee are satisfied and happy in their workplace, in their job they produce more desired and shows lots of creativity. (Anon, 2010)

Apple Inc., founded in the state of California on January 3 1977, by technology loving trio; Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne; is a multinational brand corporation that prides itself on innovation and is one of the most established and most profitable IT companies in the world. At Apple Inc., the organizations functions under a collaborative structure, where all the sub departments and the employees working in them work together as a team for a long-term association to achieve a common goal. Collaborative team work leads to more ideas and innovations, like the old saying “two heads are better than one”. Moreover, due to this organizational approach apples products has more creativity and unique ideas, and are distinctively different from the rest of the technological products. Furthermore, the company desires to promote creativity throughout the organization, from the topmost management level to the lowest management level. This has allowed the employees to think out of the box and come with creative ideas and innovative ways to deal with many problems.

Every new employee at apple receive on the job training. Even though they are highly educated the firsthand experience working at apple Inc. is different from the very real world. Here we talk about technologies that are far advanced than the most tech gadgets in the world today. As the company expects their employees to be the best, they provide the trainings for the employee to be more efficient and effective at the work place. Dozens of new recruits has given comment in the glassdoor reviews as apple Inc. onboard trainings are a perk and it’s engaging and positive. Apple Inc. not only helps their employees to be self-confident, and helps to be the best in their certain field, gives a standing position in the industry and makes it much easier to get a job elsewhere.

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