Assignment Paper 1: Social Performance of Organizations

Social Performance of Organizations
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1 Specify the nature, structure, and types of products or services of Apple, and identify two (2) key factors in the organization's external environment that can affect its success. Provide an explanation to support the rationale.
Apple Inc. is an American company which is known worldwide for its IT expertise. It offers products with high information technology (Linzmayer, 2006). It is one of the most successful and thriving it brands. It is the leader in the electronic industry and is on top when it comes to design in high information technology. Its relationship with customers is strong; it highly specializes in ensuring that a good rapport is built between them and their customers so as to encourage them to buy their products time and again.
Its main products include the operating system X, the iOs operating system, the Apple TV, iPad, iPod and he Mac. Its products have unique features that are preferred by their consumers. (Apple Inc., 2014)
It operates under a monopolistic and Oligopoly type of market structure. Apple believes in: imperfect makes an improvement" and because of this its talented employees have enabled it to be a leader in the electronic industry. (Linzmayer, 2006)
Apple offers a variety of products which are of high quality and are very eye catching and attractive to the customers. These products include computer software and high technological electronics (Linzmayer, 2006). Their products are very popular and especially their iPhone and iPad have greatly being welcomed by China college students. Apple products are hardly compatible with other electronics offered by other companies. The nature of their products has been designed only for the people in developed countries since they are expensive.
External factors that would affect the success of Apple as a company may include
* Policies from other countries discouraging them to invest in those countries
Apple products have been able to penetrate in China and had since China has the largest population of people it there is a good market for Apple's products because it also has what they call a boom time economy. However, China's government has policies that inhibit abroad companies to expand regarding investing so that they can protect their domestic industries. That is one factor that can largely affect Apple's (Cedillo, et al, 2012).
* Piracy
There is also a serious threat posed by Chinese people, and that is piracy. Considering the fact that Apple has limited channels of distribution this, therefore, gives the counterfeit products from China an upper hand which can make Apple not hold the position of a being a leader in the electronic industry.(Cole & Chan, 2015)
2 Suggest five (5) ways in which the primary stakeholders can influence the organization's financial performance. Provide support for the response.
The following are the ways that stakeholders of an organization may influence its financial performance.
* Motivated employees yield more results
All companies that can develop a positive reputation in the community they are operating in, attract and maintain a good pool of employees. Motivated and apprecia...