Apple Inc.’s Organization Structure and Culture

Apple Inc.’s Organization Structure and Culture
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Apple Inc.’s Organizational Structure and Culture
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Apple’ Organization Structure
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Figure 1 shows the organizational structure of Apple Inc. In particular, Apple Inc. is a large multinational organization based in California, the United States of America (USA). The company deals with various technological products and services. Apple Inc. manufactures iPhones, iPads, iPods, computer software, and other peripherals. As can be seen in the organizational structure above, Tim Cook is the chief executive officer (CEO) and Arthur Levinson is the chairman. The paper focuses on how Apple Inc.’s organizational structure facilitates specialization, departmentalization, centralization, formalization, the span of control, and chain of command among other aspects of the company that enhances effective service delivery.
Apple Inc. is specialized and departmentalized, which fosters the firm’s success in the technology industry. Specifically, departmentalization entails separating individuals into departments, groups, or specific criteria. In addition, specialization is the strategy that enables a business to focus on a limited range of services and products to maximize productivity (Cohen, 2015). Figure 1 depicts the various departments of Apple Inc. Notably, they include engineering, operations, engineering, marketing, and China. Every department is headed by an executive leader who is highly skilled and experienced. For instance, the engineering department is by Johny Srouji, the senior vice president (SVP) of hardware technologies, Craig Federighi, SVP of software engineering, Eddie Cue, SVP of Internet software and services, Dan Riccio, SVP of hardware engineering, and John Giannandrea, SVP artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Apple Inc.’s well-defined and effective organizational structure promotes the production of quality technological products and services. For instance, the company is renowned worldwide for the production of high-quality iPhones, MacBooks, iPads, smartwatches, and other innovative products. The chain of command at Apple Inc. entails proper ranking of staff from the highest to lowest. For example, all software engineers and other employees in the department of engineering report to Federighi and Cue. However, their scope of work is well-defined based on innovation or invention. The span of control involves the number of individuals, things, and functions that people in an organization are responsible (Greg, 2020). In Apple Inc., employees are assigned tasks depending on their expertise and skills. For instance, if anything has to be done by the sales and marketing department, Philip Schiller, SVP of global marketing, and Deirdre O’Brien, SVP of people and retail, are responsible for coming up with the most appropriate strategy before subdividing the tasks to workers in the respective department. That way, things get done correctly, effectively, and efficiently, leading to successful p...