Company Background Apple Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively “Apple” or the “Company”) designs‚ manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices‚ personal computers‚ and portable digital music players‚ and sells a variety of related software‚ services‚ peripherals‚ networking solutions‚ and third-party digital content and applications. The Company’s products and services include iPhone ® ‚ iPad ® ‚ Mac ® ‚ iPod ® ‚ Apple TV ® ‚ a portfolio of consumer and professional
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An Analysis of the Financial Statements of Apple Intermediate Accounting III INTRODUCTION I chose Apple for my course project mainly based on the fact that they release all their records to the public and they have excellent accounting practices. Their paper work is easy to read and follow and based on their records they have an endless amount of revenue in the billions. As we have discussed about Apple in class I was very intrigued how they looked in the books on a specific level of detail
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Four Organizational Culture Types Bruce M. Tharp ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER 04.09 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER Four Organizational Culture Types Acknowledging that organizational culture is an important aspect for space planners‚ this paper provides an overview of four organizational culture types: Control (hierarchy)‚ Compete (market)‚ Collaborate (clan)‚ and Create (adhocracy). This typology reflects the range of organizational characteristics across two dimensions that were
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cultural shock among leaderships and employees. Organizational culture and national culture are significantly important in current marketing environment. Organizational culture mainly shows the value and the roles inside the organization. However‚ national culture is the directing of organizational culture and influence both leadership and employees deeply from their personal values. Furthermore‚ the relationship between organizational culture and national culture has impacts on leaderships‚ employees‚ job
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Apple‚ inc. and its international business essay I. Introduction 1. Brief Introduction of Apple‚ Inc. and its International Business Apple‚ Inc. was founded in 1977 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the U.S. At that time‚ the main product of the company was personal computers. After a success in the personal computer field‚ Apple started to expand their product area. They sold Macintosh‚ computer software‚ Pippin‚ video game console‚ Newton‚ world first PDA‚ iPod‚ mp3 player and so on. Some of
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Executive Overview Apple has been established for over 30 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in 1976. During Steven Jobs’s tenure as CEO‚ Apple’s mission was to bring an easy-to-use computer to market. However‚ Apple was not performing as good as Jobs projected‚ so he resigned in 1985. In the following 12 years‚ Apple experienced three different CEO’s and still could not be brought back to life. Under John Sculley‚ Apple worked to drive down costs by switching much
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example a business like Volkswagen base their structure around the products as the products needs the most attention and all departments have to be involved in the production of the vehicles. My two businesses are Apple and the NHS. The reason why I have chosen apple is because I believe Apple have a small basic structure which helps them to produce quality products as well as achieve high standards in the business. The reason why I have chosen the NHS is because I believe the NHS is a tall hierarchy
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wouldn’t use at home. For example at SeaWorld‚ when talking to another co-worker‚ organization culture language would be “Meet me at F.O.P.” To the average person who visits SeaWorld‚ this means nothing to them since they don’t know the language used at the workplace. F.O.P means “Front of park.” Now‚ knowing the definition‚ it makes sense. This is an example talking about in the book of what is organization culture language. In the movie Apollo 13‚ working in NASA‚ they used all sorts of language to communicate
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MAINTAINING A HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Prepared for Dorothy J. Valentine Professor Strayer University Prepared by Ella M. Smith Student ENG 240 Strayer University May 17‚ 2008 MAINTAINING A HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONAL CULTUE Warren Bennis‚ Ph.D.‚ once said‚ “Managers are people who do things right‚ while leaders are people who do the right thing.” In order for us to differentiate between management and leadership and to examine
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determinants and dimensions 0f organisational culture and climate. The effectiveness and success of an organization is not solely measured by profitability‚ it can also be measured by the way business is done and how the company is perceived by both its employees and the external community. These processes and formed impressions are functions of organizational culture which may be defined in several ways. The organization itself has an invisible quality – a certain style‚ a character‚ away
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