Apple Inc. is company that designs; makes and finds a market for its products that range from personal computing to mobile communication gadgets, their software as well as offering networking services to its customers. It is based in the United States of America. Apple supplies its products and services globally. It does so by making use of the online stores, direct sales, intermediary wholesalers, retail stores as well as buyers who buy the company’s products for resale. The company is growing and posses more than 350 stores. Due to the global demand of its products and services, the company has employed several workers right from their technical room which designs and manufactures their products, to the retail stores where the products are sold. This paper will look into Apple’s philosophy with respect to training and motivating employees and its approaches to retaining employees.
The company recruits people with the knowledge and skills with the passion to diversify support and be part of apple and its products. After recruiting the persons meeting the above qualities will to work with the company, they train them preparing them for their working at Apple. Such programs include the ‘Apple Store Leader Program’. It enables those freshly from college an opportunity to learn how to work on a practical work situation.
Those employees already working with the company are regularly trained and updated o the apple product. This enables Apple stores to attain their objectivities and goals. They develop career of business leaders, managers, solution engineers and business specialists among others to provide solutions their global customer base. Apple trains their employees to have a good technical knowledge as well as excellent communication skills to be able to design, manufacture and market their products as well as the maintenance of the products and software.
Despite the unfair working conditions reported in 2007, the company ensures that their employees are working under good conditions and a good pay to motivate and keep them working for it. In the mentioned year, the company was accused of underpaying its workers in factories at China so that a worker spent more than half of her salary on food and rent alone. The top company executive committee immediately reacted by setting up and investigation that could ensure that the employees worked under favorable conditions.
Apple rewards to motivate employees when they work over for longer hours especially during launching of new products. During such time the employees receive bonuses on top of their monthly income. This motivates the workers and their continued stay in their worldwide stores. The Company is time conscious and always is keen on lateness though lenient as one can report at work up to 15 times late before they can be fired.
The company offers training services to their employees such as the ‘Blue Sky’ to prevent them from jumping ship; letting employees to use up to a fifth of work time on individual and personal projects as well as ideas outside their normal responsibilities to make the employees happy (Lessin 12). The company also gives the employees who have worked for more ten years a provision to leave the company and come back after two years and get their job back (Yarrow 16).
In conclusion, Apple trains their new employees preparing them for their working at Apple. Those employees already working with the company are regularly trained and updated o the apple product. The company ensures that their employees are working under good conditions and a good pay to motivate and keep them working for it. It motivates employees when they work over for longer hours especially during launching of new products with bonuses. The company offers training services to their employees such as the ‘Blue Sky’ to prevent them from jumping ship. The company also gives the employees who have worked for more ten years a provision to leave the company and rejoin after two years and still get back their position.
Works Cited
Lesin, J E. "Apple Gives In to Employee Perks." The wall Street Journal (2012): 12. Web. 29 June 2013.
Yarrow, Jay. "Apple Lets Employees Leave And Come Back After Two Years And Keep Their Seniority." The Business Insyder [New York] 8 Mar. 2013: 16. Print.
