Essays on Tim Cook

Background

Recently, Apple Inc instituted few changes in the Company’s Code of Conduct, particularly in China. It must be notified that more than 90 percent of their products are manufactured and assembled in China, which enforced the company to conduct operational audit and environmental audit in order to measure the tendency of deviation in production standards. The reasons for conducting the audits were the controversies related to labor mismanagement and environmental unfriendliness in China. According to Guglielmo (2013), Apple Inc announced that the inspection of facilities would be done by “Fair Labor Association” in order to evaluate the quality ...

THE iPhone: A PRODUCT OF THE APPLE COMPANY

Apple, Inc. is one of the very successful companies in the world and very few people around the globe would deny the fact the Apple is one among many other companies that grew tremendously in the short period. The company specializes itself in designing, developing and selling the consumer electronics, software, and it also sells the digital content through its retail chain store called as Apple Store. The consumer electronics includes the products like Mac personal computers, the tablet computer called as iPad, smartphone device as iPhone, and media player with high portability as iPod, Apple TV digital media ...

Apple’s organizational culture is one of main reasons behind the company’s success. But, the times are changing and they need to understand that some of their cultural practices would not be acceptable in the future (Spiegelman, 2012). Some of the changes and improvement that Apple needs to make to their organization culture are improving working conditions in Chinese assembly plants, overcome the secrecy of working, and collaborate with social. Making change in these areas is necessary as the company’s culture needs to evolve as the business world evolves.

Working Conditions

One of the areas of concern for Apple’ ...

Abstract

This paper explores the different elements of business, specifically in the case of Apple, Inc. This company has been selected in view of the numerous material that is available on the Internet with regard to past and present empirical data on Apple, Inc. The elements of business – legal environment, social environment, economic environment, management structure, operational issues, financial issues, and potential change factors – are crucial issues that are discussed in this paper. Each of these elements must be appropriately addressed since weakness in any one of the elements would create problems for the entire business organization. Compliance with policies ...

Apple is the number two vendor of computer and smartphone technology in the world (Jones, 2016). Industry experts anticipate further growth for the company in the years to come. Apple is able to maintain leadership in innovations by focusing on research and development without spending as much as its competitors do. In 2015, the company allotted $8.1 billion for the said purpose, which was 36 percent, 8 percent, and 10 percent lower than Samsung, Nokia, and Microsoft, respectively. Apple develops products that are related to one another and share as much of the same technicalities. This strategy of creating ...

Individual Paper

Apple –FBI Battle over San Bernardino Terror Attack Investigation Executive Summary This report is about the battle between Apple Company’s iPhone and FBI’s demand from apple to develop a new software, which will help FBI to get the data contained in the phone of a terrorist, Syed Farook, who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino and left behind his iPhone. The phone’s iCloud was changed shortly after the attack, and FBI believes that such latest communication might help them get to know the terrorist’s plan. FBI went to court to be given orders ...

Global market research firm TrendForce presented the results of the research of the global smartphone market in the first quarter, which shocked the world. According to analysts, in January–March 2016 Apple released 42 million iPhone, which is almost 44 % less than three months old ("TrendForce Reports Global Smartphone Shipments Reached 292 Million Units in First Quarter with iPhone Plunging 43.8%", 2016). That strong quarterly fall on the market of the US corporation is being experienced for the first time Falling incomes of most expensive companies in the world led to an impressive decline in its market capitalization – Apple ...

Define the Problem

Jessica Grant, an analyst for a money management organization called BXE Capital, is analyzing Apple Inc., a vital investment for the organization. Jessica reviews Apple’s supply chain to gather information on the company performance consequently determining if BXE Capital should maintain its Apple shares.

List any outside concepts that can be applied

Analysis of Apple fiscal records and the company’s supply chain based on product segmentation information provides findings on the necessary changes, if any, that BXE should implement on their portfolio.

List relevant qualitative data

Business observers, following the slump in the company’s stock value, became doubtful that the company would successfully introduce a new product in ...

On December 2, 2015, the usually peaceful city of San Bernardino in California went through turmoil as 14 of its residents were killed and 22 others seriously injured in what seemed to be an unprovoked terrorist attack. Although the suspect and his foreign-born wife were eventually subdued in a gunfight that ended in their deaths, another battle took place in court as the tech giant Apple and the FBI locked horns over the issue of prying into the contents of the gunman’s iPhone. What the investigation agency wanted was for Apple to write a code that would allow ...

Introduction

Power and influence are vital aspects of a business organization since they dictate the prosperity of the particular company. Influential and powerful leaders usually lead the most successful companies around the world. According to French and Raven (57), authority originates from experts, legitimate, reward, and coercive. Principles of influence include commitment, reciprocity, social proof, scarcity, and authority (Seiter and Gass 208). This paper is a report on how power and influence played a role in the organizational structure of the Apple Company.

Power and influence

This section will discuss sources of power and principles of influence as evidenced in Apple Computer. The ...

Analysis of the Case Between FBI and Apple

Description of the public policy IN contemporary society Apple plays the role of the major giant of the production of the mobile phones in the United States and in the world. Regardless the fact that Apple is a sustainable company, its status and performance were challenged by the dispute with FBI regarding the confidentiality. This problem was initiated in 2015 when FBI submitted the request to Apple with purpose to provide the secured information about the users of iPhones. The management of the company has dismissed this proposal based on the fact that Apple stands for the protection of ...

1. Apple’s international business organization Apple Company has an elaborate global market system, and that distributes the company’s products to most parts around the world. The company supplies its products to Europe, China, South Korea, Middle East and Africa. These countries receive products from the Apples headquarter located in Cork, Ireland. As of March 2016, the company had 475 stores in about 17 countries (Apple stores, 2016). Additionally, Apple Inc has an online store that serves 39 countries around the world (Brewer & Fox, 2016). The company has a significant international market share, and almost half of Apple's ...

Executive Summary

Apple Inc. is a multinational information technology company that designs a number of IT products such as Mac Laptop, iPod, iPad and iPhones among others. The company employs a vertical integrated strategy hence able to control its operations. The company over the years has recorded major profits and this can majorly be attributed to its motivated employees, leadership structure, negotiation and change management strategy. The company’s continued success mainly stems from its motivated employees. By considering the hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s two way theory and expectation theory, Apple’s employees are wholesomely motivated. With regards to leadership, ...

INTRODUCTION

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of effective leadership of the overall growth and development of the organization. To do so, the study focuses upon defining leadership along with its importance within an organization. In addition, the benefits that are provided to an organization have also been taken into consideration. In the end, the impact of effective leadership on the overall growth and development of the organization have been taken into consideration. All the information provided regarding the importance of leadership, and its impact on the overall growth along with the development of the organization ...

Tim Cook is a business executive in the United States of America, and he currently heads the Apple Inc. Company as the chief executive officer. He took office as a successor to the late Steve Jobs, who was also the founder. Having risen through the ranks to his current position, Tim Cook offers a number of insights and qualities regarding leadership. The focus of this paper will be some of the leadership traits that make him stand out as an excellent leader. Having previously served as a Chief Operating Officer at Apple, Cook has proved the critics wrong with the success that ...

Introduction

The objective of this study is to evaluate the different leadership behaviors at organizations around the world. In addition, the study focuses on revealing the importance of effective leadership to help an organization to achieve the desired success. Leadership has become an integral part of an organization due to which examples of two leadership styles at different organizations have been taken into consideration. It is important to acknowledge here that the subordinates tend to follow what is done by the leader. For this reason, it is important for the leaders to pursue healthy and productive behavior. The behavioral approach ...

Apple Inc. is largely a successful company birthed from a simple garage room past time of a college dropout, very ambitious and innovative at that, to a universal, multi-billion, and empire. Steve Jobs is the brains behind this company. The success and sustainability of the company pivots upon the satisfaction and interests of the stakeholders, therefore the administration ought to make great efforts to protect this assemblage of parties. Apple’s organizational stakeholders include; shareholders, managers, and the work force forming internal stakeholders. Whilst the external stakeholders include; the company’s customers, its suppliers, the government, state unions of the countries in which ...

Management

Management Steve Jobs is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential leaders. Certainly, the way Steve Jobs became the driving force behind Apple Inc's success, and with it, impacted the technological world, does not have any equal. While it would be fair to say that the leadership style that Steve Jobs adopted was not, perhaps, to everybody's liking, there is little doubting the fact that without Steve, the world would be much worse off. Born on the 24th of February 1955 in Los Altos California, Steve Jobs had an eye for technology ever since he ...

Management Issue at My Job

MANAGEMENT ISSUES AT MY JOB One of the current issues in the workplace is women’s rights. The history of issues management can be traced back during the 1970s when General Electric responded to the demand for women's rights in the workplace (Wartick & Rude, 1986). In the case of G.E., it created company policies which recognized the rights of women in the work place. In the case of S. C. Johnson, it had to face some environmental issues regarding its products. In order to properly address the issues, the company removed chloroflourocarbon propellants from its aerospray products to ...

The success of America as a country is a fact acknowledged widely by all around the globe. However, if one may ponder over the reasons behind the success of this great nation then it would mainly be accounted to two major factors: the people and the various opportunities available to them. America is known for its freedom of choice and place where dreams come true. It is highly successful nation which is famous for its ability to bring out the best in people. American laws, systems, securities and liberties are not perfect but they are the most unusual ones worldwide. They ...

Leadership Qualities of Steve Jobs

Apple has been spectacularly successful under the leadership of Jobs. It has introduced many product ideas that revolutionized the way people do things. It introduced the whole concept of desktop publishing with the Macintosh and whole new kind of entertainment package with the iPod and later the iPhone and the iPad. All of these innovations have been attributed to its co-founder and leader: Steve Jobs. Jobs never personally invented any of Apple’s products and innovations. They were developed by almost everybody else. Jobs has the uncanny ability to recognize the other uses, especially by the ordinary consumer, ...

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Use of Social Media and Digital Technologies for Growt..4

Employee Programs for Hiring, Development, Satisfaction4

Growth Initiatives5 The Opportunity for Future Success5 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership.5 How Apple Incorporates “Disruptive by Nature”6 Growth Prospects6 References..8 A Brief History Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 laid the foundations of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California (Linzmayer, 2006). The first computer released by the company was Apple I; it was a hand-built computer which became the most “collectible” PC of all times. Other personal computers initially released by Apple Inc. were Apple I, Macintosh, and Power Mac. The Macintosh was ...

Persistent controversy over LGBTQ rights has called for several activisms at the local, national and global level. In modern parlance, demand of equality for the homosexuals is gaining immense prominence, as many NGO’s, human rights activists and youths are insisting for a legal transformation towards the sexual minorities. Western countries have shown more tolerance or even accepted same-sex marriages; but, Eastern societies rigorously jostle with this issue owing to its influence upon society. This paper identifies the main dilemma in granting equality to the LGBTQ community and how human rights activists are gradually exerting pressure for social acceptance of ...

Organization Assessment Report

Organization Assessment Report Apple Inc. is probably the most known company in the manufacture of technological products; it has a cutting edge and produces something that everybody desires to have in their possession. The company incorporated in 1976 was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976. The company’s headquarters is in Cupertino, California. The company originally started at the bottom of a garage as opposed to an expensive business location as many would think. It is this historical background of the company that amazes people in terms of their brands and ...

Introduction

Apple has witnessed a change in leadership after the demise of its CEO Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a transformational leader who influenced and inspired both employees as well as the general public by means of his vision and charismatic personality (Galloway, 2013). A transformational leader is one who leads by means of intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, individual consideration and idealized influence.

Leadership style of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and then he was ousted from the company when he went on to form Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar Animation Studios garnered huge profits and was subsequently acquired by Walt Disney Studies in a ...

Is Apple Company any better after Steve Jobs Death?

Succession in Apple Company remained a tussle among the interested potential CEOs after the death of Steve Jobs death in 2011 (Chen). The employees of the company were worried and felt hopeless as they thought everything in Apple will change including the nature of the working environment and working conditions. There was a need for a more practical CEO who will streamline everything in Apple to raise its performance. While everyone though that Apple Company was on its ways to the grave with Steve Jobs, things turned out to be a surprise. Tim Cook took up the position and began to make everything ...

IMC Strategies for building the iPhone 5 brand

Introduction

Today, Apple has created a nice for itself in the world of mobile phones, music and computing. Having its sharp focus on innovation and technology, coupled with the vision of the late Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, Apple has established itself as one of the most respected and trusted brands in the world. Many analysts say that the ‘i’ in its iPhone, iPod and iPad stands for innovation! It is interesting to note that Apple has never invented any new products. Whether it is an iPod or an iPhone, it just reinvented the ...

Steve Jobs is a household name in every sense nowadays. He is a man who will be remembered even by generations to come. He will be remembered by many people because of his unique way of revolutionizing the world. He did this through sheer innovation and great sense of creativity. He took the world computer technology to a whole new level. He is a man who believed in making life easier and convenient for everyone. Though not perfect, his leadership quality is unquestionable as he oversaw the growth of Apple from its infancy to being one of the most valuable companies in the ...

Technology Strategy

Apple’s technology strategy is to change the world through technology. They have remodeled the field of consumer electronics. This was not always the case. Initial Apple products such as the Next computer, the Newton PDA, the Lisa computer, the Pippin player and the Apple TV did not do so well. In fact, Apple’s ability to rise above the tide and be successful was in doubt as compared to its competitors like Microsoft. Currently, Apple is among the most profitable and innovative companies in the world with the largest market share for tablets. Creating a good technology strategy ...

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Introduction

Apple is a US company whose business is the design, development and marketing of personal computers, portable digital music players, media devices, cellular phones and other personal electronic devices. Apple also develops and markets software, software services, networking services and solutions, peripheral equipment, and internet applications. The company is one of the most recognized consumer brands in the world and is poised to become the first trillion dollar company of the world. The Apple brand is so strong that it already commands a ...

The current paper relates differences between entrepreneurial and leadership styles based on analysis of the three persons, namely: Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, and Timothy Cook. The main concepts of leadership and entrepreneurship were outlined and applied to the persons who were identified. The main problem of the research is to reveal whether leadership behaviors affect career outcomes. The topic of the research is of great interest because of much attention paid by scholars and publicity to the issues of leadership qualities and their influence on career and personal development. The methodology of the project is based on analysis of ...