Topic: Organizational Structure Paper
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Organizational Structure Paper – here is a roadmap:
Organizational Structure Paper
Section One: Apple
Briefly describe Apple. What industry is it in? What is the size of your organization in terms of employees/revenue?
Section Two: Organizational Structure
Which of the four organizational structures best describes your organization? See Chapter 8. Why or why not is this the most appropriate structure? If not which would be more appropriate and why. Compare Apple's Organizational Structure with Microsoft Organizational Structure. Use the Student Materials document Apple and Microsoft?.
Section Three: Organizational Functions
Explain how organizational functions: Marketing, Finance, Human Resources operate within Apple. How does the organizational structure impact how these functions operate?
Section Four: Organizational Design
Explain how organizational design, such as geographic, functional, customer-based, product, service, hybrid, matrix, marketing
channels, and departmentalization, help to determine which structure best suits your organization's needs.
Write a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper in which you present the following items as they relate to Apple:
Describe the organizational structure of Apple – which of the four structures does Apple most resemble. Compare and contrast that structure with Microsoft.
Evaluate how organizational functions, such as Apple’s marketing, finance, human resources, and operations, influence and determine the organizational structure of Apple.
Explain how organizational design, such as geographic, functional, customer-based, product, service, hybrid, matrix, marketing channels, and departmentalization organizational design, helps determine which structure best suits Apple’s needs.
From Apple:
Thank you for your inquiry and we would refer you to the following website; https://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
From Microsoft
The organization is centered on functions and engineering areas. Details of the senior leadership team can be found in the following announcements:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/mar14/03-03email.aspx
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/jul13/07-11onemicrosoft.aspx
The senior leadership team bios:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/slt.aspx
The Microsoft Corporation is divided into five reporting business segments: Devices & Consumer Licensing, Devices & Consumer Hardware, Devices & Consumer Other, Commercial Licensing and Commercial Other. For more information on these segments, please visit the following site:
https://www.microsoft.com/investor/CompanyInfo/SegmentInfo/Overview.aspx