LDR/535 week 4: Signature Assignment: Applying Leadership Theories
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Kendra Thorpe
University of Phoenix
LDR/535
Gayle Grant
April 19, 2021
Apple Organization culture
Apple organization culture involves great creativity and innovation
The company’s culture focuses on maintaining a high level of innovation that entails creativity and mindsets that challenges conventions and standards (Hayes, 2018).
I had a very great experience in Apple company and got to learn more from their organization culture. Apple focuses on its great organizational culture by ensuring that the company maintains its great innovation and creativity. Its organizational culture enables the company to be always on top when it comes to competition. Apple’s great features in its products attracts many customers and that has been their competitive advantage.
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Apple’s Inc. Company culture
Change Management Plan using Kotter’s 8-Step model
Change management plan for Apple Inc. company include;
Operations
Marketing
Finance
Human resource
The apple Inc. company needs urgency in its operations to ensure that manufacturing of the products is steady. Speed manufacturing ensures that products are produced in large volumes and that they are available in various markets. Marketing of apple products will entail wide advertising to draw attention of all customers around the world. Marketing will take the company greater level. Finance and human resource should go hand in hand because good financial management can only be properly managed by able managers.
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Key Apple business functions
Apple Inc. company must concentrates on these four major business functions to improve its competition in the market. No business can progress well without these core functions. They influence management plan because every plan that a company makes must consider the four business functions.
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Outcome of the proposed change
If the Apple Inc. company considers the proposed changes great performance is guaranteed.
Revenue and profits will increase (Overbeek, 2020).
The company will acquire more customers for its products.
The outcome of the proposed change will be witnessed on the general performance of the company. Company revenue and profits will increase significantly and the company will get more customers for its products. This will result due to wide advertising of the company products.
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Alignment of organization plans with companies mission, vision, values and strategies
The mission and vision of Apple Inc. is to ensure that the user of their products gets the best experience.
This will be achieved through better coordination of operations in the organization.
The proposed changes will ensure that the Apple’s customers get the products with the best features ever. Their customers will indeed get the best experience. Better coordination of operations in the organization will ensure that customers get the best services.
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Continuation…
Apple’s Inc. company has several values such as “one person, one computer, we are all on an adventure together and we build products we can believe in among others.
Apple’s strategy is product differentiation.
The company’s values and strategies will align with the proposed change because through different operations in the company, they will be able to achieve product differentiation. Consistent manufacturing of products will ensure every person is able to get a computer or product of his/her choice.
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References
Hayes, J. (2018). The theory and practice of change management. Palgrave.
Haas, M. R., Munzer, B. W., Santen, S. A., Hopson, L. R., Haas, N. L., Overbeek, D., ... & Huang, R. D. (2020). # DidacticsRevolution: Applying Kotter’s 8-Step Change Management Model to Residency Didactics. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 21(1), 65.
