Apple Inc. is an American based organization founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs which is now a well-known global corporation known for cutting edge designs in electronics‚ software‚ and laptops and personal computers including the iPhone‚ iPod‚ and iPad. Today‚ with retail stores in multiple countries and an online store‚ it is one of the largest corporations in the world. It had become the most valuable technology company surpassing Microsoft. Apple’s organizational vision is “To be the most admired
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4.2 Human Resources Management Human Resources of Apple Inc is responsible for recruiting the most talented people in the world‚ helping them develop new skills‚ and supporting them throughout their careers. Usually‚ Apple follows selective hiring practices to recruit and hire talented individuals. Human resources division will go through three mainly activities to recruit talented people which are planning‚ recruitment‚ and employee selection. Human resources will analyze and planning that the
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STUDIES VOL 15‚ NO1‚ JUNE 2007: pages 1 of 13 A STAKEHOLDER VIEW OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN CHINESE FIRMS Dr Xueli Huang1 Dr Scott Gardner2 Despite the fact that China has emerged as a driving force of the world economy over the last decade‚ little research has been undertaken into how Chinese firms strategically manage their businesses. This paper develops a theoretical framework of strategic management in the Chinese firms through reviewing and synthesising five strategic perspectives that
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In the last two decades‚ one of the most fundamental questions emerging in strategic management is how firms achieve and sustain competitive advantage. In a simplified world‚ understanding how firms achieve and maintain superior or abnormal returns means comprehending how firms position themselves in a certain market‚ what they produce and how they use resources at their disposal to do so. In this sense we may distinguish between the positional perspective‚ developed by Michael Porter‚ according
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| Critically discuss the importance of resource-based sources of competitive advantage in one of the industries studied on this module. You should discuss a range of companies. ‘Competitive advantage’ is when a firm sustains profits that exceed the average for its industry. The goal of much of business strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Porter identified two basic types of competitive advantage; cost and differentiation. These two advantages are known as ‘positional
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Distinctive Human Resources Are Firms’ Core Competencies Introduction Benchmarking is a crucial management tool that guides the stakeholders on the overall performance of the organization as well as mobilizing the employees on a continuous improvement of the organisation’s environmental and social performance. Bench marking is considered to have an impact when the results of the organization performance are immediate (Vorhies and Morgan‚ 2005). It is essential to recognize that benchmarking and
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CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE CONTRIBUTION OF STRATEGIC HRM IF THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN IS FORMULATED AS (a) A CLASSICAL (or prescriptive ) BUSINESS STRATEGY (b) A RESOURCE-BASED (or capability) BUSINESS STRATEGY. Introduction ‘Strategic HRM involves keeping abreast of the times and developing organizational strategies that prepare organizations not only to respond to changing environmental pressures but proactively to seize the initiatives in their various markets.’
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Osama Bin Laden Term Paper 1. What details of the events has each writer selected to focus on? New York Times-the writer choose to be a descriptive writer by mainly going to details about the topic and vivid events which took place on 9/11‚its relation to Osama Bin laden. They captured topics such how the president and his advisers plot with kill and stop the terrorist acts of bin laden. The Post-they focus mainly on the death of Osama Bin Laden and what was going on in America
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International Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms By Clardy‚ Alan Publication: Personnel Psychology Date: Tuesday‚ April 1 2003 During the 1980s‚ commentators and researchers of almost every stripe witnessed what was invariably seen as a miracle: the juggernaut Japanese economy. It seemed a perfect system‚ with all cylinders-from the political coordination of the economy through industrial structure and interfirm interactions to human resources management practices and cooperative relationships
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Case report on Human resource function of apple COMPANY: APPLE INC. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION OF APPLE INC. 3 Mission Statement 3 Corporate Strategies 3 Apple’s Scope 3 SWOT ANALYSIS 4 Strength 4 Weakness 4 Opportunity 5 Threat 5 TRAININGS AND DEVELOPMENTS 6 Apple Retail Employees Training 6 AppleCare Technician Training 7 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 8 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP): 8 Apple Inc 401k 9 Employee Insurance 10 Parental Leave Policy‚ Sabbatical and Educational Reimbursement 10
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