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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RESOURCES BASE VIEW Financial resources: The 1998 financial report shows that SingTel‚ the largest telecommunications company in Singapore‚ has a huge reserve (cash and bank deposits) of S$4.44 billion. This is the company’s strength as not many companies have such large reserves. The debt-to-equity ratio1 in the last 3 years was also very low. In fact in 1997‚ it was just 0.05 as opposed to in 1998 and 1999 when it was merely 0.06. With such a huge reserve and low debt-to-equity ratio‚ SingTel
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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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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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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 to which achieving competitive advantage is the result of exploitation of imperfections in the market‚ the resource based perspective‚ which states that competitive advantage lies in the ownership of valuable resources‚ and the dynamic capabilities view‚ which follows the resource based view but also adds the dimension of
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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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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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order. In this paper‚ we develop a linear programming model for integrated planning and scheduling of supply hub activities. We assume that all stakeholders in the supply hub share information on their capacities‚ schedules and cost structures. Based on this information the model addresses the issue of production and delivery scheduling‚ for the manufacturer and its suppliers‚ for optimal profit. The model was solved using optimization tools provided by ILOG. Keywords : Supply Hub‚ Collaborative
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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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HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS © Dr. Catherin Giunta‚ 2012 BU516 Fall 2012 |HUMAN |DESCRIPTION OF HRM FUNCTION/POLICIES |INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT | EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT | | |RESOURCE |AND PRACTICES RELEVANT TO THIS ISSUE |CONDITIONS‚ RELEVANT |CONDITIONS‚ RELEVANT | | |DEPARTMENT AND |AT COMPANY‚ ORGANIZATION (Including |ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS |ACTIVITIES
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