Organizational structure of apple
The organizational structure of Apple during the time of Steve jobs was very focused on Steve jobs as the leader and he would make all of the decisions in apple and most of the Ideas came from him. As many people have known especially the employees of apple, that the products research and development process is kept very secretive with in apple and Steve jobs really wants to maintain it very secretive to avoid a give away of apples ideas.
A con to Steve jobs organizational structure is that the company often encounters the bottleneck situations of having ideas that are sourced only from the leader and what ever Steve jobs tends to have a habits of only focusing on one product at a time too much that he disregards the other products. Even his board of directors had also mentioned that he often talks about what he is currently working on only during the enterprise meetings. However the positive side of having this structure of organization is that product.
As you can see in the organizational structure above, Steve jobs really is the backbone of the whole company and he plays a big role in Managing the company among the board of directors. Blue represents vice presidents, orange represents the executive team and grey represents vp reports to jobs. The way he organizes his company is quite unique as he is the one that keep the company going as he is he the main source of motivation and is what basically drives the whole company and has proven to be a very successful organizational structure.
What would I change?
In my opinion I would probably change some aspect of the company to make it more of a democratic leadership. I would personally allow people to have free diverse opinions on the aspects of a problem, a design the product or anything that involve making decisions. I think giving people the freedom to have that privilege would motivate them to branch out much more Ideas for apple and maybe many more successful Ideas, as Steve jobs had said himself that, no matter how good you are, you will always need a group of talented people by your side to work with and I think that he should have given the type of privilege with in that idea to the employees, because the people at apple are already employed to love apple and want to see it branch out new and innovative ideas and I don’t see much wrong in that, although it may take longer to process all the ideas and onions on projects since there would be many people working on it to improve the product together. However either way even though he didn’t use the democratic style of management he still motivated and inspired his employees greatly and Steve jobs has still made apple as magnificent and amazing as it is today.
Apple Inc. with a closer look 