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    1 Social Performance of Organizations SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS <YOUR NAM E> <PROFESSOR NAME> <COURSE TITLE > <DATE> Analyze the social performance of Apple Inc., focusing on its organizational structure, product line, external environment, stakeholder influence, and corporate social responsibility. Your response should be 1500 - 2000 words.

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    2 Social Performance of Organizations Background Apple Inc is an American public company based out of California produces the high technological electronics and computer software. The company came into existence in Apri l 1976 and its founder members were Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayn e. Currently they have 357 retail stores and about 50.000 employees all over the world. One word that makes them stand apart from their competitors and makes them the market leader is “innovation . It is leader of the electronic business and has become the world largest IT technology company. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Apple organizational structure is one of the key factors which make it very successful. The organizational structure at Apple when Steve Jobs was the CEO was like a monarchy. Under his leadership everything was managed and controlled from single point i.e. the CEO of the company. Since the overall structure was influenced by him hence the organizational culture reflects his thinking and his way of leading. The CEO and board of directors of Apple, Inc. “glue” all the decisions together and their decisions will go straight down the line to every employee of the company (Lashinsky, 2011). Through the straight approach, any decision from the top executives of Apple, Inc. is instantaneous. It helps Apple quickly grab any opportunities if the board of director identifies any missing obvious ideas of the company products. However as the company progressed and touched greater heights of success the organizational structure also evolved. The company’s organizational chart now looked more complicated. There were a number of different divisions set up like operations division,

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