Traditionally the lines of authority in large multi-national corporations have been drawn clearly and superiority is emphasized. With bosses typically overseeing a host of various employees who are “beneath” them. However Apple Org.’s organization chart is drastically different from that of majority of companies in the public eye.

They have formed the company as a circle, with higher positions towards the centre of the circle and the CEO in the centre of all of it. Going off of what we learned in Chapter 13 the textbook the circular diagram symbolizes that no one in the company is “better than” or “above” other employees. Regarding cultural dimensions learned in chapter 3, this gives the company a lower power-distance ratio, and a greater sense of collectivism as the circle removes the strict divides of traditional structures.

I think that the circular model promotes team work and gives employees a greater sense of value to the company. It ensures that a job title does not define someone and that employees feel like they are a part of the company. This intrinsically motivates employees as well as they promoting team values and teamwork makes people actually want to do the job, and do it well.

The model works because it doesn’t eliminate hierarchy completely or turn the company into a workplace with no bosses. Instead it reorganizes its employees in a more effective and efficient way that emphasizes community rather than division across the company. It recognizes that the company can only succeed as a group and if the group does not work well together then the company will not work well or succeed.

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Elmer-DeWitt, P. (2011, August 29). Rethinking Apple’s org chart. Retrieved April 03, 2017, from http://fortune.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-apples-org-chart/