Tim Cook
"So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."

APPLE CEO, TIM COOK (Brand, 2013)

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple since Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, has recently come out publically as gay. He is the first Fortune 500 chief executive to ever publicly state that he is homosexual. This will likely have some implications for Apple one many levels. hile most people feel that this is a personal choice that Tim Cook has made and has no relevance for his position as CEO, others will likely be dismayed by Apple and its leader. Some conservatives have announced that Tim Cook has a right to be gay, but announcing his personal sexual preferences publically is a new story. This puts the CEO and by affiliation Apple into a political debate that will likely stir up…...

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Brand, A. (2013, October 22). Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out as gay: I'm proud. Retrieved from MSNBC:  http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/apple-ceo-tim-cook-comes-out-gay-im-proud 

Cook, T. (2014, October 30). Tim Cook Speaks Up. Retrieved from Bloomberg:  http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay 

Feintzeig, R., & Wakabayashi, D. (2014, October 30). Apple CEO Says He's 'Proud to Be Gay'. Retrieved from The Wall Street Journal:  http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26833222/cook-proud-be-gay

Apple's CEO Tim Cook recently publicly announced that he is gay (Chen & Goel, 2014). This step was clearly a major personal landmark for him, but it caught attention in the business world as well, for several reasons. First, there few openly gay C-suiters, and even fewer as prominent as Cook. There may be some who are not out, but Cook's announcement was intended specifically to shift the mindset of people in the business world about gays. Cook is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Second, LGBT people are one of the few minority groups against whom active, deliberate discrimination is allowed, by law, in the American workplace. The move does come on the heels of President Obama affording LGBT workers in the federal government protection from discrimination, but discrimination is still allowed in the private sector, barring passage of an act from Congress, which being epublican,…...

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BBC. (2014). Obama signs order protecting some gay workers. BBC. Retrieved December 8, 2014 from  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28414186 

Chen, B. & Goel, V. (2014). Apple's Tim Cook says that he is 'proud to be gay' New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2014 from  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/technology/timothy-cook-apples-chief-executive-says-he-is-proud-to-be-gay.html?_r=1 

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Apple, Inc.: The Company’s Long-Term Growth Under Tim Cook Steve Jobs, the iconic founder of Apple Inc., is largely associated with the company’s meteoric rise from 1996 - 2011. Jobs was a visionary and creative leader and started the company off on a trend to long-term success. Upon his death, Tim Cook took over as the CEO of Apple. This text largely concerns itself with how Cook has addressed the company’s long-term growth. Further, it also looks into how successful the said growth has been.
To begin with, as has been pointed out in the Case Study, Cook has managed to shepherd Apple Inc. into becoming the very first company with a capitalization of $800 billion. At the time of Job’s death, the company was worth $350 billion. This effectively means that under Tim’s watch, the company has more than doubled in value. It is, however, important to note that for the…...

Ethics at Apple
Apple has been for some time now the leading manufacturer of innovative wireless technologies, including the iPhone, the iPad, iPods, and Macintosh computers that do more and set the table for other manufacturers to emulate "Mac" innovations. Following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs -- and the emergence of Tim Cook as the new CEO -- the technology media and happy Apple consumers wait for the next launch of an innovative device that will change the way people communicate and retrieve information.

hat are the Apple values and ethics? The "Apple Values" section of the Apple Employee Handbook (circa 1993) sets the record straight on what is expected of employees. In short, Apple asserts that "…we will not compromise our ethics or integrity in the name of profit" (seanet.com). hat Apple does is "…set aggressive goals and drive ourselves hard to achieve them" and "build products" that "extend…...

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Organizational behavior is a study that encompasses the examination and analysis of the influence that persons, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations with the main intent of employing such understanding on behavior so as to make organizations function in a more effective manner. In other words, it is the analysis of what individuals undertake in an organization and how their behavior has an influence on the performance of the organization. By having an understanding of the manner in which interrelation and working together with others in the organization, followed by improvements can be undertaken for a company. An apparent characteristic of organizational behavior is discerning the detailed behaviors of personnel or groups of workers in diverse settings or how they respond to certain occasions or circumstances (obbins and Judge, 2013).
Organization's Background and Nature of its Business

Apple Inc., formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc., is a transnational American organization…...

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Apple Culture Change
Apple has been through many transformations and cultural shifts throughout its interesting history. The company was founded in a garage in the 1970s and later became the most valued company in the world. Needless to say, there have been many challenges that the company has had to overcome along the way. This analysis will focus on some of the more recent cultural changes that the company has went through in the last five years. Some of these changes involve the fact that Apple has had to endure the loss of its founder and chief visionary Steve Jobs. Other changes in culture relate to its production methods and some of its overseas business partners who have generated significant amounts of negative publicity for acting less than ethically in many cases regarding the treatment of employees. Despite all the challenges that Apple has had to endure along its journey, it…...

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Bilton, R. (2014, Decemember 18). Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'. Retrieved from BBC News:  http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463 

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Ethics and Corporate esponsibility in the Workplace
PharmaCAE's motto is "We CAE about YOU health" -- and this assertion should be born out in the firm's actions and not just in its words. To understand the actual impact of the organization's actions, it is necessary to acknowledge its stakeholders and see how each is affected. By doing so, a better system of corporate social responsibility (CS) can be implemented that will address the issues that face PharmaCAE in Colberia. By examining how other firms and multinationals have addressed CS issues and comparing them to the situation that PharmaCAE faces, a detailed proposition based on the appropriate philosophical/ethical perspective can be generated. This paper will provide an overview of the stakeholders in the firm, how they are impacted by the organization's actions, how the firm can better itself ethically and responsibly regarding stakeholders, and how PharmaCAE compares to another company of a…...

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Cooper, R. (2013). Inside Apple's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just 1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads for the West. Daily Mail. Retrieved from  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Inside-Apples-Chinese-sweatshop-factory-workers-paid-just-1-12-hour.html

Organization (Apple)
Apple Inc. (Apple) was built on January 3, 1977. It is presently engaged in manufacturing, designing and marketing mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital devices. It also sells a number of related software, peripherals, services, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The Company's products and services comprises iPad, iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, iPod a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications, the Mac OS X and ios operating systems, iCloud, and a number of accessory, service and support offerings. It also sells and provides digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, iookstore, and Mac App Store. y the end of year 2011, the Company, as part of a consortium, obtained Nortel Networks Corporation's patent portfolio. In February 2012, the Company obtained app-search engine Chomp.

Apple sells its products worldwide through its online stores, retail stores and direct sales force, as…...

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Throughout its history, Apple Inc. has accomplished these goals" (50).
The effective management of the company does not end with this philosophical viewpoint, though, but rather extends to virtually every area of Apple's operations, including its recruitment function. Although the company has succeeded where other companies have failed, Apple is not content to rest on its corporate laurels but remains focused on recruiting the best employees available to deliver the world-class products and services that have characterized the company's offerings to date (Job at Apple 2012). In addition, the company continues an aggressive research and development department that has introduced innovations in mobile and point-of-sale payment methods as well as add-on hardware provided by other vendors that is capable of transforming Apple iPhones and iPads into mobile card readers (olfe 6).

The research was consistent in showing the Apple is modeling the way for the computing industry through innovation and a…...

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Apple (the computer company) with relation to China. The paper will need to focus on the company's product development and supplier relations within the Chinese market.
Apple

"Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products are the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Its software includes the OS X and iOS operating system; the iTunes media browser; and the iLife and iork creativity and production suites. Apple is the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977… Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012" (ikipedia: Apple Inc.)

The following essay describes Apple's relationship with China focusing specifically…...

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Wikipedia. Apple Inc.

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Rathee, J. (2012) Could Apple's China Love Affair Be Over?  http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/could-apples-china-love-affair-be-over.html/

Functions Management
The purpose of this report is to analyze the leadership and planning systems at Apple Inc. Apple has been one of the success stories of the past decade. Leadership has played a strong role in Apple's success, with the company generally thriving under Steve Jobs and struggling under other leaders. ith Jobs' passing, the company faces a challenge of adapting its leadership and planning systems, both of which were centered around Jobs' charismatic leadership.

The study focuses on two sources of information. There is little academic literature on Apple, in part because of the company's famous secrecy. The business press, however, has analyzed the company's leadership and planning processes and was used as a source of information. In addition, literature focusing on the leadership and planning theories was used to develop the frameworks for analysis.

The findings of this report are that Apple's success in the past has relied on charismatic…...

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Effect of External and Internal Environment Introduction
Organizations have both an internal and external environment. To begin with, the forces or circumstances within the borderline of the organization are the components of the internal environment. Notably, the internal environment comprises for the most part of the owners, employees, board of directors, stakeholders, and the corporate culture. On the other hand, factors that are extrinsic to the organization are the components of the external environment. It is imperative to note that these are elements that the organization bears no control of as they impact the entire the industry and therefore the organization cannot influence how such aspects will shape up (Nieuwenhuizen, Badenhorst-Weiss, and Rossouw, 2008). On the other hand, factors within the internal environment are those that the organization can control and have an effect on how they will turn out to be. The external environment is categorized into the general environment and…...

Hughes proceeded to institute a system of "Confusing Military Structures," the www.CDNMilitary.casitecontinues. Battlefront unites were "constantly formed, disbanded, reformed and disbanded again"; and as though that wasn't enough, the Ross Rifle issue was another problem that Hughes' legacy is left with, according to the site. One army driver is quoted as saying, "To hell with the [Ross Rifle]. I'll take a club." In fact, Ross did not fully understand why soldiers objected to the use of the Ross Rifle, the military eb site claims, because even though Hughes "dressed up like a military officer while being Minister of the Militia," he was "nothing more than a civilian...and never did have to use the rifle in combat" (www.CDNMilitary.ca).

And the Ross Rifle wasn't the only snag in Hughes' pursuit of innovative wartime materials and technologies, the CNDMilitary site claims. Indeed, the "MacAdam shield-shovel" - termed a "Canadian-designed miracle" by Hughes, who always…...

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Company Name, Mission Statement, and Key Leaders In this research paper, the company of interest will be Apple. Its mission is to use innovative technology to develop hardware and software that takes user experience to another level. The mission was declared by the seating CEO Tim Cook in the annual report of 2018. Apple is known worldwide as a technology company that develops classy electronics, and it is rated among the four top companies in the world (Apple Mission and Vision Statement Analysis, n.d).
Tim Cook was announced as the new Apple CEO in August 2011, and he took over from former CEO Steve Jobs. Under the leadership of Cooks, the company has grown its value to $2 trillion, which is a recommendable growth. Despite being a top brand globally, they are expected to address several concerns, such as advancing global antitrust and weak bonds with app developers. Greg Joswiak is the…...

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Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Apple Smartwatch on ersonal Health and Fitness:
    An exploration into the features of the Apple Smartwatch that support personal health, such as the heart rate monitor, activity rings, and built-in workout apps. The essay would assess the effectiveness of these tools in promoting a healthier lifestyle, as well as discuss any limitations or areas of potential improvement in future models.

2. Usability and User Interface of the Apple Smartwatch:
    A critical assessment of the design and functionality of the Apple Smartwatch's user interface. This would include an evaluation of the ease of use, the responsiveness of the touchscreen, the intuitiveness of the watchOS, and the customization options available to users.

3. Apple Smartwatch as a Communication Device:
    An analysis of the Apple Smartwatch's capabilities as a communication tool, focusing on features such as text messaging, calling, and integration with social media. This essay would consider the…...

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