What is Jobs’ organizational structure like?
The picture displays the organizational structure of Apple Co. that was created by Steve Jobs. In the picture, it shows Jobs (CEO) being at the center of the hierarchy whereas, everyone else would be around him. So this means that, if anything wanted to go through, it would have to go through him. Jobs was a person who liked to have full control over his company thus, he wanted to know what was going on through all departments. Jobs organizational structure could be quite unique, and nothing like the average structures. Although, the structure has a few flaws as accounted by an Apple Employee, David Sobotta, “If we saw Steve Jobs come into a briefing, he couldn’t talk about anything else, other than the thing he was working on … He came into an enterprise sales briefing, and at the time he was working on iMovie. So, we’d be talking about home movies in the enterprise briefing.” (Business Insider). This was one flaw in the flow of the structure, as many other projects would be set aside by Jobs.
Is the organizational structure long-lasting?
Former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, has created an efficient organizational structure that allows him to be in the center of everything. Steve Jobs wants the future CEO’s to also perform in Apple the same way as him, thus, carrying on his legacy and continue his dream. Thus, the future CEO’s should also follow this and remain active on the all the work that is taking place throughout the company. However, not all CEO’s possess the same talent as Jobs’ nor, do they possess the same amount of motivation and dedication for the company. Thus, it might not work for all CEO’s that will follow him. Thus, this solely depends on the CEO itself, however, I believe that this organizational structure will not be very long lasting, as not all CEO’s can handle the burden.
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