6.0 Corporate Culture

According to Robert E. Quinn and Kim S. Cameron at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, there are four types of organizational culture: Clan, Adhocracy, Market, and Hierarchy.

1) Clan oriented cultures are family-like, with a focus on mentoring, nurturing, and “doing things together.”
2) Adhocracy oriented cultures are dynamic and entrepreneurial, with a focus on risk-taking, innovation, and “doing things first.”
3) Market oriented cultures are results oriented, with a focus on competition, achievement, and “getting the job done.”
4) Hierarchy oriented cultures are structured and controlled, with a focus on efficiency, stability and “doing things right.”

There’s no correct organizational culture for an arts organization. All cultures promote some forms of behavior, and inhibit others. Some are well suited to rapid and repeated change, others to slow incremental development of the institution.

Opinion

     In my opinion, I feel that Apple Corporation adapts a Market oriented culture. Steve Jobs were reported by the Business Insider that he is notorious for pushing his employees harder-than-hard. There was  even rumors that Steve Jobs once fired an employee in the elevator for not having a good enough answer to the question "So what have you done for Apple lately?" This shows he shapes his corporation to be very result oriented. Besides that, I think Steve Jobs does very well in being strict in protecting the company's secrets. The company is one that thrives on secrecy and obsessive attention to detail, and this approach is less than conducive to friendliness. In Apple, an employees can be fired with immediate effect if they are found guilty of sharing the company's secret to other people as well as corporation. I think that Steve Jobs have done a good job in protecting the trade secrets of Apple by creating this healthy fear among employees. Besides this, I feel that their rewarding system as mentioned in my "motivation" blog post also sets a culture to inspire employees to word harder-than-hard and strife to outwit Apple's competitors like Dell, HP or Accer in the laptop market.


     In conclusion, I think Apple is one of the most successful and valuable companies today thanks to their tough-as-nails attitude within the company's culture when it comes to behavior and results expectation from the employees.

 Bibliography

1) The Tipster. "4 Types of Organizational Culture". 14th May 2013. 28th September 2013. http://artsfwd.org/4-types-org-culture/