Introduction
Conflict is unpleasant, but inevitable throughout life. In any situation involving two or people, conflict may arise. Conflict can be defined as, “any situation in which incompatible goals, cognitions, or emotions within or between individuals or groups lead to opposition or antagonistic interaction” (Learning Team Toolkit, 2004, pp 242-243). People come from different backgrounds and live through different life experiences therefore, even when working towards a common goal, they will not always agree. Major conflict that is not dealt with can devastate a team or organization (Make Conflict Work, 2008). In some situations, conflict can be more constructive than destructive. In this paper we take a look at two technology giants,
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The company 's main growth driver engine is Smartphone business and Tablets.
Apple Company (officially Apple Inc.) is one of the most famous companies in the world, they are the producers of iPods, Mac computers and the iPhone. The California based organization designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. It was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, since then Apple has risen to become one of the largest companies in the world.
Apple on the hand arguably is considered to be the mother of modern smartphones. On June 29, 2007, the cofounder of Apple Inc Steve Jobs announced the release of iPhone, a technology they had been working on for about five years. It was the first of its kind compared to the other players in the market like Blackberry, Motorola and Palm who were already making pocket personal computers. The new tech had a bigger screen, multi-touch interface and the mind-boggling on-screen keyboard was met with a lot of excitement. With these new ideas Apple dominated the phone market and during the Macworld Expo keynote speech, Jobs reported that the Apple iPhone had a 28% market share in Q4 2007 this represented significant growth in the second full quarter that iPhone has been on sale and translated to a
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His company had worked for many years to develop the cutting-edge technology and in 2011, Apple sued Samsung for infringement of patents, trademarks, user interface, and style. Some of the features apple claimed were ‘stolen’ include; methods of handling phone calls and data simultaneously, reducing interference between devices, processing text messages and attachments, and improving network efficiency. Shortly after Samsung countersued claiming infringement of mobile-communications patents. The argument was compared to two children bickering who took who’s idea. The cycle of this lawsuit ended in August 2012, when a court in California ordered Samsung to pay Apple more than one billion dollars in damages for infringement of intellectual property of Appleʼs iPhone and iPad technology and design. The animosity between Apple and Samsung is common in the modern market. The conflict of these technology companies helps us understand two aspects of the game theory that lie behind effective conflict management and
Apple Apple is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The two Steve’s - Jobs and Wozniak - may have been Apple's most visible founders, but were it not for their friend Ronald Wayne there might be no iPhone, iPad or iMac today. Jobs convinced him to take 10% of the company stock and act as an arbiter should he and Woz come to blows, but Wayne backed out 12 days later, selling for just $500 a holding that would have been worth $72bn 40 years later. (Rawlinson, 2017) Apple has a huge net worth of around US$900 Billion.
Abstract The purpose of this assignment is to critically analyze the context of Apple’s new product, ‘The Apple Watch’ and prepare a Marketing Feasibility Study in order to assess the viability of introducing in the new product range into the UAE market place. Data Introduction Apple Inc. is an American multi-billion dollar corporation that internationally produces computer software, cellular devices and consumer electronic products. Items such as the iPod, the iPhone, the Macintosh desktop computers and the iPad are easily recognizable by society.
The book outlines the nature of conflict, it focuses on patterns of human behaviors and the importance of healthy communication. Research and theories throughout the book demonstrate how conflict can be understood and managed positively. Folger, Poole and Stutman write in the preface that “having good intuition about conflict starts
Apple Inc., an American multinational corporation was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 197. The headquarters of Apple is located in Cupertino, California and it designs, manufactures and sells consumer electronics, computer software as well as personal computers. (Reference for Businesses) The company's wide range of products and services include the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a variety of consumer and professional software applications, both the iOS and OS X operating systems, iCloud and several other product accessories. Apple not only offers a variety of mobile communication, media devices and portable digital music players but they provide a variety of related software, services, networking solutions
Apple Company Apple Inc. is a private company, and it is one of the world 's most famous technology and computer companies, located in the United States of America. It is a multi-national company. Its main business depends on specialization in manufacturing, producing, developing, improving and selling software, smartphones, computers; It has a series of electronic devices, such as iPad, iPhone and Mac. The origin of Apple Company Founded by Steve Jobs and his co-pilot Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer was able to design a computer in the form of the beginning of Apple computers in the time period Between the years 1981 to 1985; since 2005 until now, Apple has seen many developments; successive successes.
Apple Inc. runs a mobile device business that largely dominates the mobile phone industry. The
Effective leaders must learn to embrace conflict because it is an inexorable part of human interactions, but without intervention conflict will seldom find its own productive solutions (Myatt, 2012). The failure to address conflict early on will likely lead to workplace acrimony, disengagement and poor communication and cooperation (Myatt, 2012). The story of the conflict between Cindy and Dr. Jones is an excellent case to analyze the elements of conflict and conflict management with the goal of understanding the elements and impact of conflict in the workplace. The case study begins with Dr. Jones requesting Cindy to reschedule his afternoon clinic. Cindy is frustrated because the request was the third time during the month, she assumes
A leader’s attitude towards conflict will shift the situation to a positive or negative experience for the company and participants. For leaders to be effective at conflict resolution a helping relationship based on mutual trust, respect, candid communication and empathy needs to be employed. Conflict in Organizations Bercovitch [4] found that Conflict has no predetermined course or development thus it seems erroneous to view conflict from a negative perspective only as destructive or dysfunctional. It is true that conflict may be uncomfortable, it may even be a source of problems, but it is absolutely necessary if change is to occur, if organizations are to survive and adapt.
Then, this company started specializes in much more than just computers. Apple Company invented new products such as iPad in 2001. Therefore, this is a reason that Apple becoming the superiority market leader in music players. In 2007, Apple joined the phone industry with the iPhone. Apple is a huge consumer goods company that evaluating its value requires understanding
Developing different devices like the iPhone, iPod, and iPad makes Apple Inc. the famous company it is and has always been. Their advanced
English 102 Essay 2 Jalal Bou Kanaan Outline “The Apple and Samsung showdown” I. Introduction: General Background information + Thesis: “what makes those companies not alike are the phones they release through the years, but are they that different?” II. “example of two leading rival companies in the field of smart phones” A. Information about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 B. Information about the Apple iPhone 6 Plus III.
Apple, Inc., an American multinational technology company, which founded on April 1, 1976 in California, United States. The company has earned $53 million of income in 2015, which increase $14 million of income compared with 2014 (Apple Inc., 2015). The co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, Steve Jobs is passed away for the pancreatic cancer (Park, 2011). His leadership and entrepreneurship have successfully developed the company from a small personal computer company to a multinational corporation that selling various types of electronic products and software such as, iPad, iPhone, iOS, and others (Apple Inc., 2016). 1.0 Critical Success Factor
Conflict is an outcome of organizational intricacies, interactions and disagreements. It can be resolved by detecting and offsetting the formative factors. 2.2.2 Sources of Conflict Asante (2011) stated that conflicts
Conflict management styles refers to the key perspective of how an individual deals with conflict in order to strike a balance in satisfying personal needs and goals between self and the other party,(refer to text book). The key argument is the different conflict required different management style, an individual free to choose anything style that is suitable to his or her conflict, but if the wrong style is deployed, the conflict could be worsen or remain unresolved, (Weeks, 1994 as cited in Ang, 2013). There are five primary orientation of conflict management styles, “avoidance”, “competition”, “compromise”, “accommodation” and “collaboration”, (Blake & Mouton, 1964; C. Brown, Yelsmer, & Keller, 1981; L. Brown, 1983; Canary & Cupach,
Productive Conflict: One effect of diversity in finding a solution to a problem is that strong disagreement between people arises more often. This conflict can be risky or dangerous if it is not managed properly and pass on into fighting. However, when team members stay focused on the team goal, and give respect to each other, these conflicts lead to thorough critiques of all proposed ideas. For example, suppose a member suggest a way to stabilize the organization budget, and another member raise a suggestion that the proposal is defective, the team can work jointly with others and observe or study by close examination until they reach an agreement. By going through such process of tight critical analysis, a diverse team that challenges each other in order to get the best results possible will succeed.