Comparative Analysis of Apple and Nokia's Managerial and Leadership Culture (Research Paper Sample)

Comparative Analysis of Apple and Nokia Managerial and Leadership Culture
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Apple and Nokia experience fundamental success and failure stories that affect both businesses revenue. The following is an account of some of the practices employed by both companies that are responsible for their respective positions.
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1 Introduction………………………………………………………….……….…….……..4
2 Human Resource Strategies and Talent Attraction...................……………….….………5
3 Apple's Distinct Communication Style.................................………………..……...…….5
4 Nokia's Distinct Leadership Style…...….…...…………………………………………....6
5 Recommendations ..............................................................................................................7
6 References...........................................................................................................................8
Comparative Analysis of Apple and Nokia Managerial and Leadership Culture
1 Introduction
Organizations that emerge at about the same capacity may ultimately take distinct courses that influence their durability, based on administration, design, culture, and overall susceptibility to environmental and social changes. At the same time, businesses differ in foundational architecture, which affects their long-term success and market dominance. As a result, a company's management must take a rigorous attitude to its business practices to maintain its longevity in a bid to prevent going out of business (Wu & Gereffi, 2018). Apple and Nokia are two companies that represent such a particular circumstance. The two companies’ culture, communications model, styles of leadership, and corporate strategy vision criteria, including recruiting and talent attraction are some of the areas where the multinational organizations differ. Focusing on these two tech giants, this essay evaluates both firms’ organizational structure and communication styles, and the HR strategic plans by analyzing their leadership styles, as it proceeds to evaluate differences in talent attraction.
2 Human Resource Strategies and Talent Attraction
The competition between Apple and Nokia, arguably the biggest technology companies in the world, initially aimed to determine which company is more innovative. Regarded as a legend for his hard work and performance, Steve Jobs was famous for trumping this rivalry with Michael Dell to become one of the most entrepreneurial CEOs of all time. While Apple’s virtuous cycle comes from attracting talent and retaining it, Nokia’s vicious cycle forces it to lose employees. Much as leading organizations must have the ability to have the right people on board, their ability to retain those right people is equally important (Software Start-Ups Adopt Unique HR Practices to Retain Talent | UCW Blog, n.d.). And the concept is accurate for how Apple has tactfully managed to recruit and maintain its skilled employees, going the extra mile of building an Apple