MAKE OR BUY DECISION: APPLE

Apple's Make vs. Buy Decision

Apple's Make vs. Buy Decision

Background of the Make vs. Buy Case for Apple

Successful organizations understand that employees are the most valued asset. This is particularly true for service organization where employees are responsible for delivery quality service and maintaining an effective relationship with employees. This also calls for important decision making and interventions to be taken by the organization management workforce regarding and fostering employee commitment. Being the trend setter, Apple in a recent move has decided to start manufacturing the design of micro chips. This recent move will increase the secrecy of the innovative designs of Apple, and will also help Apple to gain more control over the manufacturing process of the products. Secondly, Apple has intentions to surprise the competitors by introducing innovation in the chip making. Pursuit of this new objective, Apple needs to hire professionals having experience in chip designing and manufacturing. This study in accordance with this case will attempt to answer the following question from the HR perspective:

What approaches to recruiting might be best suited for Apple's talent acquisition?

What shall the recruiter traits and behaviors be, which would lead to the most successful recruiting campaign for Apple?

What are the three ways that Apple can effectively plan for HR resources?

What are the benefits that forecasting provides for Apple?

Discussion and Analysis

The following discussion will furnish individual answer each question so that a conclusive HR strategy can be drawn.

What approaches to recruiting might be best suited for Apple's talent acquisition?

In accordance with the scenario, Apple needs to devise a HR strategy that will help the company to hire right person for the right job. Failure of HR strategy could risk the complete project of in-house designing, thus well crafted recruitment approaches are required.

First of all, Apple should announce an “Innovative Chip Design Program” with prize money enough to attract large number of chip designers. Then the program should be divided into two different categories: Graduate Innovative Chip Design Program and Professional Innovative Chip Design Program. Graduate Innovative Chip Design should seek the contribution of fresh university students to participate in the program. Certainly, the company will be able to receive numerous project propositions, which shall be reviewed by the experts of Apple and designs which comply the need and demands of the Apple, shall be awarded the prize and the designer should be hired by the company ...