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Apple is a huge company with a rewards program for companies to buy and give gifts to their employees and potential business partners. But Apple doesn't just provide benefits for other employees, they also have a host of benefits for their own employees. Some of which make working for Apple a rewarding experience. Some of the benefits are traditional, like a 401 (k) Plan with company match, others are unique like a Cafe that features a host of organic and local ingredients. This essay is meant to discuss the benefits along with the possible implications of such benefits that companies like Apple generate from giving back to their employees.
As discussed in the textbook, Understanding Organizational Behavior, employees are the heart of a company and business should opt to encourage and retain quality employees for as long as possible. Chapter 1 starts with a brief discussion into the importance of an employee for a company. "Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Inc., a billion-dollar cosmetics company, makes a similar point, saying, 'people are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics" (Nelson & Quick, 2005, pg. 10). A company like Apple that relies on customer services to sell their products along with skilled employees to aid in technical assistance, needs to do things in order to retain their employees and keep customers satisfied. Customer satisfaction is directly...
All of these benefits not only offer security and assurance for the typical Apple employee, but it also offers Apple employees a chance to improve and continue their efforts to pursue a better life. One that seemed to be unique to Apple is its emphasis on employee health.
Apple offers organic, local ingredients in their Cafe, they also have onsite fitness centers and family and personal counseling. Healthy employees produce more than unhealthy ones. "Well-targeted and efficiently implemented diet-related worksite health promotion interventions may improve labour productivity by 1% -- 2%. On larger worksites, such productivity gains are likely to more than offset the costs of implementing such interventions" (Jensen, 2011, p. 184). Apple understands this and wishes to do right by its employees by offering nutritive options. This appears to be an all-around active approach in attempting to promote wellness in their employees by providing high quality food, a chance to be physically active, and also deal with…
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