Challenges Faced by Leaders: A Case Study of Steve Jobs

This paper discusses the challenges faced by leaders, including building trust, managing conflict, and lack of motivation. The case study of Steve Jobs as a leader is also examined.

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Challenges the leader has to face (Steve Jobs)
Leaders are the one who direct their employees or their subordinates to give their best
towards the activities. There are various challenges that are faced by the leaders. So, in this paper
the discussion will be made on the challenges faced by the leaders and also discussion will be
made on Steve jobs as a leader. The challenges that are faced by the leaders are related to
building trust, conflict and Lack of motivation.
It has been examined that leaders has to face the challenge related to building trust
between the employees. It is considered as the difficult task for the leaders as employee hesitate
to communicate with the leaders their queries and opinions (Burke and Barron, 2014). It is
important for the leaders to maintain trust with the employees so that it can be easy to share their
opinion and view with each other (Johnson, 2017). But in the recent era, the leaders face the
issue related with creating trust between the employees. Like Steve Jobs face the issue on the
initial level in reference of building trust between the employees but later the trust was
maintained between the employees of Apple Company. Steve motivated their employees by
saying that people who have passion can change the world for better. This created trust within
the employees and they started coordinating with their leader (Gallo, 2018).
The next challenge is related with managing the conflict. In the workplace there are
conflicts which take place between the employees. So, it creates a challenge for the leaders to
manage the conflicts. Sometimes, it also creates a difficult situation for the leaders to find out the
solution (Hartner-Tiefenthaler, Clarke and Holdsworth, 2018). In context to this challenge Steve
Jobs also faced this challenge in Apple Company. Sometimes it creates a challenge to manage
the conflict in the workplace.
Lack of motivation is also considered as a challenge which the leaders face in the
workplace. It has been seen that there are employees who are not able to give their best towards
the organizational activities (Schwab, 2017). The challenge is for the leaders to motivate the
employees so that goals and objectives of the organization can be attained. Motivation is one of
the factors that is important for the employees but sometimes is lack in the employees of the
company (Eagly, 2018). So, it creates difficulty for the leaders to motivate them so that positive
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outcome can be achieved. Like when Steve jobs returned to Apple it has been investigated that
he turned the company into the sensational powerhouse and he was declared as a genius. When
starting Apple with the partnership of Steve Wozniak, Jobs was boosted after too many failed
projects (McKenna and Wenzel, 2016).
So, it has been concluded that there are various challenges which are faced by the leaders
in the workplace. But it requires the right technique to be considered by the leaders so that
success can be achieved. Also, Steve jobs considered various techniques like honesty, dedication
towards the job and minimized the challenges which are taking place in the workplace.
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