Developing Leadership and Management - Assignment
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Developing Leadership and Management - Assignment
Added on 2021-01-02
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Developing Leadershipand Management
Executive summaryThis project is based over the concept of management & leadership along with itscontribution toward the success of business. It has been explained in this report by takingexample of great leaders i.e. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Joanna Hoffman by presentingthem in a film which is directed by Danny Boyle. This film presented number of leadership andmanagement styles that has been implemented by them within Apple Inc. to make it successful atmarketplace. From the analysis it has been found that Steve Jobs prefer autocratic leadershipstyle in order to guide and manage its employees to work over business targets. But on the otherside Joanna Hoffman focuses toward adopting Bureaucratic style which perform businessactivities in ethical manner by following all the laws related with business. Apart from this SteveWozniak adopted a democratic leadership style as he was a technical expertise and believe topromote new ideas by involving employees in decision making process. Therefore from theabove viewed film it has been recommended that democratic leadership style must be followedwithin the organisation in order to promote innovation.
Table of ContentsExecutive summary..........................................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Part 1: A critical evaluation of the styles of leadership and management within the organisation.1Part 2: An evaluation of the leadership styles used in Apple..........................................................4Part 3 Leadership development intervention ..................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONLeadership refers to the art of individual who influences interest of other people toperform work effectively in order to attain common goal. It can be said that it is highly related tocapability of a person who motivates others to work in a single direction. Whereas, managementis considered as the procedure through which organisational goals and objectives can be attainedin easily by effectively using available organisational resources. This report is completely basedon understanding of both the terms that is leadership and management effectively. Forunderstanding this in more effective manner, a film named as Steve Jobs directed by DannyBoyle have been taken into consideration. At first this report will critically evaluate differentstyles of leadership and management in Apple Inc. Further, it will evaluate actual leadershipstyle used in Apple Inc that means by Steve Jobs and its related people who are working togetherfor Apple. At Last, it will cover in depth discussion on leadership development intervention thatcould be implemented to drive change and continue to improve and develop leadership. Part 1: A critical evaluation of the styles of leadership and managementwithin the organisationThe present film revolves around Steve Jobs founder of Apple Inc. In the film it hasbeen seen that main character was played by Steve Jobs. The movie depicts some phases ofSteve Jobs life that represents some positive as well as negative image of his life. The filmhave also explored personal life of Steve Jobs, his girlfriend and their daughter. In this,initially Steve Jobs have denied to that he is not father of Lisa (daughter of ChrisannBrennan). It has been represented in the movie that Brennan thinks that reason behindSteve's denial is his wealth (Noe and et.al., 2017,). After some time, Steve have agreed toprovide a house and some more money to Lisa for her education and upbringing. All of thiswork was done under a bond. But, later with the changing time, Steve Jobs have agreedapologise to Lisa for his wrong conduct and has accepted that he is his father publicly. Thisfilm includes numerous of characters who have played real life roles of related people ofSteve Jobs which are stated as below with their real names: Real Character NameActor NameSteve JobsMichael FassbenderJoanna HoffmanKate Winslet1
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