Leadership and Management Assignment (pdf)

RUNNING HEAD: Leadership and Management
Leadership and
Management

Leadership and Management 1
Contents
Objective..........................................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Overview of the Organization......................................................................................................2
Background of the Leader............................................................................................................2
Leadership and Management...........................................................................................................3
Identification of the Leadership Style from Leader’s Qualities, Characteristics and Behaviors. 3
Importance of Leadership Style as Part of Management and Identification of Management
Style.............................................................................................................................................4
Power and Politics...........................................................................................................................5
Identify the Power/ Authority Reference to Leadership Style.....................................................5
Impact of Power on Office Politics..............................................................................................6
Organizational Culture and Effectiveness.......................................................................................6
Influence of Leadership/ Management and Power/ Politics on the Culture of the Organization 6
Impact of Leadership/ Management and Power/ Politics on the Effectiveness of the
Organization.................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Leadership and Management 2
Objective
The main aim of this report is to find out how leadership and management and power of politics
impact the organization Apple Inc. Furthermore, this report discusses the incredible leadership
qualities of Steve Jobs and the resultant effectiveness of the organization.
This report further aims to critically identify and discuss leadership and management styles,
theories, qualities, leadership behaviors and types of authority/power adopted by Tim Cook for
the purpose of managing the organization. Moreover, this report also analyses how the office
politics gets influenced by respective power and the impact caused on organization effectiveness
and culture.
Introduction
Overview of the Organization
Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company from America having its headquarters situated
in Cupertino, California and is engaged in the designing, developing and selling of computer
software, consumer electronics and online services. The popular hardware products of Apple
include iPhone smartphone, Mac personal computer, iPad tablet computer, Apple smartwatch
and Apple TV, etc. (Apple Inc., 2018).
Apple is considered to be one of the highly successful organizations of the world. Its success is
the result of the recognition of best of the employees. The announcement of Apple iPhone
proved to be the game changer for the industry as the company sold nearly 270,000 units of
iPhone in the initial 30 hours of sales (Apple Inc., 2018). Slowly and gradually, Apple achieved
widespread success with the help of iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone products as all these products
were based on innovations portable music players, personal computers and mobile phones
respectively. The launch of iTunes music store, App Store attained immense success in the
industry among the consumers.
Background of the Leader
A leader can be defined as the person who has the capability of holding a superior or leading
place in the given field and is capable of exercising a high grade of power or control over others

Leadership and Management 3
(Vaid, 2015). In other words, a leader is an individual who influences a group towards the
accomplishment of a common goal. A leader has its own competence, principles, sensitivity,
consciousness and willingness to be concerned regarding the ups and downs of the followers.
Therefore, the need arises for studying regarding the most successful leader of the world i.e.
Steve Jobs for the purpose of understanding the level of expertise. Such expertise made effective
contribution in overcoming the difficulties faced by him as an effective leader for establishing
Apple Inc. as a successful organization (Schlender & Tetzeli, 2015).
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur who was best known for being the former Chief
Executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. He has also served as the member of the board in the Walt
Disney Company and as the chairman of Pixar Animation Studio.
After graduation, Jobs started working at Atari for earning money. In 1975, he further attended
Homebrew Computer Club meetings which later on proved to be the stepping stone for the
development and promotion of first Apple computer. In the year 1976, Steve Jobs founded
Apple with Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak (Becraft, 2016).
The success of Apple can be traced to Steve Jobs. It is its history of innovation which is
continuously contributing towards its success till date (Kelley, 2016). He adopted a strategy of
getting out of the building for looking around to see what other start- ups and competing
businesses are working on. Player- coach leadership model was adopted by Steve Jobs. He is
remembered for his player brilliance and for being rough on the people as a leader. As a player,
he made innovations related to smartphones, computers, tablets, etc. along with playing the role
of a coach by constantly lading the organization. Therefore, it provided effective leadership to
the organization for keep on looking for new technologies at all times. He further emphasized
that the organization should not be afraid of leaving the old business models for the adoption of
new and innovative business models paired with new technologies.