Leadership style in Nokia

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Leadership........................................................................................................................................3
Types of leadership......................................................................................................................4
NOKIA: Leadership.........................................................................................................................5
Leadership style in Nokia................................................................................................................6
The Goal path leadership theory..................................................................................................7
Causes of Leadership failure in Nokia.............................................................................................8
Inability to organize details.........................................................................................................8
Lack of support and coordination................................................................................................9
Fear of competition......................................................................................................................9
Rigidness towards change..........................................................................................................10
Lack of imagination...................................................................................................................10
Emphasis on the "authority" of leadership................................................................................10
Lack of mastery of details..........................................................................................................11
Leadership strategies to overcome the failures..............................................................................11
Self-evaluation...........................................................................................................................12
Endure Mistakes........................................................................................................................12
Communication..........................................................................................................................12
Focus on one solution................................................................................................................13
Proactive Plans...........................................................................................................................13
Restart........................................................................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................15
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The smartphone is one of the most innovative industries which is experiencing rapid growth
from the last decade in the country. In today's technology advance era, smartphones become the
standard configuration among the chain of various mobile phone devices. Technology
advancements, innovations and repaid change in new product proliferation are making the
industry extremely dynamic with the high concentration of market shares in few hands in the
industry. Apple, Samsung, Sony, and Huawei are the market leaders in the smartphone industry
in the United Kingdom (Statista, 2019). At the starting of the century, Nokia was only the
name to covers the whole market in the mobile phone industry, but with the time the market
shares of the company ware steeply dropped with significant downfall. Although, in the mid and
end of the last decade, the company had tried to gain its prior position in the market and became
the largest vendor of mobile phones and smartphones worldwide (Biswas, 2019). But
organizational loopholes, organizational culture, inefficient research, and development
department of the company, negligence towards change adoption, poor innovation and
technology in the company, and poor leadership in the organization push the company towards
exiting doors of the smartphone industry.
The organization was required to adoptions of changes with the time, adoption of innovation and
technology advancement like the Android operating system, strong leadership and strategic
management for the continued presence in the smartphone industry (Doz, 2017).
Here the study discussed the leadership and strategic development of the company towards the
downfall of the company. This study also covers various leadership theories and leadership styles
that had been followed by the leaders of the Nokia organization to build and develop the
organization and causes and mistakes adopted by the organizational leaders that result in the

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downfall of the company in the smartphone industry. Some recommendation also has been
covered in the study that may help to overcome this crisis and help to rebuild market position of
the company in the smartphone industry.
Leadership
In a business organization, leadership is an organizational process in which a manager directs
and guides to the team and his/ her behaviour influence the team towards goal accomplishment
in provided circumstance or leadership is the ability of the executives to pursue the team to
perform the task confidently with zeal. Thus, leadership defined as calibre to influence others to
achieve certain goals or targets, which may be organizational or personal (MSG, 2019).
Various researchers and social scientists defined to the concept differently. Some definitions are
given below to understand the concept of leadership.
Leadership is an art to motivate individuals or groups of people to act towards the
accomplishment of common goals. In a business organization, leadership is directing employees
and colleagues to achieve organizational goals by strategy formation (Ward, 2020).
Leaders are role models that play a wide range of various roles that have a reflective and deep
influence on the team. More or less, Leadership can be seen in every human being to some extent
in human life (Gerzon, 2019).
Leaders involve skills and ability of sound decision making, ability to develop and articulate
organizational vision and development of achievable goals and provide knowledge, direction,
guidance methods, and tools to the team to achieve these goals. In short, leaders are required to
the inherent critical ability to bring out the change in the community as well as in business
organization by influencing people through their behavior or acts (Ward, 2020).

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Leaders shaped to an organisation or in broad terms leaders shaped to a nation or a community
by their inherent characteristics of making large scale decisions. Besides leaders define
themselves with honesty and integrity, ability to delegate for the team, strong confidence,
commitment and passion towards goals accomplishment, good communicator, accountability for
their actions, creativity and innovation, positive attitude, pure intuition, transparency and having
clear visions in mind (Hasan, 2019).
Types of leadership
Leadership is a continuous practice. In an organizational context, changes and improvements are
important for the growth of the organization. Thus organizational changes and improvements are
widely influenced by the leaders of the organization or organizational leadership. But it is
important to understand the characteristics of leaders and their impacts on organizational growth.
Each leader has different qualities and characteristics that defied various leadership styles of
leaders. There some significant leadership styles have been discussed in the study.
 Democratic leadership style: this leadership style is highly people-oriented leadership,
which gives opportunities to the team in the decision making process. This leadership
style colanders as one of the most effective leadership styles which pours a sense of
empowerment and belongingness even in the lower level of employees (Khan et al.,
2015).
 Autocratic leadership style: autocratic leadership style comprises all decision powers in
leaders itself, but it gives a great sense of accountability. Still, it not suitable in today’s
business environment (Khan et al., 2015).

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 Laissez-Faire leadership style: Laissez-faire leadership style transfers all authorities into
teams and employees. This leadership style builds a strong trust in the organization and
develops empowerment among employees (Aberese-Ako et al., 2018).
 Strategic leadership style: in this leadership style leaders develop strategic plans for
organizational operations to achieve organizational targets and growth. Although this is
the desired leadership style for most of the business organization, yet sometimes leaders
sudden organizational downfall if leaders are not proactive (Leitch et al., 2016).
 Transformational leadership style: this is an encouraging and inspiring leadership style.
Leaders encourage to team or followers to attain organizational goals by their behaviors
or acts (Liu & Li, 2018).
 Transactional leadership style: in the transactional leadership style leader encourage and
motivate employees by rewards and incentives. It is commonly used in today's b business
environment (Kalsoom et al., 2018).
 Coach leadership style: coach leadership style provides instruction or guidance to
perform jobs and tasks towards goal achievements. Coach leaders identify the strengths
and weaknesses of the employees and work to nurture their skills and strengths and
eliminate their weaknesses (Eliadis, 2016).
 Bureaucratic leadership style: this leadership style found in older and traditional
organizations that comprise all authorities and powers among a small group of people or
leaders like autocratic leaders (Aruzie et al., 2016).