Leading People in Creative Teams SHR0796

This presentation discusses the different leadership styles implemented in Apple Inc. and suggests the most suitable leadership style for the current business environment. It also provides HR strategies that can be implemented to enhance employee engagement. The presentation is based on the course SHR0796 - Leading People in Creative Teams.

LEADING PEOPLE IN
CREATIVE TEAMS
SHR0796

INTRODUCTION
 Leadership is a leader’s attribute, behaviour when encouraging, directing and managing the team, great leader is
those who can inspire social change, they motivate team members to achieve organisational goals.
 Leadership styles are of various type that are democratic, transformational, authoritative, autocratic, laissez-
faire style.
 It is up to the organisation to follow the style which suits their workplace system. Following study is based on
Apple plc which is an American multinational technology organisation.

DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP STYLES BY APPLE
INC
 Apple is the leading company in electronics software,
popularly known for their products such as personal
computers, iPod, iPhone etc they have relatively higher
market share and have large consumer base across the
globe which makes them leading company in their field.
 Management of Apple is very distinct and unique under
the CEO Tim Cook than it was under the founder Steve
jobs.

CONTD…
 Thus Autocratic style of Steve jobs helps the company to achieve the milestone.
 Where the autocratic leadership means as decisions are control by the individual and have little
input from group members.
 Thus While working under the autocratic leadership style was difficult for others because Steve
was so focused towards the work and his clear vision and passion enabled the firm to become one
of the leading company in the world.
 After death of Steve, present CEO is Tim Cook he follows the democratic leadership style.

CONTD…
 Democratic style also termed as the participative
leadership where each members are allowed to
share their view point in order to make the decision
for the organisation.
 Tim cook promote this leadership style because he
believes in developing the consensus among the
management related to the effective strategic
decisions for the business.

Suitable leadership style with respect to the current business environment
 The current business environment of the Apple Inc. includes the following:
 Political factors
 It has been identified that the Apple Inc. is heavily dependent on the Chinese market for the purpose of
manufacturing their products at affordable prices.
 Economic factors
 With respect to the current market conditions within the Chinese market, the company has to face high labour cost
within the country for the purpose of manufacturing their products.
 Social factors
 The major market of the Apple Inc. was used to be the public of United States of America across the globe.
 Technological factors
 While observing the current business environment and market conditions within the country, it has been identified
that the products offered by the Apple Inc. are no longer unique.
 Suitable leadership style
 On the basis of the current business environment and the market conditions in which the Apple Inc. operates
within the market, the most appropriate style of leadership for the Aplle Inc. is the democratic style of leadership.

HR strategies that could be implemented within the company in order to enhance the
employee engagement
 There are various types of human resource strategies which an
organization could implement in order to enhance the employee
engagement within the company. Since the Apple Inc. implements the
use of democratic leadership style within their enterprise, the human
resource strategies which can help the company in increasing the
employee engagement within the organization are as follows:
 Training and development programmes
 For the purpose of increasing the employee engagement within the
organization, one of the most important and successful HR strategy
will be to conduct training and development programmes within the
organizations.

Continued
 Rewards and Recognition
 In order to encourage and motivate the workforce within
an organization, the management of the enterprise should
be able to recognize the efforts of the workforce within the
organization.
 If an organization recognizes the efforts, accomplishments
and the contributions of the workforce within the
company, it develops a sense of importance within the
minds and hearts of the workforce within the organization.

Continued
 Feedbacks
 The apple Inc. should promote the culture of providing and receiving feedbacks within
their enterprise.
 The Feedbacks work as a guide to the workforce in carrying out difficult tasks and also
provides a basis for guidance to the leaders.

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it is concluded that leadership style plays an significant role for any
business it makes the organisations run smoothly and proceeds with accomplishing greater
milestones.
 Above have discussed the leadership style of Apple, later it also discussed the proposed
leadership style to suggests it to organisation.
 It lastly concluded with the Illustration of the HR strategies which could be deployed for
enhanced employee engagement under the suitable leadership style and challenging environment.

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 Wirawan, H., Tamar, M. and Bellani, E., 2019. Principals’ leadership styles: the role of emotional
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