Leadership Style at Apple and Personal Learning Plan

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Table of Contents
Assessment Task 1:....................................................................................................................2
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Leadership Style at Apple:.........................................................................................................2
Tim Cook Style of Leadership:..................................................................................................3
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
Assignment Task 2:....................................................................................................................6
SMART Objectives:...................................................................................................................9
References:...............................................................................................................................11

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Assessment Task 1:
Introduction:
Leadership style is regarded as the main topic for the academics since it is yet a good-
looking characteristic regarding the leadership among managers and academics
(Nanjundeswaraswamy & Swamy, 2014). Attention towards leadership style has derive
within attendants because they prefer working in further effective and productive way when
their administrators adopt the most exact style of leadership. The leadership style is regarded
as the highly vital item of leadership procedure because executives cultivate leadership styles
on the basis of their education, training and experience (Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016).
Leadership is viewed as the most societal occurrences and it is regarded noteworthy for
efficiency of functions within both the business and social organizations.
Job satisfaction is regarded as a vital goal in organizations for two important reasons.
At first, the workers are worthy of respect and fair treatment (Amanchukwu et al., 2015).
Secondly, the job satisfaction of employees would impact the functions of organizations.
According to Saeed et al., (2014) content employees are less inattentive, stay at work and
make positive contribution in their organization whereas discontented employees remain
inattentive, show stress in job and look for new employments.
Leadership Style at Apple:
When Tim Cook over from Steve Jobs as the CEO of Apple, many viewed that he
does not has necessary qualities of leadership that is needed to help Apple to continue as the
tech driving force (Arnold et al., 2015). However, soon it was realised that this is not the
circumstances and Tim Cook is no less proficient to take apple to the next stage. Democratic
and success oriented leaders likes to set objectives and promote unremitting enhancement
inside their team (Al-Asfour & Lettau, 2014). These leaders empower employees and provide

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with the autonomy assuming that they would do the best job for their personal and company
as well.
One possible criticism of success oriented leaders is that they can be very much
attentive on enhancing here and now instead of taking a long term approach to view the tasks
which may appear in future (Keskes, 2014). There are some people that may claim that Tim
Cook of Apple is regarded as the success oriented leader due to his focus on the shareholders
earnings and deliver business performances instead of visionary adopted that was adopted by
Steve Jobs (Saleem, 2015).
Tim Cook Style of Leadership:
The CEO of Apple Tim Cook has the managerial style of leadership which can be
widely classified as democratic (Buble et al., 2014). Instead of standing as completely
different to previous CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Cook has undertaken few of the famous
businessperson’s current practices and have established a highly unique blend of leadership
mantra. According to Anderson & Sun (2017), Cook is regularly labelled as magnetic and
thoughtful by the workforces of Apple. As of now, the tenure of Cook has largely been
characterised by wide number focus on the current products and strengthening business and
relationship of employees.
In the view of Heyliger (2014), as an alternative of simply carrying the Job’s heritage
of autocratic style of leadership, Cook has played to his strength and has mainly focused on
progressing the collaboration amid the Apple’s collection of human resource talent. This
regarded as highly symbolic of democratic style of management that inspires agreement
mainly amid the higher level workers before mutually consent decision making (Walker &
Aritz, 2015). The role of hands-on contribution of CEO in evolving the Apple products has
reduced significantly ever since Cook took over from the year 2011 (DuBois et al., 2015).