Organisations and Quality Of Leadership Skills

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Introduction
To define the term leadership, it can be said that, it is a style of directing a group. The
leader is considered as the spearhead for the new direction. The department of management
controls the people of a particular group as mentioned by Einarsen, Aasland and Skogstad
(2017). There is no prescribed definition for the term leadership. According to Albert Einstein,
things should be as simple as possible but not simpler. Leaders lead a particular group and
employees follow is an example of oversimplification of the definition of leadership. Both the
concepts of leadership and management are connected with each other (Smircich and Morgan
2013). Both the terms reflects the activities of adjustment of the controlling procedure, managing
the human resources. In business management, leadership demonstrate the capacity of a leader to
define the desired goals of the organization. Employees of any particular organization require to
understand the way in which the organization is lead and the ideal personnel to follow to achieve
the individual and institutional goal.
According to the classic model of organizational leadership is the capability of a person
who monitors all the associated aspects of operations of the institution (Bush, Bell and
Middlewood 2019). The procedure of leadership exhibit in front of the employees, the level to be
implemented to enhance the organizational performance. To understand the different styles of
leadership, the study will analyze the leadership techniques of two popular organizations – Apple
and Samsung.
Discussion
Apple Inc. is one of the popular multinational companies grounded within the United
States of America. The company serves electronic goods including personal computers, media

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players, software for computer, multimedia players, smart phones, and accessories of the
electronic gadgets. The company was founded on the year 1976 by Steve Wozniak and Steve
Jobs (Farahani et al. 2014). The period of Steve Jobs (1997 – 2011), the organization was
observed to follow autocratic style of leadership. Jobs infused a wide range of institutional
operation (Bergvall-Kåreborn and Howcroft 2013). However, the leadership style was altered
after the authoritative body changed with Tim Cook as mentioned by the editing group of
World’s Greatest Leader by Fortune Magazine. The leadership strategy of Tim Cook was
effective from various aspects. It was appreciated and praised by the employees and termed as
one of the best way of leadership that helps the subordinates to be considered as a human being
(Oke, Munshi and Walumbwa 2019). The features of Apple Inc.’s leadership style is mentioned
as follows.
Democratic in nature – Contrasting the autocratic nature of leadership of late CEO Steve Jobs,
Tim Cook infused the democratic nature of leadership within the organization (Steinwart and
Ziegler 2014). Cook values the consensus between superior management in the field of strategic
decision considering the business. A greater sense of autonomy was granted by Cook for a new
product expansion team (Shamim et al. 2016). The intention was to decrease the linked
participation of the CEO for developing a new process.
In general, democratic leadership defines the concept of human resource theory from the
perspective of management. One of the main features of democratic leadership style that is
reflected within the organization is the importance of authority being formalized and providing
importance to individual growth (Boulgarides and Cohen 2014). In simple words, the leaders
equally distribute the responsibilities among all the employees of the organization. It is one of
the ways to empower all the employees of the organization. Democratic leadership techniques