Responsible Leadership: An Analysis of Tim Cook's Leadership at Apple

This report examines the responsible leadership of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. It analyzes his democratic leadership style, identifying key traits, skills, and responsibilities, and how he fosters relationships with stakeholders including employees, suppliers, and investors. The report explores how Cook cultivates Apple's corporate culture through innovation, creativity, and a focus on employee development. It also provides recommendations for enhancing Apple's strategies and competitive advantage. The report uses contemporary leadership theories and references various sources to support its analysis, concluding that Tim Cook has significantly contributed to Apple's growth and market value, while fostering a responsible and innovative organizational environment.

Introduction
Leadership is an important ingredient of managing organisation. Leadership is a procedure,
which indices the subordinates and employees to follow a particular path to accomplish
highest goals for the organisation. As a responsible leader, CEO Tim Cook integrates several
traits, skills, and responsibilities in his personality, apply, and promote leadership style
especially democratic leadership. The report uses relevant and contemporary theories of
leadership through which traits of responsible leader will be identified. Furthermore, the
report shows how Tim Cook maintain relationship between other stakeholders of the
organisation. At last, Tim Cook transforms corporate culture being a responsible leader
(Strategy watch, 2019).
Research overviews
Research analysis
3.1 Most important traits, skills, and tasks of a responsible leader
Tim Cook is an American leader who is CEO of Apple. He is the first leader, who come out
as gay and he served as board of directors to Nike and national football found. As a
responsible leader, Tim cook is quite adaptable because he finds quite easy to fit in any social
interactive set ups and the vocational fields. Furthermore, it is often said that he is a born
leader with extra-ordinary skills and determination (Brown, and Khurana, 2017). He can
insist to employees to make their minds to think of their freedom and action. However, he is
not at all dependent on anyone else to his way of committing the goals. Tim feel need to
command and head the important undertakings and he resists other supportive roles (Witt,
and Stahl, 2016). One can become irritated and domineering while considering important
things, which would not interrupt. Cook is at times impatient with shortcoming and dark
performance of employees (Strategy watch, 2019).

CEO Tim Cook is iconic leader, who have possessed leadership qualities needed to assist
Apple to become a tech powerhouse. Important features include taking business risks, focus,
and listen to those you speak to, trust in his team members, maintained diversity, humbleness,
and admitting his own mistakes and learning from it (Brown, and Khurana, 2017). Tim
believes that a person should give 100 percent in its action, not to pretend and fake and He
writes his own rules that shows formulated manner with strong leadership lesson (Celebrities
galore, 2019).
3.2 Relationships in company with other stakeholders
With the integration of its qualities and effective traits, Tim Cook does not like to highlight
his work. Making Apple sound where Apple`s stock soar up from $54 to $126 billion.
Furthermore, he made level of efforts, which has translated market capitalisation with north
of $700 Billion.
While maintaining relationship with other stakeholders, it is seen that Tim cook managerial
style defines them as democratic (Smalley, Retallick, Metzger, and Greiman, 2016). Tim
cook strengths lack bold visionary but he is quite charismatic to the Apple`s employees and
then forecast business and employee relationship. To encourage and create high-level
employees. He often delegates his duties to employees so that he can other standalone
leaders. His leadership style has enhanced performance of the company and maintained
employee goodwill. Cook`s style resulted in slow decision making with innovative drive. Tim
cook has made employee`s more innovative, smarter, and competent with his leadership
style. This shows how Tim managed its stakeholders especially employees who are trained in
such a way that they can become future leader (Celebrities galore, 2019).
Apple maintains great relationship with suppliers, the leader good relations because it buy the
batteries of I-phone from China and bring innovative strategies such as smart watches as their

prior. This shows relationship with stakeholders as relation with supplier, investors,
employees, and teammates (Hu, and Judge, 2017).
Apple`s investors are quite happy with the performance of the company because Tim has
increased the market capitalisation to a great extent. This held them larger ownership with
high dividend. Tim cook does not adopt sudden strategy (Hu, and Judge, 2017).
3.3 Culture of the organisation that would exist because of responsible leadership
As discussed above, Tim cook allow every employee to think of its freedom and
action but at the same time, he is not dependent on other in committing and
executing his tasks. This trait creates a responsible environment in the company.
Allowing every employee to take his or her own decision indicates that he is a
democratic leader (Ruiter, Schaveling, Ciulla, and Nijhof, 2018) .
As an responsible leader, Apple`s Tim Cook focus on creativity based on team
member’s skills, knowledge, abilities, which includes corporate culture representing
development procedure and product design (Waldman, Siegel, and Stahl, 2020) . Tim
Cook maintains Apple`s corporate culture enabled with creativity, innovation,
secrecy, supportive corporate culture, aggressive, moderate combativeness, and fast
technological innovation and development. He always recruits only best, which seek
only talented people all round the world. On the other hand, if any company has
negative corporate culture and does not focus on improving the knowledge of the
employees then it demotivates and demoralises employee`s and their performance.
Organisational culture of Apple promotes innovation and creativity as new ideas can
help to improve the organisation and its product line. He favours knowledge,
abilities, employee knowledge, and creativity amongst its employees so that
employee can become development procedure and product design. Top notch

excellence can hire the policy of hiring best labour market. However, Steve was well
known in company for the one who does not perform up to the mark then they are
fired because they are not able to meet organisational excellence (Waldman, Siegel,
and Stahl, 2020) .
Recommendation
At operational level, Apple is no longer amongst top three companies at its product
level because it is seen that He has to enhance some of the strategies such as
increasing in durability, thinking of enlarging screen, changing ios system interface,
increasing battery life, and joining of unprecedented design. It is recommend that
Tim Cook has to work on innovation and its strategies to gain greater competitive
advantage for the organisation (Ruiter, Schaveling, Ciulla, and Nijhof, 2018) .
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it is seen that Tim Cook is a great business leader who has
contributed towards the growth of the organisation by increasing its market value. This leader
is quite responsible towards his tasks especially when it comes to his work. He delegates
power to the employees so that they can practise and learn how a leader considers all the
factors in internal as well as external environment so that they can understand dynamic
environment of business. Often there are some strategies of a leader, which keep them
connected with the stakeholders of the company. For example- investor who always look for
increase the worth of its investment by earning high dividends. Tim Cook follows democratic
style of leadership where employees take their decision regarding their tasks but at last, Tim
does not tolerate any less of performance or non-accomplishment of resources.

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