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LEADERSHIP ESSAY
ESSAY ABOUT A SUCCESSFUL LEADER: TIM COOK
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Leadership Styles and Theories 3
Autocratic Leadership 3
Democratic Leadership 3
Transformational Leadership 4
Charismatic Leadership 4
Path-Goal Leadership Theory 4
Great Man Theory 5
Critically Evaluating the Leadership Style of Tim Cook 5
Tim Cook’s Leadership Style and its Issues 5
Advantages of Tim Cook’s Leadership Style 6
Disadvantages of Tim Cook’s Leadership Style 6
Recommendations 7
Alignment of Leadership Style with Organisational Vision 7
Value Passion for Goals 7
Conclusion 8
References 9
Introduction
An organisation cannot run by a single employee on one hand and on the other cannot be run by more than one leader at a time. A leader paves the directional way for an organisation and directs its employees with the application of right attitude, right timing and right style of leadership. The leadership styles, each with their specific technique and focal points tend to generate specific outcomes from a leader. However, one leader cannot adopt more than one leadership style, and therefore, it becomes a problem if the leadership style does not align with organisational vision. In the cu
ent essay, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Corp. has been referenced as an example for a successful leader, whose leadership styles offer critical comprehension.
Leadership Styles and Theories
Autocratic Leadership
Considering the importance of an organisational market, about which the employees of the organisation knows very little and possess the chance of misunderstanding, some leaders take the responsibility of decision making, single handed, namely developing autocratic leadership style. As comprehended by Peker et al. (2018), autocratic leadership offers very little flexibility of regulation for the employees of an organisation, resulting in better predictability of quality, cost, and quantity. The consistency of autocratic leadership is often ma
ed by fickle minded or rushed decision making, often ignoring valuable suggestions of subordinates. Despite the negative outcomes that can occur from autocratic leadership, as argued by Au-Yong-Oliveira et al. (2018), it is worth the mention that it improves the scope for visionary thinking that shapes the marketing landscape and generates competitive advantage, securing the future of an organisation amid harsh market conditions.
Democratic Leadership
Based on the opposite leadership principles of autocratic leadership style, democratic leadership style has been formed. As affirmed by Ahmed et al. (2018), in case of democratic leadership, the leader of an organisation develops a transparent and effective communication from the top-down as well as bottoms–up directions to make the involvement of the employees and managers in the decision making process. The democratic leadership style retains its effective power in the leader’s ability of casting decision making authority to selective employees or managers. As democratic leadership style, gives importance to suggestions of the managers, feedback of the employees, it encourages creativity, better assessment of the market and refinement of the products or services provided by the organisation. Despite the positive sides of democratic leadership style, the experimental decision making process, often makes delay in processing and generates market risk.
Transformational Leadership
All organisations recruit their human resource, namely employees and managers to perform a certain task within the framework of the organisation. However, at times it is required that employees and managers do things that are not specified to them at the time of their recruitment and even more than their expected radius or skills. As employees and staffs, as suggested by Kossek et al. (2018) get motivated by the leader of the organisation and get involve in doing more diverse range of work than they are expected, the leadership style is termed transformational leadership. In transformational leadership, the leaders focus on the customers and consumers of their provided products and services and in order to meet their expectation, increases the level of challenges on the employees. In transformational leadership styles, the changes in the existing organisational framework are incorporated on frequent bases, making the skill development range higher and skill quality moderate.
Charismatic Leadership
In case of charismatic leadership style, the leader
ings in a revolutionary change in the landscape of the business by changing the visionary approach to things that are completely new in comparison to the existing ones. As mentioned by Sy et al. (2018), charismatic leaders use their power of manipulation, convincing and motivation to encourage an entire workforce to believe in him or her ability to foresee the future of business and make significant contribution to change. The persuasive power of the charismatic leader makes and distinguishes him from ordinary leaders. The charismatic leadership style adaptation is not very easy as the leader must possess the ability to have remarkable communication skills, motivational attitude, ample knowledge about the marker, a tendency of learning new things...