Case Study: Transformational Leadership
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Title: Transformational Leadership Case Study
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Title: Objectives
Define leadership theories.
Assessan effective leadership theory or approach to support an organizational change.
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Title: Challenge
Voice Over: In this case study, you will assess and evaluate how Steve Jobs used transformational leadership to turn Apple into a highly successful, innovative organization. You will also assess another dominant leadership style he used and the impact of both these leadership styles. You will practice collaboration skills that promote diversity of thought and dispel inappropriate communication. In addition, you will learn the role of empathy in collaboration, change leadership, and transformational leadership.
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This case study will enable you to:
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Title: Changing Perspectives through Collaboration, Empathy, and Transformational Leadership
What are the benefits of collaboration and empathy in the workplace and how do they relate to transformational leadership and effective change management?
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Title: Overview of Jobs’ Role in Apple
Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak. Four years later, their company went public, and four years after that, they launched the Macintosh.
As time went by, Jobs’ vision for the computing industry increasingly clashed with Apple CEO, John Sculley. In 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple.
By 1997, Apple was in severe financial difficulty. However, in 1996, Apple had purchased NeXT, a company founded by Jobs, and Jobs was again working for Apple.
Fortunately for Apple, Jobs revived the company through his innovations and leadership and, by 2011, Apple was challenging ExxonMobil as the most globally valuable company.
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Title: Jobs’ Leadership Approach
Jobs utilized aspects of transformational leadership to bring about these changes in Apple and lead it to success.
Transformational leadership is about going beyond the status quo, and consists of continuous personal and organizational improvement and innovation.
The four main characteristics and behaviors transformational leaders display are:
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Title: Jobs’ Leadership Approach
How do you think employees and co-workers responded to Jobs’ visionary leadership?
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Title: Jobs’ Leadership Approach
Feedback
Jobs was highly respected for his vision and talent, and ability to bring his visions into reality. This inspired and created trust in Apple’s workforce, investors, and customers.
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Title: Criticisms of Jobs’ Leadership Style
In addition to a transformational leadership approach, Jobs used a transactional leadership approach. Transactional leadership is using reward and punishment to gain compliance from others.
Moreover, while Jobs certainly changed the culture and success of Apple for the better, he was known to have poor interpersonal skills. He could be rude, harsh, and irritable with others, and often moved ahead without taking others’ ideas, opinions, and feelings into consideration.
In fact, Wozniak stated that Jobs did not need to “terrorize” others as he did in order to succeed.
Has this new information changed your perspective about the effectiveness of Jobs’ leadership?
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Title: Alternative View
Consider the poor reports and criticisms of Jobs’ leadership style.
Put yourself in the place of those who were on the receiving end of Jobs’ negative treatment.
What do you think the impact of his negative interpersonal behavior was on the workforce and culture of the organization?
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Title: Alternative View
Feedback
His negative interpersonal behaviors were likely to cause one or more of the following consequences in the workforce and organizational culture: resentment, fear, lack of trust, lack of respect, negative effect on interpersonal relationships, negative impact on employee loyalty, hindering or limiting collaboration and/or flow of information, difficulty in retaining talent.
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Title: Alternative View – Health of Culture
Do you think his negative interpersonal behavior contributed in any way to the success of Apple and the health of its culture? Explain your answer.
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Title: Alternative View – Health of Culture
Feedback
It is not likely that negative interpersonal behaviors contribute to the success and health of an organization. As Wozniak stated, Jobs still could have achieved everything he achieved without having to terrorize others. Thus one could ask what more he could have achieved had he employed more positive interpersonal behaviors.
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Title: Alternative view- Success
Do you think that the Apple workforce would have accepted his negative interpersonal behaviors if his ideas had not succeeded? Explain your answer.
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Title: Alternative view- Success
Feedback
It is most reasonable to assume that the workforce would have been less tolerant of his behavior had his ideas not succeeded. The reason this is probable is because his ideas created success for the company and the people who worked there. This meant if they wanted to share in the success, they had to tolerate his behavior. Some people may even have overlooked his negative behaviors due to the success he created for the organization.
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Title: Alternative View – Justification
Do you think his negative interpersonal behaviors were in any way justifiable? Explain your answer.
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Title: Alternative View – Justification
Feedback
Poor treatment of others is never justifiable. Nor is treating others poorly in pursuit of a goal, no matter how lofty the goal. However, Jobs did succeed in creating a company that provides thousands of people with a livelihood. Note that while it is incorrect to reason that one should compromise proper treatment for financial benefits, the fact remains that Jobs had a poor interpersonal style but was hugely successful in making Apple the success it was and continues to be. Also notable is that Jobs had a complex interpersonal style because he was able to motivate people and get them to buy into his vision and ideas.
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Title: Alternative View – Health and Success of Apple
Do you think his negative interpersonal behaviors detracted from the health and success of Apple? Explain your answer.
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Title: Alternative View – Health and Success of Apple
Feedback
It is possible that they detracted from the health and success of Apple because of the negative impact on the people and culture. The question is, was it fundamentally necessary to treat people poorly in pursuit of success? The answer is no. Therefore, the same success could have been achieved without the negative treatment of others. By extension, how much more could have been achieved through the positive treatment of others and a healthier organizational culture? Could Jobs have left an even greater legacy than he did?
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Title: Remediating Leadership Approach
Do you think that Jobs could have created equally successful changes, continual innovation, and success in Apple by rather embracing empathetic collaboration?
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Title: Remediating Leadership Approach
Feedback
It is likely that Jobs could have created equally, if not more, successful changes, continual innovation, and success in Apple by embracing empathetic collaboration.
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