Leadership Functions and Styles



Leadership Functions and Styles

Introduction

The paper discusses the topic of leadership which is considered to be the part of management. The leadership style is required by managers so that they can positively create an impact on employees and increase company's performance. As Steve Job was announced to be the best out of the ten best leaders of the year 2005 (Koehn, Nancy F, 2009), therefore the paper throws a light on his leadership functions and styles.

Discussion

The fortune magazine has recognized Apple's CEO Steve Jobs to be the best leader of the decade as he had the ability of influencing people so that they perform the assigned tasks willingly, efficiently and effectively. The following are the leadership functions that he had successfully accomplished.

Leadership Functions

Vision accomplishment

Every firm has a vision that tells a firm where it desires to see itself in future and accordingly the managers and employees set their targets and goals. For instance, Apple has the vision of commitment to accessibility which means that coming up with such innovative solution that helps against disabilities. This is depicted from their product like Imac and Iphone which a disable person can even use. Their efforts in technology lead them to introduce a product of its kind (David, 2010). Hence, good leaders can actually bring an entire fresh set of problem-solving skills which helps out employees to perform efficiently and effectively. Secondly, the leaders help putting in best practices that creates value for the company and are profitable for firm's contracts and acquisition, consequently helping employees to engage on their jobs and meeting an organization's mission and goals to accomplish the overall vision of the firm. (www.businessweek.com).

Motivation

Leaders inspire and motivate employees to show commitment to their work. Other than this, when a change initiative takes place for organizational development ...