the research questions‚ significant of the study as well as the scope of the study and its limitations. 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION There is an ongoing problem about leadership styles and its impact on various aspects of employee performance and their work-related health. It has been suggested that leadership factors had an influence on the employee performance‚ although relationship between leaders and subordinates has gradually been more focused; but it is still scientifically unclear
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Steve Jobs: Genius or Just Obsessive Compulsive? It is rumored that Steve Jobs‚ the developer of Apple Electronics‚ suffered from the mental disease: OCPD. Jobs presented many symptoms of OCPD or Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. He was considered a creative genius‚ but in order to reach that position he ruined his family relationships‚ his health‚ and even his happiness. OCPD is very similar to OCD‚ but there are slight differences. OCD causes people’s brains to send unwanted
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LEADERSHIP STYLE IS FIXED AND UNCHANGEABLE BY MANAGEMENT CONCEPT (B) 22/04/2013 Leadership is essentially the core and spirit of an organization (Mills‚ 2005). As the people in control of the affairs of an organisation‚ leaders manage the organisation’s affairs‚ relate with employees on a daily basis‚ face to face. Hence leaders are given the task to communicate organisational goals‚ visions and ideas to employees‚ maintain and implement organisational rules
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1. CEO Profiles Field Larry Page (Google) Lawrence Ellison (Oracle) Years as a CEO Since April 4‚ 2011. Since June 1977 (35 years) Compensation from most recent fiscal year $1‚000‚000 $250‚001 (Quarter million dollars) Current stock price (03/14/2012) 61.599 $29‚84 (2012‚ March 14) 2. Challenges / Initiatives 2.1. Larry Page’s Challenges / Initiatives i) Telecommunications. Google has been working in the last years to become big at the telecommunication sector. Taking Apple as an example with
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Leadership can be defined as the ability to lead a group of people successfully in an organization. Hall‚ et al (2008) have mentioned that an effective leader has to be visionary‚ motivating and responsible in order to successfully run a business organization. In business the two key leadership styles‚ which are widely used in today’s corporate world are autocratic leadership and democratic leadership (Johnson‚ n.d.). Autocratic leadership may be explained as “a leadership style where the manager
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Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen Steve Jobs was the natural-born son of John Jandali and Joanne Schieble. Jandali was a teaching assistant from Syria and Joanne was a Catholic girl from Wisconsin whose parents disapproved of her relationship with a Muslim. Unable to wed‚ they gave their baby up for adoption and baby Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco‚ California. Paul Jobs was an engine technician turned car mechanic‚ and he introduced Steve to the world of engineering and design
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changes across industries. These are the great innovators who make us believe that ideas matter‚ that ideas shape the future and that ideas can and will continue to change the world. Amongst all the global innovators cum entrepreneurs‚ I admire Steve Jobs the most! He was different from the difficult bosses we know. He was charismatic‚ inspired people to achieve great things‚ engendered loyalty in his team. He changed the way people around the world experienced
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Steve Jobs’ Big Five Personality Dimension 1. Customers don’t know what they want. The controversial start when the Steve Jobs come with this phrase “We built [the Mac] for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research” and after more than ten years he come up with this phrase “A lot of times‚ people don’t know what they want until you show it to them” which is contradicting to current trend of doing
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ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON LEADERSHIP A leader is one who keeps the vision in front of the people. He is also one who has an influential relationship with his subordinates so as to direct them towards the vision. Different leadership styles would affect an organisation differently‚ perhaps producing different results. As for me‚ I think the democratic leadership would result in greater productivity in the workplace. Firstly‚ democratic leadership is participatory. This means that leaders allow everyone
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Around the world people come together and work to compete or develop ideas. In “La Vida Robot” by Joshua Davis it’s about how four students from Carl Hayden High School that came together to beat a team from MIT in a robotics competition. Then in Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is about how two individuals that came together to build one of the most successful technology companies. In both texts‚ Davis and Isaacson prove that a strong team consists of having individuals with various strengths for they
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