BOH4M1 APPLYING BUSIN�S SKILLS/CONCEPTS/LEADERSHIP TO STEVE JOBS CAREER Steve Paul Jobs By: Younus Rizvi March 29, 2020 We all use technology on a daily basis and are unconscious about the individual that made it all happen. Steve jobs is one of the founding fathers of next generation cell phones. His technology is also used for corporate business, highly classified security and the most common one, public use. Steve jobs was born in February, 24 1955 in the city of San francisco in the United States of America. He was born as the first child and his parents who were in University set him up for adoption. He was adopted by biological parents, Paul and Clara jobs. Steve was a train driver for a railroad company, but his parents wanted their children to have a sustainable education and moved to the city of Mountain view. Due to high costs of Reed college in Portland 1972, he was forced to drop out with very little profit. In 1976 he moved to California he had been involved with Woznik and created a computer and called it the Apple 1. Apple was recently launched by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak, his old highschool friend, known as the co-founder, which began in 1976. Their small shop was located in California, where they worked on revolutionizing technology, by building the world’s first user-friendly computer. This came out to be a big success and they had changed the way consumer technology was looked back then. They started creating computer parts, even for Microsoft. Apple was so integreid by their first successful launch, they decided to hire a new management team, where they introduced the first ever apple computer known as the iMac. Yet again this product was marvelous and caught the attention of many consumers once again. This product was released one year after the initial launch of the first user-friendly computer. Their evolution of technology leveraged their company and started to become more known in the world. When Apple first started to bring in a new management team, they had been assigned specific tasks that play out the leadership role from Blake and Mouton. The club manager would be responsible for receiving feedback from customers that use their products on a daily-basis and use it to make better products, to strengthen consumer and production relationships. This is one of the biggest leadership styles apple has implied too. A team manager leadership style would be responsible for collaborating ideas with each branch of the company to make stronger relationships. As well as have a purpose to make them feel valued based on their ideas and not underlying it. Apple does a great job on this and was awarded as the 2 “Top 20 most innovative companies” in 2005. Ever since Steve Jobs has made astonishing new inventions, his im has always been about perfection. He quotes “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected”, (Boogard). These uplif ...

1. BOH4M1
APPLYING BUSIN�S SKILLS/CONCEPTS/LEADERSHIP TO
STEVE JOBS CAREER
Steve Paul Jobs
By: Younus Rizvi March 29, 2020
We all use technology on a daily basis and are unconscious
about the individual
that made it all happen. Steve jobs is one of the founding
fathers of next generation cell phones. His
technology is also used for corporate business, highly classified
security and the most common
one, public use. Steve jobs was born in February, 24 1955 in the
city of San francisco in the United
States of America. He was born as the first child and his parents
who were in University set him up
for adoption. He was adopted by biological parents, Paul and
Clara jobs. Steve was a train driver
for a railroad company, but his parents wanted their children to
have a sustainable education and
moved to the city of Mountain view. Due to high costs of Reed

2. college in Portland 1972, he was
forced to drop out with very little profit. In 1976 he moved to
California he had been involved with
Woznik and created a computer and called it the Apple 1. Apple
was recently launched by Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozinak, his old highschool friend, known as
the co-founder, which began in 1976.
Their small shop was located in California, where they worked
on revolutionizing technology, by
building the world’s first user-friendly computer. This came out
to be a big success and they had
changed the way consumer technology was looked back then.
They started creating computer
parts, even for Microsoft. Apple was so integreid by their first
successful launch, they decided to
hire a new management team, where they introduced the first
ever apple computer known as the
iMac. Yet again this product was marvelous and caught the
attention of many consumers once
again. This product was released one year after the initial
launch of the first user-friendly
computer. Their evolution of technology leveraged their
company and started to become more
known in the world.

3. When Apple first started to bring in a new
management team, they had been assigned
specific tasks that play out the leadership role
from Blake and Mouton. The club manager
would be responsible for receiving feedback
from customers that use their products on a
daily-basis and use it to make better products, to
strengthen consumer and production
relationships. This is one of the biggest
leadership styles apple has implied too. A team
manager leadership style would be responsible
for collaborating ideas with each branch of the
company to make stronger relationships. As well as have a
purpose to make them feel valued
based on their ideas and not underlying it. Apple does a great
job on this and was awarded as the
2
“Top 20 most innovative companies” in 2005. Ever since Steve

4. Jobs has made astonishing new
inventions, his im has always been about perfection. He quotes
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some
people aren't used to an environment where excellence is
expected”, (Boogard). These uplifting
quotes and mindsets excelled his company and raised the
expectations for his employees and they
were able to learn and adapt to it. He chose to listen to himself
and make decisions alone, while still
taking his employees decisions into consideration. He believed
it would benefit the company more.
Communication is a key factor for Steve Jobs to manufacture
and introduce successful products
and receive feedback from their users/customers and improve on
them with a business meeting.
Steve Job's management were very closely related to the
*followed the Teams of organizations*, in
which hands are held together around a common goal to achieve
and reach beyond an expectation.
This allows more income and attention to the partnership
companies and allows them to excel in
their specific business. Steve Jobs had teamed up with many
companies that developed specific
computer components such as NeXT, which specialize in

5. making a software and hardware
platform, merged in February 7, 1997. The products that are
made with an outsource
(partnership), allows companies to build stronger and wealthier
bonds, with minimal excessive use
of material.
Steve Jobs was a very distinctive and inclusive role model to his
company. Throughout the great
success of his company, he had new people join the
management and gave them a chance to teach
him his leadership ways. He started off as a relationship-
oriented leader because trust was low, he
was experimenting with their ways of working on tasks and he
expected an high demand to build
off a stronger relationship. Later on, as he got comfortable with
his team and built a stronger
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relationship he attained the task-oriented leader,
where the task and trust is high and earlier to
complete. Looking at leadership models he had
acquired the Hersey blanchard leadership model.

6. His team played out the role of introducing a
product by participating and sharing ideas,
creating problems and selling solutions to it. He
gave instructions on how to introduce and make
the product in order to gain public viewership. He
was also very Delegating on his products, because
of his early successful products and the team he
worked with. The selling and telling factors were the high
guidance required by the team. We can
tell Apple has a unique way to launch their new products and
gain the audience eye span, with new
and improved features. His use of quality over quantity, on all
of his products really gained his
customers trust and made it easier to sell products more
effectively. Using this model he was very
communicative with his employees and allowed them to let him
explore their next innovation,
which made it more enjoyable and effective for the company.
This consists of task structure,
Authority system and work groups. Steve Jobs was very task-
oriented.

7. The task he used to assign to his management, had made their
first priority to complete them. He
assigned each task to be completed
in small work groups, these were
more effective and fun for his
management to do and complete.
He used authority over his
employees and guided them to
complete their task, this led to
effective leadership. He took
authority over everyone in order
for them to be successful with the provided guidelines. This is a
simple 3 step theory that implies
Steve Jobs leadership skills. Firstly, he talks about perfection
and working hard which is known as
effort. Secondly he talks about the production and its use which
is known as the performance of
the work. Lastly, he talks about the rewards which are selling
the product and revving service
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8. satisfaction, this attracts more customer traffic and revenue to
the company. Although many
companies are successful and very task oriented, he had a mix
of both relationships and
task-orientation, which lead to a fast leverage to success. What
can we do with this information?,
we can start to improvise his skills in our workplace or even on
an upcoming business. We can use
these as guides to have a successful business and
relationship with employees and customers.
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Report on the Business Leader of your choice - 50 marks
Use the knowledge of this unit to analyse and report on a
business leader.
Knowledge: understanding how to apply management concepts
to interpret
organizational practices and their outcomes.
Thinking: use a critical understanding of concepts to make
judgements about why
success was achieved, or not. Correctly match the information
to the ideas used.
Communication: write in a clear, concise and logical manner.
Application: use of well-informed judgements to draw

10. conclusions.
Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1
Knowledge Comprehensive
understanding
of business
concepts
accurately
applied in an
insightful way.
Very good
understanding
of key concepts
combined with a
very good
understanding
of the
information.
Good
understanding
of the main
concepts but
with limited
comparisons
and use of
applications.
Limited
knowledge of
key facts,
concepts,
principles and
theories.

11. Application Excellent
application of
theories to
diverse
examples of
organizational
practices.
Well done use
of examples and
concrete
reflection on
situations,
styles, choices
and outcomes.
Correctly
applies theories
to the
environment
and outcomes
but could be
more complete
and deep.
Has difficulty
correctly
applying the
corresponding
theory to explain
and criticize
practices.
Thinking Critical and
deep

12. understanding
of theories
conveyed in
analysis and
application.
Able to combine
concepts with
the situation of
the case
competently.
Some
competence in
sorting out the
theory as it
applies in the
specific
instances of the
case and why.
Difficulty sorting
out why and
how a specific
range of choices
apply for this
case.
Communication Clear, concise,
logical, diverse
and nuanced
vocabulary while
error-free.
Clear, concise,
logical and very

13. good use of
appropriate
vocabulary.
Direct but needs
more
elaboration and
use of
conceptual
vocabulary.
Answers the
questions too
briefly and
without the
requisite
sophistication of
language.
Application Judgements and
conclusions that
are accurate
and very well
defended using
concepts and
facts.
Very good and
well defended
conclusions and
judgements.
Conclusions that
apply theory to
understanding
of the concrete

14. situation.
Better
judgement
needed in
applying ideas
to situations.