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The Managerial Grid
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DescriptionLeaders may be concerned for their people and they also must also have some concern for the work to be done. The question is, how much attention to they pay to one or the other? This is a model defined by Blake and Mouton in the early 1960s.
Impoverished managementMinimum effort to get the work done. A basically lazy approach that avoids as much work as possible. Authority-complianceStrong focus on task, but with little concern for people. Focus on efficiency, including the elimination of people wherever possible. Country Club managementCare and concern for the people, with a comfortable and friendly environment and collegial style. But a low focus on task may give questionable results. Middle of the road managementA weak balance of focus on both people and the work. Doing enough to get things done, but not pushing the boundaries of what may be possible. Team managementFiring on all cylinders: people are committed to task and leader is committed to people (as well as task). DiscussionThis is a well-known grid that uses the Task vs. Person preference that appears in many other studies, such as the Michigan Leadership Studies and the Ohio State Leadership Studies. Many other task-people models and variants have appeared since then. They are both clearly important dimensions, but as other models point out, they are not all there is to leadership and management. The Managerial Grid was the original name. It later changed to the Leadership Grid. See alsoTask vs. Person preference, Michigan Leadership Studies, Ohio State Leadership Studies, Balancing conviction and openness Blake, R.R. and Mouton, J.S. (1961). Group dynamics - Key to decision making, Houston: Gulf Publishing Co. |
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