Managerial Grid (Leadership Style) - Blake & Mouton

Douglas McGregor developed production oriented  ( Theory X )and democratic oriented theory (Theory Y ). Research showed managers’ having concern both for production and people. A decade ago Robert Black and Jane Mouton developed a well-known approach to defining leadership style is the managerial grid. Black and Mouton developed a clear device to dramatize this concern. An ideal manager can use this approach as combined manner.

Robert Black and Jane Mouton disclosed 5 different types of leadership in Managerial Grid:-
            Impoverished Management
            Autocratic Task Manager
           Country Club Management
           Team Management
                       Middle of the Road Management


     
The Managerial Grid

Grid Dimensions

The grid has two dimensions: Concern for people and concern for production. As Blake and Mouton emphasize, their use of the phrase concern for is meant to convey how managers are concerned about production or how they are concerned about getting out of a group.

Concern for production includes the attitude of a supervisor toward a wide verity of things, such as the quality of policy decisions, procedures and processes, creativeness of research, quality of service, work efficiency, and volume of output. Concern for people is likewise interpreted in a broad way. It includes such elements as the degree of personal commitment toward goal achievement, maintenance of the self-esteem of workers. Placement of responsibility on the basis of trust rather than obedience. Provision of good working conditions. And maintenance of satisfying interpersonal relation.

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  1. Shadhin Kangal11 September 2017 at 14:03

    Developed by by R. R. Blake and J. S. Mouton, the Managerial Grid Model helps Managers to analyze their own leadership styles through a technique known as grid training. Also Managers can identify how they with respect to their concern for production and people with Managerial Grid Model.

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