*MANAGERIAL/LEADERSHIP GRID (BLAKE & MOUTON)*BEHAVORIAL/STYLE APPROACH

Question 1

*MANAGERIAL/LEADERSHIP GRID (BLAKE & MOUTON)*

General

How should leader act?

Answer 1

General: New style approach which focuses on the behavior of a leader

How should leader act?

a) Concern for production

• Describes how a leader is concerned with achivieng organizational tasks*
• task-oriented leadership, archieving goals

b) Concern for people:

• Describes how a leader attends to people in an organization:*
• human side, how leader attends to feelings, motivation

Question 2

Leadership Grid Modell: 5 Major Leading Styles (BLAKE & MOUTON)

Impoverished Management (1,1)

Answer 2

• Leader:
  
  • indifferent
  • noncommital
  • uninvolved
  • withdrawn
  • indifferent
  • resigned
  • apathetic
• Leader is not motivated, minimum effort
• e.g. external investors, big firm not caring about smaller subsidiaries

Question 3

Leadership Grid Modell: 5 Major Leading Styles (BLAKE & MOUTON)

Middle of the Road Management (5,5)

Answer 3

• Leader: expedient, prefers middle ground, balanced
• Maintains the equilibrium to receive an outcome
• Avoiding conflicts:
  
  • ​balancing personal needs and work productivity
  • human-oriented and task-oriented
• Comfortable living, friendly atmosphere, not intensive on work temple or on leading with pressure

Question 4

Leadership Grid Modell: 5 Major Leading Styles (BLAKE & MOUTON)

Team Management (9,9)

Answer 4

• Leader:
  
  • Stimulates participation
  • Acts determined
  • Makes priorities clear
  • Follows through
  • Behaves open-mindedly
  • Enjoys working
• Work accomplished through committed people
• Seek intrinsic motivation
  
  • develops trust and respect

Question 5

Leadership Grid Modell: 5 Major Leading Styles (BLAKE & MOUTON)

Country Club Management (1,9)

Answer 5

• Leader:
  
  1. agreeable
  2. eager to help
  3. comforting
  4. uncontroversial
• Producing an atmosphere (family feeling)
  
  • not about results but service
• e.g. sailing clubs, boat clubs

Question 6

Leadership Grid Modell: 5 Major Leading Styles (BLAKE & MOUTON)

Authority Compliance (9,1)

Answer 6

• Leader: controlling, demanding, hard driving
• Result-driven style
• Sees followers as a tool to get job done
• Not very personal/interactional
  
  • very neutral
• Bsp.: Factories in Bangladesh

Question 7

Football Coach for Children/Social Service Management (3,8)

Answer 7

• Followers are not seen as tools
• Happiness of the children, focus on the needs of the children

Question 8

Strengths & Weaknesses of the Grid

Answer 8

Pros

• Approach for behaviors
• Wide range of studies validate approach
• Way to understand leadership process
• Differentiation of tasks/relationships
• Leaders can assess their actions

Cons

• Not focused on performance outcomes
• Only descriptive
• Fails to find universal leadership style
• Implies that high-high is most effective

Question 9

Theory X and Theory Y (Douglas McGregor)

Answer 9

Explains how manager’s beliefs about what motivates their people affects their leadership style

Authoritarian (Theory X):

people dislike work –> little ambition –> unwilling to take responsbility

Participative (Theory Y):

people self-motivated –> enjoy challenge of work –> more decentralize

Question 10

Definition of the Behavorial Approach

Answer 10

Def.: Focuses exclusively on what leaders do and how they act composed of two general types of behaviors

1. Task behavior (facilitate goal accomplishment)

2. Relationship behavior (help subordinates feel comfortable)