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In 1964 Blake and Mouton conducted research and looked into the behaviour of management. They discovered there were two types of leaders, those who are concerned for production and those that show concern for people.

Their theory was placed on a grid which showed a continuum of leaders that have a high to low concern for their staff and production.

As you can see from the grid you have five types of managers. Let us look at these in more detail.

Impoverished Manager: This manager shows low concern for production and low concern for people. If this is the case then the company will be facing problems!

Country Club Manager: is more concerned about his/her staff then getting the job done. It is good to show concern for staff, but at the same time productivity has to be monitored.

Task Manager: has a high concern for production but shows little concern for staff, the problem with this is staff motivation may be affected.

Team Management: This manager has both high concern for production and high concern for staff morale. Obviously this would be the ideal person you would want in your organisation.

Middle of the road manager. This manager shows equal concern for production and performance. He/she works to a satisfactory level.

 

Overall what the grid tells us is, there needs to be a fine balance between managers showing a concern for production and concern for staff.