This is an affiliative management style that incorrectly assumes that, as long as the team are happy they will be productive. The Country Club or "accommodating" style of manager primary concern is the team's needs and feelings. When people are have a sense of ownership of the organisation's success, their needs and production needs coincide. They do this by making sure that their team members understand the business objective purpose and they involve the team in determining production needs. Team managers prioritize both the organization's production needs and their people's needs. It reflects a leader who is equally passionate about his work as he is for the people he works with.
High performers will not tolerate this management style for long.Īccording to the Blake Mouton model, team management is the most effective leadership style. Whilst this approach may deliver impressive production results at first, low team morale will eventually undermine. This management style is autocratic, rules based and sees punishment as an effective way of motivating team members. Most people fall somewhere near the middle of the two axes, but there are 4 polarised positions: They both are scaled on a range of 0 to 9įinding the most appropriate leadership style (2) Concern for task is along the horizontal axis (1) Concern for people is plotted along the vertical axis The visual representation of their model uses two axes:
This can be thought of as a spectrum with task-orientation and affiliation orientation at either ends of that spectrum. The model identifies four different leadership styles based around a focus of people and a focus on production. The managerial grid model (1964) is a behavioural leadership model developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton. Managerial grid People or production orientation? Getting the balance right