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The Blake and Mouton Management GridRobert Blake and Jane Mouton developed this model in the USA after researching management and leadership styles in the oil industry in USA in the 1950's. They compared the distinguishing characteristics of high-performing and low-performing management groups. They concluded that the two key factors were:
This research led to a self-assessment where managers could analyse their own preferred style and plot the results on a 9 by 9 management grid as below.
Their work became enormously popular (over a million copies of their book Management Grid were sold of the first two editions alone) and it really started managers thinking about style and approach. CommentaryThe implication, write Blake and Mouton. is that managers should aim for the 9,9 combination, a ‘goal-centred team approach that seeks to gain optimum results through participation, involvement, commitment and conflict-solving of everyone who can contribute.’ The authors go on to explain how, on their analysis, individuals can adapt their style to become more effective personally; and, working in a team, can build the synergy needed to raise output above the level that could be achieved individually.
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