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The Managerial Grid
Description
Leaders may be concerned for their people and they also must also have
some concern for the work to be done. The question is, how much
attention to they pay to one or the other? This is a model defined by
Blake and Mouton in the early 1960s.

High

Country Club
management
Middle of the
road
management

Concern for
Medium
People

Low

Team
management

Impoverished
management
Low

Authoritycompliance
Medium

High

Concern for Production (Task)

Impoverished management
Minimum effort to get the work done. A basically lazy approach that
avoids as much work as possible.
Authority-compliance
Strong focus on task, but with little concern for people. Focus on
efficiency, including the elimination of people wherever possible.

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