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3. The Leadership 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

Concern
People

for

Country Club
management
Middle of the
road
management

Medium

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.
Country Club management
Care and concern for the people, with a comfortable and friendly environment and
collegial style. But a low focus on task may give questionable results.
Middle of the road management
A weak balance of focus on both people and the work. Doing enough to get things
done, but not pushing the boundaries of what may be possible.
Team management
Firing on all cylinders: people are committed to task and leader is committed to people
(as well as task).