The Managerial Grid III: The Key to Leadership Excellence. The Managerial Grid: The Key to Leadership Excellence. Questioning, researching and verifying understandingĮxpressing convictions and championing ideasĮvaluating resources, choices and consequencesĭealing with problems, setbacks and failures
Grid theory breaks behavior down into seven key elements: Managers using this style praise and support, but discourage challenges to their thinking. In The Power to Change, it was redefined to alternate between the (1,9) and (9,1) locations on the grid. This style was added to the grid theory before 1999.
The model is represented as a grid with concern for production as the x-axis and concern for people as the y-axis each axis ranges from 1 (Low) to 9 (High). In 1999, the grid managerial seminar began using a new text, The Power to Change. The theory was updated with two additional leadership styles and with a new element, resilience. The grid theory has continued to evolve and develop. The optimal leadership style in this model is based on Theory Y.
This model originally identified five different leadership styles based on the concern for people and the concern for production. The managerial grid model (1964) is a style leadership model developed by Robert R. A graphical representation of the Managerial Grid