Managerial Grid
After doing some more online research, I came across another model of managerial styles called the managerial grid. This model basically had two axes - concern for people and concern for task (Similar to the task vs. people oriented managers I talked about in an earlier blog entry). The managerial grid labeled five different managerial styles based the varying degrees of concern for people and task. These managerial styles according to the managerial grid model are: Impoverished, Authority-Compliance, Country Club, Middle of the Road, and Team. Impoverished management was defined as: minimum effort to get the work done, a basically lazy approach that avoids as much work as possible. Authority-compliance has a strong focus on task, but with little concern for people. Also, a focus on efficiency, including the elimination of people wherever possible. The Country Club style has care and concern for people, with a comfortable and friendly environment and collegial style, and also with a low focus on task which may give questionable results. Middle of the Road has a weak balance of focus on both people and task. Also, managers do enough to get things done, but do not push the boundaries of what may be possible. Team management is defined as: firing on all cylinders - people are committed to a task and leader is committed to people, as well as the task.
Here is a link to the website where I found this information (much of it is verbatim)
Managerial Grid website
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