Every manager has to provide leadership in one way or another. Many have no real idea what constitutes leadership.
Overview:
The professional accountant is frequently both the manager and leader. An understanding of leadership theory and practice is an important part of a manager’s education.
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton in their Ohio State Leadership Studies, observed that there were two basic leadership dimensions apparent from their research; concern for the task and concern for people.
Blake and Mouton recorded the extreme scores as:
1, 1 – Management Impoverished low concern for production and low concern for people.
1, 9 – Country Club Management low concern for production and high concern for people.
9, 1 – Task Management high concern for production and low concern for people. 5, 5 – Middle of the Road Management reasonable concern for both dimensions.
9, 9 – Team Management High concern for production and high concern for people. (One may wish to draw the grid and describe these scores).
