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ACCA · Question 10 · Syllabus D: Leadership and management
[Section A] The manager of a heavy manufacturing plant is highly focused on meeting daily production quotas. He strictly enforces break times, penalizes errors heavily, and shows little interest in the personal well-being or morale of the factory workers. According to the Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid, what is this manager's leadership style?
[Section A] The manager of a heavy manufacturing plant is highly focused on meeting daily production quotas. He strictly enforces break times, penalizes errors heavily, and shows little interest in the personal well-being or morale of the factory workers. According to the Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid, what is this manager's leadership style?
Answer options:
A.
Country Club Management (1,9)
B.
Impoverished Management (1,1)
C.
Team Management (9,9)
D.
Task Management (9,1)
How to approach this question
Map the manager's behavior to the two axes: Concern for Production (High) and Concern for People (Low).
Full Answer
D.Task Management (9,1)✓ Correct
The Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid uses two axes: Concern for People and Concern for Production. A manager who is obsessed with quotas and ignores worker well-being scores high on production (9) and low on people (1), which is termed Task Management or 'Produce-or-Perish'.
Common mistakes
Mixing up the coordinates. Remember the first number is usually Production/Task, and the second is People (though sometimes reversed depending on the textbook, the name 'Task Management' remains constant).
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