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Leadership dilemmas--Grid solutions
Robert Rogers Blake,Anne Adams McCanse +1 more
- 01 Jan 1991
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TL;DR: 'Leadership Dilemmas - Grid Solutions' is a classic management text that clearly shows that leadership and managerial excellence can be learned - and it shows how!
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Abstract: Here's an all-new presentation of the most powerful, thoroughly tested, and widely used tool ever designed for improving human effectiveness and developing sound leadership. For more than 25 years millions of people have been using the Grid framework to achieve optimum organizational and personal productivity. Built on the foundations of Blake and Mouton's best-selling management classic 'The Managerial Grid' (more than 2 million copies in print!) this new book employs dynamic literary action - characters, dialogue, storyline - to fuse Grid theory with workplace reality. It gives you a front row seat to observe, react to, and, therefore more clearly comprehend and successfully apply proven Grid solutions. You almost become a cast member in this 'management drama' as the employees of the company Celarmco interact with their colleagues, subordinates, and bosses. You witness the delicate dynamics of managerial and personal behavior as these characters project and respond to Grid styles that reflect various degrees of concern for performance and people. But make no mistake. This completely new version contains the same descriptions, definitions and explanations of the Grid framework that is improving human relations and increasing productivity in 37 corporations worldwide. Still covered are the major approaches for managing work and people (9,1; 1,9; 9,9; etc); solving conflict; handling organizational change; and developing strong leadership. If you are familiar with Grid concepts, the real-life scenarios in this book will give you fresh new insights into applying them. If this is your first exposure to the Grid, you will discover a valuable, effective system for better understanding 'what makes a person tick'. 'Leadership Dilemmas - Grid Solutions' is a classic management text for all the right reasons - it's sound, it's practical, it's understandable and widely applicable. It clearly shows that leadership and managerial excellence can be learned - and it shows how!
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Excellent Managers: Exploring the Acquisition, Measurement, and Impact of Leader Skills in an Australian Business Context
Shane Douglas Muldoon
- 01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the acquisition, measurement, and impact of leader skills in relation to business managers' performance in an Australian context, and proposed a leader skill instrument referred to as the Leader Interaction Skills Inventory (LISI).
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The effects of interpersonal communication style on task performance and well being
Howard Taylor
- 01 Jan 2007
Abstract: This thesis is based around five studies examining the psychology of interpersonal
communication applied to organizational settings. The studies are designed to
examine the question of how the way that people in positions of power in
organizations communicate with subordinates, affects various measures of health,
well-being and productivity. It is impossible to study modern organisational
communication without recognising the importance of electronic communication. The
use of e-mail and other forms of text messaging is now ubiquitous in all areas of
communication. The studies in this thesis include the use of e-mail as a medium of
communication and examine some of the potential effects of electronic versus face-to-face and verbal communication. The findings of the studies support the basic
hypothesis that: it is not what is said that matters but how it is said. The results
showed that an unsupportive, formal, authoritarian style of verbal or written
communication is likely to have a negative effect on health, well-being and
productivity compared with a supportive, informal and egalitarian style. There are
also indications that the effects of damaging communications may not be confined to
the initial recipient of the message. Organizational communication does not take place
in a vacuum. Any negative consequences are likely to be transmitted by the recipient,
either back to the sender or on to other colleagues with implications for the wider
organisational climate. These findings are based on communications that would not
necessarily be immediately recognised as obviously offensive or bullying, or even
uncivil. The effects of these relatively mild but unsupportive communications may
have implications for the selection and training of managers. In the final section of the
thesis there is a discussion of how examples of various electronically recorded
messages might be used as training material.
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Leading Before, During, and After a Major Organizational Transition.
Charles Davis McCowan
- 01 Jan 2004
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