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1. Identify and discuss (5) major management styles from the managerial grid. The Managerial Grid was developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton. The gird is part of the survey research feedback stem of organizational development and draws on earlier work done at Ohio State University and the University of Michigan (Swanson, 2012, pg. 273). The grid is composed of two dimensions. The dimensions consist of: concern for productions and concern for the people. The way in which a person combines these two dimension s establishes a leadership style in terms of one of the five principal styles identified in the grid (Swanson, 2012, pg. 273). The 5 major management styles as outlined from the managerial grid are as follows: Country Club Management, Team Management, Organization Man Management, Impoverished Management and Authority-Obedience (Swanson, 2012, pg. 273). The first management style is Impoverished Management (1, 1). Impoverished management is described as: extortion of minimum effort to get required work done is appropriate to sustain organization membership (Swanson, 2012, pg. 273). This particular management style creates low production and is ineffective. It is a delegate and disappear approach to management. This management style is used by managers whom want to avoid trouble and they do so by doing minimal work, make minimal decisions and delegate assignments and responsibility onto others. It is a lazy approach to management and as a result it leads to disorganization, dissatisfaction and disharmony due to lack of effective leadership (Zeidan, 2009). The second management style is Country Club Management (1, 9). It is described in the book as: thoughtful attention to needs of people for satisfying relationships leads ... ... middle of paper ... ...erned and to evaluate whether they would make the same decision if they had to do it all over again and make the same decisions (Swanson, 2012, pg. 351). By following these steps and evaluating their decisions, police administrators are able to take the best course of action. By doing so it can alleviate stress on the decision maker as well as avoid situations that may, over time, cause a great deal of personal stress as well as regret and remorse. Work Cited Zeidan, H. (2009) The Blake Mouton Managerial Grid, Identifying five different leadership styles. THE CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANT 3rd Quarter 2009 Issue # 39. Retrieved from http://www.lacpa.org.lb/Includes/Images/Docs/TC/TC409.pdf Swanson, C.R. (2012) Police administration: structures, processes, and behavior/Charles Swanson, Leonard Territo, Robert W. Taylor -8th ed. (Swanson, 2012, pg. 251)