La grille administrative de Blake et mouton (document en anglais)

BLAKE AND MOUTON’S ADMINISTRATIVE GRID

• Two fundamental aspects of exercise of leadership – concern for institutional performance and concern for people

• When put on two sides of a grid, it results in 81 possible combinations

• Five Major Grid Styles

o 1,1: (Impoverished) Caretaker Administration, low people and institutional performance concern

• Exertion of minimum effort to get required work done is appropriate to sustain university membership

o 9,1: (Authoritarian) Authority-Obedience Administration, low people, and high institutional performance

• Efficiency in operations results from arranging conditions of work in such a way that human elements interfere to a minimum degree

o 1, 9: (Socialite) Comfortable and Pleasant Administration – High people, low institutional performance

• Thoughtful attention to needs of people for satisfying relationships leads to a comfortable friendly university atmosphere and work tempo

o 5, 5: (Middle of the Road) Constituency-Centered Administration – Medium people and performance

• Adequate university performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get out results while maintaining morale at a satisfactory level

o 9, 9: (Team Leadership) Team Administration – High people concern and high concern for institutional performance

• Quality achievement is from committed people, interdependence through a common stake in university purpose leads to mission of trust and respect

• Dominant and backup grid styles – all administrators have a back up style for when it is needed, and may even have two back up styles

• Some managerial behavior is dishonest as they put up a façade about what they are really doing

• Assumptions

o Administrators approaching a situation are usually not acting according to the objective reality of the situation but according to their subjective appraisal of it, including their assumptions about such situations

o For example, an unstated or unexamined assumption may be that people are indifferent and make the minimum effort to get by

o If an assumption we make is also being made by those around us, for all practical purposes it becomes an article of faith, taking on the status of an absolute

o When individuals understand their own grid assumptions, this knowledge can aid them in predicting the impact of their behavior on those with whom they deal.

o The assumptions that underlie our conduct remain outside our awareness. As a result we are sometimes as blind about why we do things as others are baffled in trying to explain our actions from their vantage point

o Ways to test assumptions on which they act

• Test their assumptions

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