Types of Management Styles and Their Key Characteristics

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Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid:
No one managerial style is appropriate for one company but it is useful to understand the
natural approach and how the company can develop skills. It is advised to neglect the people
working in a company and their tasks but equally compromising between these two approaches
can result in growing average team performance. Blake Mouton Managerial Grid is a popular
framework for thinking about the leaders and task versus person orientation.
In the case of Apple. Inc, three steps are to be followed. Firstly the company identifies its
Managerial skill, secondly identify the areas where the company can improve and develop its
leadership skills and in step 3 it puts the grid in context (Roy 2019).
No one managerial style is appropriate for one company but it is useful to understand the natural
approach and how the company can develop skills. It is advised to neglect the people working in
a company and their tasks but equally compromising between these two approaches can result in
growing average team performance. Blake Mouton Managerial Grid is a popular framework for
thinking about the leaders and task versus person orientation.
In the case of Apple. Inc, three steps are to be followed. Firstly the company identifies its
Managerial skill, secondly identify the areas where the company can improve and develop its
leadership skills and in step 3 it puts the grid in context.
House’s Path Goal Theory
The path goal theory of achievement refers that the leader’s behaviour relates to the
employee satisfaction and motivation along with the performance of the employees according to
this theory a good leader provides a perfect direction and sets higher goals so that employees feel
engaged with their organisation and achieve goals (Phillips and Phillips 2016). The path goal

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leadership styles include achievement oriented leadership, directive leadership, participative
leadership and supportive leadership. In the Apple Inc. Leader like Steve Jobs have followed
different paths so that the employees get proper understanding of the goal and choose different
path to achieve the organisational objectives. The main goal is to win the game but the leadership
follows supportive path in this company. This leads to develop supportive communication in the
company.
Great Man Theory
The great man theory refers to the fact that there are some people with unique talents and
highly influential decision making capabilities that make them stand out in the crowd. This
people have superior intellect and hero courage. This is the reason why they are referred to be
great man in the history. According to this theory every great leader is born with certain
leadership traits that enable them to rise and lead the crowd (Spector 2016). The reason why
these great men become great because of the need of the situation which develop their traits and
allow them to lead. In the case of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs has been seen to be great man in terms
of leadership. He had an exceptional intelligence, intellect and traits to motivate the subordinates
in such a way which makes him a hero. The possibility of the revolution in the information
technology sector has been initiated by this particular person.
Trait Theory
Trait theory is just opposite of great man theory in terms of leadership because according to this
theory no leader is born with any leadership trait but they learn from the situations and grow
ttheir capabilities. It is their behaviour and approach which determine their personality and
convince the subordinates to follow them. According to the trait theory the thoughts, behaviour