Management Styles

• Determined by manager’s personality –

difficult to adopt a style opposite to one’s own
personality since it will be unconvincing and
ineffective
• A manager often displays many of the
attributes of these styles
• Experienced managers vary their style to suit a
particular situation
 Live by the
1 book; not
Management Style very good in
resolving
Administrators conflict
Usually
good
very

employees,
loyal with

Expect everything
the company
Formal
for many
approach,
years

to be black and Refer to

company
rules and
white (for practical regulations
to solve

situations to match
problems
Poor
communication

theory) skills

Logical, and
have good
planning skills
 Generally
not lazy;

Management Style
2 can build
an effective

Time Servers team if they

try

Lost interest in
their jobs

Older Low profile, low

managers
personal
motivation,
minimum work

marking time Avoid stress,

conflict, and

for retirement
making
decisions

With good
management
experience,
father-mother
figure
 Want to achieve
and to be seen
3 to have
Management Style achieved
especially by
superiors

Climbers Will sacrifice

everything

Highly motivated
including self
and family;

Fight peers

and driven by to build an

empire; by

extreme personal
fair or foul
means

ambition
Push
themselves at
their staff’s
expense

Look after
subordinates;
self interest
comes before
the
organization
 Younger

Management Style
4 managers
who exhibit
lots of energy

Generals
achievement
oriented; use
power to get
things done

Like to rule Work

extremely
hard;

and wield driving

themselves
and those

power
under them
Strong willed
individuals
but sociable
and mix well
at all levels

Usually get
their way with
peers by
overwhelming
them
 Balanced view
of the world

Management Style
5 (organization
, subordinates
and
themselves)

Supporters
Lack personal
technical
knowledge but
compensated by
support of
specialists

Work through within the

department
Tend to be

people to achieve loners and

miss
information

tasks from the

grapevine
Good at
delegation and
subordinates
development
(results to
highly
motivated
Good
subordinates)
facilitators
and at
managing
change; deep
thinkers and of
excellent
Management Style
6 Weak-willed;

Nice Guys
Do not
criticize their
subordinates
even if poor

More interested to
performers;
thus,
retarding
Low

be liked by peers
their growth
productivity;
ready to
yield to
and subordinates pressure
from almost

rather than in any source

Potential
conflicts
simmer under

achieving targets surface

waiting to
burst out

Very few
decisions(us
ually very
poor)
 Terrorize
peers and
subordinates

Management Style
7 creating
conflict to
emphasize

Bosses
own sense of
Effect of power
power
on people
(power is like a
drug);
insecure and
self centered

Bullies; often Administrative

trouble shooters

brought into a
and results
oriented;
extremely

company to act as
inflexible
Like to have
their own way;

“hatchet men” occur at any

level often
quite low in an
organization

Usually strong
talkers and
hide behind
abusive
language
Consider two main factors in comparing
strengths of the various management styles
(actually there many different and complex
factors)
1. Tasks
2. People
• Wrong to compartmentalize management
styles (very simplistic and serves as 1st level
guide only)
• Could result to “climber” having the most
balanced style
• Therefore, wrong to think of one style as
better as another
• Each style has its own strengths and
weaknesses and a place in various
circumstances