Tag: managerial styles

My research

Will artificial managers have different leadership styles?

Two days ago, I described how, using the technology used to build an artificial manager, TransistorsHead.com online manager tools, it is possible to reverse engineer the learning process of an artificial manager and measure the leadership style of a human manager. Our study, which we performed using the non-participant observation method, involved two teams led by managers. We tried to verify two hypotheses, one of which we found true and the other false. If you haven’t yet read about this

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My research

How to use online managerial tools to study leadership styles?

I already wrote about management styles a few months ago in the context of using the concept to design a robotic manager. Let me remind you that the most well-known among practitioners is Blake and Mouton’s management grid. It is based on two indicators: concern for people and concern for results. This division distinguishes five classes of management styles: impoverished management, authoritarian management, relationship-oriented management, sustainable management and integrated management [1]. However, a more recent conception of management styles simplifies

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System of organizational terms

Managerial action, or how to integrate skills, roles and management styles to represent managerial work?

So far, I have presented three approaches to representing the work of a manager that are developing in parallel: managerial skills, managerial roles and management styles. Each of these approaches represented the manager from a different angle. But none provided an opportunity for us to answer the question – what does a manager actually do? What are the activities that he or she undertakes one after another? Managerial skills represented what a manager should be able to do. Managerial roles

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Examples

The Tenerife disaster – can you build a robot manager based on management styles?

What if you could use leadership styles, or the individual behavioral style of a person in the role of boss, to build a copy of a given manager? Whether it be Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Elon Musk or your team’s boss, it doesn’t matter. Imagine the consequences of choosing the qualities of just one man to build a manager who affects the operation of a company or the lives of hundreds of people. Not many people are interested in the

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Other research

How have management styles been used to study the work of a manager?

Management styles are the third theoretical concept that researchers and practitioners have tried to depict the work of a manager. On the one hand, the idea coincides with the intuition we use when we think of our own boss – either he has an autocratic or participative style. But again – what does it give us when we want to design a robot manager to manage a specific project? It doesn’t give us anything. Knowing about a single person, what

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