CASE STUDY

You are a new manager at Tree Titans, a landscape design and installation company. Each landscaping crew consists of four laborers and a supervisor. You want to ensure that the crew supervisors act consistently with each other and support the company's values and goals. You decide that a training and development program is necessary to ensure that the crew leaders engage in appropriate leadership behaviors. You decide that the Leadership Grid is the most appropriate approach for your company.

One thing that you realize would be detrimental to crew performance would be a leader who is overly concerned with keeping employees happy at the expense of performance. What leadership style is this?

Country club management

Authority$-$compliance management

Middle$-$of$-$the road management