Different combinations of the two dimensions of leadership result in five leadership styles. The Leadership Grid provides a means for evaluating leadership styles and then training managers to move toward an ideal style of behavior. The Leadership Grid is based on the two leadership dimensions called concern for production and concern for people.

The model identifies five major styles. The Leadership Grid portrays five major leadership styles: authority–compliance, country-club management, impoverished management, middle-of-the-road management, and team management.

The impoverished manager has low concern for both production and people. The leader does the minimum required. The sweatshop manager has a high concern for production and a low concern for people. The leader uses position power to coerce employees to do the work.

The country club leader represents a low concern for task accomplishment coupled with a high concern for interpersonal relationships. They try to create a positive climate by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. The middle-of-the-road style describes leaders who compromise, who have an intermediate concern for the task and the people who do the task. They find a balance between taking people into account and still emphasizing the work requirements.

The team manager places a strong emphasis on both tasks and interpersonal relationships. It promotes a high degree of participation and teamwork in the organization and satisfies a basic need in employees to be involved and committed to their work. The Leadership Grid is Blake and Mouton’s model identifying the ideal leadership style as having a high concern for both production and people.