Management Styles

Dynamic engagement approach

To emphasize the intensity of modern organizational relationships and the intensity time pressures that govern the relationship, we call this new management theory the dynamic engagement approach.

In times when theories are changing, it is often true that the last thing that happens is that someone assigns a name to the new theory. We use dynamic engagement to convey the mood of current thinking and debate about the management and organizations. It is quite likely that twenty years from now, well into your organizational lives, you will look back and call this period of movement by some other name.

Dynamic‐‐opposite of static‐‐implies continuous change, growth, and activity. Engagement‐‐the opposite of detachment‐‐implies intense involvement with others. We therefore think the term dynamic engagement best expresses the vigorous way today's most successful managers focus on human relationships and quickly adjust to changing conditions over time.

Impacting Economical Scenario: Public sector workforce rallies for better employee benefits and compensation.

The contingency approach

The contingency approach (sometimes called the situational approach) was developed by managers, consultants, and researchers who tried to apply the concepts of the major schools to real life situations. When methods highly effective in one situation failed to work in other situations, they sought an explanation. Why, for example, did an organizational development program work brilliantly in one situation and fall miserably in another? Advocates of the contingency approach had a logical answer to all such questions: Results differ because situations differ, a technique that works in one case will not necessarily work in all cases.

According to the contingency approach, the manager’s task is to identify which techniques will, in particular situation, under particular circumstances and at a particular time, best...