1. RENSIS LIKERTS MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

2. • Likert’s Management Systems are
management styles developed
by RensisLikerts in the 1960s.
• He outlined four systems of management to
describe the relationship, involvement, and
roles of managers and subordinates in
industrial settings.

3. • Rensis Likert’s and his associates studied the
patterns and styles of managers for three
decades at the University of Michigan, USA,
and identified a four-fold model of
management systems.
• The four systems of management or the four
leadership styles identified by Likert’s are:

4. FOUR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Exploitive authoritative system
Benevolent authoritative system
Consultative system
Participative (group) system

5. Explorative Authoritative System
• In this type of management system the job of
employees/subordinates is to abide by the
decisions made by managers and those with a
higher status than them in the organization.
• The subordinates do not participate in the
decision making.
• The organization will use fear and threats to make
sure employees complete the work set.
• There is no teamwork involved.

6. Benevolent authoritative System
• Just as in an exploitive authoritative
system, decisions are made by those at the top of
the organization and management.
• However employees are motivated through
rewards rather than fear and threats.
• Information may flow from subordinates to
managers but it is restricted to “what
management want to hear”.

7. Consultative System
• In this type of management system, subordinates are motivated by
rewards and a degree of involvement in the decision making
process.
• Management will constructively use their subordinates ideas and
opinions.
• This theory is very closely related to the Human Relations theory.
• Communication in this system flows both downward and
upward, though upward is more limited.
• This promotes a more positive effect on employee relationships
and allows them to be more cooperative.

8. Participative Group System
• Management have complete confidence in their
subordinates/employees.
• There is lots of communication and subordinates are fully involved
in the decision making process.
• Subordinates comfortably express opinions and there is lots of
teamwork.
• Teams are linked together by people, who are members of more
than one team.
• Likert’s calls people in more than one group “linking pins”.

9. CONCLUSION
• According to Rensis Likert’s the manager’s styles
and behavior of the management depends in the
four fold model.
• The nearer the behavioral characteristics of an
organization approach System, the more likely
this will lead to long-term improvement in staff
turnover and high productivity, low scrap, low
costs, and high earnings. If an organization wants
to achieve optimum effectiveness.