# A Summary of Management Types By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2023-01-21 A subjective assessment of the twenty-one management types along the axes of the relative degree of organizational engagement and the relative degree of employee support and development is potentially revealing. Three elements in the corresponding figure warrant discussion. First, there is a path of parity that potentially exists from low relative organizational and low relative employee development (i.e., the disengaged) to high engagement in both categories (i.e., unicorns). Along this path of parity, one can observe also the eclipsed, comedian, buddy, sage, actor, caregiver, and coach. The second thing to note is the accumulation of management types that exhibit high organizational engagement but a relatively low degree of employee support and development. Eleven of the twenty-one (52%) management types are in this quadrant, including the traveler, overworked, micromanager, delusionist, guest, stooge, agitator, whirlwind, authoritarian, perfectionist, and appropriator. The last aspect to observe is that there was only one management type (i.e., revealer) that exhibited a low degree of organizational engagement and a relatively high degree of employee support and development. Such a taxonomy is potentially useful for understanding management and organizational experience. If we find that there seems to be no shortage of managers who are committed to the organization but seem unable or unwilling to develop this workforce, this could help explain part of why that experience is so common. This is simply a starting point. More [[research]] is needed to ascertain if there is any validity to these positionings and the relative prevalence of each management type. In this early, subjective, theoretical stage of development, there is enough interest to inspire going forward to understand. ![[Pasted image 20230121083823.png]] #### Related Items [[Management]] [[Business]] [[Types of Managers]]