The Relationship Between Managerial Orientation and Productivity: An Examination of Captains from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch

摘要

Given a captain's classic authority over his ship, examining a captain's particular management style seems like an almost ideal way to search for connections between style and workplace results. Blake and Mouton 's managerial grid that ficuses on two styles, task and relationship, was applied to data analyzed from five seasons of the Deadliest Catch reality TV show plus similar data from a survey of real watermen working in the Chesapeake Bay commercial fishery. A 10-parameter rubric was used to categorize the behavior of the TV captains, and "success" (productivity) was measured by the monetary value of each vessel's catch per net tonndge. A regression analysis found that the managerial orientation of the captain was not a statistically significant factor in the productivity of the fishing vessel.