Abstract:
This study aims to use Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid Model as the basis
for understanding the significant relationship among the research’s variables namely concern for
people, concern for production, and job satisfaction. Using this research, organizations will be
open to fixing the problem within the company first, instead of jumping into conclusions that the
crisis is ultimately coming from outside factors such as emerging competitors or sudden increase
in inflation rate. Having the Grid Model as the independent variable, with top management’s
concern for production and concern for people as its main factors, the dependent variable, regular
employees’ job satisfaction, was evaluated. This research uses a quantitative approach; thus, the
researcher’s claim was tested through Chi-Square Test of Independence on a hierarchical
universal banking organization. Rensis Likert’s Scale of Value - Frequency, was used for the
instrumentation throughout the research as it was deemed appropriate for a 175 - sample size.
The researcher surveyed a sample size of 73 top-management employees computed through the
Slovin’s Formula, and a sample size of 102 regular employees calculated through a combination
of Proportional Purposive Sampling Scheme and Stratified Random Sampling. This mode of
data gathering and the hypotheses formulated by the researcher were supported by Blake and
Mouton’s claim of an employee-supervisor relationship, and concern for people-concern for
production relationship. Using the data gathered from the crosstabulations, it has been concluded
that all three bivariate tables rejected the null hypotheses because the total chi-square values
were greater than the critical values. The calculated differences from the observed and expected
values for every bivariate table can be interpreted as having variables resulted to being dependent
and significantly related with each other.
