Managerial development through self and group evaluation of managerial style

The spectral management type inventory (SMTI) is an analytical instrument designed to enable people to identify their personal management style. All top‐level managers in one large UK corporation filled in a self‐perception questionnaire assessing their management style. Then, as a group, they evaluated their peers for their management style, according to the same dimensions. The correlations between the self and the group evaluations were relatively high. Two kinds of results emerged. First, in the cases of congruence between the self and the peers′ evaluations participants were enabled to realize their strengths as well as their weak elements. Second, in those cases of on‐congruence, what was indicated to the individual and to the group was that the self perception was not correlated by the group. It served as a unique kind of feedback which ended in a powerful learning experience.