Other findings relate to individual insights or knowledge which is hard to build into the organization’s life stream. Even though management has sought for years to grasp and implement the important findings of behavioral science research, the task has proved more difficult than it first seemed. Strangely enough, large-scale organization development is rare, and the measurement of results is even rarer. In the process, the article also describes a rather new approach to management development and, more broadly, to organization development. The link is important because it suggests some answers to a long-standing problem in industry: how to test and demonstrate the large-scale usefulness of human relations research and teaching. In order to serve these purposes, empirical analysis has been performed across 11 European countries for the time period of 10 years (2008–2017).This article describes how behavioral science concepts of team learning form a link between individual learning and total organization development. This research paper’s objectives are two-fold: First to formulate a Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid Index (BMMGI) consisting of two proxy independent variables for “concern for production” and “concern for people,” respectively, in a macroeconomic perspective, and second to individually compare between the estimated and actual results of Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid Index Area (BMMGIA), calculate the deviation between the two, if any, for each sample observation by applying extrapolation and classify the countries according to the regression results. Clearly, BMMG model was established with reference to a microeconomic perspective in mind. Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid (BMMG) is a two-dimensional model where the “concern for production” is plotted along the horizontal axis ( X-axis) and the “concern for people” is plotted along the vertical axis ( Y-axis) for a firm/organization. Blake and Mouton’s seminal work on leadership style has attracted researchers and been subjected to both praise and criticism from different frontiers.
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