正确答案：2 Overview:The accountant is frequently the manager or group leader. An understanding of leadership theory and practice is therefore animportant part of an accountant’s training.Part (a):Robert Blake and Jane Mouton in their Ohio State Leadership Studies, observed two basic leadership dimensions that wereapparent from their studies; concern for the task and concern for people.They recognised that it was possible for concern for the task to be independent of concern for people. It was therefore possible fora leader to be strong on one and weak on the other, strong on both, weak on both or any variation in between.They devised a series of questions, the answers to which enabled them to plot these two basic leadership dimensions. These twodimensions were placed as the axes on a grid structure now known as the Managerial Grid. A person who scores 7 on ‘concernfor production’ (the x axis) and 5 on ‘concern for people’ (the y axis) is known as a 7,5 leader.