When Scholarship Fails, Research Falters: A Reply to Bernardin and Alvares
Much is known in the literature on the Managerial Grid? of the issue of self-deception in self-examination scores. After years of study, Corporate Excellence Through Grid Organization Development (Blake and Mouton, 1968) was published showing that approximately 75 percent of American managers score themselves 9,9 in the self-assessment instrument used by Bernardin and Alvares when this instrument is completed prior to a Grid Seminar. This same book reported that the same subjects are asked to recomplete the self-assessment instrument after the one-week Grid Seminar. The amount of 9,9 is reduced in the self-assessments to approximately 43 percent. Thus, the instrument itself aids the subject to understand one of the barriers to change, that is, accurate selfassessment (Blake and Mouton, 1964: 249).
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