After describing the salient features of his four systems of management deduced from the empirical research, Likert is somewhat equivocal instating that the operational characteristics of one system cannot be grafted abruptly to another. Illustrating the management systems further he states that in an authoritative system decisions are taken at the top and the organization requires more number of dependents than leaders. On the other hand, in a participative system, decision-making is decentralized and requires emotionally stable persons and a large number of leaders. Each from of organization to function at its best requires individuals and skills of interaction on the part of leaders and follows to suit the particular system. And again each system tends to produce and perpetuate people to function effectively within the system. In each system communication and motivation processes will be tailor-made to fit their unique decision-making style. Any attempt to switch processes of one system abruptly to the other is bound to impair the total system’s effectiveness. Nevertheless, Likert pleads for a gradual change from System 1 to System 4.