Research on Life Objective Structures of Managers and Entrepreneurs in Serbia

• Authors: Zvonko Sajfert , Milan Nikolić , Dejan Djordjević , Predrag Atanasković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the paper herein is to investigate the different life objective structures of managers and specialists in public enterprises. Owners of private enterprises - entrepreneurs were analyzed as control group. Considering the data obtained by using the random sampling method, one may come to conclusions concerning the characteristics of the observed population. The research revealed that successful private owners-entrepreneurs, being the capital holders, have different structure of life objectives comparing to both managers and specialists in public organizations. The basic idea is that this can be considered as inseparable part of economic growth in any organization which also reflects on the management as well. Since the entrepreneurs invested the private capital to realize their ideas, it is logical that they want to increase their capital. On the other hand, managers and specialists in public enterprises do not have such a great sense for capital increment. They rather share the capital preferring to be sociable (clubs sponsors, great humanitarians). The reason of such acting can be found in a fact that Serbia was influenced by socialism which further resulted in poor education of managers and specialists to change their way of thinking. Managers as well as specialists should become knowledge workers who shall exchange the knowledge.

Keywords

EN

life objectives; entrepreneur; manager; specialist; successful business

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 44-58

Dates

published

2009-03-01

online

2009-04-02

Contributors

author

Zvonko Sajfert

• Dept. of Management, Technical Faculty "Mihajlo Pupin", University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Djure Djakovića nn, 23000 Zrenjanin, Serbia

author

Milan Nikolić

• Dept. of Management, Technical Faculty "Mihajlo Pupin", University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Djure Djakovića nn, 23000 Zrenjanin, Serbia

author

Dejan Djordjević

• Dept. of Management, Technical Faculty "Mihajlo Pupin", University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Djure Djakovića nn, 23000 Zrenjanin, Serbia

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Predrag Atanasković

• Dept. of Traffic, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-009-0002-5