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ROLE ALLOCATION AND STRATEGIC CHANGE: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE COMPETENCIES OF AUSTRIAN AND SLOVAK MANAGERS

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Ferenčíková S., Mühlbacher J., Kodydek G., Nettekoven M.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2012
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vol. 60
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issue 7
717 – 731
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The top managers are often mentioned as a key factor of successful change management in management literature. In practice, we often find them more hindering than helpful. This article has a closer look at the competencies of top managers to answer the question of their positive or negative influx on change management processes. On the base of a cluster analysis and according to Tanimoto, the data of 275 German speaking and 100 managers from Slovakia show that top management in Austria and upper managers in Slovakia are completely unwilling to change their behaviour. So, they can never be seen as role models for change managers. Also the upper management does not foster change according to theoretical approaches. Only the middle and operative management behaves according to literature. Thus, we definitely have to question the different hierarchical roles of managers within the change process and rethink current change management concepts. If top and upper managers don’t seem to be interested in initiating change, we will have to have a closer look at the bottom up processes – as it is already known from the IT perspective.
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