Senior Expatriate Management Survey
Questionnaire form

For more information about this survey and the people behind it, please click here.

THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED - WE WILL PUBLISH THE RESULTS IN EARLY 2009.

Survey response verification and tracking information
These questions are compulsory to enable us to validate responses and to make sure that we do not have duplications. Your identity and organisation will not be revealed to third parties and will not be mentioned in the study.

Your first name*
Your last name*
Your organisation's name*
Your e-mail address*
Your telephone number*

                                         

 *Required fields

The questionnaire

Instructions
Read each statement and choose ONE number corresponding to how far you agree or disagree
(1= STRONGLY DISAGREE…6=STRONGLY AGREE).
Answer by comparison with your experience of managers in other developed economies and based on your personal idea of a "typical" local manager. "Local", "here" and "this country" refer to the Central or Eastern European country where you now work (or have recently worked). If you work in several, please choose only one or answer a separate questionnaire for each.

To which country do your replies to this questionnaire refer?
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Slovakia

In order for your questionnaire to be accepted, you must reply to all these questions
General social and business environment
Q1. I enjoy living here
Q2. I enjoy working here
Q3. Bureaucracy is a serious problem in this country
Q4. Local companies usually have a clear business strategy
Q5. The business environment here is very active and dynamic
Q6. In this country business and commerce are highly customer service oriented
Q7. Business is generally very well organised and efficient
Q8. Deadlines and timetables are taken seriously in business here
Q9. Humour is important in working relationships in this country
Q10. It is important here to make friendships with colleagues and customers
Q11. It is easy to find well-trained managers in this country
Q12. We could recruit better managers if we could pay them more
Management style
Q13. Local managers work well in teams
Q14. Managers are individualistic, rather than co-operative, in their thinking
Q15. Hierarchies here tend to be informal
Q16. Local managers welcome responsibility
Q17. Communication with and between managers is too formal
Q18. Managers like to take a wide, strategic view
Q19. Managers in this country are very flexible and adaptable
Q20. Ambitious managers are admired
Q21. Managers here prefer to work in a planned way
Q22. Managers are good at dealing with unexpected situations
Q23. Strong interpersonal skills in managers are highly valued here
Q24. Creativity in problem solving is a strong local management characteristic
Q25. Managers like to take the initiative in preventing and solving problems
Q26. Decisions agreed in meetings are usually accepted and acted upon
Q27. Managers in this country work hard
Q28. Local managers are concentrated and efficient with their time
Q29. There is a culture of "presenteeism" (working long hours 'for show')
Managers and the market
Q30. Managers here understand their competitive markets very well
Q31. Local management is dedicated to excellent customer service
Q32. Good personal relationships with customers are essential to business culture here
Q33. Managers in this country tend to be excellent at selling
Q34. Local managers are good at dealing with overseas customers and colleagues
Q35. Most local managers speak at least one foreign language
Q36. Managers are good at understanding and adapting to different business cultures
Q37. There is a strong entrepreneurial spirit among managers here
Q38. Senior managers are highly focused on satisfying shareholder needs
 
Transparency and cross-cultural issues
Q39. Corruption is a significant problem in doing business here
Q40. On the whole women here tend to be more effective managers than their male counterparts
Q41. Managers here do not place much value on which company they work for
Q42. Local managers resent the presence of expatriate managers
Q43. Managers in this country are overpaid for their levels of experience and qualifications
Q44. Local managers think that expatriate managers are overpaid

Information about you and your organisation

 

Your organisation is, in the country to which your above responses refer:
Majority locally owned/controlled
50% or more foreign owned/controlled

Your organisation employs, in this country:
Fewer than 10 people (or you are a single independent)
10 to 99 people
100 to 1000 people
More than 1000 people

You have been working in this country for:
 Less than 1 year
1 to 5 years
More than 5 years

You have lived outside this country for (in total):
 Less than 1 year
1 to 5 years
More than 5 years

Your nationality is:


You speak fluently (mark all those appropriate):
 Bulgarian
Czech
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Other(s)    [Please specify:

Your job title is:


Your highest level of formal educational qualification is:
High school
Degree
Masters
Doctorate


Further comments
Please insert below any further comments - whether about the country's management culture or about this survey. We find these comments very useful, so, feel inspired and be as honest as you like!

Thank you for the trouble you took in completing this survey. The survey report will be sent to you on completion.

To submit this completed form, please press the button: [NO LONGER OPERATIONAL - Survey closed]
(Note that the form will not submit if you did not complete the compulsory fields - first name, last name, organisation name, e-mail, telephone number and country - as well as all the specific questions of the questionnaire. If you did not complete these, please go back to the top of the form to do so now and then return here to submit the form).

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Please note that this survey is being coordinated and administered by our partners Ad Capita Executive Search in Portugal and so you will receive emails from addresses at adcapita.com.