Management culture in Central and Eastern Europe

The survey

As globalisation advances it becomes increasingly important to know the different management cultures with which we do ever more business. More and more managers are working away from their native countries and need to understand and be understood. This survey is being carried out in six CEE countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia) to find out how managers from different nationalities see each other.

This survey is about individual attitudes and not about corporate policies or views, so please be as frank as possible. Clearly, there are managers of all temperaments and abilities but we are asking for your generalised idea of typical managers in the country where you are working, based on your personal experience both in and outside your organisation.

Your answers are confidential. The identities and organisations of those responding will not be disclosed to third parties nor will they be mentioned in the study report. For any queries, please contact Mariana Turanová ( +421-254 411 617) in Bratislava, Slovakia or Clive Bennett ( +351-217 998 110) in Lisbon, Portugal.

About the organisers of the survey

Henley Management College (www.henleymc.ac.uk) in the UK is one of Europe's oldest and most renowned management schools and its full time MBA programme was ranked 7th in Europe by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The College is a world leading provider of executive education and also of distance learning programmes.

Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley. He has conducted extensive research in the field of international and comparative HRM and published some twenty books and over a hundred articles. In 2002 he was awarded the Georges Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resource management.

TARGET International Executive Search (www.targetfuture.com) is one of the leading executive search firms in the CEE region, with offices in each of the countries mentioned above, as well as in Austria. TARGET is a leading member of Europe's fourth largest network of executive search firms, INAC, which is present in some 34 countries around the world. Group CEO, Klemens Wersonig, and Slovakia Managing Director, Mariana Turanová, are coordinating distribution and publication of the survey.

Clive Bennett ( ) - is the coordinator and lead author of this project. He is a Partner of Ad Capita Executive Search in Lisbon (www.adcapita.com), also a member firm of INAC. Clive has an MA in Psychology and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. He is British but has lived in Portugal for over 20 years and has published numerous articles and two previous studies on management culture, one in Portugal and one in Ireland. Both these studies received widespread national press coverage and are used as basic texts in university courses.

PLEASE GIVE 10 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO RESPOND TO THIS IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL STUDY.

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Everyone who completes this questionnaire will receive a free copy of the study report, which will be published in the autumn.