ear Hape, Thank you for the - bad news. :-) You were reinforcing my experience. As far as the German (and I would say German speaking - Austrian, Swiss) companies are concerned the rule of management is rather the first version, what you called being their king. I would phrase it differently: they are not going to be their king as long as the colleagues volunteer to be their oeying subordinates.
The initiatives and independent thinking is something, that they think to undermine their power. Another interesting group of expat managers are the South-East Asian CEO-s who are very pushy and got used to what they experienced at home, the unconditional obeyedness. (And they also have some extreme preformance push from home.) There are many German speaking companies in Hungary. Because of the above experience and let me admit, my prejudice, these companies are not my highest priority prospects... Once I worked with a bright Austrian CEO, who tried to "manage" by putting "prescriptions" on the company bulletin board and thought it would be accomplished. He was one of the exceptions. It was a hard work to make a bridge between him and the Hungarian staff... Gyuri * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed