The profile of Lithuanian manager

Abstract

This article examines the purpose to identify the factors that make significant impact on the managers work efficiency and career development. This purpose leads to many characteristics to be analyzed on different aspects of competencies, values and experience that affects personal success. Searching for the combination of all these characteristics that managers use to acquire and develop, the quantitative research was made in order to define the profile of senior manager in Lithuania. The results that are found after the research shows the way managers use to define their personal priorities for the development, career planning, and leadership, personal and organizational success. In general, it shows that professional or so-called “hard” skills still are predominant versus leadership or “soft” skills seeking for personal success on the top management level in Lithuania. The research has covered different sectors; companies and positions and probably the findings could vary in relation with different positions in different sectors. That could be the subject for new research seeking to identify differences in values depending on the position’s level. Some limitations could be produced because of expert evaluation of quantitative findings. Expertise technique was used and presented evaluation could have some limited results. Some results from the practical point of view show value differences that are typical for transition economies. Managers consider professional competences to be more important than personal traits because, during the period of economic transformations and intensive development, performance success depends more on organizational, technological and financial factors and less on socio psychological factors.