JEEMS - Rainer Hampp Verlag

Danijel Pucko / Matej Lahovnik
stage of transition (first 3 years) and during the second stage (the last two years)
may be identified (See Table 7).
Western European managers appreciate least "high social status" (2.14) and
"playing a role in society" (2.49). Respondents in Western Europe attach very
little importance to everything that is primarily society oriented (The STRATOS
Group, 1990, p.52). On the basis of our empirical findings the same could be
concluded for the Slovenian managers.
Table 7: The individual objectives of top managers, ranke by importance
Rank Individual objective Mean weighted
score
(Slovenia)
Mean weighted
score
(Stratos)
1 Making good products 4.64 (1) 4.52 (1)
2 Job satisfaction 4.56 (2) 4.29 (2)
3 Financial independence for you and your family 4.09 (3) 4.02 (4)
4 Doing better than other businessmen 4.06 (5) 3.15 (8)
5 Selfactualisation 3.88 (4) 3.97 (5)
6 High level of income 3.78 (6) 3.15 (7)
7 Meeting people 3.73 (7) 3.85 (6)
8 Influence 3.48 (9) 2.71 (11)
9 Personal independence 3.41 (8) 4.08 (3)
10 High social status 3.26 10) 2.14 (14)
11 Attractive life-style 3.15 (11) 2.80 (10)
12 Playing a role in society 3.15 (12) 2.49 (12)
Note: 1) A five points scale was used in the assessment: 1 = no importance 5 = very high
importance
2) In the brackets of Slovenian research there are ranks assigned to an individual
value or attitude in the 1994 research
3) In the brackets in Stratos research there are ranks assigned to an individual value or
attitude according to the Stratos research.
The top Slovenian managers consider their objectives as employers (See Table
8) in almost the same way as their Western European counterparts (Compare
with the STRATOS Group results). Both groups of businessmen evaluate as the
most important the first four objectives stated in Table 8. They even assigned
similar mean-weighted scores to them. The top Slovenian managers considered
the last four ranked objectives in the Table 5 to be much more important than
their Western European counterparts did.
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