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MENADŽMENT I PRIVREDNA ELITA U ZEMLJAMA TRANZICIJE
MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC ELITE IN THE TRANSITION
COUNTRIES
Summary
Transition is defined in different ways. Yet, an agreement seems almost to exist that it
represents the process of setting up private property, market economy and multi-party system in the
countries that used to be regarded as socialist. In this process of transition an important role is played
by management as well no matter whether it is public (state) or private (economic) management.
The paper points to the main characteristics and changes in the modern management of the
developed countries with private property and market economy whose organization model is the one
that the transition countries are tending to achieve. In such an approach, the development of
management under the impact of the changes within organizations and institutions and their
autonomous development are pointed out and thus, in this context, both the public and the private
management obtain specific traits in the transition countries.
The peculiarity of management in the transition countries springs from the specific character
of the economic subjects that develop and do business in the newly-established property relations (in
which most often management is not separated from ownership in the sense that property-owners
appear as managers as well) and from the state organization that has just started to take on the
characteristics of the legal state. On top of all, the employed people find it difficult to accommodate to
the new social conditions of the working activities.
In the transition countries management should be developed along with all its specific traits
since this is a prerequisite for their economies to be efficient, profitable and competitive on the regional
(most of all, Balkan and European) and world markets. For management to develop it is necessary to
organize modern education of managers and to discard the unacceptable attitude that it is sufficient for
the manager profession that an individual has abilities for it, even more so if these abilities have
manifested themselves only in the property acquisition in the transition process (and often in a legally
and morally irregular way). Neither is it less difficult to create an economic elite than it is to establish
private property and market economy. It is even more difficult to develop public management and
educate staff for this management. The knowledge for management cannot be assigned in the same way
as the manager positions are assigned. This is the knowledge that has to be mastered and constantly
built upon and developed in accordance with the social development dynamics.
Key Words: Transition, Management, Economic Elite, Education for Management,
Private Property, Market
1. Početak dvadesetog veka bio je u znaku ostvarivanja socijalističkih i
komunističkih ideja (oktobarska revolucija 1917. godine u Rusiji) koje su u
prethodnom (devetnaestom) veku bile, manje ili više, teorijski oblikovane i ideološki
osmišljene. Tokom sedamdeset godina su te ideje društveno oblikovane razvojem
socijalističkog društveno-ekonomskog sistema, u izvesnom broju zemalja centralne i
istočne Evrope i Azije. Čak se sredinom tog (dvadesetog) veka smatralo, po nekim
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