DO YOU NEED IN ORDER TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY?
Competent and forward-looking corporate management does not depend solely on the qualifications of the individual manager. Depending on the size of your company or the diversity of the work area, the number of management positions to be filled is just as decisive.
Prior to an executive search, the golden mean between the right manpower and the cost of highly qualified manpower must be found. BludauPartners will be happy to advise you on all aspects of individual recruiting and help you to assess how many executives you actually need.
SIGNIFICANCE OF HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES
It is not possible to give a general indication of how much management personnel is actually required in a company. Various aspects come into play, with the management margin being a key indicator. This refers to the number of employees who report directly to a manager. The company culture with clearly recognizable or flat hierarchies therefore directly influences the reasonable number.
Scientific studies on the optimal management span are only rudimentary and were made a few decades ago. These rarely address the complex working environment of modern business life. It is less about pure management of people, as would be conceivable with a purely organizational approach. Instead, direct and personal exchange is required, so that an appropriate management margin is always in the single-digit range.
SELF-ASSESSMENT IS OFTEN NOT ACCURATE
Even if recruiting in the management area is an important cost factor for every company, the personal component must not be lost. Often, the ideas of the manager and the employees under his or her responsibility diverge widely with regard to adequate and personal leadership.
Many leaders are firmly convinced that they can lead and motivate ten or more people. In these dimensions, however, there are inevitably one or more employees who fall by the wayside. Therefore, check with your employees to see if there are enough leading contacts available in your own department or in the entire company.
HOW THE WORK PROFILE MATTERS
Another key factor is the type of work for which employees depend on management personnel. In innovative industries, requirements and projects change regularly, and clear profiling by managers is essential here. In other companies, on the other hand, many routine tasks are carried out without major changes.
In times of digital transformation, specialist knowledge is essential for managers in the IT sector, although this competence may not be expected of every manager. Work with one or two experts to ensure that all employees have a clear contact person for this special, contemporary field of work. BludauPartners will be happy to help you with this assessment and actively support your executive search.
USING EXPERTS TO ACCELERATE THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
All of the above measures involve a great deal of effort and require a certain professionalism in their implementation. In order to combine the upcoming recruitment with a strategic approach, BludauPartners is at your side as an experienced service provider. Filling management positions is part of our expertise and paves the way for companies of all industries to find suitable applicants - exactly according to your profile.
When selecting managers, we attach equal importance to personal and professional suitability. Please contact BludauPartners and get to know our concept without obligation, with which we have successfully placed countless people in management positions.
