Managerial competencies in the contex of contemporary management concepts and methods

Abstract

The article presents the required management competences from the perspective of contemporary management concepts. As the main concepts we have presented: knowledge management and learning organization, Total Quality Management, processes management, Kaizen and elimination of waste, virtual and network management and time based management. The most important management competences connected with above concepts are: focus on outside and effectiveness, care about efficiency in work environment, introduction of changes and team working. The article describes the specificity of the managers' tasks and development of the research on management competences and skills in the management science.