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The Assistant Manager – a Key Factor of the Managerial Team
The Assistant Manager – a Key Factor of the Managerial Team

Author(s): Niculina Vârgolici, Cătălina Bonciu
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Human Resources in Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: assistant manager; team spirit; professional performance; informational technologies; types of managers; interpersonal relations;

Summary/Abstract: The new economic context, marked by the crisis and by radical transformations of the labor market, generates the need for more and more sophisticated skills for the assistant manager. That is because the efficiency of the secretarial activity implies both strategic skills and complex abilities, starting from knowledge about the specific activity of the company/institution where the person works as assistant manager, to connected areas such as: management, marketing, human resources, brand communication, company’s culture etc. Whether the manager changes his job together with the “boss”, or the boss is changed and he is bond to adapt to new conditions, a strong team spirit between the manager and his assistant is one of the most important elements that contribute to the productivity and efficiency of the both. The loyalty to the boss and to the company where he works, his adaptation capacity, his competence and his professional-ism make the today’s assistant manager a key factor of the managerial team. The essence of the assistant manager job consists in making more efficient the managerial activities, namely, to make it respond to the expectations expressed or not of the manager, or even to anticipate them.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 106-112
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English