Needs of Managerial Competencies and Development in this Area of Management

In the article we tried to point out the development of managerial competencies in central Europe. The introduction deals with the importance and usage of the term ‘competence’ and its application in practice. We specify basic personality compounds which determine competencies and the process of their origination and development. The next part deals with the analysis of competency development in the period of their origination before 1989 up to the present. We do not only evaluate the competencies themselves but especially the conditions in which managers of certain periods work, such as economic, social and also political situation influencing their decisions, thought flow, behavior and their values. Based on the above mentioned analysis, we attained the opinions of wide changes which reflect the needs in the field of competencies. By needs, we refer to the unsatisfied needs in particular periods. Until 1989, the managerial compe-tences and their needs were particularly influenced by factors, such as loyalty to the ruling political party and the ability to implement long-term plans. After 1989, magnificent changes in all aspects of life in central Europe took place. Economic-social-political transformation, understood as one of the greatest experiments, brought along new conditions which also influenced the managing of companies, namely management. New situations arise on the market, the economies become more open, faster changes in the market environment take place, competition increases not only among companies but also among members of particular companies and their teams. All these factors are becoming typical features of everyday life and they require new reactions. Changes in managerial staff are inevitable, the new and younger generation of managers with less experience requires more flexibility. Compensation of these shortcomings can be the cross-usage of further education and search of strategic partners in order to get new know-how, new experience and founding new companies. After fifteen years of stabilization the new era, connected with joining mutual European area, comes and brings along new requirements resulting from larger market, understood as intercultural. The managers are forced to re-evaluate their competencies and adapt to the new requirements. We predict that pressures of the previous period /1989 to 2004/ brou-ght to our managers more endurance and abilities to adapt, however sometimes expressed in form of unlucky improvisation.