A management study commissioned by Enterprise Estonia paints an unflattering picture of the country's executives as micromanagers who do not do enough to motivate their underlings.
Professors from Estonia's biggest universities delivered the results of the study on May 26 that reveals that the country's CEOs are, not to put too fine a point on it, control freaks who do not trust their mid-level managers enough.
"In 10 percent of the companies that responded, the executives themselves replied that they make the majority of decisions," said University of Tartu professor Maaja Vadi. "Plans are made only a couple years in advance, and they spare especially little thought for how to motivate employees."
A large share of people in Estonian companies are out of the decision making loop, says Veigo Kell, a development consultant with Enterprise Estonia.
Tallinn University of Technology professor Milvi Tepp said a similar survey in 2005 found much of the same. "Most of the problems cited in 2005 are the same in 2010. And our question is why? Then [level of] importance placed by the state on management knowledge is shown by the fact that not a single doctoral dissertation has been done on this subject at universities."
Over 200 companies in different fields took part in the survey.
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