Managers with out-dated stances

From Blic:

“The years of sanctions and other problems resulted in the managing staff in Serbia that is below the European level. Large number of executives still behaves as at the time of socialism, experts claim.

‘The management in public enterprises is horrible. The executives are disoriented and appointed as per political party’s membership and not professional qualification. When private sector is concerned, there are foreign nationals who immediately applied world experience. There are also more or less successful private companies. Some managers still have not forgotten what they learned at the time of socialism’, economist Miroslav Kovacevic says for ‘Blic’.”

(Via Blic OnLine.)

As I have written elsewhere, the problem is the Tenured Incompetents one finds at every level of Serbian management.

One cannot fire them for “political” reasons, so you are left having to deal with hostile nest-featherers actively resisting all change whilst draining resources and time.