Managers and executives in Europe Organizational role and contractual frame

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Managers and executives in Europe Organizational role and contractual frame Giovanni Costa University of Padova Conférence CEC 2010 Verona CEC 2010 Conference in Verona Contracts collectifs et individuels pour les managers Collective and individual contracts for Managers

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Managers and executives in Europe Organizational role and

contractual frame

Giovanni CostaUniversity of Padova

Conférence CEC 2010 Verona CEC 2010 Conference in Verona

Contracts collectifs et individuels pour les managersCollective and individual contracts for Managers

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Aim of the presentation

Defining the framework in which inserting contractual problems between managers and companies to be faced in next colleagues presentations

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Entrepreneurs and manager in the crisis

• Finance: cause or effect of the crisis?• 1929 vs 2008: similarities and differences • Roosevelt, Keynes and the birth of the Welfare State• 1980 Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and the re-descovery of the market• The banks’ loans as substitutes of Welfare State• “The crisis of subprimes”: welcome back Keynes! • From banks’ bond risk to governments’ bond risk• Safety stands in real economy, entrepreneurs and managers!

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Managers and corporate governance

• The managerial company vs nobody’s company• Shareholders control vs control of the managers • Property rights

Juridical property Economic property Possession

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Entrepreneurs and managers between property and possession

Source of Power Entrepreneur ManagerLegal property Passive Owners ??

Economic property Direct exercise of property rights

exercise of property rights by delegation

Possession Entrepreneur as manager

Manager as entrepreneur

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The relationship between the company and the manager

PATERNALISM INTEGRATION

OPPORTUNISTIC BEHAVIOUR FROM BOTH

SIDES

TECHNOCRACY

Personal and Emotional Commitment

+

+

-- Professional

Commitment

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Sharing, power and exchange

Relation

Engine Regulation tools

Governance structure

Controlledby…

Sharing Values,knowledge

Psychological contract

Conventions

Loyalty

Power Hierarchy

Law, Collective contract

Institutions, firm

Voice

Exchange

Utility Individual contract

Market Exit

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Managers and management models

Type Action level Source of power

Behaviour model

Strategic manager

Meta-organizational

Economic property

Entrepreneurial

Functional manager

Organizational Possession, knowledge

Professional

Middle manager

Operational Possession,Skills, Competencies

Employee

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The regulation system

• Culture• International treaties, directives and guidelines of UE, ILO, etc.• Trilateral agreements, law• National, branch and company contract • Individual contract• Psychological contract

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Relationship leverage

The cloven viscount*

Businesspartner

The nonexistent

rider*The baron in

the tree*

Individual skills

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-- Relationship quality

* Italo Calvino’s novel

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Quality of RelationshipQuality of Relationship

Type of relation Features

LOW NON INVOLVEMENT

LOW TRUST

MEDIUM CONTIGUITY LIMITED TRUST

HIGH PARTNERSHIPHIGH TRUST RESPECTCOMMITMENT

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The Three Types of commitmentAFFECTIVE COMMITMENT I PARTICIPATE BECAUSE I

WANT TO

CONTINUANCE COMMITMENT

I PARTICIPATE BECAUSE IT IS USEFUL

NORMATIVE COMMITMENT I PARTICIPATE BECAUSE FEEL RESPONSIBLE AND I MUST