Articles & Studies

BLOG: When the big boss is really big

Liana Abaffyová, Consultant, Amrop Slovakia
15.6.2018

Liana Abaffyová, consultant at Amrop, starts her other blog with the memory of a Chinese billionaire who has picked up nearly 6,400 of his employees on a trip to Paris and the Côte d'Azur. The author of the article describing this story immediately claimed him as the best boss in the world. But Liana sees it differently – and not only because of the experience that the candidates have refused to communicate about new career challenges just for good relationships with the boss, which happened to her several times during her career. So – what boss is the one from whom employees are not leaving?


BLOG: When a larger selection can bring less benefit

Mario Fondati, Managing Client Partner, Amrop Slovakia
28.5.2018

Our customer, our boss. This is a known rule, which made the brilliant entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa famous. Many traders are willing to do the maximum for customer satisfaction. Well, we, clients, have become accustomed to this comfort – this is how the latest blog by Mario Fondati begins. Read how Amrop perceives its service provider role for its clients. Because sometimes less can be more...


BLOG: In Amrop, we like such stories very much

Marek Hradílek, Client Partner, Amrop Slovakia
15.5.2018

Proper head refresh during your holiday has – among other things – one great advantage – the untraditional ideas will start to come into your mind. The managing partner of one consulting company found himself in a similar situation. During his travels around the world he found an interesting business opportunity… The whole story of finding a new CEO for this project is described in the blog of Marek Hradílek, Client Partner at Amrop.


BLOG: Thanks for all inspiring teachers

Mario Fondati, Managing Client Partner, Amrop Slovakia
11.4.2018

The initial impulse that inspired Mario Fondati, Managing Client Partner at Amrop, was March 28 – Teacher's Day. Another of our blogs is the result. From the Easter holidays through books and memories of school years, the author has come to consider the need for lifelong learning. And in connection with the International Teachers' Day, he gave tribute to those who take their work seriously, with passion and full responsibility.


Study of Family Business in Slovakia

10.4.2018

Family Business Practice Leader in Amrop, is part of a team of contributors whose have contributed to the creation of Study of Family Business in Slovakia. The study was compiled by Slovak Business Agency and its content is not composed of only a historical overview and a closer look at the situation in Family Business, especially in EU countries, but also of the results of a representative survey among 364 Family Businesses in Slovakia. The final analysis can serve as a good indication of the main problems in Family Business in Slovakia and as a basis for creating a support scheme to ensure the further development of family businesses.


Amrop, vacanuter and other news

29.3.2018

We have a few news at Amrop that we are happy to share with a wider audience. After a year-end endorsement of the success of the concept of a strategic talent acquisition and expanding our partner team to two new members, we also achieved a great deal of success in the first quarter of 2018. Read about some of them in Amrop's first this year’s occasion report.


Wise Decision-Making: Stepping Up to Sustainable Business Performance

23.3.2018

Business leaders are missing opportunities to drive sustainable performance and are potentially putting their organizations at risk due to flawed decision making. This is according to a landmark global study from Amrop. The report, Wise Decision-Making: Stepping Up to Sustainable Business Performance, which surveyed C-Suite executives from over the globe, found that nearly three quarters (71%) of leaders have had to take a professional decision that conflicted with their own ethical principles due to business pressures in the last three years. The study aimed to gauge the extent to which global C-Suite executives are practicing ‘wise decision-making’ in their organizations. It examined the robustness of leaders’ self-governance, the motivations of leaders, and the ways in which leaders nourish their decision-making health.


Executive Placement: Amrop placed new CEO of vacatuner

22.3.2018

Proper head refresh during your holiday has one great advantage – the untraditional ideas will start to come into your mind. The managing partner of the company nebotra consulting found himself in a similar situation. During his frequent travels around the world he found an interesting business opportunity. Finding a potential man for this creating project was a challenge for Amrop, exactly in the way how we like to work for clients…


BLOG: In Healthcare, it’s not easy for headhunters

Liana Abaffyová, Consultant, Amrop Slovakia
20.3.2018

Liana Abaffyová, consultant at Amrop, has been working in Executive Search for nearly a decade. She says that over the last few years, it's a much more difficult business, but at the same time it is significantly more creative, more dynamic and more diverse. “And I am happy about it, that’s what I like about it, because the clients are addressing us with more and more interesting assignments…”, she wrote in her new blog, which also described one of the assignments from the area of Healthcare with more than excellent result.


Are boards ready for digital disruption? Digitization on boards 2nd edition

5.3.2018

The pressures surrounding digital disruption and security are intensifying. And the digitization debate is gathering pace. Yet when it comes to exactly how organizations are addressing digitization, the picture remains fragmented and multiple questions surround its role. In the 2nd half of 2016, Amrop mapped the digital competencies of 300 boards (top 20 stock-listed companies in 15 countries in Europe, plus the US). We looked at the profiles of 3,342 board members. We supplement our analysis with interviews conducted during 2016 and 2017 with board members of listed organizations.