European model of management

It's no secret that, depending on the mentality of the people living in a certain country, their traditions and customs develop. The same principles apply to management. But in the context of close intertwining of economic ties between the countries, it is not rare to consider not a single country, but several countries united by some economic contracts and obligations or in close interaction with each other.

One of such striking examples is the European model of management. Let us consider the foundations of the origin of such a model and its origins.

It is worth noting immediately that the British have given a serious impetus to the development of such a concept as the European model of management. They exerted a noticeable influence on the formation of the model. Among the founders who first formed their model-the English model of management can be identified L. Urvika, and R. Falk. It was they who dealt with the principles of governance.
The European model of management received active development in the 40s of the last century. It was at this time that we had to make important decisions aimed at realizing military and strategic tasks.

In the postwar years, the main researchers in management moved the research center to the United States. However, this at all meant that the Western European model of management ceased to exist and turned into an American one. In fact, except for England and in other countries, studies on this topic were conducted. So in France these issues of management were dealt with by the well-known brothers Andre and Eduard Michelin, Henri Louis Le Chatelier, Charles Freeman-Vil.

In Germany, such well-known personalities as the sociologist Max Weber were actively involved in management issues. It was his research that helped to bring such concepts as the "ideal type" in an administrative organization in the West European management model, still called "bureaucracy" to scientists. Also undoubtedly a significant contribution to the development of management in Europe was made by the works of Karol Adametskiy.

The European model of management differed from similar models developed in the US and Japan by a more rigid approach to the issues of personnel management. In addition, in many European countries such as: Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Holland actively developed principles of management, which allowed even the employee to take part in this directly. In addition, the European model of management has actively developed in the direction of studying the behavior of people when they are influenced by collective or group behavior. Thus, this model even from its origins provided for the status of a "social person".

Describing European management, we can not fail to mention such a person as German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Before that, he worked as a Minister of Economics, a scientist and a politician. And it was under his leadership that Germany in the postwar years achieved an economic boom called many by miracle. The concept of Erhard known as the "Social Market Economy" consists of two provisions:

1. Strengthening the regulation of processes on the part of the state in all spheres and branches of management.
2. Elimination of policy planning and transition to indicative planning. It involves the development of plans and indicators, the achievement of which is desirable and priority.

Separate attention deserves the Swedish model of management developed by one of the Nobel Prize winners Myrdal. This model takes into account the peculiarities that have developed in the Swedish society, which is a country with high guarantees of material and social security of the population.
Thus, it can be said that the Western European model of management was not formed in a single country, it passed a long period of evolution in each of the European states, and only the best principles were then transformed into pan-European ones, but, due to their flexibility, they allow for the specificity of each state in Separate. It is on such foundations of management that there is a modern European Union.