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"Everything changes but the Boltzmann
Constant"
We are a management and HR consultant firm with our founder's experience in the fields of HR and law,
attained at international companies.
In case it is true that most people are longing for things they feel
they are missing, no wonder if smaller, developing companies strive for some sort of control and
order, whilst overregulated and standardized bigger ones try to move towards a more human-faced and
more motivating environment.
We do not think there is a standard approach to address the internal
difficulties of companies presented by structural growth and a constantly changing business
environment. Arising problems cannot always be solved and balance cannot be adequately restored by
consulting a "Big Book of best solutions in all situations" or applying patterns suggested
by parent companies only.
Perhaps, the reason for such problem is that unexpected, major
structural changes significantly transform the "motivational map" of both the employees and
the management. New interests appear, along with new objectives, and hitherto greatly valued
experience and knowledge may loose its significance while, in accordance with the given structural
changes, the role of previously less recognized units and personnel may suddenly become more
important. This process may either continue, involving even more people, or it may be reversed by the
next structural change. If it is true that it is not the company itself but its employees and
management who can make profit for a company, then it might also be true that the efficiency of a
company is greatly influenced by the state of motivation of such people.
This is why we believe that when preparing structural changes or
developing new strategies, it is worth identifying hidden factors, with the help of which structural
problems brought by these changes can be understood and solved. Yet these factors are so unique with
each company that a general "Big Book" approach or the solutions suggested by parent
companies should be adjusted to the particular needs of individual companies and to the particular
situation. Or completely new solutions have to be found.
Sometimes old reflexes remain in place, despite the structural
changes brought along by growth. Companies grow, yet their routine methods of communication, decision
making, planning, cooperation, enforcement of interests etc. still live on. In such cases, the
management is often too close to the problem and is influenced by its own reflexes too heavily to be
able to offer effective solutions to such problems.
This is why we think that ready-made, general solutions always
effective for the management do not exist, since often both the problems and their solutions are
situational based, specific to individual companies.
The unbalanced growth of companies is often characterized by such
phenomena as: loss of key personnel, a decline in the motivation of employees, sinking of the
management (or part of it) into operational and administrative tasks, a higher general stress level,
increasing careless attitude, apathetic work performance. Such growth might result in the loss of
community feeling, a decline in innovation and creativity, a growing fear of becoming unemployed,
lower respect for the work of others, setting of increasingly shorter-term goals, and the
disappearance of old values without the creation of new ones. Part or all of these phenomena may
create a situation in which most of the companies' organizational energy is focused on solving
internal problems instead of on achieving business objectives.
Can all these problems be solved? Not all of them perhaps.
Nevertheless, a balance upset by rapid changes and growth can be restored, or at least improved, if
decision makers are prepared to deal with not only the problems but also with the reasons behind them,
because good decisions can only be made on issues that we understand.
We support our clients to reach that.
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Registered Seat of Company:
Barackos út 42
2000 Szentendre,
Hungary
Managing Director :
dr. Tamás Mezey
Company Registration Number:
01-09-86-0319
Tax number:
13535605-2-13
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