Facilitation of Transfer of Leaders by Addressing the Differences in Leadership Competences in Private and Public Sectors

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the research of leadership competences' levels possessed by leaders in the Republic of Macedonia together with a comparison of results between the public and private sectors. The comparison is based on the findings of a research conducted with participation of a total of 133 owners or leaders employed in private companies and governmental institutions. Based on tailor made questionnaire, the results lead to conclusion that major part of the participants in both researched groups practice democratic leadership style with transactional leadership sub-style, whereas the transformational leadership style is nearly not practiced at all. At the same time, the leadership competencies are similarly distributed between the representatives of both sectors, with significant differences in only two researched competencies. Taking this into account, the migration of leaders from private to public sector and vice versa is expected to go smoothly and without significant problems arising from differences in the leadership styles and competences. However, the identified differences between the leaders in the different sectors require attention in order to support seamless transition from one sector to the other. Having this in mind, we propose a development of a Model for upgrading of leadership capacities necessary for successful transition of leadership from the public to private sector and vice versa.