Social Skills as an Important Pillar of Managerial Success

The aim of our study is to highlight the fact, that the level of expertise and professional skills is only the starting point of the success in managerial work. However, expertise, knowledge and experience have an indispensable role, this is not enough to achieve excellence in the managerial work. There are also important other personal characteristics of the manager. On this basis we have carried out research, in which we investigated the relation between the degree of social skills among selected agro-managers and their position in the hierarchy of control. To assess the level of social skills we used the Social Skills Inventory by Riggio. There was proven connection among social skills and managerial positions and thus it can imply that social skills influence the success in the managerial position and in the career growth of the manager. We proved that successful managers (top level management) achieved high score in the SSI questionnaire.