A new definition of the professional figure Open Manager

This study focuses on the manager’s professional work and its evolution in the last years. In particular, t he main focus is to detect the possible new dynamics in the managerial behaviour able to define the new professional figure of the ‘open manager’ , based on some evidence derived from a survey conducted by interviewing a set of managers of Italian companies using a structured questionnaire. By using an agglomerative hierarchical cluster procedure with the Ward’s method, results six different groups of managers with similar behaviours were defined, based on the responses to the questionnaire items.