A Major Portrait of Management in Morocco
What is the management landscape in Morocco today?
Because they cover 832 people in the competitive sector and the main management bodies of the administration, L’Economiste (with the help of the Sunergia research firm and the Ministry of Modernization of Public Sectors) paints a reliable portrait of modern economic elites.
This portrait, above all, bears the mark of the arrival of the baby boomer age groups. For the administration, we don't know the average age of managers, but there is no reason for it to be very different from the 39.9 years found by the Sunergia survey in the competitive sector. So, we have a young management team.
Rejuvenation
Unless Morocco suddenly becomes "rigid," it is likely that this average age will continue to fall under demographic pressure.
In fact, there is a bit of everything in Moroccan society already, without knowing which of the two behaviors will dominate. Meanwhile, at most positions, a trend towards stagnant salaries is observed. Setting a societal project in this area would undoubtedly help to see clearly between these fundamental options, provided that the Moroccan elites dare to talk about these issues without taboo or hypocrisy.
However, in the field of hypocrisy, we must admit that we are rather good. In this area, public sector salaries beat private sector salaries hands down. The administration now claims more loudly than yesterday that it wants to introduce merit and reward for successes. It is doubly constrained to this path: by international institutions, the IMF and the World Bank, who are worried about seeing the wage bill rise in the budget (and in GDP); by public opinion which is increasingly annoyed to see that public services are so poorly rendered for a high price, even though civil servants have, on the whole, become poorer. But on the ground, it is the exact opposite of the stated policy that applies. There is no mobility or merit as long as pressures succeed in passing categorical statutes or as long as bonuses are not based on results.
In this respect, it is perhaps the whole country that has regressed. Indeed, on the private side, although the 13th months, distributed without distinction, continue to decline, objective, performance, and results bonuses seem to be stagnating. Over four years, compared to the 2000 survey, this may not be significant. This will need to be monitored.
Source: L’Economiste "L’Economiste-Sunergia Survey" Salaries 2005 January-February 2005
