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Economic crisis has compelled public enterprises to explore new management options. Currently used management model of state enterprises reached an impasse due to the plethora of reasons. Therefore, fundamentally new management decisions were necessary, with guidelines approved by the government and laid out in conception of increasing effectiveness in state enterprises. It is essential to agree with the provisions of management system's representatives of state enterprises regarding fundamental disadvantages of current model and to take into account their constructive proposals. It is assumed that conception of increasing effectiveness diminishes the competencies of the state enterprises as a strategic management body, by allowing only the evaluation and resolution of strategy's content disputes. This responsibility requires strategy preparation oriented towards strategic development guidelines of analogue countries. It is recommended to select board members while using integrated procedures, which would provide the possibility to integrate professional competences and personal characteristics of applicants. "Traditional" selection processes cannot ensure this, where only prepared business plans by applicants are assessed. Nevertheless, authors propose to form boards only in the strategically important objects and provide them with the right to appoint managers of enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public enterprise 'American English School' was established in 1992. This is the only language school in Lithuania with constantly operating branches in a number of cities: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Alytus, Utena, etc. The school aims at providing modern, high-quality courses of English and other foreign languages and at expanding linguistic development based on eurointegration services. The year 2005 was marked by newly organised courses of the Spanish, German, French languages. Meeting the clients' needs, new specialised programmes of the English language were developed as well. The international Cambridge university examination for elementary students of 'American English School' was organised in cooperation with the British Council. Collaboration with the American Centre resulted in 'The USA week' in the branches of the school. 'American English School' is an associated member of the 'Quality English' association founded in Great Britain. 'American English School" is the only officially registered centre for London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examination Board in Lithuania, offering both professional tuition of Business English, testing services and providing a possibility to acquire certificate widely acknowledged in the international labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]