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Nowadays, modern management and managers are put to a big test. Old formulas for strategies, organization, measurement of effectiveness and management do not work anymore. The world economic crisis is not only financial, political and social but a crisis of management as well. Globalization, new economy, technological discoveries, changes in values, permanent development, greater and greater competition and demanding clients, empowermented and educated human resources present a new challenge for management and managers. All this asks for new set of skills, abilities and knowledge of management. The work of managers does not any more consist of only controlling and supervising but of searching for new challenges and opportunities, linking, consulting, delegating, motivating and teaching the employees in order for them to recognize the meaning of their work and the goals of the organization as a whole and in this way become more innovative and creative. Therefore, the emphasis on the so-called managerial competences, meaning values, knowledge and skills modern managers should possess, especially in the area of dealing with people, is greater and greater. In the research we present the significance and the role of the competences of the leading Slovene managers and their connection to modern forms of organization. We present the results of the quantitative research carried out among 102 leading managers in Slovenemiddle and big companies. We have been establishing statistical connection and influence of managerial competences on the choice of an organizational structure and the effectiveness of a company, which we measuredwith added value. We have focused on the significance and the role of the so-called soft managerial skills. With the model especially prepared for this purpose and the set hypotheses and their confirmation we have called attention to the important influence of managerial competences on the structure of organization, the influence of modern, horizontal form of organization on the effectiveness and growth of a company on the market, whichenables reaching higher added value, as well as the direct influence of managerial competences on the effectiveness of a company. Theoretical and practical findings of the research are of importance for all dealing with planning, organization, management and control in companies and other organizations.