Strategy implementation: the impact of demographic characteristics on the level of support received by middle managers.

Abstract
* Middle managers of contemporary organizations play an important part in ensuring successful strategy implementation, which requires top managers to provide adequate support to them. single of the key factors determining the horizontal of support is the demographic characteristics of middle managers.
* This article examines the impact of a middle manager's demographic characteristics upon the level of support received during strategy implementation. Factors extremityed for successful strategy implementation are used to measure the horizontal of support received by middle managers