10 SINS OF RUSSIAN MANAGEMENT • Russian culture lacks systematization • Lack of discipline • Autocratic management • Control orientation • Moscow centric • Fear • Ineffective efficiency • HOW rather than WHY • Waste • Searching whom to blame
Russian culture lacks systematization Everything begins with the most important, namely with language Similar systematization and submission to certain rules and norms is absent in everything
Lack of discipline v v v Russian managers don’t watch are their subordinates doing their job properly or not Paying them money not for the quality of work they’ve done The motivation of worker decreases
Autocratic management q Leader or manager makes all decisions and does not delegate q The most popular example is Ford’s empire q In Russia it is caused by authoritarianism
Advantages Disadvantages ü Quick decision-making ü Useful when workforce is ü Resentment and demotivation unskilled ü Communication is topdown
Timur Goryaev The owner of concern «Kalina»
Control orientation ü ü ü
Moscow centric The problem is that all the local branches of companies depend on the central branch in Moscow and they are forced to agree with it about all questions. It leads to long delays and other inconveniences. Important questions Important problems
Fear People are afraid to challenge, to speak up The culture is based on the fear of the Russians: the bosses, before the higher man
Ineffective efficiency The problem appears because of errors in the planning stage that lead to a miss presenting of the result, that is, workers do everything right, but because of an error in the instructions they won’t achieve the goal
HOW rather than WHY People do some things, jobs, tasks and don’t even think what for they are doing it. Usually when we get some task the first question that comes into our mind is HOW I can do it. The right treatment of things can make our life easier and except the actions that we don’t need.
Waste
Waste LUKOIL PROGNOZ
Searching whom to blame Some several points Encouraging Control Justice Patience
In conclusion… The Russian managers are highly appreciated in the international market The basis of a problem of Russian management is covered not in them , it is situated deeper , namely in culture, which can be changed