№ 3 (016), 2003
Summary
Michael Smirnov, Partner, Business Consultant, SE Organizational Development Technologies (St. Petersburg)
MANAGERS COMPETE Middle management provides company's stability and prosperity, believes the author. How to make investments into middle management training and development more efficient? What are the most common mistakes?
A famous organizational consultant offers his answers.
Boris Yeroshkin, HR Directorate of Severstal JSC, Head of the Personnel Department (Cherepovets)
Oleg Staroverov, HR Directorate of Severstal JSC, Manager of the Personnel Department (Cherepovets)
NEW APPROACHES TO THE HR-DEPARTMENT OPERATION What is a social environment of a company? What is its significance for efficient HR management?
Who and how shall manage it?
HR experts from one of the largest Russian companies offer their insights on these timely and relevant issues.
Nadezhda Trifiltseva, Andrey Burmistrov, Management Consulting Centre Decision (St. Petersburg)
ROLE OF CONSULTANTS IN COMPANY DEVELOPMENT: MANAGERS' VIEW What do company managers expect from external consultants? What type of consulting is of the most demand now? Experts from the noted company present a fascinating summary of the interviews with top managers of major St. Petersburg companies.
Elena Novikova, Vice-President, ANCOR Company (Moscow)
RECRUITER, HR MANAGER, AND EXECUTIVE SEARCH CONSULTANT — IS COOPERATION POSSIBLE?
Conclusion. The Vice-President of the oldest Russian recruiting company shares her experience in cooperation among HR managers, recruiters and executive search consultants.
Michael Bogdanov, General Director of BLM-Consort Consulting Group, President (1999-2002) of the Russian Association of Staff Recruitment Consultants (Moscow)
ETHICS IN RECRUITMENT Companies use to have not only professional, but also ethical claims to recruiters. What are basic ethical commandments of recruiters?
The head of the well-known recruiting companies starts to reveal ethical problems of recruiter-client relations.
Elena Alferova, Head of the Recruitment Department, SIB-ANCOR (Novosibirsk)
Valery Oskin, Coordinator of the International Recruitment Alliance (Moscow)
Aleksey Chourkin, Director of the Personnel Service Agency (St. Petersburg)
RUSSIAN RECRUITERS ABOUT AMERICA Do you know what is similar for both American and Russian recruiters and what is different? In this interesting piece leaders of the major Russian recruiting agencies share their impressions after training in USA.
Hans Begir, Consultant on Management, Member of the European Consulting Network, Owner of the BCM Change and Human Resource Management Company (Belgium)
RESULT ORIENTED COACHING Coaching is not only a management style, but also an entire philosophy. That is why coaches need a thorough training themselves. In this fascinating piece a famous European expert reveals secrets of efficient training of coachers.
Olga Patokina, PhD in Economics, Associated Professor, Faculty of Management, St. Petersburg State University
Yury Fedotov, PhD in Economics, Head of the Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, St. Petersburg State University
EDUCATION FOR STATE EMPLOYEES What shall be the purpose of education of state employees: to train administrators to solve current life problems of population or to train managers, who are able to build up economical and social policy? Famous experts share their insightful experiences.
Anton Kushner, Life Insurance Department, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company (Moscow)
HEALTH INSURANCE AS A PART OF TOTAL COMPENSATION What can a company gain insuring personnel against accidents and diseases? What options of insurance are available? What questions shall the HR manager ask himself introducing the insurance programme?
Nikolay Chizhov, PhD in Philosophy, Director of Client and Personnel Technologies Institute (Moscow)
ONLY PROFESSIONALS HAVE TO WORK WITH PEOPLE Efficient work of HR department depends a lot on competences of its staff. What are the most important requirements? What skills and experience are of vital necessity?
A noted consultant offers his opinion on these critical issues.
The questionnaire was answered by:
Oleg Emikh, Chief of the HR Development Department, SC Automir (Moscow)
Tatiana Yurkevich, HR Manager, Caterpillar-Tosno (Leningrad District)
Andrey Udalov, Commercial Manager, Hlebny Dom Company (St. Petersburg)
Aleksey Zakharov, Director of the Triumvirate Development Company (Moscow)
Vladimir Firsov, Consultant, Gorod Masterov Consulting Group (St. Petersburg)
Dmitry Ronzin, HR Director, Ultra Star Company (St. Petersburg)
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
WHY IDEAS DO NOT CAPTURE THE MASSES Participants:
Zosja Gertschikova, Managing Partner of the Top-Management Consult Group of Companies (Moscow)
Michail Ivanov, PhD in Psychology, Chairman of the Board, Pyaterka Company (Moscow)
Tatiana Klemina, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Personnel-Mix Journal (St. Petersburg)
Tatiana Lobanova, PhD in Psychology, Partner of the Top-Management Consult Group of Companies (Moscow)
Natalia Oparina, Editor-in-Chief, TM-Personal Company (Moscow)
Arcady Prigozhin, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, President of the Association of Management & Organization Development Consultants (Moscow)
Paul Wayne, Consultant (USA)
Alexander Schterman, General Director, Ritm-Trust Company (Moscow)
David Schusterman, OD-Consultant, Pyaterka Company (Moscow) Participants of the round-table discussed the following questions:
— Reasons of non-implementation of organizational changes
— Role of strategies and plans in practicability of changes
— Organizational resistance and ways of its overcoming
Tatiana Lobanova, PhD in Psychology, Partner of the Top-Management Consult Group of Companies, Associated Professor of the State University — High School of Economics (Moscow)
POSSIBILITIES OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES IN BANK STRUCTURE Many of Russian banks face the need of serious structural changes. What must be an initial point of reorganization? What problems can expect bank management during planning and implementation of required changes?
A partner of one of the most famous Russian consulting companies shares her experience with you.
Marina Latukha, Lecturer, Faculty of Management, St. Petersburg State University
TUTORSHIP AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR PERSONNEL ADAPTATION Tutorship can be very useful for adaptation of newcomers. From this in-depth piece you will know what personal and professional qualities the tutor shall have, what models of tutorship can be found in Russian companies, and how to make tutorship more efficient.
Vladimir Boykov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Director of the Sociological Centre of Russian Academy of State Service (Moscow)
STATE EMPLOYEES IN RUSSIA: SPECIFIC FEATURES OF COOPERATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS How modern Russian officials do estimate themselves? What are their values and goals? The famous expert presents an interesting summary of the extensive research.
Erkki Asp, Professor (Turku, Finland)
EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IN THE ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY Polarization of the work life quality due to various reasons including gender is typical even for progressive industries — a famous Finnish scholar comes to this conclusion examining the results of a survey held in 18 countries.
Alexander Nikienko, PhD in Economics, Head of the Manpower Policy Department, SYSTEM Join-Stock Financial Corporation (Moscow)
TOOLS FOR CORPORATE CULTURE CREATING Corporate culture can be a powerful strategic tool for the company directing all the subdivisions and personnel to achievement of mutual goals. But how to do it in practice? In this valuable piece an top-manager of one of the most famous companies answers these questions and more.
Michael Pelekhaty, Head, NLP Project, Institute of Group and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy (Moscow)
PSYCHOTOPOGRAPHY, OR DO WE SIT WELL? Arrangement of furniture and things in your office tell a lot about you. From this article you will get some of the secrets of psychotopography.
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