Reforming the Russian Industrial Workplace: International Management Standards Meet the Soviet Legacy

ISBN-13: 9781138692022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 198 str.

Elena Shulzhenko

Opis

Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far the Soviet pattern of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by a high level of management discretion, authoritarian control and the use of punitive methods on the shop floor, has been replaced by internationally established practices, with a greater emphasis on a lean organisation and employee involvement in quality improvement. The book explores how the market reforms of the 1990s raised companies attention to product quality but did not lead to a change in the management methods, which only began with the increased internationalisation of the Russian economy in the 2000s. The book includes a rich in-depth study of multinational and domestic companies, and argues that a move from the Soviet pattern of workplace organization to the novel practices is only likely to occur in companies with strong ties to international partners, who provide support for, and audit the implementation and upholding of, international management standards. The research shows that local companies not exposed to such international collaboration continue with the old methods."

O autorze

Elena Shulzhenko is a lecturer at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She was formerly a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Research Center.