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

ISBN-13: 9780367878214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Elena Shulzhenko

Opis

Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far Soviet patterns of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by high levels of management discretion and authoritarian control and punitive methods on the shop floor, have been replaced by a more international approach, with a greater emphasis on a lean organisation which invol

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Evolving persistence: the socialist path of industrial work in Russia (1920s–80s)

3. Still there: the industrial workplace in Russia after the market reforms

4. The new times: international quality management standards in the Russian car industry

5. What about the workers? Impact of international quality management standards on the Russian industrial workplace

6. Conclusion

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.