... effects by extending the analysis of employee resources and well-being to the high-power-distance context of Russia and examining whether these effects vary by organizational ownership (domestic versus foreign-owned). Alexei Koveshnikov can be contacted at: alexei.koveshnikov@aalto.fi 08 09...

...-focused TM and firm performance with the aim of demonstrating the importance of gender diversity in firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed and empirically tested a contextually embedded model using data from 103 multinational corporations in Russia to examine the effect of female...

... payment Meritocracy Russia For decades, researchers have been primarily focused on positive aspects of leadership and management. Contrary to this, today there is a growing interest to the “dark side of leadership”, or a supervisor's behaviour that is destructive to an organisation. One...

.... Moreover, the organisational changes led to employees’ resistance to having to leave their group. In Russia, the collective (or “Коллектив“) is highly valued and provides stability for individual employees in large companies. With the necessary changes in the organisation, new networks had to be forged...

... medical insurance [3] ; and attention is focused on training and development. Russia’s transition to a market economy revolutionized the HRM practices within industrial enterprises that had existed in the Soviet era. These practices have been carefully studied in both Russian and international...

... on the one side and the unusually broad implementation of flexible working time and flexible pay on the other as a crucial factor that made the stabilization of employment in Russia possible. Originality/value The paper reveals how a formal regulatory system, which on the face of it is similar to what...

...Zsolt Bedo; Mehmet Dermirbag; Geoffrey Wood; Dilek Demirbas; Andrey Yukhanaev Purpose The main aim of this paper is to examine the role of the board of directors in Russia with specific attention to their independence, employee relations and ability of successful adaptation of the international...

... along the so‐called “industrial and territorial” lines. In practical terms, that meant two things. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Trade unions Employee relations Russia Eastern Europe 2005 is a special year to many trade unionists throughout the former Soviet Union...