CAS Intercultural Project Management & Leadership 2012

1. Russian Way of Management
& Leadership in Russia
CAS Interkulturelles Projektmanagement
& Teamführung 2012
Katherine Nechaeva, Ph.D.
School of Economics & Management
Kaliningrad State Technival University, Russia

2. Why Do Business in Russia?

3. 3 models of Russian management
1. Model of the Soviet past
2. Model of “Wise men”
3. Model of the West
Russian Way of Management =
Mobilization + Redistribution

5. Leader’s Character Key Quality
• To be able to mobilize and to redistribute
resources.
Subordinate’s key competence =
to survive the mobilization.

6. Contradictions of our time
• Order and Disorder / Passivity and Activity
• Personal achievement or Egalitarianism
• Presentation or Communication
• Task- or Relationship orientation
• Friend Vs. Colleague
• Manager Vs. Boss
• Emotionality and Ruthlessness

7. What else makes influence…
• Fear of “tomorrow”
• Double standards
• Lack of Corporate Culture
• Empire (!) Past
• Russian Language, Orthodox church and
Russian way of life – always dominating
• Difficult to predict the future

8. Is there something good?
• Russians learn quickly and pick up best
practices from others
• as Russians frequently have to deal with
unpredictable, seemingly impossible
situations - they’ve got inventiveness
• Russians learn quickly and pick up the best
practices from others (from the West)
• …

9. The pattern

10. Thank You!
katenechaeva@gmail.com