О принципе культуросообразности в управлении персоналом

Abstract

The article analyzes the methodological contradiction between the introduction of Western management theories into personnel management and the need for a national-original theory and practice of management. It emphasize the negative consequences of imposing management models developed in other socio-cultural conditions on the personnel motivation system. The paper notes that scientific paradigms are formed under the effect of both science development internal logic, and non-scientific factors such as political, economic, and ideological competition between states. The focus on Western management models is due to Russia-USSR defeat/capitulation of in the «cold war» and the voluntary surrender of the Russian scientific and educational space «at the mercy of the winner». The cultural conformity principle has been first proclaimed in pedagogy but its application is appropriate in any other complex field of activity, including personnel management. For Russia, this principle means the justification of the personnel management theory and practice with the socio-cultural values and norms developed by its millennial culture. Content analysis of the textbook and training manual content devoted to personnel management confirmed the assumption that foreign authors topped the rating of reference authors and concepts with a clear advantage. The most frequently mentioned are Taylor, Fayol, Mayo, Maslow, and Ford. Among domestic researchers, Gastev, Kerzhentsev, and Vitke are the closest to them. The Soviet managerial thought during the heyday of the USSR (1950-80s) was not represented practically, although the country launched a man into space for the first time in the world, reached the forefront in many areas of science and technology, and built a socially targeted system unprecedented in the world’s history these decades. It is impossible to imagine, that all these achievements are not related to the effective system of management and motivation. The article concludes that in the field of training specialists to work with personnel, it’s necessary a turn to develop such training programs, textbooks and textbooks that would reflect the civilizational specifics of Russia, and meet the cultural conformity principle.