Russian organizations social capital formation external factors

Abstract

The scientific approach presented in this article is based on the understandingof social capital and corporate culture as intersecting organizational phenomenahowever irreducible to each other. At the same time corporate culture is understoodinstrumentally and it is considered as a factor in the social capital formation, development and using process mediating its organizational and managerial effects. This doesnot negate the fact of complex iterative relations between them but allows to place theemphasis correctly both theoretical and practical, emphasizing the more fundamentaland comprehensive nature of social capital directly arising from the laws of socialinteraction and developing regardless of the purposeful management efforts to form asingle corporate culture.The analysis of various studies of social capital in Russia and abroad characterizingthe level of generalized trust in Russia as low and noting the multidirectional dynamicsbetween different types of social capital which are not typical for developed countries.These differences are interpreted in terms of differences in social relations types underlyingsocial capital: affiliation, hierarchy and exchange. From this point of view the high levelof declared institutional trust (with a certain degree of assumption) can be interpreted asa manifestation of the rational (“calculation”) mechanism of social capital constructionin modern Russian society. The conclusion about insufficient account in foreign scientistsof social, cultural and spiritual components researches is made.The analysis of the problems that have a negative impact on modern Russian societyin the process of social capital formation at the micro, meso- and macrolevels is made.The main problems are the lack of social unity and the spread of the Russian version ofindividualism associated with severe problems of survival and increasing the level ofinterpersonal and institutional distrust.