Real Management Practices Research Articles

Security and Goal Setting in the Strategic Planning System

The adoption in 2014 of the Federal law No. 172 “On strategic planning…” not only fully returned the concept of “planning” to the legal and institutional “field” of the system of state and municipal administration, but also outlined the need to establish long-term priorities and goals for such planning. It is also important that the law directly linked the goal setting of socio-economic strategy-making with ensuring the requirements of national and economic security of the country. Strategies and other security documents were developed before the adoption of Federal law No. 172. But only this legislative act has established security strategies as an integral element of strategic planning practices and confirmed their role as one of the key sources of goal setting for strategic planning documents. However, it appeared not possible to implement such setting in real management practice in complete and consistent way. Although formally Federal law No. 172 is saturated with a variety of references to security requirements, in reality it’s almost impossible to determine what national and economic security requirements are meant in each particular case and to what extent they are practically implemented in a particular strategic planning document. There is a situation, in which references to national security requirements have become an excessive and even burdensome attribute of strategic planning practice. The reasons for such a situation, however, cannot be attributed only to the miscalculations of Federal law No. 172 and current law enforcement practice. Rather we should talk about the obsolescence of Federal law No. 390 “On security” and, of course, the problematic content of the two current federal documents on security. These documents, although they are known as “strategies”, can hardly be considered as such type documents and even more, they can hardly be actually accepted as a source of goal setting for other strategic planning documents. Meanwhile, security components are not an encumbrance and not an alternative to the main documents of strategic planning. The article proves that it’s important to define more concrete security components and the mechanisms of their realization in such a way so that their role should be not less and not more than it’s really necessary for systematic goal setting in the framework of strategic planning. The purpose of this article is to identify the conditions under which security strategies would overcome their current formal status and could be actively integrated into the practice of strategic planning as one of the main sources of goal setting.

ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ ПО СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЮ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ФИНАНСОВОЙ ПОДДЕРЖКИ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА ЧЕЛЯБИНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

Improving the work to reduce turnover and consolidate personnel is a necessity, the basis for the formation of mechanisms for the implementation of serious tasks assigned to the organization. Turnover management in the organization is an integral part of the human resources management system, as well as one of the most important management objects of the entire organization. Management of the turnover of the organization is a set of techniques, procedures and rules for the targeted impact of a subject on an object based on scientific approaches, knowledge of the laws of social processes and real management practices. The essence and content of the turnover of the staff of the organization means a change in the social policy of the organization, putting into effect the activities of the staff for their effective activities. The success of the entire organization depends on the efficiency of the joint work of all employees employed in the workplace. Achievement of the common goal ensures improvement of the working life quality of the employees of the organization. Reducing the turnover of staff of the organization is an integrated process, which involves constantly improving the quality of staff, as a main element of the organizational system and improving the quality of the system as a whole. The object of the study is the Emergency Recovery Department No. 2 – a branch of Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg LLC (GTE LLC), an enterprise for the transportation and maintenance of gas transportation system facilities. The practical significance of the research results lies in the development of recommendations and measures to reduce the level of staff turnover at Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg LLC and its structural divisions. These recommendations can be used in the development of programs to increase the level of motivation, adaptation, reduce the level of staff turnover by creating the necessary, comfortable working conditions at the enterprise.

РАЗРАБОТКА МЕРОПРИЯТИЙ ПО ЗАКРЕПЛЕНИЮ КАДРОВ В ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ НА ОСНОВЕ АНАЛИЗА СОСТАВА ПЕРСОНАЛА И ПРИЧИН ЕГО ТЕКУЧЕСТИ

Improving the work to reduce turnover and consolidate personnel is a necessity, the basis for the formation of mechanisms for the implementation of serious tasks assigned to the organization. Turnover management in the organization is an integral part of the human resources management system, as well as one of the most important management objects of the entire organization. Management of the turnover of the organization is a set of techniques, procedures and rules for the targeted impact of a subject on an object based on scientific approaches, knowledge of the laws of social processes and real management practices. The essence and content of the turnover of the staff of the organization means a change in the social policy of the organization, putting into effect the activities of the staff for their effective activities. The success of the entire organization depends on the efficiency of the joint work of all employees employed in the workplace. Achievement of the common goal ensures improvement of the working life quality of the employees of the organization. Reducing the turnover of staff of the organization is an integrated process, which involves constantly improving the quality of staff, as a main element of the organizational system and improving the quality of the system as a whole. The object of the study is the Emergency Recovery Department No. 2 - a branch of Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg LLC (GTE LLC), an enterprise for the transportation and maintenance of gas transportation system facilities. The practical significance of the research results lies in the development of recommendations and measures to reduce the level of staff turnover at Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg LLC and its structural divisions. These recommendations can be used in the development of programs to increase the level of motivation, adaptation, reduce the level of staff turnover by creating the necessary, comfortable working conditions at the enterprise.

The Moderating Role of Corruption in the Inverted U-Shaped Relationship Between Red Tape and Private Investment in PPP Projects: Evidence From Developing Countries

Government environment is the main determinant in attracting private investment into public–private partnership (PPP) projects, especially in developing countries. Red tape, an indicator of a government's efficiency, plays a critical role in private investment in PPP projects. Reasonable levels of red tape can enhance government transparency and promote private investment, while excessive red tape usually represents low governance efficiency and imposes further risk on private investors. This article explores how developing countries’ red tape affects private investment in PPP projects by examining the moderating effect of corruption. Analyzing a database of 308 PPP projects in 111 developing countries, the study reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between red tape and private investment. Corruption weakens the positive relationship between red tape and private investment at low levels of red tape and mitigates their negative relationship at high levels. The study integrates the inconsistent results of previous research that postulated either a positive or negative relationship between red tape and private investment by proposing a nonlinear model. It also theorizes the moderating effect of corruption based on real management practice and illustrates its mechanism in absorbing private investment in PPP projects.

Риски становления социального государства в РФ в условиях современных технологий организации взаимодействия власти и населения

The study discusses the impact of the latest tech-nology on the interaction between the authorities and people in the post-industrial society. The pa-per focuses on the fact that communication technology poses serious risks to the welfare state in the Russian Federation. The institution of the welfare state has resulted from the increased con-flicts and risks of social relations in the early industrial society. As humanity evolved and there was a gradual shift to the fifth technological para-digm, it became possible to make a great break-through in communication technology. On the one hand, communication technology has undermined society’s stability and sustainability resulting in the phenomenon of dispersed power and questioned the effectiveness of the social and political institutions of the early industrial era. On the other hand, this technology has made it pos-sible to considerably transform the institution of the welfare state that gets novel opportunities to become the institution of social cooperation and its citizens’ solidarity. However, a new e-infrastructure of society-government cooperation poses the following risks and threats to the establishment of Russia’s welfare state: information resource is a substitute for real management practices in relation to people-government interac-tion; people gain social benefits and rights be-cause of their allocation rather than a dialog with the authorities based on economic expediency and the threat of social upheaval; administrative bodies depend on the position of the most active and selfish minorities on different issues. Other risks are considered as well. Nevertheless, the au-thors conclude that further development of Russia’s welfare state implies the adaptation of social and political institutions to new contexts in-stead of the abolition of new technology.

Playing Them at Their Own Game: Where Managing in the Real World is about Organizational Power and Politics a Business School Education is very Real-World Relevant

This paper reverses interpretation of the relevance debate in management education. Real management practice is seen as characterised by non-relevance to real-world business situations, primacy of selfinterest, consolidation of power with image, and avoidance of responsibility and accountability. Business schools have been producing doctrinaire graduates schooled in non-relevance, who are well suited for such practice. Unwritten rules for real-management maneuvers: consolidating power; influence building; positioning to avoid responsibility; and self-promotion, are described. Hypocrisy may be an effective survival strategy and individuals can defend against self-promoters by playing them at their own game.

Optimal Dual Pricing and Passenger Safety Level for Cruise Revenue Management

Despite the remarkable continual growth of the world cruise industry, studies have yet to be attempted on many revenue management problems in cruise operations. This paper suggests two schemes that can be easily applied to cruise revenue management: optimal dual pricing and passenger safety level. In optimal dual pricing, a pair of higher and lower prices is applied to cabin reservation through market segmentation. This scheme can be executed with a linear price-response function for the current unreserved cabins. A cruise line could benefit from this scheme to maximize reservation revenue while attaining full occupancy. The dual pricing scheme is also devised to produce only integer demands to suit real management practices. The life boat capacity is an additional service capacity unique to the cruise industry, catering to passengers’ safety. The concept of passenger safety level is defined and computed for any passenger life boat capacity of a cruise ship. It can be used to evaluate the passenger safety of a cruise ship in operation, as well as to determine the number of life boat seats required for a new cruise ship. Hypothetical examples are used to illustrate the operation of these two schemes.

РАЗВИТИЕ МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ОСНОВ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ СИСТЕМ В КОНТЕКСТЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ РАЗВИТИЕМ

Complexity of economic systems modeling for ef-ficiency assessment of their functioning and elabora-tion of development forecasts can be explained by a number of factors. One of them is heterogeneity of economic systems, significant dependence of their structure and principles of key elements interaction on the management level, industry membership, the scope of system work. Vector and development dynamics of socio-economic system are determined, on the one hand, by internal potential of its elements , each im-plements its own development trajectory on the micro-level, and on the other hand – by opportunities of the external environment which is characterized by a com-plex mix of macroeconomic, political, social, technolo-gical and natural factors.
 Analysis of the existing development 
 methods of economic systems models at different levels allows marking out several modeling technologies among which the most promising from the point of view of application in real management practice can be considered the technology of imitation modeling based, in turn, on three methodological approaches.
 For the solution of a modeling problem of regional socio-economic system combined approach application appears to be the most effective within which external macroprocesses are modeled by means of system dynamics, and internal – socio-economic processes are formalized by agent-based modeling methods.

Alternative Forms for Promotion and Dissemination of Good Management Practices

At the present stage actuality of the problem is predetermined by the needs of the real management practice in organizations and the need to offer theoretical and practical knowledge to enable it methodologically correct and methodically right to implement appropriate changes in the management of the particular organization.The article is devoted to one aspect in the field of management - creating a new form of organization of management (called new favorite) - international managerial architecture. It argues that it was dictated by poor management of institutional and corporate level, the lack of adequate professional standards, control and monitoring of the activities of managers. An attempt is made to give a reasoned response to relatively basic question: "Predetermination or managerial obfuscation are alternative forms of promotion and dissemination of good management practices?". The goal is to answer the question in a relatively unbiased approach, insofar as possible minimizing subjectivity in the treatment of problems. Finally, certain results of the proposed thesis on the need for the creation of NIMA are discussed- structure and structural parameters. The discussions are based on the experience in the Republic of Bulgaria taken as an example situation.

Empirical Investigation of Industrial Management

The paper is devoted to an aspect in the sphere of management – business priorities of industrial management in XXI century. In modern times the actuality of treated problems is mainly laid into the necessities of the real management practice in industrial organizations and the need theoretical and applied knowledge to be offered to that practice which would allow it methodologically right and methodically correct to implement the corresponding changes in management of a concrete organization. Objects of analyses and evaluations are some fragmented approbations of theses using the corresponding instruments. The characteristic features of the organizations’ profiles and the persons interviewed participated in the investigation are summarized. The determining approaches for Bulgarian organizations are considered too.On the basis of the critical analyses the fundamental tasks are drawn which are inherent to contemporary industrial managers. Attention is paid to key management functions for an effective managerial process. An analysis of managers reaching the best results in industrial management is presented as well as when they are reached. Outlined are also specific peculiarities of industrial management in theRepublicofBulgariaand parameters of the level of productiveness in conditions of business globalization and priority forms in marketing of the ready product / service in XXI century. The results of the launched idea for the necessity to create a new International management architecture (NIMA) are determined – structure and structure defining parameters. The results of the investigation of main business priorities in industrial management are commented as well as expected problems in the process of functioning of industrial organizations in XXI century. At the end the corresponding conclusions are made in respect to the techniques used in determining effectiveness of industrial management in Bulgarian organizations.

Differences between management consulting and intervention-research

MC Division is emblematic of the double attraction for consulting from scholars, and research from consultants. But most researchers believe the board is sealed with respect to research. From the case of a European research team, the major differences between consulting and intervention-research are identified: negotiating the contract, conducing the mission, academic publications. Intervention-research permits observing real management practices, thus it's a scientific methodology research. Moreover, research team activities are self financing through its contracts with companies and organizations.

A Study on Difficulty Applicability and Teaching Forms of Management Case Teaching in Undergraduates

Management, a basic course, calls for improvement in its teaching methods. Case teaching is being extensively employed since real management practice is simulated in it. In spite of some existing researches on “how to divide cases in difficulty” and “the objectives of case teaching”, only a few of them are on the relations between the difficulty of case teaching and the reception of teaching objects. We are lacking in studies on class scale, class time allocation and the number of participants in this field, not to mention those on undergraduates. Based on the three-dimensional cubic model of case difficulty, this paper conducts an empirical research on undergraduates in questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews. It is shown in this research that complex cases with multi perspectives involving low difficulty in information collection and analysis are more suitable for students at this stage. In addition, the time allocated for case teaching should be nearly 50% and major and minor cases can be mixed in each chapter. It is also better to have case teaching with a two-class scale.