Human resource management in Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations

Abstract

This article reports the results of a survey of top executives at Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We examine the prevailing types of job contracts and the use of monetary and non-monetary benefits, and compare such arrangements with those in locally-owned industrial companies. We also reveal differences in human resource management (HRM) policies based on the source of authority over HRM issues (global headquarters, regional headquarters, local groups of companies, etc.). These findings can be used to help predict the evolution of HRM policies in Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of MNCs.

Keywords:

• Multinational corporations
• human resource management policies
• Russia
• manufacturing
• international management

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the research grant of the Faculty of Business and Management of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. The author wishes to thank Dr Richard Conolly for his valuable comments.