We all very often hear the word “management” that came to us from the English language, literally translated as “administration, management”. Today there are a huge number of definitions of this term, and they are all true.
Management is a special type of professional activity of a person, which is aimed at achieving goals.
Management - a certain system of forecasting, planning, organizing the production of goods or services aimed at making a profit in the future.
Like any other type of activity, management has its own characteristics. The Russian management system is undoubtedly different from the European one. This is due to many factors. Management appeared in Russia relatively recently, with the emergence of market relations and the development of entrepreneurship. Its basis is human resources (workers) and entrepreneurial activity.
Features of Russian management are:
- extremely high speed of political and socio-economic processes in the country, which cannot but have a significant impact on all spheres of human activity;
- a combination of factors contributing to the development and strengthening of the management system or, conversely, hindering it;
- special features of the mentality of Russian people.
The peculiarities of Russian management are also that the very concept of “manager” in our country is very vague. In the narrow sense of the word, a manager is a manager, the head of an enterprise, a large company. In our country today, this term refers to a different type of activity. In Russian companies, the secretary, the administrator responsible for small paper work, is also called the manager, which is not entirely true.
In terms of the development of market relations, Russia is at least half a century behind Western countries. Today our country is going through the stage of development of market relations that Europe went through several decades ago. In Russia, there is no such a wealth of experience in managing enterprises in free competition as in the West, in connection with which there are such problems of Russian management as:
- insufficient knowledge of demand. Demand for a particular product is determined only by the achievement of the final result of the activity;
- lack of long-term business development goals;
- lack of an independent assessment of the activities of Russian managers;
- lack of a school of leadership reserve, corruption, inability to achieve the desired result of their entrepreneurial activity without the presence of connections in high circles, money, etc.
Features of modern Russian management are most manifested in four main factors:
- management infrastructure , political and socio-economic conditions of its existence;
- setting priority tasks and directing efforts towards their implementation;
- a set of measures aimed at developing the management sphere in Russia;
- a feature of public consciousness, which requires a very long period of time to change.
Today, many heads of Russian enterprises are trying to adopt the experience of managing Western companies, which does not always end happily. It should be understood that some laws and management rules that are successfully working in Europe are completely unsuitable for working in Russian conditions. Features of Russian management are considered as the main distinguishing feature in managing a company in Russia and in the West. A person who has grown up in our country and received a Russian education has his own approach to solving a particular problem, reacts differently to different situations, which creates certain difficulties in following the Western model of governance. This does not mean at all that one should completely abandon the experience of developed countries in the field of management and look for its new ways from scratch. Given all the main features of Russian management, thoroughly studying the experience of a country that has advanced far in the field of management, one can quite succeed in many areas of activity accessible to the Russian entrepreneur and manager.