Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 6 Issue 2

Team Development Programmes for Top Management Groups in Czechoslovakia

Michal Čakrt

An ambitious programme was launched in the early 1980s for bringingabout an organizational change in planned economy companies. Because ofthe centralized political and economic…

Organizational Development of a Management Consulting Company under the Sweeping Changes in the Former Soviet Union

Anatoly V. Zhuplev

Describes the birth and demise of the Moscow Personnel Centre. TheCentre was founded as a city‐sponsored independent consulting companywhich developed numerous different personnel…

Changing Performance among Russian Retail Workers: Effectively Transferring American Management Techniques

Dianne H.B. Welsh, Steven M. Sommer, Nancy Birch

Reports the results of a field experiment using a contingent rewardsystem to improve sales performance of Russian retail workers. Theresults clearly demonstrated the ability to…

Organizational Change Management in Russia

Alexander L. Katkov

Greiner′s developmental model of organizational change is appliedto the organized Soviet political economy of the twentieth century. Thisdescription of the managerial crises…

Revolutionizing Bureaucracies: Managing Change in Hungarian State‐owned Enterprises

Jone L. Pearce, Imre Branyiczki

Analyses two Hungarian state‐owned companies seeking to reorientthemselves as their national economy changes from state‐socialist tomarket‐driven. These companies were selected…