DOING BUSINESS IN RUSSIA Educational Module Programme

Programme Director:

professor Natalia Guseva,

PhD. in Management and Sociological sciences, profguseva@gmail.com

National Research University Higher School of Economics , Moscow, 2015

www.hse.ru

Programme Approach:

2

Target

Description

Objectives

• To train students to work in international companies, providing knowledge of the

local business environment in Russia;

• To prepare students to deal with cross cultural differences and equip them with

cross-functional competencies and management tools required by a general

management role:

Understand the influences of Russian local competitive environment and its

connections with daily activity;

Fill in the gaps in cross cultural knowledge, with a specific focus on preparing

participants to face the challenges of a general management role in Russia;

Make participants ready to make decisions, having a clear view on the

impacts on the overall value creation on the Russian market.

• Graduates, specialists, master and bachelor (3rd, 4th year) degree students, for

whom the next career step implies having a responsibility in multinational companies,

operating in Russia

• Requirements: fluent English (written and spoken).

Teaching

approach

• The program balances:

• Lectures

• Experience learning situations

• Business simulations

• Case studies

• Round table discussions

• Company internship

• Team’ projects

• Colloquium

• The programme is highly interactive

Educational Module Programme Structure:

3

Format

Team

projects (20 hours)

October 2015 -

March 2016,

Russia

Self study (140 hours)

October 2015 -

March 2016,

Russia

• Length: 6 months, theoretical course delivered in a 5-days-structure

• Locations: Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg

• Teaching Language: English

• Dates: 28th September – 2nd October 2015 Induction seminar, Moscow

October 2015 - March 2016 companies’ internship, Russia

30th – 31st, March 2016 closing seminar and ceremony, Moscow

• Class size: 20 participants

Description

Internship

Module

(6 months /

216 hours)

October 2015 -

March 2016,

Russia

Induction

Module

(5 days /

40 hours)

September, 28th -

October, 2nd

2015

Moscow

Russia

Final

Module Experience

Sharing

Seminar (2 days /

16 hours)

March 2016

Moscow

Educational Module Programme: Team projects

4

TOPICS

FOR

PROJECTS

2015:

1. German management innovations and know-how in Russia. Could we apply German

management innovations and know-how in Russia? Their efficiency and effectiveness?

2. Synergetic approach of building German – Russian collaboration. How to reach German –

Russian synergy?

3. Peculiarities of managing culturally diverse (German – Russian) teams. How to develop

initiatives, creativity, and involvement of Russian employees? Methods of teambuilding? Quality

relations in the team? Differentiation of responsibilities in the team?

4. Cross- cultural peculiarities of the decision-making in Global companies. Who make the

decisions? Initiatives & responsibilities? Should ALL decisions be done by the boss in Russia?

How long does it take to make an important (and less important) decisions?

5. Global companies as a “Dream employer “: major selection criteria, overall motivation regarding

work, engagement.

6. If I became an expatriate in Russia: what should I know? Lessons learned for carrier

development and efficient performance. How You can Become more Productive?

7. Key success factors of Doing Business in Russia: example of German companies.

Deadlines:

Students are strictly recommended to follow the deadlines of the assignments.

Failure to comply with deadlines reduces the grades by:

20% - delay 1 – 3 days;

30% - delay 4 - 5 days;

40% - delay 6 – 7 days;

50% - delay more than 7 days.

after 2 weeks of delay assignment will be graded 0

Education control forms & deadlines

The criteria for the evaluation of students’ knowledge and skills are as follows:

• Internship 40%; October 5th, 2015 – March 29h, 2016

• Team project, incl.: 40%; October 5th, 2015 – March 29h, 2016

Theoretical review 10%, Deadline – December 19th, 2015

Data gathering 20%, Deadline – February 27th, 2016

Analytical part 10%, Deadline – March 21st, 2016

• Experience - Sharing seminar 20% ; October 1 - 2, 2015

Visual materials, slides 10% Deadline – March 25st, 2016

Individual oral presentation 10%.

Final aggregated grade

• The grade for the results on team project is calculated in the following way (Grade):

Gteam project = 0,1·G theor. review + 0,2·Gdata gathering + 0,1·Ganalitical part;

• The FINAL aggregated grade is on a 10-point scale and is composed of the grade for the team project, internship and the sharing experience module.

The aggregated grade is calculated as follows:

Gfinal = 0,4·Ginternship + 0,4·Gteam project + 0,2·Gexper. sharing module

Quality requirements: team project development & presentation

ECTS Grades

Theoretical review Data gathering Analytical part Presentation

Excellent 10

Wide and full overview of

contemporary theoretical recourses on the research topic

(5-6 per student), including foreign and

local research.

3 interviews and 9-10

questionnaires (per student)

Profound analysis based on logical integration of

theoretical and empirical results. Hypothesis

presentation & confirmation.

Development of new recommendations.

PowerPoint, Clear structure.

Individual participation in sharing best practices

and personal experience.

Organization of discussions on the topic.

Very good 8-9

Full overview of contemporary

theoretical recourses (4 -5 per student), based on foreign

research.

2 interviews and 7 - 8

questionnaires (per student)

Profound analysis based on logical integration of

theoretical and empirical results. Hypothesis

presentation & confirmation. Elaboration

of recommendations.

PowerPoint, Clear structure

Individual participation in sharing best practices

and personal experience. Ability to

answer various questions on the subject

Quality requirements: team project development & presentation

ECTS Grades Theoretical review Data gathering Analytical part Presentation

Good 6-7

Good overview of contemporary

theoretical recourses (3- 4 per student)

1-2 interviews and 5

questionnaires (per student)

Good analysis based on the same logic

integrating theoretical and

empirical results.

PowerPoint, Clear structure Individual

participation in sharing best practices

and personal experience.

Satisfactory 4-5

Satisfactory overview of theoretical recourses (2-3 per student)

1 - 2 interviews or 4-5 questionnaires (per student)

Theoretical and empirical results are logically aligned and integrated

PowerPoint representation of the results achieved, with an unclear structure

and vague conclusions.

Fail 2-3

Unsatisfactory overview of theoretical recourses (1-2 per student)

Unsatisfactory data gathering (less than 3 questionnaires) (per student)

Theoretical and empirical results are not logically aligned and integrated

Poorly (or not at all) done presentation

failing to describe the results of the study

Academic integrity

• 1. Each student in this module is expected to abide by the Higher School of Economics’ Academic Honesty Policy. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit will be the student's personal work. For this course, collaboration is allowed in the following instances: group discussion, group projects and presentations.

• 2. Students are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in discussions with professors and tutors. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students. However, this permissible cooperation should never involve one student having possession of a copy of all or part of work done by someone else, in the form of an e-mail, an e-mail attachment file, a digital copy or a hard copy. Should copying occur, both the student who copied work from another student and the student who gave material to be copied will automatically receive a zero for the assignment.

• Penalty for violation of this Policy can also be extended to include failure of the course and University disciplinary action.

Correspondence of ECTS Grades to ten-point and five-point system’s marks

ECTS Grades Ten-point scale [10] Five-point scale [5]

A+ Excellent 10 – brilliant 5 - excellent

A Very good 9 – excellent 5 - excellent

A- Very good 8 – nearly excellent 5 - excellent

B+ Good 7 – very good 4 - good

B- Good 6 – good 4 - good

C+ Satisfactory 5 – quite satisfactory 3 - satisfactory

C- Satisfactory 4 – satisfactory 3 - satisfactory

F Fail 3 – bad 2 - unsatisfactory

F Fail 2 – very bad 2 - unsatisfactory

F Fail 1 – unsatisfactory 2 - unsatisfactory