15% (figure of the day)

15% of Russian companies discuss personnel issues at every management meeting. These data were obtained during a survey of 1,000 representatives from small, medium and large businesses in six major sectors of the economy. The survey was conducted as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) study carried out by the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with the Levada Center.

Another 46% of companies report speaking about staff issues quite often, if not at every meeting. This happens more frequently at successful companies than at those companies whose market position is not as strong.

Prosperous companies mainly discuss personnel recruitment, labour costs, staff assessment and training activities. Less successful companies, on the other hand, often focus on solving problems of personnel shortage and employee discipline.

A newsletter on the research has been published in Russian on the website of the monitoring study (in Russian).

Source: HSE website