Professor Michel E. Domsch and Dipl.-Soz. Tatjana Lidokhover are both from the Institute for HRM and International Management, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: The Broader Historical, Social and Economic Context of the Current Situation in Russia, Michel E. Domsch and Tatjana Lidokhover. Part I General HRM issues: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Negative Consequences of National Policy on human Resource Management Practices in Russia, Ruth C. May and Donna E. Ledgerwood; Leadership development in Russia, Stanislav V. Shekshnia, Daniel J. McCarthy and Sheila M. Puffer; Control and alienation in Russian enterprises, Moshe Banai and William D. Reisel; Trust and organizational culture, Tatiana Kovaleva; HRM practices in virtual companies in Russia, Sofia Kosheleva and Marina Libo; Human Resource Management at a steel giant in Russia, Vera Trappmann. Part II Key HRM Issues: Recruitment at Russian enterprises, Valery Yakubovich and Irina Kozina; Tendencies of the Russian labour and recruitment markets - employment in a medium-sized IT company, Henrik Loos; Training and development of personnel in Russian companies, Tatiana Soltitskaya and Tatiana Andreeva; Professional training and retraining: challenges of transition (the case of the shipbuilding industry in St. Petersburg, Russia), Lubov Ejova and Irina Olimpieva; Pay in Russia, Graham Hollinshead. Part III HRM Practices in Multinational Companies: Western-Russian acquisition negotiations and post-acquisition integration: a case study, Kenneth Husted and Snejina Michailova; Hospitable or hostile? Knowledge transfer into the Russian host environment, Adam Smale and Vesa Suutari; Human Resource Management practices in Russia and Canada: convergence or divergence?, Sudhir K. Saha; The effect of Human Resource Management practices on MNC subsidiary performance in Russia, Carl F. Fey and Ingmar Björkman. Index.