ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to describe three Soviet management development programs conducted by the Institute for Business Research and Development and the faculty of the School of Business and Economics at California State University at Hayward. The first group, organized by the Soviet Ministry of Aviation Industries, was comprised of fifteen top managers from aviation enterprises throughout the Soviet Union. The second group was organized by the Academy of National Economy of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Moscow. (This Academy conducts training for top managers from all of the ministries.) This group was made up of twenty-five top managers from agricultural enterprises and financial institutions in the Republic of Uzbekistan, a central Asian republic. The third group, which is in residence as this article is being written, consists of sixteen top managers of a single enterprise, Izhorskii Zavod, a large steel production company on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. All three programs were financed by the respective ministries or enterprise in hard currency, paid in installments before, during and after each program's completion. This article will present an overview of these three programs and will examine some of the similarities and differences among the three groups of managers and the programs which were developed to meet each group's specific needs.
