This page is the support of the seminar given by Dr D. Chelly on April 26, 2004 to the European Resource Management Program of the EM Lyon Business School.

Short syllabus

Introduction : Aims and methodology
Section 1. The Central and Eastern European socio-economic environment
Case study : Forming groups of homogeneous countries in terms of history, culture and socio-economic features.
Section 2. Managing Human Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
Case study : Focus on HRM in Romania

The slides

The accompanying documents

Bibliography

G. Hofstede, Culture's consequences, sage, 1980.
P.-X. Meschi, Longevity and Cultural Differences of International Joint Ventures: Toward Time-Based Cultural Management, Human Relations, vol. 50, n°2, 1997.
W.R. Pendergast, Transforming Management in Central Europe, in R.C. Culpan et N. Kumar, Transformation Management: Organizational Reforms in Post-Communist Countries, Westport, CT, Greenwood Publishing, 1995.
V. Srica, Managing people in Central Europe, in T. Garrison, D. Rees, Managing people across Europe, Butterworth-Heinemann limited, 1994.

Note: this bibliography is only indicative. Browsing the given websites will prove more useful.

General Comment for last year's course: A really agreable day, for many reasons.

- The schools provides with all the required facilities for a modern teaching and people there know how to welcome you (Thank you Hector :-))

- As always in EM Lyon, the level is good and participants are agreable but this class had something more. Probably because they learn HRM, which makes them more communicative, and also because the group is composed of different nationalities.