Saint Petersburg State University
Graduate School of Management

Group project for the Organizational Behavior course
“Aeroflot”

MiM, cohort II, group 5
Group members:
Cherenko Polina
Pitubaeva Tatiana
Samadov Imruz
Tarasenko Vladimir

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Latukha Marina

2015
Table of Contents 1. Aeroflot’s Background 3 2. Country-specific context 7 3. Peculiarities of OB and HRM in country of a company’s origin 11 3.1. Main Characteristics 11 3.2.Trends 15 3.3.Perspectives 16 4. HRM strategy and practices and OB areas 17 4.1. HR Policies 17 4.2. Employee training 18 4.3. Department for Aviation Personnel Training 18 4.4. Aeroflot Aviation School 19 4.5. Social Programs For Company’s Employees 20 4.6. Health and safety 21 5. Analysis of existing problems and challenges in OB or HRM areas. 22 6. Problem description and analysis. Recommendations 24 List of Sources 27

1. Aeroflot’s Background
After the World War I many European countries started to look forward civil aviation development. Since then, Soviet Union Government established Dobrolet - the first Russian air fleet that had flights from Moscow to many airports in European part of the USSR and nearest foreign locations. In the beginning, only one plane served the route from Moscow to Kenigsberg (Kaliningrad). That plain could accommodate four passengers and mail carriage. During early years of activity the company enhanced number of flight, adding following destinations such as Omsk, Kharkov, Alma-Ata, Kiev, Odessa, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Tashkent, Nizhniy Novgorod, and many crimean towns. In March of 1932 the Soviet Union Government enacted whole Civil air fleet from Dobrolet and many small companies, and named it Aeroflot. The government started to evolve plans for every further five years. The set of first goals stated that a company has to increase