Automobile Industry Position in Russia

Written by Sergey Talpa


The Russian car industry experiencesrepparttar most severe crisis ofrepparttar 140268 last years. Forrepparttar 140269 First Quarter of 2005repparttar 140270 sales of Russian automobiles have fallen down by 14 % while imported car sales have increased by one and half times. The car factories think that they will have no other way out but to assemble foreign cars.

In 2004,repparttar 140271 car industry has shown an incredible growth. Russian domestic car sales have grown by 10 %, and foreign-made car sales doubled. Experts believed, thatrepparttar 140272 explosive sales growth would continue, asrepparttar 140273 market had enough room for both domestic cars, as well as for foreign-made cars.

However,repparttar 140274 miracle did not happen. According to domestic cars sales experts,repparttar 140275 First Quarter showed domestic car sales plunged by 14 %. The sales of new imported foreign-made cars have increased almost two times,repparttar 140276 sales of second-hand foreign-made cars increased by one and half times,repparttar 140277 sales of "Russian foreign-made cars» increased by 17 %.

The discussion of Russia's automobile market problems andrepparttar 140278 development of domestic car industry became a hot topic. It is necessary to notice, thatrepparttar 140279 discussion went from governmental offices intorepparttar 140280 streets ofrepparttar 140281 Russian cities.

At first sight,repparttar 140282 main reason for mass protest of motorists isrepparttar 140283 attempt to make right steering wheel cars illegal and to increase customs duties on second-hand foreign-made cars. However,repparttar 140284 essence ofrepparttar 140285 conflict is much deeper. The main issue isrepparttar 140286 crisis ofrepparttar 140287 automobile industrial policies of our state.

We can speak about a more or less complete industry development strategy only since mid-2002 whenrepparttar 140288 government approvedrepparttar 140289 Concept of Automobile Industry Development in Russia. This document has been adopted actually in private and under heavy pressure ofrepparttar 140290 Russian car manufacturers is a bright sample of eclectic bridging of opposite problems. Onrepparttar 140291 one hand, they proposed integration ofrepparttar 140292 country into global automobile market, on another tried to preserverepparttar 140293 archaic domestic car industry and even creating greenhouse conditions forrepparttar 140294 latter. All these yearsrepparttar 140295 authorities are trying to do pleasant things forrepparttar 140296 motorcar giants that have barely changed sincerepparttar 140297 Soviet times, and to do useful things to promptly growing peoples’ needs for reliable and safe automobiles.

The power of lobbyist efforts of representatives ofrepparttar 140298 Russian car industry is much stronger than foreign manufacturers’ lobby what forces us if not to trudge back, but to stay atrepparttar 140299 same point. Therefore,repparttar 140300 reasonable decision to drop import duties for components and cars is adopted with a biennial delay, andrepparttar 140301 request to makerepparttar 140302 transition by 2004 to manufacture automobiles that are EUROS - 2 EURO - 3 ecologically compliant, has not yet been adopted. Atrepparttar 140303 same time we seerepparttar 140304 debate ofrepparttar 140305 proposals to restrict market competitiveness so thatrepparttar 140306 interests of «Zhigulis" and "Volgas" manufacturers are preserved.

How To Get 10% More Work Out Of Your Employees

Written by Dr GW Graham


It is getting harder to run a business for a profit. We are faced with rising costs, lowered demand etc. Our businesses have to be super effective just to keep up.

But:

* How many more benefits are possible?

* Will pay increases increase effectiveness?

* Do more benefits really cause workers to produce more?

Well there is a way to increase productivity without increasing your Overhead.

We deal with doctors every day. Andrepparttar number one complaintrepparttar 140209 doctors get from their patients is that their job is making them sick. And they aren't far fromrepparttar 140210 truth.

No I'm not saying YOU are making them sick. Their work environment is making them sick.

Examples:

1. We had one office whererepparttar 140211 bosses turned offrepparttar 140212 air conditioner at 5PM on Friday. They turned it on Monday at 8AM. Allrepparttar 140213 workers were sick until noon on Monday.

That's 10% ofrepparttar 140214 work week was spent doing nothing but sitting around complaining.

We askedrepparttar 140215 bosses to leaverepparttar 140216 air handler on overrepparttar 140217 weekend. NOTrepparttar 140218 air conditioning, justrepparttar 140219 fan. This was to keeprepparttar 140220 air moving throughrepparttar 140221 HVAC filter. The stuff repparttar 140222 filter kept out ofrepparttar 140223 air was causing workers sinuses to hurt. It was giving everyone a headache.

Underrepparttar 140224 old cost cutting procedure ( turning offrepparttar 140225 HVAC), it was taking till noon forrepparttar 140226 filters to catch up torepparttar 140227 air quality level it was on Friday at 5PM. Whenrepparttar 140228 levels did reach that point everyone felt better and work continued.

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