Gerchikov, Vladimir Isakovich

Born in Moscow in 1938. In 1955 he graduated from high school with a gold medal, entered the physics department of Moscow State University and Fiztekh , but was not accepted because of his nationality - in those days there was a quota for admitting Jews , especially to prestigious universities. Subsequently, he passed the entrance exams in mathematics several times for his comrades to make sure of his abilities. Each time the exam was excellent.

In 1960, he graduated from the Moscow Machine Tool Tool Institute with a degree in “Foundry Machines and Technology” and was assigned to work in a special design bureau of the Siblitmash plant in Novosibirsk , where he worked for a total of 7 years and quickly went from a young engineer to deputy chief designer. ^[one]

“As Vladimir Isakovich himself said more than once, his own life setbacks, versatile hobbies, and an aggravated sense of social justice that manifested itself early in sociology led him to sociology” ^[2] .

Working in the design bureau, Gerchikov was actively involved in social activities (he founded a book club for factory workers, organized ski runs in the region, etc.) and was elected secretary for the ideology of the Komsomol district committee. However, he stayed in this position for only a few months, since he fundamentally disagreed with the bureaucratic formal approach to the activities of the Komsomol.

After some time, in 1967, he was still expelled from the Komsomol - for publishing in the factory literary journal "Beginning" an excerpt from his poem "Believers ..." in which Gerchikov argued that not only recognized heroes like Gagarin are worthy of fame, but and simple hard workers, through their labor made possible his feat. The magazine was recognized by the regional committee of the party as anti-Soviet and closed after high-profile proceedings, according to Gerchikov, among other authors, it was decided to expel from the Komsomol and transfer to ordinary work “as a politically immature and inappropriate position” ^[2] .

Thanks to the then head of the design bureau, R. I. Popov, Gerchikov was not sent to re-educate, but he could not defend a dissertation written by that time for the degree of candidate of technical sciences: there was no Academic Council or leading organization that agreed to give a recommendation for protection to such to the applicant - a Jew expelled from the Komsomol. On this, technical science ceased to be a means of self-expression for Gerchikov. ^[2]

To write a dissertation, Gerchikov studied at the evening department of the mechmath of Novosibirsk State University , where he plunged into the atmosphere of free-thinking (and inevitable dissent) of the rapidly growing then Novosibirsk Academgorodok . Just at that time, in 1968, A. G. Aganbegyan , director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences , formed the department of social problems of industrial production at the institute. Since Gerchikov knew industrial production, and he was very interested in social problems, he got a job as a laboratory assistant. From this began the path of V. I. Gerchikov in sociology.

Until 1971, Gerchikov worked in the Department of Social Problems of the IE&O and returned there 10 years later.

From 1971 to 1981 He worked at the Branch Center for the Scientific Organization of Labor and Management (NOTiU) at the Perm Telephone Plant - one of the first personnel management services at Soviet enterprises was created there.

In 1976 he defended his thesis on the specialty of Labor Economics, in 1997 - his doctoral thesis on the topic of General Sociology (topic: “From social planning to personnel management: the development of applied industrial sociology in Russia”).

From 1982 to 2001 worked at Novosibirsk State University , at the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics , since 1989 - at the Department of General Sociology, which opened there, where in 2001 he was awarded the academic title of professor.

In 2001, he moved to Moscow and until his death in 2007 worked as a professor in the Department of Human Resource Management, Department of Management , Higher School of Economics State University (now HSE). ^[3]

In 2006, he passed certification according to the international (Amsterdam) standard ICMCI ( International Council of Management Consulting Institutes ) and received the title CMC (Certified Management Consultant).

Herchikov V.I.'s scientific interests are the methodology of sociological research, the theory and practice of human resource management, motivation and stimulation of labor.

Gerchikov is the author of a typological model of labor motivation and the Motype test to determine the structure of labor motivation of personnel, ^{[4] a} methodology for measuring the sociological scales of quantitative attributes, including income and wages.

Vladimir Isakovich was a member of the research committees RC-10 "Participation and Organizational Democracy" and RC-30 "Sociology of Work" of the International Sociological Association, was co-chair of the research committee "Sociology of Labor and Industry" of the Russian Sociological Association. He participated in dozens of international and all-Russian conferences and symposiums, with scientific and educational goals he has repeatedly been abroad: in Bulgaria, India, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, the USA, Cyprus. He supervised the personnel management training programs organized by the IE&OB SB RAS jointly with the Canterbury Business School , and also led the national research team of the international research project “Labor Relations in Transition: Privatization and Structural Changes” (1992-1995).

Gerchikov V.I. has repeatedly received grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research , the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation , the English Know How Foundation, the Soros Foundation, and other foundations.

Gerchikov V.I. was one of the leading experts in the field of theory and practice of motivation and stimulation of labor, the organization of internal management and interaction of units, the development of personnel services in organizations of various types and profiles. He is one of the first Russian management consultants certified according to international standards (SMS certificate No. 004 according to ICMCI standard). Numerous projects have also been successfully implemented in the field of building personnel management services and developing systems of motivation and remuneration for various domestic enterprises.

In the last years of his life Gerchikov worked as a senior consultant of the Top Management Consult Group of Companies.

Gerchikov’s most famous contribution to Russian personnel management practice is his typological model of motivation. The copyright for the Motype test implementing it belongs to the Top Management Consult group of companies.

As the wife of Vladimir Isakovich, Vera Vasilievna Gerchikova recalls:

"AT. I. was a talented teacher. He loved teaching and loved his “graduate students”, graduates, undergraduates and graduate students, was ready to work “to the stop” with those of them who were determined to study seriously. He spoke with many of his graduates for many years after graduation. ” ^[2]

Some of these graduates had the opportunity not only to continue personal communication with Gerchikov, but also to participate in joint research and consulting projects with him. In particular, the former graduate of Vladimir Isakovich, now candidate of sociological sciences A. V. Rebrov, is working to develop his concept of labor motivation.

Posthumously, in 2008, Gerchikov’s book was published - the training manual “Personnel Management: An Employee - the Most Effective Resource of the Company”. His latest book, “Motivation - How?”, Summarizing all of his developments and research in the field of motivation in recent years, was never published.

At HSE, at the Department of Human Resource Management, where he worked in recent years, there is a named audience of V.I. Gerchikov.

The author of over 230 scientific publications, 19 of them in foreign languages. Among them:

• Human Resource Management: An employee is the most efficient resource of a company. Textbook allowance. INFRA - M., 2007, 282s.
• The functions and structure of the human resources management service. Textbook allowance / Ed. 8th, add. and reslave. M.: HSE, 2006 .-- 163 p.
• Labor motivation: content, diagnostics, management // Human Resource Management: Management and Consulting / Ed. V.V.Shcherbin. M .: Independent Institute of Civil Society, 2004, p. 212-230.
• Organization mission and features of personnel management policy // ECO. 2000. No. 8, p. 43-57 (inaccessible link)
• Strokes to the portrait of women managers // Sociological studies, 2000, No. 11, p. 36-44. (co-author E. S. Gvozdeva)
• Translation of managerial innovations into the practice of Russian business organizations // Features of enterprise management in crisis conditions / Ed. V. D. Rechina, L. A. Sergeeva. Novosibirsk: IEiOPP SB RAS, 1999.
• Intrafirm social partnership as an effective means of doing business // Employer, state employment service - partners in the labor market: problems and solutions. Thes. scientific-practical conf. Novosibirsk: NSAE & U, 1999.
• Perception of Western management innovations by Russian business // ECO. 1999. No. 10.
• Typological concept of labor motivation (part 1) // Motivation and remuneration. 2005. No. 2, p. 53-62
• Typological concept of labor motivation (part 2) // Motivation and remuneration. 2005. No. 3, p. 2-6
• How much you need to pay an employee // Motivation and remuneration. 2005. No. 2, p. 29-38.
• Intangible employee incentives // Motivation and remuneration. 2005. No. 1, p. 2-10.
• The role of salary in the formation of employee earnings // Human Resource Management: Management and Consulting / Ed. V.V.Shcherbin. M .: Independent Institute of Civil Society, 2004, p. 325-332.
• Owner and hired management: functional conflict and ways to resolve it // Relations between company owners and top management: game rules, risks, prospects. Conference proceedings. M .: 2001, p. 32-33.
• Student Employment in Post-Soviet Russia (Phenomenon of Employed University Student in Postsoviet Russia), 1998
• Female management in Russian business // IVF. 1997. No. 11 (co-author E. Gvozdeva).
• Human Resource Management in Russian Small Business // ECO. 1996. No. 12 (co-author N. Beskrovnaya).
• HR management in business organizations. The program of a course of lectures and seminars for students of business schools and faculties. Novosibirsk: NSU, 1996.
• Individual labor contracts: reflections on the experience of German firms and its application in Russia // IVF. 1995.No 3.
• Property and labor relations: options for transformation. Collection of cases // Novosibirsk: IEiOPP SB RAS, 1995
• Russia // Labor relations & political change in Easten Europe: A comparative prospective / Edited by J. Thirkell, R. Scase, S. Vickerstaff. London: UCL Press Ltd. 1995.
• Property and labor relations: options for transformation. Collection of cases / Ed. V. Gerchikova and M. Koshman. Novosibirsk: IEiOPP, 1995.
• Lumpenization of an employee is a brake on the transition to the market: statement of the problem // Sociology of labor in new conditions. Samara: Samara Publishing House. University, 1993
• Business Democracy: Work Collective Councils and Trade Unions // Labor Relations in Transition in Easten Europe / Ed.Gyorgy Szell. Berlin, New York, de Gruyter, 1992.
• Democratization of management and ownership // Sociological studies, 1992. No. 1
• Management team and employee motivation. Novosibirsk: IEiOPP, 1992 (co-author A. Kolobov).
• Confrontation of managers and collectives of industrial enterprises: degree, manifestations, reasons, ways to overcome. Novosibirsk: IEiOPP, 1990 (co-author V. Grigoriev).
• Enterprise Social Development Service: A Practical Guide. M .: Nauka, 1989 (co-authors A.I. Kravchenko, N.V. Krylova, etc.).
• Sluzby sociologiczne w przemysle ZSRR (in Polish) // Humanizacija pracy. Warszawa: Instytut filozofii I socjologii, 1986. No. 3.

• Typological model of motivation V. I. Gerchikova
• Profile on the Federal educational portal “Economics. Sociology. Management"
• Rebrov A. V. Influence of motivational structure on labor productivity of workers of various professions / Sociological studies , No. 5, May 2008, p. 74-84
• Rebrov A. V. Factors of the formation of motivation of employees of Russian organizations / Sociological studies, No. 3, 2011, p. 38-49
• An informal biography of V.I. Gerchikov authorship of his wife V.V. Gerchikova .