Ruth Alas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Alas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Alas |
| SIGNATURE | ALAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Estonian Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9376-2076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Factors influencing expatriates’ adjustment in Estonia and Lithuania
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility: A 28-Society Multilevel Analysis
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
The impact of gender-role-orientations on subjective career success: A multilevel study of 36 societies
Cultural Prototypes of the Successful Entrepreneur: Comparison of Estonia and the United States
This study compares and contrasts perceptions of entrepreneurship success factors in Estonia and the USA. The 115-item E-World survey is used to highlight differences of implicit beliefs about behaviors and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs between the USA, a country with a long history of entrepreneurial development, and Estonia, a small economy where entrepreneurship has played an important role in the transition from a command to a m…
Mapping values in old vs new members of the European Union: A comparative analysis of public sector cultures
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first purpose is to provide a synthesis of the dominant cross-cultural models and to present the more recent tri-axial model as a promising alternative that responds well to the limitation of prevailing models. Consequently, the second purpose is to employ the model to explore key differences in the culture and values of public service organisations in old and new EU member states. Design/methodo…
Crisis Management in Chinese Organizations
Provides the theoretical framework on how to manage crises in organizations. The author connects crisis management theories with practical examples from Chinese companies and how they contribute to be
The Connections between Crisis and Enterprise Life-Cycle Stages
For several decades, management scholars have conducted studies of the organizational life process and formed a number of “life-cycle” models. Adizes (1999) suggested that every system has a life-cycle. Enterprises have life-cycles that parallel those of human beings (Allen, 1999). Regarding the enterprise life-cycle, scholars have used different models to divide the life stages and describe the characteristics of each stage.
Coaching by Values: A Guide to Success in the Life of Business and the Business of Life
Crisis Management in Chinese Organizations: Benefiting from the Changes
Comparative international human resource management (CIHRM) in the light of the Cranet Regional Research Survey in Transitional Economies
Purpose The primary aim of the paper is to draw attention to the similarities in the historical background and in the transitional period of the post‐socialist CEE (Central and East European) countries, which make this region a distinctive cluster in Europe. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors attempt to supplement existing research by outlining the modernisation of a range of HR functions in the countries of Central and Easter…
Implementation of Changes in Chinese Organizations: Groping a Way Through the Darkness
Implementation of changes in Chinese organizations: Groping a Way Through the Darkness
Organizational Changes in Chinese Companies
Lessons for Strategic Communication from Transitional Changes in Estonian Organizations
This study contributes to understanding how strategic communication can influence the successful of implementation of organizational changes. This empirical study of 2,761 employees points to relationships between strategic communication, organizational culture, and employee attitudes toward organizational changes. Satisfaction with information about changes in an organization could be predicted by task-orientation and relationship-orientation of…
Cultural Practices and Values at the Societal Level in Estonia in Comparison With Neighbouring Countries
The research question in this paper involves comparing the differences between the actual regional societal culture (cultural practices) and the desired regional societal culture (cultural values) in Estonia with cultural practices in neighbouring countries Russia and Finland. Practices at the organization level are compared with practices and values at the societal level in Estonia. An analysis of results from the GLOBE research project have ind…
The Development of the Personnel Function in Transition Countries: Slovenian and Estonian Experience
In international comparative studies of personnel management/HRM, one of the central issues is to identify similarities and differences in approaches to this specific function in organisations. The driving forces in a market economy lead HRM practices in different countries down more or less a similar path. In this case it is assumed that the best methods and practices that have proven themselves indeed exist, and these have therefore been found …
Converging human resource management: A comparison between Estonian and Finnish HRM
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to participate in the convergence‐divergence debate related to the trends in European human resource management (HRM). The paper evaluates the converging vs diverging implications in Estonia and Finland by comparing HR strategies, policies and practices between the two countries in the context of HRM in the Nordic and EU‐15 countries. Design/methodology/approach The research is part of a large international co…
Job related attitudes and ethics in countries with different histories
This article compares people from different countries according to their job related attitudes and ethical values based on empirical data from 15 countries. The results indicate that countries with a socialist past have to deal with the satisfaction of needs at a lower level than traditional capitalist countries and this consequently influences attitudes and expectations toward society, organisations and work. Attitudes toward society and facets …
Estonia in transition: Exploring the impact of change on women managers
Purpose - The main aim of this paper is to explore the general impact of post-Soviet transition on the experiences of women managers in Estonia. Using survey data the paper reviews women's responses to organisation change in a transition context. The paper focuses specifically on economic and social changes that are occurring in Estonia following its reassertion of independence from the Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach - A contextual bac…
The Impact of Organizational Culture on Organizational Learning at Six Estonian Hospitals
In 2002 six hospitals in Tallinn were merged as part of a project designed by Swedish consultants. Such a large-scale change provides an interesting case for studying how organizational culture intervenes in organizational learning. The impact of task and relationship orientations of organizational culture on the preference for individual and collective learning was investigated in groups having different sociodemographic characteristics. It was …
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility: A 28-Society Multilevel Analysis
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
Cultural Prototypes of the Successful Entrepreneur: Comparison of Estonia and the United States
This study compares and contrasts perceptions of entrepreneurship success factors in Estonia and the USA. The 115-item E-World survey is used to highlight differences of implicit beliefs about behaviors and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs between the USA, a country with a long history of entrepreneurial development, and Estonia, a small economy where entrepreneurship has played an important role in the transition from a command to a m…
The Impact of Organizational Culture on Organizational Learning at Six Estonian Hospitals
In 2002 six hospitals in Tallinn were merged as part of a project designed by Swedish consultants. Such a large-scale change provides an interesting case for studying how organizational culture intervenes in organizational learning. The impact of task and relationship orientations of organizational culture on the preference for individual and collective learning was investigated in groups having different sociodemographic characteristics. It was …
Job related attitudes and ethics in countries with different histories
This article compares people from different countries according to their job related attitudes and ethical values based on empirical data from 15 countries. The results indicate that countries with a socialist past have to deal with the satisfaction of needs at a lower level than traditional capitalist countries and this consequently influences attitudes and expectations toward society, organisations and work. Attitudes toward society and facets …
Estonia in transition: Exploring the impact of change on women managers
Purpose - The main aim of this paper is to explore the general impact of post-Soviet transition on the experiences of women managers in Estonia. Using survey data the paper reviews women's responses to organisation change in a transition context. The paper focuses specifically on economic and social changes that are occurring in Estonia following its reassertion of independence from the Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach - A contextual bac…
Converging human resource management: A comparison between Estonian and Finnish HRM
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to participate in the convergence‐divergence debate related to the trends in European human resource management (HRM). The paper evaluates the converging vs diverging implications in Estonia and Finland by comparing HR strategies, policies and practices between the two countries in the context of HRM in the Nordic and EU‐15 countries. Design/methodology/approach The research is part of a large international co…
Cultural Practices and Values at the Societal Level in Estonia in Comparison With Neighbouring Countries
The research question in this paper involves comparing the differences between the actual regional societal culture (cultural practices) and the desired regional societal culture (cultural values) in Estonia with cultural practices in neighbouring countries Russia and Finland. Practices at the organization level are compared with practices and values at the societal level in Estonia. An analysis of results from the GLOBE research project have ind…
The Development of the Personnel Function in Transition Countries: Slovenian and Estonian Experience
In international comparative studies of personnel management/HRM, one of the central issues is to identify similarities and differences in approaches to this specific function in organisations. The driving forces in a market economy lead HRM practices in different countries down more or less a similar path. In this case it is assumed that the best methods and practices that have proven themselves indeed exist, and these have therefore been found …
Lessons for Strategic Communication from Transitional Changes in Estonian Organizations
This study contributes to understanding how strategic communication can influence the successful of implementation of organizational changes. This empirical study of 2,761 employees points to relationships between strategic communication, organizational culture, and employee attitudes toward organizational changes. Satisfaction with information about changes in an organization could be predicted by task-orientation and relationship-orientation of…
Implementation of Changes in Chinese Organizations: Groping a Way Through the Darkness
Implementation of changes in Chinese organizations: Groping a Way Through the Darkness
Organizational Changes in Chinese Companies
Crisis Management in Chinese Organizations: Benefiting from the Changes
Comparative international human resource management (CIHRM) in the light of the Cranet Regional Research Survey in Transitional Economies
Purpose The primary aim of the paper is to draw attention to the similarities in the historical background and in the transitional period of the post‐socialist CEE (Central and East European) countries, which make this region a distinctive cluster in Europe. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors attempt to supplement existing research by outlining the modernisation of a range of HR functions in the countries of Central and Easter…
Crisis Management in Chinese Organizations
Provides the theoretical framework on how to manage crises in organizations. The author connects crisis management theories with practical examples from Chinese companies and how they contribute to be
The Connections between Crisis and Enterprise Life-Cycle Stages
For several decades, management scholars have conducted studies of the organizational life process and formed a number of “life-cycle” models. Adizes (1999) suggested that every system has a life-cycle. Enterprises have life-cycles that parallel those of human beings (Allen, 1999). Regarding the enterprise life-cycle, scholars have used different models to divide the life stages and describe the characteristics of each stage.
Coaching by Values: A Guide to Success in the Life of Business and the Business of Life
Mapping values in old vs new members of the European Union: A comparative analysis of public sector cultures
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first purpose is to provide a synthesis of the dominant cross-cultural models and to present the more recent tri-axial model as a promising alternative that responds well to the limitation of prevailing models. Consequently, the second purpose is to employ the model to explore key differences in the culture and values of public service organisations in old and new EU member states. Design/methodo…
Cultural Prototypes of the Successful Entrepreneur: Comparison of Estonia and the United States
This study compares and contrasts perceptions of entrepreneurship success factors in Estonia and the USA. The 115-item E-World survey is used to highlight differences of implicit beliefs about behaviors and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs between the USA, a country with a long history of entrepreneurial development, and Estonia, a small economy where entrepreneurship has played an important role in the transition from a command to a m…
The impact of gender-role-orientations on subjective career success: A multilevel study of 36 societies
Factors influencing expatriates’ adjustment in Estonia and Lithuania
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility: A 28-Society Multilevel Analysis
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Estonian (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)