In-depth interviews demonstrate, that a pragmatic approach in the attitude of managers towards employees is much more prevailing than emotional or ideological ones. Most of the concrete solutions are made on the basis of a pure pragmatic approach. With respect to wages, managers try to maintain a certain salary level, compatible with the in-regional standards. First of all, this level follows the inflation and, typically, is almost not connected with particular labor achievements and with economic reasons relevant to the enterprise as a whole. In many cases salary increases eat up a substantial portion of cumulative enterprise earnings.
Real facts suggest the pragmatic approach is followed much more often.
Coalitions of the revealed type do not leave any room for non-managerial employees to withstand the dictatorship of managers in governance and their expansion in privatization. There is simply nobody who could organize and lead any resistance. Directors confirmed, that they attentively follow the situation and either expel dissatisfied employees, or involve them in coalitions with all the consequences concerning benefits in general and privatization advantages in particular. This shows that these managers actually have accepted a subordinate role in the coalitions offered by top managers. We have monitored quite a few cases, where middle-level managers responded differently, evaluating their influence as much higher than it used to be before.