On June 4, 2021, at the Graduate School of Management St Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU) the “HR-manager as a business partner” corporate training program for Rosneft was completed. 30 HR-managers and 28 subsidiaries of the company took part in the program.

The program consisted of 6 educational modules designed for the companies’ HR-managers` development of strategic competencies on the basis of world standards of specialists` professional activities in the field of personnel management in the oil and gas sector.

In their final presentations the program participants considered questions related to the problems related to the influence of distance working on employers and employees; performance management systems and remuneration for top and middle managers; the development of the labor and personal potential of the employees of the enterprise; retention of personnel.

At the end of the program, the projects were defended in format of pitching. All participants have successfully completed the training.

Olga Verkhovskaya was the Academic Director of the program. GSOM Professors Vassily Dermanov, Antonina Lisovskaya, Oksana Ezerskaya, Olga Alkanova, Marina Latukha, Oksana Pikuleva, Maxim Arzumanyan, Elena Zavyalova and Dmitri Sokolov took part in the program as lecturers.