RALPH YIRIKIAN GIVES LECTURE FOR FLEX PROGRAM GRADUATES

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.11.2009 13:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ VivaCell-MTS, subsidiary of "Mobile TeleSystems"
OJSC, announces that Thursday the Company’s General Manager Ralph
Yirikian delivered a lecture on the culture of management during the
meeting with the graduates of the Flex program.

Flex is an educational program implemented in Armenia under the
sponsorship of US government, which gives young Armenians an
opportunity to live and to get their high school education in the US.

The graduate students of the program, who return to Armenia, are
particularly interested in the experience of management culture at
successful companies.

VivaCell-MTS denies the approach of criticizing without offering
something instead. Everyone at the Company knows that productive team
work presupposes that employees are provided with proper working
conditions and guarantees for safety. Nobody should be neglected,
and the motivation system should be put in place.

A manager should lead by example and the respect, law and requirements
should be practiced from top to bottom. Any company that wants to
succeed should be guided by this model," mentioned VivaCell-MTS
General Manager Ralph Yirikian.

VivaCell-MTS General Manager encouraged the US high school graduates
not to succumb to excessive bureaucracy and not to diminish the
importance of employer-employee relations. Among the principles of
good management are the long-term strategies, the values of respect
and hard-work, readiness for cooperation and responsibility, the
vision for future and innovations, as well the particular attention to
activities that are based on the concept of corporate responsibility.

After the lecture, the gathered got a chance to receive answers to
the questions about the activities of Armenia’s leading mobile