Russia''s WTO entry to improve management in business: poll

Moscow, Feb 8 (Itar-Tass) Most Russian experts believethat the country''s membership to WTO will be beneficial as itwill improve its business practices.

According to an opinion poll, most respondents (43 percent) believe that Russia''s WTO entry will streamline qualitycertification for enterprises and organisations.

Another 25 per cent are sure that business will have toengage in quality certification. At the same time, 20 per centof polled people believe that Russian business will be moreactively using grey schemes to get ISO, while another 12 percent said nothing would change in that sphere.

Most of the polled people (68 per cent) believe thatpositive changes as to matching international qualitystandards will take place inside Russian business.

Of all the polled respondents, 52 per cent are sure thatthe quality of management in the Russian business will improveif Russia joins the WTO, and will keep improving to reachworld standards in the future.

Seven per cent say the quality of management will shortlyreach the world level.

Thus, 59 per cent of polled people believe that Russia''sWTO entry will make it possible to improve the quality ofmanagement in Russian business.

However, 20 per cent believe that nothing will change,while 18 per cent forecast management problems and chaos inthat sphere, while six per cent have found it difficult toanswer that question.

Romir is the Russian holding specialising in studyingdifferent markets and spheres of life of the society, thePrime-Tass economic news agency reports.

It is the exclusive representative of internationalassociations of market research companies GallupInternational, GlobalNR and Worldwide Independent Network(WIN) in Russia and CIS states.

The research network incorporates more than 30 affiliatesand joint companies in main Russian regions and countries ofthe Eurasian zone. (Itar-Tass)