CBOSS Drives Open Human Resources Policy as a Key to Innovations and Quality

CBOSS Corporation is holding meritocratic elections of the Director of Marketing and PR. This innovation is introduced in accordance with Clause 5 of the corporate mission statement.

The telecommunications operator's victory in the competitive battle rests, first of all, on innovations and high quality of information technologies, serving millions or tens of millions of customers in various markets, and supporting multiple systems and devices having sophisticated architecture and topology.

This level of technology requires not only highly skilled specialists from the vendor, but also an open intellectual atmosphere in the team; not only the opportunity to exchange opinions freely and effectively, but also the competence of key managers.

In the IT business, the intellectual property accumulation and human potential development are the main factors of success. The meritocratic principle adopted by CBOSS Corporation is the first example of a radical HR innovation on the Russian market.

It is based on the equality of employees' rights to compete, meaning that any employee of CBOSS Corporation or any external candidate can be appointed to a position of any level by winning fair meritocratic elections.

Meritocracy is based on an intellectual benchmark making up for certain disadvantages of direct democratic voting. Higher intellectual rating increases the weight of an employee's vote. This is how the main idea of meritocracy - "the power of the worthy" - is brought to life.

Meritocracy results in the innovative and high-quality software created by a self-evolving team with continuously growing intellectual level. The HR practice consists in unlimited career growth based on the intellect.

The atmosphere of equal opportunities helps to optimize the enterprise structure, improve the vertical and horizontal communications, increase responsibility, and decrease error rates.

Moreover, the open HR policy allows the company to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Today, the IT market is driven by the "pressure of the resume". Defining professional expertise as the key factor of a candidate's success, software vendors have to exchange the same specialists circulating in headhunting channels. As a result of this, companies deliver cookie-cutter solutions. CBOSS Corporation invites anyone who is able to cope with the screening test to participate in the elections. With this, we ensure:

• A stronger outreach to specialists, some of whom may be the rising stars unnoticed by other IT companies
• Fresh thoughts and constant aspiration for smarter solutions, search for new forms and concepts, generating new knowledge and products.

This leads to progressive growth of innovations of developed software and capability of the telecommunications operator to offer radically new products to its customers.

The open meritocratic HR policy also brings the following benefits:

• Fast shaping up to new responsibilities. Self-training of the specialists starts before they are recruited, as candidates have to study a lot of information to complete the screening test
• No need for headhunting, as CBOSS invites everyone to participate in the elections, irrelevant of their status and experience, employing objective selection criteria.

Andrey Morozov, CBOSS Corporation President, says, "Our main goal is to empower the telecom operator with a winning weapon to triumph in the competitive struggle, and the best of all possible weapons it has to be. The only way to achieve our objective is to provide for spontaneous growth of intellectual potential and human capital in our own team. This is what meritocracy as CBOSS' unique HR innovation is aimed at. For many years, our presentation layer has been imperfect - we were making a good product, but were not quite as good at showcasing it properly, to the extent that we would sometimes update our news page only once in half a year, despite the actual abundance of production achievements. If the winner of the meritocratic elections of the Marketing and PR Director manages to radically change the situation, then our theory is true and we are on the right way."

CBOSS is a transnational corporation and one of the world leaders in the development of innovative convergent IT solutions for end-to-end automation of telecommunications companies, delivering a competitive edge to telecoms across the globe.

CBOSS Corporation offers the full range of equipment, system and application software and professional services, including consulting, turnkey implementation, technical support, staff training and IT outsourcing, providing telcos with guaranteed operations quality while minimizing operational and capital expenditures.

CBOSS can supply operators, service providers and MVNOs with all components of integrated IT infrastructure and/or services, as well as with full-scale outsourcing options, providing a reliable single point of responsibility.