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Editorial
The passing year, 2013, was marked by several important events in the science and practice of organizational psychology in Russia. One of these events that garnered considerable public attention, was the first international scientific conference "Business. Society. Human" that took place on October 30-31, 2013 in Moscow, at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). The conference was organized by the HSE with assistance of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social and Economic Problems of the Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Socio-political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint-Petersburg State University, Chuo University (Tokyo, Japan), The Association for Business Psychology (UK), International Russian-Japanese Centre for Comparative Studies of Corporate Culture in Russia, Eastern, and Western countries, and with support of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP).
The "Organizational Psychology" e-journal acted as the information outlet for this conference. Complete abstracts of the conference presentations were published in the special Supplement in 2013. In the current issue we would like to present complete texts of several conference reports that were kindly submitted by the authors in response to our invitation. Professor Akihiro Ishikawa (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan) presented a comparative analysis showing considerable similarity in the issues of social responsibility of corporations in Japan and in Russia. Adina Terry, who is a business psychologist, coach, and a member of The Association for Business Psychology (UK), described a technique for business coaching and shared her understanding of the role coaching plays in increasing the efficiency of modern organizations. The presentation of professor Takhir Bazarov (Moscow, Russia) was focused on the topical issues of aims of modern business education and ways to reach these aims, with particular attention to the three principal roles played by a business coach. Professor Natalia Ivanova (Moscow, Russia) shared the results of her long-term research of personality self-determination in business. Several other speakers who participated in the conference have agreed to prepare full-length articles based on their presentations for our journal that we intend to publish in 2014.
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