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abstract

The paper investigates how corporate language influences the career mobility of MNC employees in Russia. We apply human capital theory to show how language may be valued in an organizational context. In our work we use a framework that demonstrates that corporate language may act as a glass ceiling. The results show that employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider vertical and horizontal career mobility than employees with a higher level of these language skills. Equally, employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider internal and external career mobility than those employees with a higher level of these language skills. We prove that corporate language may act both as a barrier and as a facilitator for the career mobility of employees in Russian MNCs who have different levels of corporate language skills.

5. Conclusion

The study shows that corporate language has broad influences and implications in the Russian context. We aimed at investigating the influence of corporate language e a special managerial tool used by a large number of international companies in the present day e on career mobility of employees in MNCs in Russia. The importance of language competence for individuals' career success, and the ways in which language competence affects this, is a limited researched area, with only a few studies as an exception (Piekkari, 2008; Traavik & Richardsen, 2010). While academics examining the corporate language phenomenon have not paid a great deal of attention to career issues, corporate language has not usually been considered as being one of the career mobility factors for researchers studying careers, especially in the Russian context. With respect to human capital theory, our results show how corporate language may act as a barrier and as a facilitator for career mobility of employees, in Russian MNCs, who have different levels of corporate language skills. From an employee's perspective, understanding how human capital development is associated with career perceptions may allow them to take a more proactive role in developing their language skills.