Sebastian Chirimbu

Management and Organizational Change

Successful adaptation to change is as crucial within an organization as it is in the natural world. Just like plants and animals, organizations and the individuals in them inevitably encounter changing conditions that they are powerless to control.Change within the organization/company can be influenced by external factors (which can be controlled to a lesser extent by managers such as: changes in technology, increasing complexity of life that generates complex communication systems and social changes). Internal factors through which changes act within the organization are actually represented by processes of making decisions, communication, interpersonal relations, leadership, management style etc. In addition to the factors listed, there are a multitude of factors which, by nature of their content, are generating change.

Education in the Contemporary Economy and Society. Risks and Challenges

The 21st century economic and social context brings about unprecedented challenges in the field of education, raising, more acutely than ever, issues related to the effective criterion of competitiveness and the extent to which graduates are equipped with the skills required in the operational context of educational markets that often exceeds national boundaries, becoming international. Education will be focused in this regard especially on the preparation, as far as possible, the experts and staff with high qualifications for leading-edge sectors, able to ensure the viability of the various educational institutions and to validate the place they occupy in the market competitive tenders as educational. The present article discusses the risks and challenges that contemporary education is currently facing in a politically, economically, technologically fast changing world.

Management of Educational Paradigms within the Framework of Contemporary Educational Strategies

Each major pedagogical orientation brings with it a set of certain potential actions, a potential that becomes reality at the level of invariably at the level of educational reality. Assuming a certain pedagogical educational paradigm is thus equivalent to the transposition into practice of a certain type of experimental research and promoting a particular way of conceiving and modeling of human nature. In a world characterized by contradicting realities, by turmoil, fast developing technologies, discussing and deciding on the most appropriate educational paradigms should be a core process in the attempt of conceiving the educational vision and objectives of tomorrow. The present paper aims at discussing the role of educational paradigms within the framework of contemporary educational strategies.

Strategic Approach To Supply Chain Management In Logistics

According to its mission, the fundamental purpose of logistics is to contribute to the achievement of customer services in terms of efficiency. Companys performance in the supply chain is given by the delivery service. It must be established from the way the company responds to every order received from the customer as a result of implementing a strategy consisting of a series of specific decisions. A higher level of service requires those decisions to permit the firm to meet an optimal service level and a complete customer satisfaction in terms of price, time value of the invoice, goods arrived safely at their destination. The level at which an order is satisfied is a measure of the performance of the supply chain of the company and of the strategy applied by the company for its management.

RE-THINKING THE MODERN LEADERSHIP IN THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANIA’S EUROPEAN MEMBERSHIP

The article highlights the issue of leadership within the Romanian Orthodox Church, as it is going through a period of redefinition of its values. Connections between organizational culture, management culture and leadership in modern organizations highlight the manner in which leadership is exercised in the context of knowledge of the organizations foundation.

Challenges of leadership in modern organizations: knowledge, vision, values

The article highlights the issue of leadership in the context of the exercise in the knowledge-based organization. Connections between organizational culture, management culture and leadership in modern organizations highlight the manner in which leadership is exercised in the context of knowledge of the organizations foundation. Leadership means knowledge and practice, it means quality. Organizations need managers, but they also need leaders. It is desirable for the two areas to overlap in the largest possible extent. Modern approaches emphasize the evolution of these relations to the area where the legitimacy of the leaderships concern is justified by the development and promotion of other leaders.

European Youth is the Union’s the Most Valuable Resource

The young generation is a key factor that any responsible society should take into account when thinking about building the future. Nowadays, understanding the characteristics, dreams and hopes of what has been called the Y generation is crucial for designing the Europe of tomorrow. The political, social and economic changes that have shaped our continent in the recent decades doubled by the tremendous development of communication technology have triggered special features of a whole generation of young people in love with the ever changing and upgrading communication devices but not very much interested in “the life of the city”.

Community Terminology Translation into the Romanian Language

The increasing number of official translation of the European institutions has been determined by the exigencies of communication between Member States and third parties lately, the European area being characterized by a spectacular information exchange within the European Community policies (economic, monetary, financial, social, environmental, research). Translating texts and Community documentation represents a job that requires skills, stages of research required for disclosure of transfer characteristic into the target language, training, experience, sense of language; also, translating such texts is to know the history of that country, its legal system and culture as shown in treaties and especially in academic articles.

Social and Economic Welfare in the European Context

In the globalization era that we are witnessing, the social problems of welfare and development have become key points on the agendas of European countries and not only. The present economic and political context has proved once more that social welfare represents an essential objective of any society.As the core objective of any economy is to create goods and services in order to satisfy needs on the one hand and social discontent occurs in societies characterized by obvious inequalities on the other hand, it will be natural that any nation will try to achieve a system producing social-economic welfare or, in other words a welfare economy. The role of the state in this field will consist in the creation of tools and methods which should lead to the redistribution of incomes, as economic welfare in a consumption society is deeply connected to the welfare of individuals, families, groups; consequently the standard of living becomes the most important indicator measuring the level of economic welfare.The present article is a comparative study of different types of welfare states as well as a comparative presentation of the situation of the welfare states for different European countries.

A Model Challenging the 21st Century Financial Markets

Developed in the 1950s and 1960s, the core concept of the Markowitz model - the homogenous expectations assumption - is important to capital asset pricing models. The Markowitz Model uses the statistical variance of a stocks price as the measure of its risk and its expected return as the measure of its long-term prospects. It was created in 1952 by Harry Markowitz and is considered to be an optimization model for balancing the expected return and risk of a portfolio. Although more than half a century old, this model is both fresh and applicable in the contemporary financial environment.