International crisis, market transparency, labor mobility, global capital flows, and instantaneous communications have blown scenario that senior executives in large companies had a simple goal for themselves and their organizations: stability. Shareholders wanted little more than predictable...

Knowledge is seen in our day as the main driving force behind productivity,performance and economic growth, shifting the focus to information, technology andlearning and their role in economic performance. The growing codification of knowledgeand its transmission through communications and...

SMEs present many particularities which influence to a large extend their functionality and performance. A very deep investigation of more than 60 SMEs has revealed what are the major variables having influence on SMEs organisation and the main features of organisation system. In the first part...

Any organization is more competitive as it is able to continuously develop multiple plans. This imperative is that change is a law of life and knowledge of the change process for its effective management is one of the factors that can ensure the competitiveness of organizations in a competitive...

This paper analyzes the bank-SMEs partnership in terms of ICT collaboration. The data about ICT projects developed in the Romanian banks having SMEs as a technology provider is collected by web content mining. Then, the paper addresses two main perspectives. At first, we identify the features...

This paper is an attempt to clarify and present the many definitions of benchmarking. It also attempts to explain the basic steps of benchmarking, to show how this tool can be applied by local authorities as well as to discuss its potential benefits and limitations providing a series of examples...

The paperwork presents the evolution of the conflicting states in Romanian organizations between 1992-2008 and presents data regarding the causes of the conflicts from a economic, social and political point of view. There are presented data regarding the number of conflicts recorded in the...

It is assumed that the origin of the coach comes from the Czech word kocsis or Hungarian kocyi, who was later adopted by the French and used as coche. The paper is dealing with some interesting aspects regarding the coaching and its role in the healthcare units. The authors made an interesting...

The paper presents the individual and organizational consequences of stress and methods of prevention and management of stress. The paper highlights the importance of specific programs for the prevention and stress management developed by some organizations. Also, are presented the most frequent...