We live times of change, due to technological development, when information and knowledge are main elements of power. Organizations must not underestimate the importance of employees, owners of information and knowledge. How to motivate and keep them is a real challenge in the actual business...

Transformational leadership has been defined as a process by which leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation (Burns, 1978). This paper examines the concepts of transformational leadership and intercultural communication competence. A deeper insight is...

Within the theoretical and practical management and entrepreneurial fields a wide range of approaches tried to explain and present the conflict evolution and its impact over the organization’s performances. This article deals with a mechanism designed to outline a methodology able to lead us...

The organization is a social system in which people interact to achieve common goals. We observe an acceleration of change in the value systems worldwide, an adoption of new attitudes, new goals, and aspects leading to rapid change of the society. To survive and develop, an organization must...

Leadership is clearly one of the main factors that influence organizational competitiveness. It means both science and art, both born and learned skills. Leadership and gender differentiation is a subject that leads to at least two main questions: (1) Do significant differences exist between men...

This paper proposes an analogy between rational biological model and the organizations’ development during their existence. So, organizations’ "birth" or creation are considered the result of genetic algorithms, transformations are identified with changes that aim the adapting to the...

This article lays out a framework for assessing the leadership skills in a supply management organization. For such organizations to have significant impact and deliver results to the broader company, they need four elements: people with the right skills, the right position in the organization,...

Lately people say more and more about emotional intelligence, about knowledge based economy, about intangible assets and intellectual capital. The permanent improvement of the knowledge supply will be decisive for reaching the success. But only the creation of the networks of knowledge...

The change management includes the control of the change in the organization and its flexible adaptation to the constant changes. This paper issues from the idea that which desires to adapt to the external environment and especially to the progress, must accept the change and respond to them in...

Although it is natural for the individual to judge other cultures primarily relative to his own culture and social community, frequently this tendency translates into the disparage of other people?s values, perspectives, behaviors and lacking acceptance of cultural diversity, while promoting...