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Management of Change in the Changing School

Author(s): Gabriela Diana Niculescu,Florina Dorina Voicu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

"Let us have the serenity of accepting what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and especially the wisdom to make the difference between the two possibilities" Marc Aureliu. Since ancient times man as a social being has lived with other people. It goes without saying that human education has a paramount importance when it comes to its integration into society. Reflecting, but also actively contributing to the society’s evolution, the schools are in the permanent process of change. They both support and promote the change as a way for continuous modernization of economic and social life. In order to qualify for quality education, there is a need for schools in order to have an appropriate change management in educational field that will lead to a quality education for the pupils and will increase their chances to become well integrated in the society.

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Social Innovation through Urban Regeneration – A Local Model

Author(s): Andreea-Alexandra Anechitei / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

This paper introduces the analytic context of a social innovation model analyzed through a local urban regeneration process. Urban regeneration is the bringing to life of urban areas with the cooperative effort of municipalities, owners and other stakeholders involved in improving living conditions, enhancing the quality of the environment and the social climate, and strengthening the local economy. The main question is: Can an urban regeneration project be considered social innovation? To answer that, the purpose of this article is the analysis of an urban regeneration project as a social innovation one. The paper employs content analysis exploring a study case within a pilot urban regeneration project. The paper findings suggest that the main purpose of social innovation in the urban regeneration of the Ferentari neighborhood is not the profit: social innovation consists of innovative activities and services motivated by the purpose of responding to a social need, disseminated through organizations, individuals or enterprises whose main purpose is social.

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Rabbi Hirsch values and principles and McKinsey 7 S model. Past and Future in Israeli School Management

Author(s): Yochanan Kirschenboim / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

This article discusses the relevance of Rabbi Hirsch religious values and principles of school management formulated in the 19th century based on the Tora teachings to today’s school management practice and realities of the 21st century. His main shared value standing in the center of its approach is “Loving one’s fellow and human dignity. It is important to recognize the love, dignity and honor that people give and share with us. Dignity is a precondition for a “happy life.” The fundamental rule is that, in effect, teaching has to be presented to the students as an activity arising from a moral obligation, and acquisition of education arises from a moral, not a selfish, aspiration, otherwise moral education would not succeed. Based on these we discuss the management of an existing school using the 7S model of McKinsey applied in the case of Israeli schools.

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The Role of the Shared Value “Justice” in the Management Approach of Educational Organizations of Rabbi Hirsch

Author(s): Yochanan Kirschenboim / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Rabbi Samson Hirsch, was born in Hamburg, Germany, on June 19, 1808, and died in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on December 31, 1888. The years in which he was active were replete with far-reaching changes for European Jewry in general, and for German Jewry in particular. His educational and literary writings made their mark on Jewish history, and that people admire him as a true revolutionary person and as someone who had managed to shape generations of students through his innovative methods in education and management of educational institutions.

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The Use of Telematics Solutions in Achieving Excellency in Anti Criminal Activity in Romania

Author(s): Emilian Cristian Irimescu,Corina Ioanas,Cristian Silviu Bănacu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2016

Looking at the quality through the results of an activity, in this case an economic activity, our paper aims to identify some causal links between the preventing criminality and control mechanism, based on telematics security systems, and the criminality against property status at country level. The analyzed statistical data series are focused on the evolution of criminality in Romania in the last years, and also on the monitoring marketing based on private dispatches. The big picture reveals that in over 43% of the European countries there is an ascending level of burglaries. In this paper we try to identify if the development of the telematics security market based on private monitoring dispatches a decrease of the criminality against property in Romania. Based on this study we will be able to see if the private companies which provide security services can reach an Excellency level (considered Excellency in business), identified through country level results, based on the use of security telematics solutions.

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Monitoring Romanian Medical System: International Perspectives

Author(s): Ana-Mădălina Potcovaru (Bîgu),Adriana Girneata,Adi Eleonor G. Trifu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

In order to change a system or a part of it, there is a profound need to actually know, in depth and with accuracy, how it works. Many things have been said, mostly bad ones, about Romanian medical system. Plus, both patients and doctors have growing necessities and complaints, while the population’s need for medical assistance is bigger and bigger. The world is looking towards Romania and the organizations that have a say at an international level are expecting a reaction and solutions to the multitude of problems signaled by various means. Meanwhile, the government continues to obstinately avoid taking the bull by the horns, and more than that, keeps reducing the state financing for the medical sector. The subject of our paper is based on the economic realities of nowdays. Recently, social media and NGOs have been assuming a difficult role: the indirect monitoring of the quality of the services. Same interest in monitoring is shared by UE and different international organizations.

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The Role and Importance of Governance for the Public Sector. Case Study for Romania

Author(s): Adelina Dumitrescu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2014

The development and modernization of public administration under restricted budgetary resources imposes a rigorous control on the spending of public funds. In this regard the modified law of internal public audit underlines the necessity for institutional governance in the public sector. The paper starts from these changes of the Romanian internal public audit law analyzing the relationship between audit and management, and the importance of governance in the public sector. The used method of research is based on the qualitative analysis of internal audit activities which are meant to add value to management processes in public entities. The originality of the paper consists in the qualitative study based on interpretative methods for understanding the effects of governance on management and audit. The conclusions of the study are presenting in the paper by a governance model for the public sector and can act as starting point for future research.

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Change Management in Medical University Education in Romania in the Context of National and European Development Policies

Author(s): Vladimir Aurelian Enăchescu,Ioana-Roxana Trapiel / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

Innovation was also involved in the definition and types of medical systems, which have proven over time viability. The fundamental elements of any efficeient system, as a part of system management, like human resource, material resource, financial resource and not least, temporal resource, must be the principles on which it is founded. According to contemporary theories, priority is human resource and in this paper, we propose to analyze human resource training from this field, following analysis of change management in medical university education, coming up with a series of conclusions with the title of recommendations, for just such a future approach toward efficiency.

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Scientific Research Management in Romania

Author(s): Angelica Băcescu-Cărbunaru,Monica Condruz-Bacescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The present paper presents the challenges of scientific research in the Romanian environment. The first part deals with current issues of the Romanian scientific research. After 25 years of searching, scientific research has not found the solution of working in correlation with major rules in EU countries. The change in the Romanian political system in 1990 found society unprepared for research work in the market economy. The second part focuses on how the research system should function. This requires a national management measure, which means the appearance of high professionalism and efficiency structures, made of specialized companies, that should operate on the principle of commissions. The last part presents the research strategy in regional, national and international framework. The conclusion is that the level of innovation and research culture in Romania is low, both in the business sector and in academia. In the field of interaction with the international environment, significant technological gaps in comparison with developed countries, stimulate technology import to the detriment of innovation.

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Considerations Regarding the Application of Management Tools in Public Institutions - CAF (Common Assessment Framework) in a Romanian Regional Context

Author(s): Mircea Băcală,Nicolae Aurelian Bibu / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2013

The ongoing process of building an efficient government, transparent and citizen oriented public institutions have become, in recent years, more interested in the promotion and introduction of management tools in the public sector. Strategic reasons and efficient public management led to the European Community, to create a standardized tool for assessing the quality of public management and organization of administrative structures in European countries, generic tool called Common Assessment Framework, abbreviated CAF (Common Assessment Framework). The paper deals with Common Assessment Framework - CAF as a tool for measuring the performance of an organization by establishing a diagnostic analysis and the ways that can be used in public institutions in Romania. Regarding the introduction of CAF methodology shows that States have progressed to a certain extent, but self-assessment was only began to develop. It would be desirable for management tools to be implemented in all central and local government institutions - mainly for reasons of transparency, credibility and efficiency.

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The Impact of Disciplinary Problems on Academic Achievements

Author(s): Ensaf Abu-Ahmed / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2013

This article describes aspects affecting pupils' behavior in class, and the impact of pupil's behavior upon his academic achievement. The writer displays factors affecting pupil's in-class behavior, and the ramification of his behavior upon his relations with peers and faculty, and the impact of these relations or the lack of them upon his academic achievements, and vice versa. It depicts the cycle of interrelated impacts upon school climate and learning atmosphere. In the last decade there is an obvious deterioration in discipline breaches in school. Educators and other school employees complain about the worsening daily atmosphere they have to cope with, about pupils' inappropriate behavior, and about the frequency of disciplinary problems. Several teachers report that during the period, instead of teaching, they are constantly required to deal with disciplinary problems. The researcher is of the opinion that if relations between teacher and pupils are negative, the class is doomed to failure, regardless of its location, while good teacher-pupils relations positively affect all the characteristics of the school climate: good relations lead to behavioral and academic improvement, raises scientific curiosity, and contributes to improve relations among pupils, improve emotional experience, and contributes to learning motivation.

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Managing the Transition Process of Students from Junior High-School to High-School

Author(s): Yusef Eman / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Transitions from primary school to high school is also considered to be a key milestone, while experiencing adolescence, children undergo more developmental changes include physical, cognitive, emotional and psychological changes. During the course of their studies all students experience transitions between schools. The focus of my paper is the transition process and the management of this period by involving all the relevant stakeholders in the process of students’ transition from Junior High School to High School. I have focused my research on different factors involving this transition and the challenges that students and professors have to cope with.

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Political Management between Ethical Grounds and Electoral Purposes. The Case of Taxation

Author(s): Gabriel Stăicuţ / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2012

Many empirical studies illustrate the natural correlation between freedom and economic prosperity. Therefore, the quality of economic and political institutions that prevail in a country must be assessed considering their capacity to promote a lower level of government intervention in all aspects of social life. This paper offers both theoretical and empirical arguments to support “more market and less government” framework as the best way to promote economic prosperity and political stability within our society. In their way to gain political power, politicians and political parties have to adapt their political management and electoral agenda according to the population preferences and expectations. It has been proved in the past elections that Romanians are favourable to a low level of taxation, even if part of them demands in the same time more financial support from the government. This state of facts represents a real challenge for politicians to shape their political management and strategies in order to gain more votes on the one hand, and to not affect budgetary equilibrium on the other. In some extent, the conclusions of the paper provide some possible solutions for the electorate to rationally discern between different electoral offers, to understand their short run and long run economic and social effects.

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Environmental Sustainability and Product Portfolio Management in Biodiversity Firms: A Comparative Analysis between Portugal and Brazil

Author(s): Daniel Jugend,José Figueiredo,Marco Antonio Paula Pinheiro / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Although relevant research on environmental sustainability or product portfolio management is quite developed, few studies integrate the two areas. This research aims to shed light on the environmental sustainability practices adopted in product portfolio through a cross-country case study on leading biodiversity companies located in Portugal and Brazil. The results demonstrate that the pressure of government regulation and the tendency of markets to demand consumer products that do not harm biodiversity have changed the mindset of biodiversity companies, which have been trying to expand their environmentally sustainable product portfolio (ESPP). The results also indicate that tuning ESPP improves market performance and that the main barriers to integrate environmental sustainability into the product portfolio are technological.

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Organizational Conditioning of Job Satisfaction. A Model of Job Satisfaction

Author(s): Marcin Wnuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Job satisfaction is an important predictor of job switching. Knowledge of the predictors of job satisfaction offers business owners and management staff the ability to shape the work environment so that the most valuable, loyal, and experienced employees can be retained in the company. The objective of this project is to test a model of job satisfaction based on person-organization fit (P-O fit), perceived organizational support (POS), and perceived supervisor support (PSS). The study examines whether PSS directly relates to employee job satisfaction or whether P-O fit or POS mediate in this relationship. Additionally, it is examined whether POS is a moderating variable between P-O fit and job satisfaction. The study was conducted using a sample 484 employees of a company in the IT sector. It turns out that POS, and P-O fit to the organization are variables that act as partial mediator between PSS and job satisfaction. The relationship between PSS and POS is both direct and indirect. P-O fit is a partial mediator of this relationship, while POS is both a partial mediator and a moderator between P-O fit and job satisfaction. Among employees who POS to be high, consistency between an employee’s and the organization’s values is indirectly connected with job satisfaction, whereas among employees who POS to be low, this relationship is both direct and indirect. In their operations, employers should focus on shaping managers’ attitudes towards their subordinates in an appropriate direction, as managers significantly influence employees’ perceived organizational support and job satisfaction.

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Ranking Mechanisms in Public Investment

Author(s): Adriana Grigorescu,Andrei Claudiu MOTOC / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2011

Properly spending the budget on public investments is the main issue of public authorities. The investment projects sustained by the state are very important for the entire socio-economic life. This is the reason that put the selection process of the solution under question marks and suspicions. A stable and honest rankings mechanism that is taking into account multiple socio-economic indicators and their social importance could be a solution. The transparency of the process and the implication of the contributors/citizens should be taken into consideration. The paper presents the main characteristics of the public investments regulation and procedure in Romania and it focuses on three mechanisms of ranking the solutions for an investment project. The validation of the mechanism could be made using existing data by a panel of experts as further development of the research.

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Mediation of Conflicts – a Viable Solution for Surpassing Communication Barriers. President-Mediator in the Conflict between the Government and the Syndicate’s Organizations from the Education Field

Author(s): Laura Maria Maruşca / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2009

The premises of this project are that approximately 90% of the conflicts in the modern society and not only, are based on poor communication. Any type of miscommunication (due to cultural, linguistic, politic or religious differences) can and will generate conflicts of various intensities going from simple quarrels to diplomatic incidents and all the way to wars. The mediator has the role to solve any existing conflict and to help repair the breaches from the communicational system between parts, in order to preserve the relationship. The article presents a case study on the involvement of the President of Romania, proclaimed to be a mediator by the Constitution, to settle amicably conflicts triggered during October-November 2005, between the Education Unions and the Government of Romania. The involvement of the President as a mediator in the conflict triggered by the wage claims of teachers and students while our budget was not able to support those claims followed almost all the theoretical recommendations regarding the amicable settlement of conflicts through the intervention of a third part.

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Waste Management in Romania

Author(s): Sanda Vişan,Alina Maria Ion,Virginia Ciobotaru,Florica Ligia Botez / Language(s): English Issue: S1/2009

Waste constitutes a serious problem of the contemporary world, through their quantity and diversity, resulting from all economic fields, towns, services, health, and consumption activities. Integrated management of waste which is applied in Romania too, supposes the reducing wastes in productive activities, collection, transport, storage controlled, monitoring deposits and selling material or energy. This study makes references to the collection of their packaging and recycling.

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Hungarian Higher Education – Sustainability

Author(s): Eva Darabos,Domicián Máté / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2015

Nowadays, the sustainability already goes far beyond the aspects of environmental protection; the knowledge and the education are also part of the sustainable development. In the field of education, a condition of realizing the sustainability is that the state should ensure a predictable and stable budget for the operation of institutions. Aim of the treatise, at first, is to examine the fulfilment of Europe 2020 Strategy objective affecting the higher education directly and then, based on statistical data, to present the trend in number of students of the Hungarian higher education and its composition by regions and to examine the change in the budgetary support.In order to retain the sustainability and competitiveness, the state and the institutions should make efforts to harmonise their sources and expenditures and to ensure a predictable, stable financial environment for the sector and its stakeholders.

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An Analysis of the Health Sector in Romania

Author(s): Ibrahim Almaashi / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2014

The paper intends to present an analysis of the efficiency and the performance of health sector in Romania. The research efforts are based on the description of the operational mechanism and analyses of the financing or underfinancing of the above system. Romania has a significant issue in terms of poverty and fairness. Among EU States, it was ranked second in 2008 in terms of the share of the population exposed the risk of poverty, with a share close to the value of 23%, Latvia, with a rate of 26 %. Given this inequality, it would be advisable for the Government to devise specific policies in plane to ensure access for the poor population to health care. Theoretically, Romania provides such protection through the exemption of those registered in the program concerning the guaranteed minimum income from the payment of contributions and of copayments. However, in practice this mechanism is insufficient.

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