ANALISIS OF THE EMPLOYERS’ ANTICIPATION REGARDING THE CHANGES THAT ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE ROMANIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COMPANIES

Lifelong learning represents an important factor in the accommodation process of the firms’ activity to the market changes. The introduction in the economy of new technologies imposes the necessity to continuously improve the level of labor force qualification. If some years ago people thought that their abilities and qualifications would allow them to stay employed many years without any problems, today they have to understand that the abilities, with which they entered on the labor market, will not be sufficient during their active life. From this reason, the education and training, even if they are carried on at their work place, in formal or informal systems, have to be always in the attention of the employees, because they represent for everybody the key for their personal development and career evolution. The present paper aims to analyze the employers’ anticipations regarding the future development of their own companies, the changes that are likely to occur and the implication of these upon the employment level in their companies. For this analyze data were collected based on questionnaires and were processed with SPSS 11.0 software.