INVESTMENT IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSES OF THE EMPLOYERS FROM THE ROMANIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

The introduction of new technologies in economy imposes the need of improving the level of labor force qualification. Life long learning represents, on one hand, a determinant factor in the adaptation process of the business to market changes and, on the other hand, it contributes to the increase of peoples’ chances to be employed. The paper aims to analyze the present level of employer’s investment in the employees’ education and professional training. For this analyze data were collected based on questionnaires and were processed with SPSS 11.0 software.