Gilles Lipovetsky claims that the phrase “age of minimalism” is better suited to the postmodern society than “the society of generalised permissiveness”. The postmodern society is a post-moralist one, at the twilight of duty. Transmodern (“hypermodern” in Lipovetsky’s reading)...

Appreciative management support organizations, especially in the process of development of the human resources. Appreciative management,considered as a management centred on excellence, is based on the filosophy of appreciative inquiry. Any organization can apply this model starting with the...

The Roma community is often caught between two perspectives. Often is referred at the negative part which seems to represent this community. On the other hand there are organizations that continually emphasize the rights of the Roma population and the positive aspects that are found in their...

The primary purpose of the study is to open a new possibility in the planning process of the Technology Centers using Appreciative Inquiry in designing the future directions through the creation of the Development Plan. The discoveries articulated through themes drawn from the use of AI approach...

Proposed research, performed as a secondary analysis of data on the project "Virtual Center for Training and Consulting" conducted by the Lumen Association, Iasi, is focused on a qualitative hermeneutic analysis. It showed among other innovative features made in analyzing "globalization of...

The traditional concept of quality management has the odor of control. Therefore people experience quality management project as threatening and as least as an extra burden. It is often hard to motivate employees in an organization to participate voluntary in quality management projects. A...

The introduction of appreciative intervention methods at the organizational level as a discipline in the academic curriculum of the masters program “Supervision and Social Planning” is a starting point for the development of this methodology in various areas of social practice (Sandu, 2010)....

The practice of social work focuses mainly on solving problems, on reducing dysfunctions, on diminishing deficiencies etc. More often then not, allocating resources for providing problem-centred social services does not solve the problems for which the services were designed. Our initiative...

Appreciative group socialization appeared of the active collaboration of specialists from the Bureau of Support and Advice for Disabled People, the Diecesan Centre of Caritas (www.caritas-iasi.ro), active volunteers and service users involved. It added that an important role in the process of...

In this paper we aim to outline a protocol for the implementation of favorable social group, aiming to highlight a number of specific factors such as number of persons, type of group, which features the most important steps such as introduction, conduct etc. group. It will also enhance the...