The next decade will present many uncertainties and organisational challenges on an unprecedented scale. As the financial crisis winds its way through the system, a new world order is being revealed. There will be no return to “Business As Usual”. This article explores the changes in the...

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)...

In a world where meaning has been deconstructed and reconstructed, where centers have lost their hegemony and notions such as truth, knowledge or history have been rendered relative by the ongoing ontological enquiry of the postmodern ideology, it is baffling to remark that not only in...

The characteristic of postmodernism as a cultural paradigm is deconstruction. The fact that “deconstruction” allows a hermeneutical adrift, centrifuge and without poles, shows the difficulty of understanding the ways of thinking, supreme tolerance, which accepts any text. No interpretation...

In this paper we propose to explore and analyze the social services offered to elderly in Home Care Centre. An important role is overseeing the proposal of the supervision process into the centre, for improving the quality of the services provided to beneficiaries. Attention will be placed also...

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...

This article is dedicated to the research of the nature and content of the military body of the state from a political perspective. A particular emphasis is placed on the social and political, military and economic, military and diplomatic, military and scientific activities, as well as on the...

This article explores the debates between quantitative and qualitative methods in the evaluation process, analyzes the challenges about methodological mix in terms of credibility and validity of data and tools, and the evaluation findings. Beyond the epistemological contradictions, it seems...

The theme of communication leads to major changes in the way of conceptualizing the world and human behavior. The communication process turns into the game, and how everything is put into communication “without limits” (Codoban, 1995) everything is a game. Transforming reality into a...

The sociological research of the phenomenon is required to highlight its actual size, its implications, to the safety of citizens on the one hand, and to freedom of expression of religious beliefs on the other. In the volume there are some general features of new religious movements with violent...