Team production takes advantage of technological complementarities but comes with the cost of free-ridership. When workers differ in skills, the choice of sorting pattern may be associated with a nontrivial trade-off between exploiting the technological complementarities and minimizing the cost...

This article presents a quantitative approach to restructuring public and public utility enterprises, particularly during downsizing requests. The large number of employees in the public sector can be one of the causes for economic instability at country level. That is particularly visible in...

In a European area, for each citizen must have a secure environment in which freedom, security and justice are guaranteed. Today, it is necessary to build an integrated public policy driven by security needs and proactively serving the citizen. More than ever, it is necessary that the public...

At present, in a society increasingly based on knowledge, the correct approach to change in organizations is extremely difficult, due to national and international implications of the expected effects of actions taken or derived. Once Romania joins the European Union, Romania has entered a new...

Value creation is an issue that raises a growing interest today in many areas of science management: strategic management, business finance, accounting, management control, marketing, organization, human resources management. Under the practical aspect, value creation issue became a concern of...

At the energetic units’ level is significantly felt the need to follow closely the costs, including their distribution till the job level. This leads to a new vision of using human resources, mainly based on rational considerations and less on emotional ones. Reducing personnel number by...

The article determines which conflict resolution mechanisms are constructive and which are destructive, through analysing contractual agreements in European biotechnology enterprises. In the article, the term mechanism is used to refer to tools or the way in which conflicts are resolved....