Although ergonomics has proven essential to increasing the productivity in every industry, worldwide, in contemporary organizations where managers do not perceive the ergonomic aspects or organizational design as some of their duties, there can still be effects of not paying it the right...

Specific characteristic for recession situation are: instability, anxiety, unpredictable attitude and behavior accentuation of knowledge, cognitive filters and erroneous interpretation of social, economic or existential realities. In this paper, for knowing this recession from the perspective of...

When considering the overall picture of maritime business, maritime human resources are high on the list of matters that influence competitiveness. During actual crisis, though budgets for training and teamwork activities were reduced, there have been made efforts to gain an awareness of human...

The present paper deals with the specific picture on human resources, regarded from two viewpoints: the national available viewpoint and the managers viewpoint. It continues with the diferences between what comes out of school and what the labor market requires, the problems encountered in the...

Human resource management represents all activities of operational and energy order allowing the organization to ensure the necessary human resources and their efficient use. Currently, human problems occupy leading positions in business analysis, although the personnel function has long been...

In order to improve maritime human resources recruitment, most crewing and shipping companies implement an internal procedure of recruitment and management of ship’s crew. Based on observations at several crewing companies, this paper presents an example of such procedure meant to ensure that...

Human capital management is a pragmatically new approach of what used to be called personnel management. Human capital represents the only inexhaustible resource of creativity, solutions, and new, innovating and valuable ideas. The Harvard approach recognizes a common element in every business,...

This article includes 2 parts: theoretical elements and a case study. Theoretical elements define and explain concepts such as: stress, stress management, organizational change and counseling. In the case study these elements are applied on a research unit development. The reason for this...

Today, more than ever, managers are called to solve the problems facing the economy at the beginning of the third millennium, and on this basis, to solve many social problems of humanity. Also, the business world moves today in a very rapid pace and less ordered. This has a direct implication:...