Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations' mission, vision an... more Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations' mission, vision and/or processes, with impact at both individual and organization level. Some organizations accept changes if they consider them as necessary and quickly adapt their behaviour in a desire new direction but in most cases changes are considered unnecessary or very difficult and organizations do not adapt to the new context defined by the turbulent environment in which they operates. Considering these, the goal of the present research is to provide an overview on organizational change processes by considering the operation level and different approaches described in the literature. In the first part of the article there will be described how organizations operate and are interconnected based on Morgan's organizational metaphors. This will clarify aspects related to organizations' behaviour and will point out the advantages and limitations of different actions' options. In the second part of the article, there will be presented an inventory of models on organizational change. This section aims to illustrate the variety of options when planning and design an organizational change process, in order to understand the assumptions, the benefits and limitations of each option. Finally, there will be presented relevant aspects of organizations' functioning and methods of change, to underline the necessity of the change management strategy for organizations' development.
Management Challenges in a Network Economy: Proceedings of the MakeLearn and TIIM International Conference 2017, 2017
In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right a... more In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right and wrong in a particular context (situations or problem solving, most of the time associated with the decision-making process). At the organizational level, business ethics has become a complex and emergence management discipline. It is now confronted with new challenges as: global and multicultural business environment, company’s positive image to the public, social awareness, environment protection, corporate social responsibility, respect to equal rights, occupational health and safety responsibility and workplace well-being problems, improving and continuous education etc. In this context, the aim of the research is to deliver an overview of some common ethics tools. First, there will be presented the main modalities on how ethics in the workplace can be managed through the use of: codes of ethics, codes of conduct, policies and procedures. Then the concept of resolve ethical dilemmas will be presented and there will be described the ethical checklist method in order to developed a diagnosis of the decision making processes in small and medium size companies in Romania West Region. The presented case study will support the usefulness and the feasibility of the method in having such diagnosis.
In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increas... more In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increased a lot. To achieve an efficient organization management, the focus on implementing new human resource management techniques has increased. Therefore, the employees are the key for successful organization, the controversial issue being the workplace conditions for safety, health and well-being. For a harmonic workplace environment, the conditions of work should be adapted to employees' needs and diminishing the stress. The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to identify and analyze the stress factors, in order to mitigate them. The organizational case study encourages the companies to decrease the stress activities, to implement a pleasant and progressive workplace. The paper aims to understand the efficiency of the stress management implementation, in order to increase the professional processes performance and workers health and safety. General conclusions about the research results will be presented in the final part of the paper.
Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures take... more Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures taken, could support the better control (elimination or diminish) of the risks associated to the work processes. Through these preventive practices, in accordance with the legal requirements (properly applied), organizations avoid spending significant resources that could arise from work accidents and/or incidents. An important contribution to avoid accidents and the associated costs, which can even lead to bankruptcy, is related to the well-defined and implementation of the OHS culture. That culture exist tacitly, and is sometime ignored, until it is approached as a part of the organization knowledge management. In consequence, OHS culture is seen as a continuous value and not just a shifting priority depending on a particular situation or context. The most used and effective knowledge processes that contributes to the OSH culture development, is knowledge acquisition through the training programs address to organization's employees. In addition, the most important approach is to gain expected efficiency by applying other knowledge management processes as transfer and sharing. These will support the development of specific values (as intangible assets) that will nurture the OSH culture. In this context, the paper will present a methodological approach on how knowledge management processes will support the OHS culture development. Furthermore, there will be analysed the impact of applying the knowledge management processes for OSH training, in order to nurture the OSH culture, in the case of Romanian organizations.
In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increas... more In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increased a lot. To achieve an efficient organization management, the focus on implementing new human resource management techniques has increased. Therefore, the employees are the key for successful organization, the controversial issue being the workplace conditions for safety, health and well-being. For a harmonic workplace environment, the conditions of work should be adapted to employees’ needs and diminishing the stress. The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to identify and analyze the stress factors, in order to mitigate them. The organizational case study encourages the companies to decrease the stress activities, to implement a pleasant and progressive workplace. The paper aims to understand the efficiency of the stress management implementation, in order to increase the professional processes performance and workers health and safety. General conclusions about the researc...
Quality management is the attribute of successful companies who decided to implement a system abl... more Quality management is the attribute of successful companies who decided to implement a system able to grow and maintain consistent quality products and services in order to increase customer satisfaction, thereby increasing the company's profitability. The quality and consistent products is not sustainable unless it is supported, implemented unified and correlated with other quality management systems in the areas of occupational safety and health (OSH), environment, human resource, financial, project management that are related to important standards. Modern organizations’ processes are based on the implementation of the norms and standards related to quality, occupational safety and health and environment. These three pillars are strong manage by actual modern approaches in the field of risk management and this is defined by an integrated management approach. The aim of this article is to present a comparison of the quality system (defined in accordance with ISO 9001), with th...
Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations’ mission, vision an... more Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations’ mission, vision and/or processes, with impact at both individual and organization level. Some organizations accept changes if they consider them as necessary and quickly adapt their behaviour in a desire new direction but in most cases changes are considered unnecessary or very difficult and organizations do not adapt to the new context defined by the turbulent environment in which they operates. Considering these, the goal of the present research is to provide an overview on organizational change processes by considering the operation level and different approaches described in the literature. In the first part of the article there will be described how organizations operate and are interconnected based on Morgan's organizational metaphors. This will clarify aspects related to organizations’ behaviour and will point out the advantages and limitations of different actions’ options. In the second part ...
Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures take... more Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures taken, could support the better control (elimination or diminish) of the risks associated to the work processes. Through these preventive practices, in accordance with the legal requirements (properly applied), organizations avoid spending significant resources that could arise from work accidents and/or incidents. An important contribution to avoid accidents and the associated costs, which can even lead to bankruptcy, is related to the well-defined and implementation of the OHS culture. That culture exist tacitly, and is sometime ignored, until it is approached as a part of the organization knowledge management. In consequence, OHS culture is seen as a continuous value and not just a shifting priority depending on a particular situation or context. The most used and effective knowledge processes that contributes to the OSH culture development, is knowledge acquisition through the training p...
In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right a... more In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right and wrong in a particular context (situations or problem solving, most of the time associated with the decision-making process). At the organizational level, business ethics has become a complex and emergence management discipline. It is now confronted with new challenges as: global and multicultural business environment, company’s positive image to the public, social awareness, environment protection, corporate social responsibility, respect to equal rights, occupational health and safety responsibility and workplace well-being problems, improving and continuous education etc. In this context, the aim of the research is to deliver an overview of some common ethics tools. First, there will be presented the main modalities on how ethics in the workplace can be managed through the use of: codes of ethics, codes of conduct, policies and procedures. Then the concept of resolve ethical dilemma...
Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations' mission, vision an... more Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations' mission, vision and/or processes, with impact at both individual and organization level. Some organizations accept changes if they consider them as necessary and quickly adapt their behaviour in a desire new direction but in most cases changes are considered unnecessary or very difficult and organizations do not adapt to the new context defined by the turbulent environment in which they operates. Considering these, the goal of the present research is to provide an overview on organizational change processes by considering the operation level and different approaches described in the literature. In the first part of the article there will be described how organizations operate and are interconnected based on Morgan's organizational metaphors. This will clarify aspects related to organizations' behaviour and will point out the advantages and limitations of different actions' options. In the second part of the article, there will be presented an inventory of models on organizational change. This section aims to illustrate the variety of options when planning and design an organizational change process, in order to understand the assumptions, the benefits and limitations of each option. Finally, there will be presented relevant aspects of organizations' functioning and methods of change, to underline the necessity of the change management strategy for organizations' development.
Management Challenges in a Network Economy: Proceedings of the MakeLearn and TIIM International Conference 2017, 2017
In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right a... more In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right and wrong in a particular context (situations or problem solving, most of the time associated with the decision-making process). At the organizational level, business ethics has become a complex and emergence management discipline. It is now confronted with new challenges as: global and multicultural business environment, company’s positive image to the public, social awareness, environment protection, corporate social responsibility, respect to equal rights, occupational health and safety responsibility and workplace well-being problems, improving and continuous education etc. In this context, the aim of the research is to deliver an overview of some common ethics tools. First, there will be presented the main modalities on how ethics in the workplace can be managed through the use of: codes of ethics, codes of conduct, policies and procedures. Then the concept of resolve ethical dilemmas will be presented and there will be described the ethical checklist method in order to developed a diagnosis of the decision making processes in small and medium size companies in Romania West Region. The presented case study will support the usefulness and the feasibility of the method in having such diagnosis.
In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increas... more In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increased a lot. To achieve an efficient organization management, the focus on implementing new human resource management techniques has increased. Therefore, the employees are the key for successful organization, the controversial issue being the workplace conditions for safety, health and well-being. For a harmonic workplace environment, the conditions of work should be adapted to employees' needs and diminishing the stress. The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to identify and analyze the stress factors, in order to mitigate them. The organizational case study encourages the companies to decrease the stress activities, to implement a pleasant and progressive workplace. The paper aims to understand the efficiency of the stress management implementation, in order to increase the professional processes performance and workers health and safety. General conclusions about the research results will be presented in the final part of the paper.
Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures take... more Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures taken, could support the better control (elimination or diminish) of the risks associated to the work processes. Through these preventive practices, in accordance with the legal requirements (properly applied), organizations avoid spending significant resources that could arise from work accidents and/or incidents. An important contribution to avoid accidents and the associated costs, which can even lead to bankruptcy, is related to the well-defined and implementation of the OHS culture. That culture exist tacitly, and is sometime ignored, until it is approached as a part of the organization knowledge management. In consequence, OHS culture is seen as a continuous value and not just a shifting priority depending on a particular situation or context. The most used and effective knowledge processes that contributes to the OSH culture development, is knowledge acquisition through the training programs address to organization's employees. In addition, the most important approach is to gain expected efficiency by applying other knowledge management processes as transfer and sharing. These will support the development of specific values (as intangible assets) that will nurture the OSH culture. In this context, the paper will present a methodological approach on how knowledge management processes will support the OHS culture development. Furthermore, there will be analysed the impact of applying the knowledge management processes for OSH training, in order to nurture the OSH culture, in the case of Romanian organizations.
In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increas... more In recent years, the interest for an efficient and strategic organization management have increased a lot. To achieve an efficient organization management, the focus on implementing new human resource management techniques has increased. Therefore, the employees are the key for successful organization, the controversial issue being the workplace conditions for safety, health and well-being. For a harmonic workplace environment, the conditions of work should be adapted to employees’ needs and diminishing the stress. The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to identify and analyze the stress factors, in order to mitigate them. The organizational case study encourages the companies to decrease the stress activities, to implement a pleasant and progressive workplace. The paper aims to understand the efficiency of the stress management implementation, in order to increase the professional processes performance and workers health and safety. General conclusions about the researc...
Quality management is the attribute of successful companies who decided to implement a system abl... more Quality management is the attribute of successful companies who decided to implement a system able to grow and maintain consistent quality products and services in order to increase customer satisfaction, thereby increasing the company's profitability. The quality and consistent products is not sustainable unless it is supported, implemented unified and correlated with other quality management systems in the areas of occupational safety and health (OSH), environment, human resource, financial, project management that are related to important standards. Modern organizations’ processes are based on the implementation of the norms and standards related to quality, occupational safety and health and environment. These three pillars are strong manage by actual modern approaches in the field of risk management and this is defined by an integrated management approach. The aim of this article is to present a comparison of the quality system (defined in accordance with ISO 9001), with th...
Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations’ mission, vision an... more Organizational change is a fact of life; it involves changes of organizations’ mission, vision and/or processes, with impact at both individual and organization level. Some organizations accept changes if they consider them as necessary and quickly adapt their behaviour in a desire new direction but in most cases changes are considered unnecessary or very difficult and organizations do not adapt to the new context defined by the turbulent environment in which they operates. Considering these, the goal of the present research is to provide an overview on organizational change processes by considering the operation level and different approaches described in the literature. In the first part of the article there will be described how organizations operate and are interconnected based on Morgan's organizational metaphors. This will clarify aspects related to organizations’ behaviour and will point out the advantages and limitations of different actions’ options. In the second part ...
Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures take... more Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) activity shows that all appropriate preventive measures taken, could support the better control (elimination or diminish) of the risks associated to the work processes. Through these preventive practices, in accordance with the legal requirements (properly applied), organizations avoid spending significant resources that could arise from work accidents and/or incidents. An important contribution to avoid accidents and the associated costs, which can even lead to bankruptcy, is related to the well-defined and implementation of the OHS culture. That culture exist tacitly, and is sometime ignored, until it is approached as a part of the organization knowledge management. In consequence, OHS culture is seen as a continuous value and not just a shifting priority depending on a particular situation or context. The most used and effective knowledge processes that contributes to the OSH culture development, is knowledge acquisition through the training p...
In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right a... more In general, ethics behaviour refers to individual's moral judgments and actions about right and wrong in a particular context (situations or problem solving, most of the time associated with the decision-making process). At the organizational level, business ethics has become a complex and emergence management discipline. It is now confronted with new challenges as: global and multicultural business environment, company’s positive image to the public, social awareness, environment protection, corporate social responsibility, respect to equal rights, occupational health and safety responsibility and workplace well-being problems, improving and continuous education etc. In this context, the aim of the research is to deliver an overview of some common ethics tools. First, there will be presented the main modalities on how ethics in the workplace can be managed through the use of: codes of ethics, codes of conduct, policies and procedures. Then the concept of resolve ethical dilemma...
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