Romanian Tourism Facing Labour Shortage

The purpose of this paper is to present the main tendencies in the Romanian tourism and their impact on the labour market. The first part of the paper presents the main tendencies in travel and tourism sector. The second part of the paper focuses on the challenges of the labour market in the hotel sector, highlighting essential aspect related to the declining of population, shortage of the workforce, emigration, financial compensations. The final part exposes few ideas and possible suggestions that can be applied into the travel and tourism sector in order to better manage the multiple dimensions of growth

The Development of Touristic Services through Individual and Organizational Learning. Study Case: Romania and Spain

The present research aims to establish and to design the development strategies for services in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that activate in the tourism field of activity (hotels and other accommodation establishments, restaurants, passenger transport, travel agencies, cultural tourism agencies). Organizational learning is focused on the learning process in the organization which has direct influence on the goods and services produced. Learning activities, carried out individually, are not easily transferred at the organizational level. Moreover, in order to better highlight the weaknesses and the strengths of touristic services management approaches and to define recommendations, our research theme is developed as comparative study: similarities and differences within SMEs touristic services and learning organization practices in Romania and other European Union’s country members (the example of Spain was considered).services, tourism, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), organizational learning, human resources

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE WORKERS

The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth of interest in organizational learning and Knowledge Management. This comes as a natural consequence of the ever more widespread understanding of the knowledge-based economy as a revolutionary change in the global economy. The rise of the service economy, the increasingly flow of global information, and the growing recognition of the importance of intellectual capital are turning knowledge into a key critical resource and a source of competitive advantage in the global economy, making from KM an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary development.knowledge management, knowledge workers, learning organization

HUMAN RESOURCES MOTIVATION - A CHALLENGE FOR SMES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES

The present research aims to establish and configurate human resources development strategies for the employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that activate in the tourism field of activity (hotels and other accomodation establishments, restaurants, passenger trasnport, travel agencies, cultural turism agencies). As knowledge role in the contemporany economy is increasing and defining the economical and social context as knowledge-based ones, we shall consider the research frame as the knowledge-based economy. Moreover, in order to better highlight weaknesses and strenghts of the human resources management approaches and to define recommendations, our research theme is developped as comparative study: similarities and differences within SMEs human resources management practices in Romania and other European Union's country members (the example of Spain was considered).human resources, motivation, profitability, SMEs, tourism

HOW TO TRANSFORM SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES) INTO LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most dynamic and vital factor of progress in the contemporary society, main generator of economic performance and substance in any country, employment opportunity provider for most of population, major contributor to the national budget, and engine to improve the living standard of the population. SMEs represent 99% from all enterprises, drawing up the main human resource agglomeration. In Romania and other countries from The European Union, SMEs play an essential role in economic life, having special features that make adaptation process to the knowledge-based economy easier. In a knowledge-based economy context, SMEs should act as learning entities, by developing the most important resources they own: the human resources.learning organization, knowledge-based economy, small and medium enterprises, Romania

Human Resources Professional Development within the Knowledge-Based Economy Organizations

Through the present paper, we identified and argumented one of the most important consequences of the present business environment: appearance and, gradually, growth of differences between two categories of representants: human resources with high formation, strongly connected to the environment, who impose and even anticipate change, being fascinated by the development perspectives, unlike people always surprised by what is happening, sometimes lost by the predicable absence, having a continuous “fight” for keeping the other’s rhythm. The solution is represented by motivation and formation programs, on medium and long term in order to offer sustainable results. Consequently, from the organization management point of view, the most appropriate instrument for accomplishing and implementing this is the strategy, as an exponent of organization mission and objectives, in correlation with human resources, technical and material resources, financial and informational resources restrictions, and, moreover, the actions ways for accomplishing the competitive advantage.Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), human resources, professional development, motivation, economic performances, knowledge-based economy.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY USE WITHIN THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION PROCESS

Romanian economic environment, in terms of social and cultural boundaries suppression, was oriented towards the knowledge global trend, but in the absence of strategic options, it was unsystematic, especially manifested informaly and randomly: a local, disorganized phenomenum. The new communication process type of approach outlines a map of knowledge management in education and creates the necessary infrastructure to support teaching and learning within universities, while increasing the quality of academic training provides highly qualified graduates for the Romanian economic environment.technology, education communication,

SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance in Genomic Medicine Era

In the genomic medicine era, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 was immediately followed by viral genome sequencing and world-wide sequences sharing. Almost in real-time, based on these sequences, resources were developed and applied around the world, such as molecular diagnostic tests, informed public health decisions, and vaccines. Molecular SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance was a normal approach in this context yet, considering that the viral genome modification occurs commonly in viral replication process, the challenge is to identify the modifications that significantly affect virulence, transmissibility, reduced effectiveness of vaccines and therapeutics or failure of diagnostic tests. However, assessing the importance of the emergence of new mutations and linking them to epidemiological trend, is still a laborious process and faster phenotypic evaluation approaches, in conjunction with genomic data, are required in order to release timely and efficient control measures