Measuring the Managerial Potential

The paper proposes the measurement of managerial and functional capabilities of the organization, as the dimensions of managerial potential, based on the configurative theory and not on the reductionist one. The components of the managerial potential are fulfilled by the capability of building organizational culture, managerial change and defining equity as the proximate type of social responsibility. The components are described in relation with the socio-economic model, useful in the process of economic and social crisis when new issues of organization management appear.the management capability, organizational capability functioning, the capability of building organizational culture, managerial change capability, equity, socioeconomic model

Looking into the Antecedents of the Transformation of IT Jobs. A Country-based Perspective

Technology is changing at an exponential rate. As a result, it does have a disruptive life on society and our lives. It changes our personal lives, socialization, and interaction with people and businesses. Technology has changed and does continue to change the way we work. Along with the four industrial revolutions, many jobs have disappeared, more jobs have been created, and almost every job was transformed by automation. The 4th industrial revolution leading to Industry 4.0 is powered by artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of things. The Information Technology (IT) industry and IT professionals primarily drive this transformation. While information technology specialists contribute with the technology they build to change their world, technology is transforming the profession responsible for this transformation. The paper looks at how digital transformation impacts the transformation of IT jobs, how government policies and managerial strategies impact the transformation of IT jobs and how employees and organizations are responding with investment in skills development. The research relies on a questionnaire-based survey with 132 Romanian IT professionals, students and computer science professors representing small and large organizations. Seven out of the nine hypotheses were supported by the data, confirming that digital transformation impacts the transformation of jobs, particularly IT jobs, and that this drives the need to build new technical and soft skills

Comparative Approach between Organizational Life Cycle and Rational Biological Model

This paper proposes an analogy between rational biological model and the organizations’ development during their existence. So, organizations’ "birth" or creation are considered the result of genetic algorithms, transformations are identified with changes that aim the adapting to the environment, and finally the ”death” treats the state of crisis and bankruptcy. In every stage of life there are proposals to increase it, by extension of states identified in the human area and not taken into account in the artificial one, which must learn from the first system, which we consider superior in the process of evolution. Although the authors’ approaches, do not build operational models to support the thesis presented, ask questions and focus on elements of management philosophy that "tomorrow" will certainly be resolved.genetic algorithms; organizational pathology; step by step evolution; tandem management change - organizational change.

Improving Organizations by Replacing the "Mechanical" Model with the "Organic" one

Organizations are currently viewed as artificial structures. However, in our opinion, organizations seem to match a biological structure much better. This paper explores this new approach with some interesting conclusions and results: organizations aim at perpetual exis-tence and continuous adaptation. We advance the ideas of organizational "instincts", organizational pathology and organizational optimization using genetic algorithms. In competitive markets, organizations are in a natural selection process, which actually is part of a natural genetic algorithm. This process may be simulated in an artificial multidisciplinary optimization environment, based on minimizing a Total Costs and Risks objective function. Unlike the gradient optimization methods, the genetic algorithms may be applied to such problems with thousands of degrees of freedom. This opens the way to the organizational structure optimization through genetic algorithms.organization, genetic algorithms, multidisciplinary optimization, organizational analysis, organizational structure

Managing the Impact of Digital Transformation on the Future of Jobs. A Sectoral Approach. A Semi-Systematic Literature Review

The future of work is discussed in academic literature and reports starting with 2014. Various studies have identified artificial intelligence, robots, big data, globalization, population pressures, and changed demographic profiles as the main drivers for change in the future of jobs. Also, international organizations did comprehensive analyses of the professions' rapid technology changes. In contrast to the number of consultancy documents, there are not numerous scientific articles on the topic of the future of work. Research performed on the reputable scientific databases return a much larger number of scientific articles on the broader topic of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), including several systematic literature reviews, with 31 scientific articles on the topic. Still, the specific goal of this review is to explore the impact of job automation on the IT professions in Romania's IT industry. Consequently, the present paper is designed as a semi-systematic literature review, building on over one hundred papers written on the topic of Industry 4.0, studies that were done on the particular subject of the future of work, research papers done on the IT industry, and available studies on the IT industry in Romania. The findings are analyzed via various criteria which are meant to provide an accurate image of the state-of-the-art on the topic of interest

Pondering Digitalization: An Exploratory Study on Organizational Capitalization of Digital Media for Disclosing CSR

The goal of this study had as a premise a perceived gap of knowledge regarding the use of digital media and platforms by Romanian organizations with the purpose to disclose corporate social responsibility (CSR) information. In the context of the ever-increasing digitalization process, the research aimed to explore the current situation within the organizational setting to provide evidence on the type of media and content used and with a view to identifying possible trends. To objectively assess the situation, the study employed models developed by various researchers to measure CSR disclosure on corporate websites, Facebook and Twitter accounts. The results of the study indicate that the selected Romanian companies make limited use of online media for the purpose to reveal CSR. They rather prefer corporate websites and Facebook accounts to communicate such information to stakeholders, while Twitter is rarely utilized. The findings point to the fact that education and social development are the areas of CSR where Romanian companies mostly contribute, but, at the same time, they signal that the advantages and advances availed by systemic digitalization are yet to be properly exploited against the backdrop of CSR disclosure

Planul de Amenajare a Teritoriului Judeţean Vrancea

Plan of the Vrancea County is the spatial expression of the socio-economic development of the County. The study will provide a global framework for possibilities and uniform development in regional and national context. P.A.T.J. Vrancea seeks to optimize the use of natural resources, the use of work resources and the distribution of the population in order to create a permanent balance between how to exploit the natural and economic potential, of the one part, and the protection of the environment, on the other hand, through a responsible management of the territory in accordance with the principle of sustainable development. P.A.T.J. Vrancea aimed at solving specific problems of the territory in the context of efficiency, fairness, transparency and the involvement of communities in decision-making

Industry 4.0 and the impact of technology on the future of work: A qualitative approach to the IT jobs

Scientific research leads the scientific progress based on which information technology (I.T.) professionals drive technology changes, impacting our daily life, business, and work models. The same inventions are impacting the work of the software developers, the ones responsible for building this technology. While I.T professionals are building new tools for automation used in the industry, the work of I.T. professionals is significantly impacted by the tools they build. Paying heed to these considerations, the paper intends to bring forward qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews with 18 I.T. professionals. The research purpose is to scrutinize to what extent the workers in the software development industry are aware of the transformations happening in their profession, how they see the future of their jobs and how they prepare for that future. The I.T. engineers taking part in the interviews see the impact of technology in changing their work models, making them more productive rather than a threat to their jobs. They also understand the importance of continuous learning, keeping up with technological changes and soft skills

Effects of prolonged endurance exercise on the gene expression and plasma levels of interleukin-1 beta, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha

grantor: University of TorontoPhysical activity induces a sub-clinical inflammatory response, mediated in part by leukocytes, and manifested In elevations of circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-Ã (TNFÃ). However, the source of these cytokines in response to exercise remains unknown. Plasma concentration and messenger RNA changes of IL-1ß, IL-6 and TNFÃ in circulating mononuclear cells (PBMC) were examined. Ten healthy (V¤ O2 peak 48.8 ± 6.5 mL·kg-1·min -1) but untrained males (age 25.3 ± 5.4 years) were subjected to 3 h of exercise at 60--65% V¤ O2 peak comprising cycling and inclined walking. Circulating leukocyte subsets were elevated during and 2 h post-exercise, but returned to normal within 24 h. Plasma concentrations of IL-1ß, IL-6 and TNFÃ peaked at the end of exercise, and remained elevated at 2 h for IL-6, and 2 h and 24 h for IL-1ß and TNFÃ. Cytokine gone expression, measured using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in circulating mononuclear cells, did not change for IL-1ß, IL-6, or TNFÃ with exercise. In conclusion, messenger RNA accumulation of IL-1ß, IL-6 and TNFÃ in circulating mononuclear immunocytes is not affected by 3 h of moderate endurance exercise, and cannot account for the changes observed in plasma cytokines.M.Sc