Decreasing the Resistance of the Human Resources to Organizational Changes

One of the most difficult problems faced by the management of all organizations within innovation and change processes is the resistance to change. This study, dealing with this issue, has the following main objectives: to identify the main sources of resistance to change, to outline the directions for reducing chang’s resistance, to design essentially managerial approaches in order to counter the resistance to change. The first part presents the 14 most frequent and most important sources of resistance to change, with a brief explanation of its content. It continues with the formulation of five key strands to reduce resistance to change. In the second part of the study, six major management approaches that can substantially reduce the resistance to change in organizations are established: shaping organizational culture, designing a strategy favouring organizational change, performing a management system "open" to change, achieving an intense and multilateral communication with all employees and key stakeholders, focusing on the coaching of staff towards change, developing consistent relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external. The last part of the paper deals with the first managerial approach to counter managerial resistance to change, shaping organizational culture, in a contextual view.management of change; innovation; change’s resistance; human resources management; organizational culture.

Coordinates of Policy Concerning SMEs Development in Romania

Approach of SMEs development in Romania is based on two category of premises: 7 internal premises, which refers on the Romanian economy and 6 external premises regarding the EU situation and world evolution in last two years. The second part of the paper contains the three coordinates of SMEs development in Romania: previsions concerning performances and business environment in 2010; strategic priorities and coordinates regarding economy’s development structure in certain fields – commercial, scientific, human resources and economic; construction and implementation of strategy for realization of knowledge based economy in Romania. Elements incorporated by this material are aiming to contribute to the take of the SMEs sector and implicitly of the Romanian economy from the actual economic crisis.SMEs; business environment; economic crisis; innovation, entrepreneur; business opportunity; strategic priority; knowledge based economy; strategy.

Procesual and Structural Organisational Features of Small Business

The study is aimed to highlight the particularities of the procesual organization and structural organization in the SMEs, starting from the main variables that have influence on them. After presenting these variables, it is necessary to approach the specific parameters of the procesual organization in the SMEs in general and in particular in the industrial companies. On this basis, it is identified and analyzed nine general features of the organization systems in SMEs, with some specific aspects at the level of the microenterprises, the small enterprises and, respectively, the medium enterprises. The final part of the study is concentrated on the presentation and analysis of SMEs particularities with respect to the types of organizational structures and their components – post, function, compartment, hierarchical level, span of control and organization relationship. As a whole, the study provides a comprehensive and innovative description of the organization elements specific to the SMEs, significantly differentiated from those defining the large companies which, as a rule, are studied and described in the specialized books and articles.SMEs; informal organization; organization variables; entrepreneurs; organizational structure .

Strategic Managerial Change and Organisational Innovation

Without any doubt, the number, amplitude and speed of changes are increasing rapidly in all fields in the last period. In this context it is essential to identify and to deal primordially with strategic changes. This paper deals with the concept of strategic change revealing the main success factors involved taking into consideration transition to the knowledge based economy. The connection between the strategic managerial change, stability and organisational equilibrium is the key for organisation performance. In the last part of the study we analyze the innovation as the specific form of change, focusing on the sources of change and innovation in organizations divided in two categories – internal and external.change; strategically change; organisational equilibrium; balanced dinamism; innovation; innovation principles; change sources; knowledge.

Heisenberg and the Levels of Reality

We first analyze the transdisciplinary model of Reality and its key-concept of "Levels of Reality". We then compare this model with the one elaborated by Werner Heisenberg in 1942.Comment: 12 pages, Reference added to the journal in which the paer is publishe

The Latest on the Sokal Affair: Beyond Three Extremisms

After a short summary of the Sokal Affair and of the point of view of Steven Weinberg, we discuss certain aspects of the scientist ideology present in the last book of Alan Sokal "Pesudoscience ans Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travellers?", published in France. The danger of the three extremisms present in our time - relativist extremism, scientist extremism and its mirror-image, the religious extremism - is underlined. We point out also the necessity of a transdisciplinary dialogue between the different disciplines as a rampart against the fascination caused by these three extremisms.Comment: 6 page

Getting out of Crisis of SME Sector

Without any doubt, relaunching Romanian economy depends very much on SME sector getting out of the crisis, sector which has the main contribution to GDP production, to state budget income and human resources employment. Starting from these premises, based on scientific research performed in the framework of the VALAD* project, we present in the following a group of coordinates and markers which, in our opinion, are capable to relaunch indigenous SME sector. Elements contained in this study are complementary to the ones presented in the article “Policy coordinates concerning SME sector development in Romania”, published in the previous issue of this magazine.crisis; SME sector; SME’s management; entrepreneurship.

Recent Advances in Odderon Physics

We present in this talk the phenomenological and theoretical advances in Odderon physics which occured since the last EDS Blois Workshop (Seoul, 1997).Comment: 10 pages with 4 figure

The Odderon at RHIC and LHC

The Odderon remains an elusive object, 33 years after its invention. The Odderon is now a fundamental object in QCD and CGC and it has to be found experimentally if QCD and CGC are right. In the present talk, we show how to find it at RHIC and LHC. The most spectacular signature of the Odderon is the predicted difference between the differential cross-sections for proton-proton and antiproton-proton at high s and moderate t. This experiment can be done by using the STAR detector at RHIC and by combining these future data with the already present UA4/2 data. The Odderon could also be found by ATLAS experiment at LHC by performing a high-precision measurement of the real part of the hadron elastic scattering amplitude at small t.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, EDS07 Conference, Hamburg, German