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The Misconceived Delegation of Responsibility
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Oana Georgiana Andronic, Dănuţ DumitraşcuAbstractThe division of labor and the growing number of businesses have led to the situation where the superior is no longer able to make all decisions alone and therefore is required to delegate. Delegation has been around for a long time and has become critical to modern businesses. We must differentiate between delegating an assignment, in the sense of delegation work and delegating the responsibility. These aspects are often misunderstood or not differentiated at all. Employees shoul...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Systemic Characterization of Organizational Marketing
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Liana Rodica Pater, Sanda Ligia CristeaAbstractThe great diversity of marketing definitions and characterizations is not favorable to the theory and practice of the 21st century management, being, generally, the consequence of a non-systemic approach and analysis of organization/ company functions. The present work aims to contribute to the increase of management and marketing rigor in order to achieve lasting/ sustainable progress in all areas. The methodology of systemic approach and analysis is applied at the level of organizat...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

New Method to Optimize the Production Functions in the System of Safety in Operation Management
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Adrian Vilcu, Ion Verzea, Ionut Viorel HerghiligiuAbstractThe Safety in Operation system represents the framework within which every technological process operates. Any technological parameter - production, quality, must be analyzed in terms of this system. Mathematical and/or empirical modeling, as the first stage in the determination of the technological processes optimum operation regimes, represents a “must” both in the phase of conception, but mainly in the operation analysis phase. From this standpoint, the introduction ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Change Management Aspects in Solar Energy Implementation
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Lorand Kacso-Vidrean, Jörg Niemann, Raluca Baidoc, Adrian PislaAbstractAs presenting a part of a larger study, the aim of this paper is to present how the change management is considered from the first steps in the implementation of a solar energy generator as a need in the complex change process from totally fossil to a hybrid system (that may reach 100% solar), in the presence of technological and economic change triggering factors (CTF).The need of change management (CM) in the implementation of solar energy generation begins ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Structured Managerial Model for the Decision Making Process for Enhancing Building Sustainability in all Life Cycle Phases
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Diana Rusu, Sorin Popescu, Mihai Dragomir, Dorin PopescuAbstractNowadays the sustainability is one of the primary concerns worldwide, especially in the construction industry, taking into account that the buildings have a major impact on the overall energy use and greenhouse gases emissions. There are many studies focusing on particular aspects of the topic, but a holistic, interdisciplinary and long-term approach is needed in order to reconcile the competitive objectives. Starting from a literature research, the authors have formu...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Products in the Context of Competitiveness
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Raul Ambrus, Monica Izvercian, Larisa Ivascu, Alin ArteneAbstractSustainability is a concept adopted and approached in public and private organizations as a guiding principle that contributes to organizational development. However, the greatest challenge for organizations is its real implementation and the steps to be taken in this respect. At the same time, another challenge is how this sustainable development performance can be measured (for products and processes). These concepts are addressed in a competitive business environm...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Considerations Regarding Inbound Regenerative Management Accounting Application on Eco-efficient Business Models
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Raul Ambrus, Monica Izvercian, Alin Artene, Larisa IvascuAbstractInbound regenerative management accounting as a cost control process is a fundamental shift in the world of business due to the changes it implies upon the mentality of seeing and developing a business model. More and more economic entities begin to realize the eco efficient potential they have at their disposal and are beginning to replace linear business models with circular business models. Within a linear business model the economic entity controlled the producti...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Scaling up Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production for an Sustainable Industrial Development
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Aida Szilagyi, Marian MocanAbstractResource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) is a globally proven approach to improve productivity and reduce environmental impact of the enterprises. Application of RECP is beneficial for enterprises, in particular SME's, contributing to enhancing their productivity and competitiveness; for the environment by lowering the impact of their operations, and for people, by decreasing the risks to workers and communities (UNIDO, 2015).Greening up the economies, the major global trend nowadays, co...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Eco-innovation, a Business Approach towards Sustainable Processes, Products and Services
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Aida Szilagyi, Marian Mocan, Anne Verniquet, Andrei Churican, David RochatAbstractEco-innovation has been wildly accepted as a method for improving the environmental performance of enterprises and for supporting them to improve their products; as well as to advance to more sustainable business models, and as a driver of business success and competitive advantage at the firm level. Implementing eco-innovation is a challenging process and will not be suitable for all organizations. Therefore understating barriers and drivers at the ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sustainable Development of Marginalized Urban Areas by Applying Knowledge-based Public Policies
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mihai-Ionuţ Danciu, Sabina Irimie, Claudia Tatiana Muntean, Sabin-Ioan IrimieAbstractThis paper addresses the sensitive subject of residents in marginalized urban areas and proposes solutions in order to improve life quality parameters by accessing multidisciplinary networks of knowledge and information. In the context of contemporary technologies, conclusions resulting from applied practices in strictly contextualized situation become important sources for the implementation of efficient public policies. Access to knowledge prov...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Lean Manufacturing in SMEs in Romania
The objective of the theoretical part of the article is, by summarizing the information existing in the literature, to present the meanings given to the concept of lean manufacturing and how it can be implemented in organizations (steps to be followed, success factors, barriers), the term evolution and the emergence of a new concept - Lean Six Sigma.The second part is an investigative approach to the interest of Romanian bloggers in studying the lean manufacturing phenomenon, especially a well-known instrument of it, just-in-time production method.The information obtained has shown that although the concept is an intensely...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Egg Candling Analysis Equipment Design: A Safety Solution
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Vargas C. Ramiro S., Ruiz S. Lourdes C., Navas L. María C.AbstractEgg candling analysis is a process that consists in applying light to an egg in order to detect abnormalities inside it. The light makes the eggshell transparent; hence it is possible to analyze the components inside the eggs in a non-destructive procedure. Manual egg candling is time consuming and pays a toll in workers’ health. It is mainly prevalent in small and medium business in developing countries. The following work describes the design of an egg candling...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Managing a Symphony Orchestra in Times of Change: Behind the Curtains
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Nicolae Bibu, Laura Brancu, Georgiana Alina TeohariAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the symphony orchestra as a living organism in a perpetual interaction with the volatility of the nowadays environment, as a symbiosis between the goods and the services provided by a symphony orchestra's activity. A description of the symphony orchestra's activity, with emphasize upon German orchestras (Kulturorchester), as dominators on the classical symphony orchestras’ market. This paper aims to present some of the mission stat...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Analysis of the Romanian Global Competitiveness International Ranking. The impact of the IEC Program
This article analysis the impact of the IEC Program (2007-2013) on the Romanian global competitiveness index and 12th pillar innovation and tries to answer those questions mentioned above. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Crisis Management Between Public Relations and the Holonic Multi-Agent Approach
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Levente BakosAbstractCrisis management represents a multidisciplinary topic in many sciences. Social sciences, state affairs, medicine, engineering and many others are interested to handle unforeseen major great impact events. The paper presents some differences and common topics of crisis management using two different approaches. The first is Public Relations (PR), as part of the communication sciences; and the second is the Holonic Multi-Agent (HMAS) Concept, which is a research topic belonging to software engineering and compu...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research