The Impact of Development Methods (Formal / Nonformal) Above the Process of Continuous Formation of Human Resources ~ Research about the Human Resources Framed in Educational Services ~

• Author: Claudia Mihaela Nicolau
• Position: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
• Pages: 674-681

THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT METHODS

(FORMAL / NONFORMAL)

ABOVE THE PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS FORMATION

OF HUMAN RESOURCES

~ RESEARCH ABOUT THE HUMAN RESOURCES FRAMED IN

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ~

Claudia Mihaela NICOLAU, PhD Student

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

clau_n2004@yahoo.com

Abstract : this paper wants to be a thoroughgoing analyze of professional development in the context of the concept of

"continuous formation" of human resources from educational services in Iai city1. Often incorporated in the large concept

of "continuous formation", professional development means much more then formation/obtaining knowledge and abilities, it

means in fact to improve the existing knowledge and abilities, and to raise the level of professional preparation according

with the institutional and/or functional changes existing in the context that human reosurces activates ( in the case of

educational services – "homo academicus", after the term used by A. Neculau, in „Câmpul universitar şi actorii săi” ). The

professional development takes place on the whole professional life period under the form of programs organized inside and

outside the organization/institution, and assures the improvment of knowledge/abilities, which will allow the perssons to

unfold their activities in an effiecient manner and also to keep up with the institutional and/or functional changes that appear

on the way.

Key words : perssonel policy, development needs, professional development programs, universitary management.

1. Introduction in the domain and in the research issue

“To perfect means to change, to be perfect means to change often.”

( Winston Churchill)

The main purpose of this analitical research paper was to distinguish the i mportance/the contribution

of development methods – formal/nonformal, the analysis of different pr ograms framed on one of

these, but also, the correlation of these development methods with the research population profile – the

didactic perssonel that activates in FEAA frame. Among the subjects approached through t he

implementation of the research methodology used (questionnaire ) on population, we mention: the

perssonal policy promoted by FEAA, the delineation of the researched population profile, the

presentation of professional development needs of the didactic perssonel (formal, nonfor mal), the

importance and contribution of faculty internal professional development programs on the didactic

perssonel.

Bolam (1982) distinguishes as purposes the fallowing perssonel professional de velopment activities:

• The improvment of performance of the entire perssonel of the scholl (as a whole) or of the group;

• The improvment of the professional performance of each teacher;

• The extension of individual professional experience through the career develop ment or promotion;

• The development of professional knowledges for each teacher;

1 This exploratory study is only a part of a more extended research on th e “Analysis of the professional development of

human resources in the higher education system”, which was realized in may 2008; and the results were presented in the

dissertation paper of the author ( in june 2008 ).

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