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The correlation between the development of human resource in 
education and the Romanian economy 

 
Daniela-Roxana Pintilie, „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania 

Ciprian-Constantin Pintilie, „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Elitec, Romania 
Andreea-Monica Chelu, „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Elitec, Romania 

 
 

Abstract 
 
This article is a thorough reflection on development of human resources and on influence they have 
programs career development of individual improvement. Representative data describe the impact of 
development programs on educational career. Education plays an essential role in the life of the 
individual both in terms of career, as well as economically. In this sense, the informations and the 
representative data which characterizes the Romanian educational system and ensure quality in 
education, are in important issue. 
 
Key Words 
 
Human resources management, sistem of education, management development, professional 
development, quality development, European trends. 
 
JEL Codes: M 12, I 21 
 
 
Introduction 
 
Education plays a key role in an individual's life, both in terms of career, and the economic. 
Different business environments in which some people operate, regardless of the type of 
each environment, describing various events, events that reveal the intellectual training and 
value system in which each individual is located. Education (even at work) emphasize the 
individual in all circumstances and shall take precedence and ensure its success in any field 
in which he operates. The more education a person is better, the chances are higher and its 
prospects. 
Education at work is called 'staff development'. Integrated often broad concept of 'training, 
professional development of human resources requires both training and acquisition of 
knowledge and skills and improve knowledge and skills already existing training and raising 
in relation to institutional change and / or existing functional active human resources 
company. 
 
Professional development of human resources in education 
 
The mission of any organization is to promote innovation and individual creativity to ensure 
the professional development of staff, whether individual or organizational groups. 
Educational institutions are considered by society models of innovation and change is 
expected to play key role in promoting economic, social, cultural. 
Achieving excellence in education, training and research is the main factor that can ensure 
growth potential of the organization's human resources. As a result, human resource 
development is a necessary process, complex continuing and great responsibility, which 
involves concrete actions and activities of the new staff selection and training and retraining 

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of the existing. Each educational institution in Romania is mainly responsible for educational 
services as training and professional development and quality assurance in education. 
The term "professional development" can be defined as' a process that develops professional 
knowledge and skills necessary for effective professional practice. Hoyle's definition of this 
can come off the next issue: a professional must be able, independently one to decide what 
type of development work required. 
Other authors define specialized 'staff development' in the context of education as "a 
systematic effort to harmonize their personal interests, desires and needs, carefully evaluated 
for further career development needs of the organization within which the person practicing . 
The two definitions lead to one conclusion, namely, that a close interdependence between 
institutional needs and individual needs. This interdependence leads to the development of 
educational institution personnel. Human Resources Development of the educational 
institution entails two aspects: 
- concept, development management, namely training and development of teachers who have 
or have had responsibilities in the educational institution where they operate (Directors, 
Deputy Directors, Board members, heads of department etc.); 
- should include all school personnel, both academic and non-teaching. 
Staff development is seen not only as a chain of activities leading to performance, but can be 
regarded as a process. The term "process" includes: planning, training, work itself, training 
tracking (follow-up) and evaluation. Thus, the entire human resources development and 
training each component of the process must first be planned, implemented and evaluated by 
completing the following steps: 
- adaptation of human resources development program in the school policy;  
- development programs must be designed in accordance with the requirements of the high; 
- ranking development process;  
- identifying needs;  
- establishing a work program and priorities within it;  
- program implementation;  
- monitoring and assessment program;  
- the program review and identify future needs. 
  
Identifying professional development needs 
 
Ministry of Education, school inspectorates and schools can design a program to develop 
human resources according to individual or collective needs. In this respect needs to 
distinguish four types of underlying composition of a staff development program - national 
level:  
- the strategy of reform of the Ministry of Education and Research in Education;  
- local level: implementation priorities for reform and its implementation in the school 
inspectorates;  
- the schools: priorities and policy development of each school unit which relies on human 
resources development program;  
- individual level: individual development needs. 
Priorities in education, according to the individual needs of teachers, are clearly stated. 
Education Reform in Romania to the following principles: decentralization of management, 
decongestion curricular flexibility and compatibility with European education systems and 
carried out in these directions: the mentality, structure and educational system. All these 
directions cause professional development needs. 
Policy, strategies and priorities in education is an important source for generating human 
resources development needs. Each school has its educational policy. At school are allowed 
rules and principles, priorities and success by implementing a professional development 
program. It should be noted in this regard that each development program undertaken by the 
Ministry of Education is made free of charge for each frame in didactic. Regarding 

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professional development programs other than those supported by the Ministry of Education, 
they are funded in part by each school. 
People need to signal that they need development and will succeed only way to fulfill their 
assignments correctly and effectively, to increase career advancement opportunities or to 
improve their overall motivation. There must be development opportunities for teachers at 
every stage of their careers. Also, there is a need of implementation of development 
programs and teacher training, given the work of the school (classes that cover several areas 
and takes place at that school) or school centers (a work-related courses schools). Currently 
there is no system to detect general needs development / training, but they can be readily 
identified at each level schools through a questionnaire in which each teacher will complete. 
More questionnaires will be considered a guide to identify educational needs. 
 
Human resources development activities and their effectiveness 
 
In developing human resources in education may speak of the existence of activities and 
development programs and training of staff, both internal and external. As regards the 
internal development of the teaching staff can remember the following activities:  
- mentoring ; 
- activity in which a teacher, during a semester or school year dealing with a less experienced 
colleague professionally; 
 - rotation of duties;  
- responsibilities are exchanged between teachers;  
- additional responsibilities. 
In respect to activities outside school, teachers are involved in working with colleagues from 
other schools, which entails the exchange of experience. The main purpose of staff 
development is to improve the educational process. Effectiveness of staff development not 
only training, but the unit where the development process must be conducted to see an 
improvement or change in career. 
Effective professional development has the following characteristics:  
- to consider the tasks directly related to the work of each teacher in part;  
- development programs must include: theory, practice, demonstration, feedback and various 
applications in which the teacher is main participants;  
- the follow-up (phase tracking) applications involving direct undergo teacher training;  
- formal and non formal coordination between the elements;  
- there is some link between training and certain elements of development process are subject 
to change process. 
Professional development takes place throughout their lives as organized programs, both 
domestic and external, and ensure improved knowledge / skills that will enable individuals to 
operate in a most efficient and take pace with changes in institutional / functional appearing 
throughout your career.  
Professional development of human resources is to develop professional ability of teachers to 
continue their growth and progress in institution. 
HRD goal is to increase the capacity of a teacher to successfully perform duties and greater 
responsibilities, higher. Activities that help develop human resources are both internal and 
external, as mentioned above. They also include the internal and external development 
programs. Of activities within the institution can mention: activities directly related to 
function / job (eg, meditation, member of the teaching committee, depending on rotation, job 
assistance, training to carry out the responsibilities incumbent on the position held, etc.). and 
activities directly related to the function / job (eg, classroom training, psychological testing, 
training human resources, case studies, role playing, business games, etc.). 
Necessary professional skills can be obtained through methods such as developing formal 
and nonformal. Formal methods most commonly used are: scientific conferences, national 
and international conferences, international mobility programs such as 'visiting professors' 

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research projects, publishing activities and of non-formal methods can be mentioned: 
workshops, trainings, schools national and international summer etc. 
To be highlighted methods involving human resource development in education level, a 
study research, highlighting the impact, contribution and importance of programs related to 
these methods, and connection that is established between these programs under 
development and population profile research process. The instrument, which was used in this 
research process is questionnaire. It covers:  
- personnel policy pursued by St. Sava Kindergarten Science;  
- researched population profile;  
- the presentation of research needs of the population studied;  
- analysis of professional development programs in Human resource education (both formal 
and informal);  
- the importance and contribution of professional development programs. 
The subjects of this research study has appealed to teachers of kindergarten St. Sava Iasi. The 
instrument of questionnaire used in this case is it being applied to 17 teachers: 3 beginner 
teachers, 4 teachers completed, 4 with grade 2 and 6 teachers in grade 1. For this research, 
the community chosen is structured as a single homogeneous subgroups characteristic ie - 
academic degree held by each teacher. The questionnaire was applied directly investigated 
subjects engaged in actual area. 
The questionnaire covers aspects of research focusing on:  
- designing a general profile of the population studied, taking into account certain 
characteristics: age, gender, academic degree, etc. 
- the importance of training programs in human resource development in education (in 
percent);  
- the importance of training programs on human resources development process through data 
collected from subjects; 
- sketched profile of the population studied correlation with the resulting analysis on the 
professional development of teachers of Kindergarten St. Sava Iasi. 
Questionnaires were applied and completed by individual teachers. Subjects were 
anonymous said scientific and research. The research sample is based on the idea that 
training programs directly influences development of the school teachers investigated. Item 
has been taken into account regarding the influence programs the development of teacher 
training was, attending courses in the last 2 years. "From the research undertaken was noted 
that training programs influence subjects to participate in a low or high proportion, 
development courses, training and even training. 
Kindergarten teachers work of St. Sava Science covers the following aspects:  
- restructuring and improving staff training;  
- management restructuring;  
- changing organizational culture.  
Undertaken the research to the development of teachers has the following objectives:  
- to highlight the needs professional development of teachers;  
- to explore professional development according to the methods underlying this development 
(formal and informal methods method);  
- to highlight the importance and contribution development programs;  
- to build a questionnaire based on certain criteria : gender, age, academic degree held by 
each teacher in the school under review, etc.).  
Through this research aims to highlight the importance of the two methods, formal and 
nonformal, on professional development of teachers. 
Stages of this research include the following:  
- data collection through questionnaire;  
- data processing - analysis of preliminary / final and their generalization.  
Is an interdisciplinary research over the boundary of human resource management with 
service management and economics. This research is an explanatory in the sense that he 

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proposes to achieve its objectives a priori, but to discover possible causal relationship 
between the concept of teacher professional development and impact of formal and non 
formal methods are incuring development on the one hand, and on other hand to highlight 
the importance of sustainable quality training as investment in the Romanian economy. 
As conclusions from this research, to better illustrate the share of formal methods of 
professional development would analyze data according to two aspects:  
- number of subjects combined annual participation;  
- the number of annual participation of subjects, depending teaching degree. 
 
Human resource development in the Romanian economy 
 
Teacher participation in the process of training and specialization is one of the signs 
indicative of Romanian higher education, namely that the teacher education process aimed at 
speeding emphasis among students and so we can talk about quality in education. Bring 
further education benefit society. Assessing this aspect of economic, we can speak of a social 
return to education exceeds that individual. Human resource development is very important 
for an individual's personal ability to contribute to the economy and to earn more, but do not 
ignore the social consequences of the existence of a population with higher education levels. 
Teacher education and education of individuals in this case as the main subjects of the 
educational establishment to society many benefits, many of which have important effects on 
how the economy operates. Higher education may be associated with stability. 
Teacher participation in the process of training and specialization is one of the signs 
indicative of Romanian higher education, namely that the teacher education process aimed at 
speeding emphasis among students and so we can talk about quality in education. Bring 
further education benefit society. Assessing this aspect of economic, we can speak of a social 
return to education exceeds that individual. Human resource development is very important 
for an individual's personal ability to contribute to the economy and to earn more, but do not 
ignore the social consequences of the existence of a population with higher education levels. 
Teacher education and education of individuals in this case as the main subjects of the 
educational establishment to society many benefits, many of which have important effects on 
how the economy operates. Higher education may be associated with stability. 
 
Conclusions 
 
Quality of training of human resources takes time, space and staff eager to meet high 
standards. European educational policy refers only title recommendations, the quality of 
training of teachers in European schools. Not incidentally, the main European processes, on 
the agenda of ministries of education (some bearing the original name of the cultural area in 
which they were discussed and approved, Lisbon, Bologna, Bergen) proposed that the 
priority strategic directions for teacher training and development. 
System Development Romanian teachers faced with the absence or decrease the motivation 
of young graduates from universities for teaching career, with a limitation of perspective and 
a real feeling of risk. Teacher training system in terms of tradition involved a lot of positive 
aspects, factors of emotional support, of which we can remember what the teacher image and 
status are valued in the community and gradually diminished by insufficient financing, but 
the inconsistency of educational policy decisions. Although CVT is talking about 
consistency of processes and activities, however it is noted that professional development 
means regular training and that training by obtaining teaching degrees should not be ignored. 
Both must be harmoniously intertwine as two processes with different activities, but pursuing 
the same purpose - staff development in education. Staff development in education, in this 
case teachers, is played by those degrees and that each teacher education throughout his 
career he assumed (he claims) and to ensure the promotion. This is to increase the prestige of 

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the teacher concerned (to be ranked as a good teacher), will increase the prestige of the 
school in which they operate and so, and parents guide their children to prestigious 
educational institution in training teachers. Hence the education institution that provides 
trained human capital market as the economy improves and the country. Professional 
development helps teachers to develop their economy or earnings. 
 
 
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