This article intends to bring to the attention of specialists and the general public alike contemporary educational methods to be applied in training for the awareness and internalization of values specific to the field of societal resilience, with critical infrastructures as the central framework of approach, with their main characteristics related to the fragility of the state of security. The article has a concrete practical value due to its applicability at the level of a centrally located county in Romania. The main infrastructures with critical value for determining potential disruptive events are mapped using specialized software, followed by the presentation of some institutions necessary to be involved for implementation of table-top exercises and, in conjunction or separately, field study trips. As a central point of the research methodology, recent literature highlights are emphasized, which robustly materialize and contextualize the practical approaches presented.

The article analyzes the strategic importance of the project management, that ability of managers to manage projects consistently and competently, being considered a strategic competence. It is also analysed the change of project management vision in terms of the manager's role and responsibility, the necessary knowledge, the clients' expectations and the definition of success. The article underlines the fact that managers begin to focus more and more on business. Projects should now be regarded from a strategic perspective, in the context of a business or an enterprise that should provide value both to the client and to the parent corporation.

In tough economic times and under global competition, management by projects is now regarded as a competitive way for managing organizations. This paper wants to outline the importance of cultural differences aspects in project management. The main objectives followed by the paper are to see the impact of cultural differences of project management, to find the advantages of a multicultural team and how can we use them to face the challenges of operating in a dynamic business environment characterized by high levels of uncertainty.

The article contains an analysis of the concept of “business continuity management” in terms of literature in the field and how it can support organizations in times of pandemic crisis. The main objective of the article is to identify a correlation between the efforts of organizations to survive on the one hand and the main tools that can ensure business continuity in the context of the economic and health crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Periods of crisis, regardless of their nature, economic, social, health have as a consequence of the changes they propagate in all systems of society, a reorganization and rethinking of the functioning of private or public organizations.

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