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International organizations (public and private) seek to find standard procedures to evaluate public policy or programs in order to have a common measure for public policy effectiveness and efficiency. The national governments, with the aid of the subordinated entities, are quite much interested in developing frames for the design of the evaluation of public policy in general and of public policy in specific fields, in particular. After having reviewed some models of evaluation, we will analyze the case of Romania and we will see that this country doesn’t have a working conceptual frame for the evaluation of the public policy in the anti-drug area.

The total quality management is essential to the survival of any organization, beyond representing a mere competitive or comparative advantage. It means that all the resources of the organization have to work together for achieving top quality organizational outputs. This process can"t happen out of a sudden, but it is the result of the endeavor of the whole organization. Sometimes, it takes a complete re-invention of the organization, that couldn"t be possible without adequate management strategies for change and innovation. Thus, the diagnosis of the organizational culture is an essential milestone within the effort to understand and further to save the organization from self destruction which is due to the lack of adaptation. Describing the context of the organization of the future, with all its key elements, is also important in order to be able to respond to the new challenges. This article proposes some models for diagnosis of the culture of the organization, it creates the image of the organization of the future that frames the strategies for the right management and leadership, it strings some strategies against resistance to change and innovation, all in order to create the premises for the total quality management.