CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN

RESSOURCES DEVELOPMENT ON INTEGRATED MARKETS

 

 

Author: Associate professor Marina SARBOVAN, Ph.D.

 

Tibiscus University of Timisoara, Romania

marinalumi2@yahoo.com

 

 

Abstract: We are in a process of increasing the economic stability and security, associated with controversial phenomena such as unemployment and inflation. Identifying the problems of each party in the market mechanism is the background of an efficient strategy regarding the human resources development in the competitive environment of monde-economy. The development of the outsourcing activities in Europe and on the global labor-market can not be connected with the unemployment evolution on the market areas. When administered carefully, outsourcing activities are able to contribute to raising efficiency and provide a range of advantages.

 

Key words: stability, competitive environment, best practices.

 

Introduction:

 

          Romania is in a process of catching up the most developed countries of our continent, in economy: the big push of the measured parameters of growth is presumed by some economists in the on-going process of changing structures and re-orientating towards new markets, in a larger process of increasing the economic stability and security.

          The lasting development requires a permanent control of undesired effects such as unemployment, inflation, prices fluctuation, allowing the dominating trend of growth, and sustainable development to have inside determinations and forces.

          The consequences of stability, referring of those of static nature, even if the long term macro-equilibrium is targeted, are supported by the interdependence of all markets,   They are ruled by the equilibrium-prices, and by some skeptics, they are far from bringing to the new EU members a spectacular economic success, even if it takes to deal with the intervention of the authorities (state, private, companies, global institutions).

          Large areas strategies aiming to a development where the human capital is a core issue administrating a scale of costly objectives, essentially oriented by the general rules of international competition, and trying to answer to the priorities which solve the most of the burdening tasks in the perpetual struggle for progress.

          The labor market stability, as a component of the general steady economic systems, plays a major part in the geo-economic plans concerning European continent, having a definite importance in shaping the supply as well as the demand of integrated or global economic parties.

 

Contempt:

 

          Under the globalizing labor-phenomena impact, smaller areas of market act similarly, as if the integrated market would demand the same objective rules of motion.

  Thus, we observe a quasi-instantly spreading of the organization-types in economy, no matter the national territory.

  This phenomenon is objectively needed, required by the special technologies, which generates lay-offs and creates new jobs, or modifies the domestic demand, unable to synchronize with the national supply. The feeding with resources process from off-shore, out of local, regional, national markets, can be done in the case of different options concerning the labor contracts, as well: through a comparative advantage, a certain area of labor-market is cheaper and more efficient in the meantime.

Within the wide-frame expansion of the human resources market, outsourcing activities could be extremely beneficial for the global interest, for both parties if the outsourcing partners are competent and the expectations are clearly defined. 

The ideal tactic of supporting a human resources strategy by outsourcing activities would be to administrate carefully such a contribution, aiming that it becomes able to contribute to raising efficiency and provide a range of advantages.

There are many ways the human resources abroad are endowed with great advantages. Among them we include:

­ To reduce and control operating costs : the operating costs associated with fluctuating staffing needs and various infrastructure costs could be expensed rather than amortized.

­ To obtain world-class level of capabilities, competencies and expertise, this means to expand access to technical capabilities and tools through specialized outsourcing firms having strategic partnerships on monde-market.

­ To focus the internal resources; this is reached by leveraging up the internal resources with domain knowledge on core business activities by utilizing outsourcing for technical expertise.

­ To accelerate re-engineering profits is an advantage springing from those outsourcing techniques which enable the companies to reduce the innovation cycle times by 60%-90% and decrease investments and risks by equal amounts, in the mean time.

­ To mitigate risk: this is allowing an outsourcing partner to absorb a portion of the risk involved with staffing, especially if we deal with multiple synchronized projects having a variety of requirements, mile-stones and timelines.

From the doctrinaire point of view, the development of the outsourcing activities in Europe and on the global labor-market can not be connected with the unemployment evolution on the market areas watched by the employers, because outsourcing is in its essence a mechanism of a more flexibility of the labor supply, of adapting to the requirements asking for maximum economic efficiency, a mechanism of diminishing the negative effects of the imperfections of the market segments, mainly through under-engagements and contracts, detouring the custom barriers, eliminating the trade-unions pressures (as a side effect, which is smoothing the victory of competition forces).

Activities of human resources, exploitable in economy marketing contribute to the out-put optimization and trade, in the field of harmonization of the production factors, and in the end of the analysis it serves the client, who will be in the position of buying a product manufactured in the most favorable conditions. 

Apparently weaknesses in the outsourcing partnership, depending on the quality standards and the difficulty of ensuring the security standards is in fact a general economic upraising of the standard at the European level, and the promo tore of the competitively of this partnership, for all the involved members.

The access at technical special know-how, eliminating the re-structuring costs of manufacturing are all elements of controlling the final costing and implicit of stabilizing the process at the offered to sale goods.

The de-localization of the activities, on the ground of a win-win-strategy, is a global trend, an on-going process linked to the development of the labor market.

In the outsourcing domain, our country has to climb an important gap up to the level of the countries having National Agencies and Research Institutes for these economic activities, close connected to the functioning of the virtual services. We can give the north-American example in this argumentation, a country where the market relations include the widest possible area, and which promotes the competitive globalization of all business: according to The U.S. Outsourcing Institute, outsourcing index (2005) reveal the following facts about the use of outsourcing in the US:

·        Expenditures on outsourcing in the U.S. will grow from $295 billion to over $340 billion in the next 12 months.

·        Outsourcing continues to grow far more rapidly than the economy as a whole with an overall 15% growth rate as compared to a 3.5% growth rate of the U.S. economy.

·        Twenty-nine percent of all companies with sales of over $10 million are now outsourcing, indicating that it has become a part of normal business practices.

The statistics of the labor markets showed that very few lay-offs are due to the off-shoring employment. This fact was commented by some economists who appreciated that the official authorities of this affair under-estimated the jobs re-directed to out-borders, on cheaper labor market-areas. In our opinion, Europe has in this specific sector to invest much more effort in order to obtain comparable results.

In Romania and other developing country as well, the outsourcing studies are expected to be carried out faster, firm-needs-oriented, on contractual basis.

The legislative frame is weak and it is most important that it fulfills not only the allowance of such new activities, but a permanent adaptation of the taxes that equilibrates the profits of all involved countries: this would eliminate the possibility of speculating legislation in the direction of escaping taxes in the global environment, abandoning the national constrains.

The second unsolved hindrance of the concrete business-study in outsourcing is the absence of an unique methodology of calculating the effects, necessary considering that the partners are of different dimensions, and even if they declare themselves allied in gaining profits, the competition forces draws them to potential tensions for the moment and turning into a possible confrontation later.

Research can never be as advanced as the diversity of the qualitative aspects of the human resources as a production factor: this is why we consider a necessity the developing at least one data-base stoking and sharing with the interested consumers’ information about the structure and the intensive features of the in use human economic factor on multi-regional areas. Such a valuable tool is of intensive-growth importance, and a mandatory step towards a higher performance market economy in Europe.

This knowledge instrument is not meant to cut the top-position of the firms obtaining spectacular productivity raisings, resulted from gathering supplementary volume of work ( sometimes hiring less), but on the contrary, will enlarge the market of prosper firms and meet the expectation of more and more customers.

Another chapter of the study about outsourcing reveals the impact of the already existing facts in distributing the qualification on the market areas, and on the education and training services market. A relevant trend is been given here by the average level of the local-area salary, as major index of orientating the firms interest to the zone.

         

Conclusion:

 

Romania, as a new member state of United Europe, faces the labor challenges in the quantitative and qualitative terms. It needs more practice in how to invest in labor policies, in shortening the time of unemployment; it needs experimented institutions and frame-systems based on information technology able to guide the labor market to fill-in vacancies more rapidly; the firms need to organize higher and better targeted trainings as part of the long-life learning aspirations and having as a consequence more responsive salaries to market conditions and to personal competency.

          An active labor policy is every day more flexible in working arrangements such as part-time or fixed-term employment, accompanied by a straight regulation in this field, giving benefits to firms, employers and employee, and also paying attention to the macroeconomic index of human development and human capital.

          The European enlargement produces a re-distribution of labor among industries and among member-states (close regions included), bringing a new trend in the reform of the macro-market system.

This situation pushed the politicians’ precautions to think of a temporary restriction of the eastern persons and employed rights for several years, in order to diminish the eventually massive flow of labor towards west.

We can hardly say that such politic-vision had in mind the home-usage of human capital in the outsourcing mechanism.

Nevertheless, we expect that the market forces will impose the competition and economic confrontation, which will bring economic benefits and quality augmentation as major gains for all consumers. Under this main-stream flow, the outsourcing mechanism and its deep potential integrates in the support for the optimistic 2010 targets of the United Europe: 70% - employment rate of 15-64 years old labor; over 60%- feminine employment rate between 15-64 years old; 50% - aged labor employment rate, between 55 and 64 years old.

           

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