ERGONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL WORK - A BASIS CONCEPT FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS' MANAGERS

This study, aims to highlight the impact that certain factors, synthesized by the authors into an ergonomics concept of intellectual work about the students' performance in Romanian universities - performance being measured as the final grade in the core courses. The authors of this study started with the hypothesis that human resources who work with and through knowledge (and a component of such human resources are, of course, the students) must be prepared for requirements of a new and diverse nature with which the managers of knowledge-based organizations should be acquainted and, moreover, should be able to manage them, in order to increase the efficiency of their activities. The main method used was case study; on a target group about 250 students from a Romanian university. We have determined, by multivariate regression, the impact of those factors such as: teaching learning process, examination process, research-learning process, the student-higher education institutions relationship. The results indicate that the students' performance is highly associated with the variables mentioned above.