ABSTRACT
The economic and social changes bring new professional competences requirements. The satisfaction of these requirements is one of the main objectives of the education system. Starting here it is necessary to redefine the education process, to become focused on competences and comply with the organization’s needs. This paper intends to present some aspects of this redefinition of activity areas where competences are the most important and the main activities are based on human capabilities. Competences have been all the time treated as important components of all human activities. Along the time, with every society evolution, there have been researches on the purpose of particular competences in specific activity sectors. Today, the competences become more complex due to organizations exigencies. The necessary competences’ study has to start from the present stage of requirement and to see which will be the future tendencies in different activities in order to be able to focus on these. The methodology used in this case has been based on the study of two different activity sectors, medicine and maritime transport, considering the changes which take part during the last period, both technological and conceptual and also, the impact of these on human performance. The human performance evaluation has been considered a reflection of competences acquired. Using performance, the analysis has resulted in the effect of competences in the specified activity field. The main objective of this study was the quantification of personal competences in activity fields where human life is very important, and how can be these improved according to organizations changing process and needs. The study is addressed to the educational sector, where competences are developed for the first time in any activity field. Results are important for academics, in order to remodel competences according with the actual organizations requests, and for practitioners, as applicants and beneficiaries of these competences.
