Participative Management in the Framework of a Local Action Group

Abstract: The main European policy for rural areas is the Common Agricultur­al Policy (CAP). Regarding the involvement of local communities, CAP, through the LEADER program, contributes to the promotion of a community-led local development strategy, supporting development projects initiated at the local level by Local Action Groups. For good functioning and achieving high efficien­cy, LAGs resort to the implementation of participative management in the or­ganization. In the presented work, we propose to analyze the importance of participative management within an organization of this type – LAG “Eremia Grigorescu 1863” Galati and the contribution to the establishment of new busi­nesses, the promotion of tourism, the creation of jobs, which lead to the sustain­able development of rural economy in the South-East Region of Romania. The involvement of the LAG staff in the decision-making process led to the enrich­ment of the level of culture and professional training of the employees, facilitat­ing the achievement of remarkable results in terms of the association. We used the Multi-criteria Analysis to check the way of making decisions within the Lo­cal Action Group.

9th International Scientific ERAZ Conference – ERAZ 2023 – Conference Proceedings: KNOWLEDGE BASED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, hybrid – online, virtually and in person, Prague, Czech Republic, June 1, 2023

ERAZ Conference Proceedings published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans – Belgrade, Serbia

ERAZ conference partners: Faculty of Logistics, University of Maribor, Maribor (Slovenia); University of National and World Economy – UNWE, Sofia (Bulgaria); Center for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET), Research Laboratory of the Department of Political Science of University of Crete (Greece); Institute of Public Finance – Zagreb (Croatia); Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Ohrid, University of St. Kliment Ohridski from Bitola (North Macedonia)

ERAZ Conference 2023 Conference Proceedings: ISBN 978-86-80194-72-1, ISSN 2683-5568, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.2023

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Panaitescu, M. (2023). Participative Management in the Framework of a Local Action Group. In V. Bevanda (Ed.), ERAZ Conference – Knowlegde Based Sustainable Development: Vol 9. Conference Proceedings (pp. 181-188). Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans. https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.2023.181

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Additional reading

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy_en 

https://www.galeg1863.ro/ 

https://www.madr.ro/axa-leader.html 

https://www.madr.ro/planul-national-strategic-pac-post-2020.html 

Regulation (EU). 2021/2116 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and re­pealing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TX­T/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2021.435.01.0187.01.ENG