Introduction

Educational trends observed today encourage our reflection on significant areas and factors that determine the efficiency of some and the decline of others.  Trends that are particularly important for education focus on the development of the main agents (students, teachers, parents) and take into account their individual potential, using l and use adequate potential and team management strategies (i.e. of students in a classroom or teacher teams). Thus, we  initiative you to present and discuss – in a scientific, international group – the most recent trends in human resource management. There is also an urgent need to further specify the conditions for implementing these management trends in schools and universities in such a way that would allow to keep up with the rapidly changing world.

The Conference’s focus is on school teachers, university teachers, knowledge managers, and development and change promoters who function in a world marked by dynamic socio-cultural and civilizational changes. Therefore it was concluded that they are the ones who should become the initiators of actions connected with their own development and people management. By doing this, they would become the promoters of development and change of others. Development and change not only facilitate new activities, initiatives, or undertakings, but they also reveal new, previously unknown challenges (including increasing differences in understanding education and teaching methods by different agents, methods of developing learning communities, or managing the potential of academic staff, teachers, students, and pupils). This, in turn, encourages implementation of new strategies and solutions which use personal resources and the potential of teachers, students and parents. Despite numerous studies into teachers, school, university and modernizations in these areas, systemic solutions are still lacking. Thus, there is still an urgent  need to analyze, discuss and continue the search for new solutions regarding teachers’ work. The opportunity to meet during lectures and workshops at the conference is an excellent platform to meet this need.