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In the theoretical and practical approach of the economic life, appears more often the idea of sustainable economic development, of reconciliation between man and nature in attracting and using its resources without interfering in its natural movement and evolution. In this paper we are trying to bring to light the relation between the economic development and the mineral resources, in terms of achieving sustainable development. The place and role of natural factors in the market economy is revealed by bringing to the forefront a number of arguments that demonstrate their vital position in the sustainable growth and development.

The European Union lives, for the past three years, a beginning of change. It was initially stated that it is a shift in the existential paradigm. Along with the financial crisis the United States exported in the whole world, primarily in Europe, a social, economic, spiritual, moral crisis is manifested... all these requiring a totally different approach to work, value, money, investment but not to man – as a social individual, with work, saving and consumption behaviors, with attitudes towards his own needs, as well as the possibilities to meet them... The sequence of crises was completed by a system crisis. In my opinion, it is totally true. A system tired, drained and depleted – according to my thinking - absolutely intentional. Of course, each system has its own life cycle, which implies that also the existing macroeconomic system shall reach in a point of inflection, only natural would have been to not cause its decline and death, but to prolong its existence as much as possible, by fundamental and structural modifications to support an innovative idea, of higher quality, viable for a medium period of time.

Natural resources are not homogeneous in nature, having certain features in the productive process that require grouping them into different categories by different criteria. Consequently, natural resources cannot be addressed all at once, but only distinctly, according to relevant criteria selected based on the proposed goals. Changing approaches based resources (materials) to the knowledge, from quantity to quality, from mass products to new concepts of higher added value, follows a development that is based on eco-efficiency and sustainable products and services. In this respect, integrated research will become key factors towards global processing.

The currently specific problem at work is chronic fatigue, a syndrome characterized by physiological and emotional exhaustion and often generated (through permanent frustration) by the position with a too much or too low volume of work. First of all, the treatment of stress, of burnout or in countering resilience, is preventive and consists in gaining a better resistance. In simpler words, fighting against those phenomena is maintaining personal health. “Health is a fully favorable condition, physically, mentally and socially, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”[1]. Later it was added that health is the “capacity to lead a socially and economically productive life.” But, when the general concern is to destroy the balance, whatever that may mean – the balance of the active body or the body “ready to leave the system”, balance of knowledge, individual and collective mental equilibrium, functional balance of economy, balance of the bio-system… - we must not remain indifferent. It occurs frequently a phenomenon which is a relatively unknown concept for the Romanian economy – the mobbing or bullying.