This paper aims to study the interdependence between human capital and organizational performance in universities. The
compatibility between person and organization is encompassed in a research aimed to analyze the element of human capital in an
organization, respectively the training and competences, expertise and experience and creativity and innovation. Considering the
fact that universities are more and more interested in attracting and maintaining the most adequate personnel, able to obtain
performances, the compatibility person-organization remains an open road in the researchers’ attention, since the individuals who
want to join an organization will choose those organizations that are a match for them and have a compatible organizational
culture. Success in a higher education organization depends on people’s capacity of adapting themselves to the rapid rhythm of
change and of assimilating the modern strategies. The paper demonstrates that the most important change in higher education and
especially in higher education organizations is the human one: the change in people’s attitudes, values, beliefs and feelings.