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The status of women in management positions of the foundations and endowment funds
Lučanová, Tereza ; Košák Felcmanová, Alena (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on the topic of women in leading positions of foundations and endowment fund. The thesis consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part of the work discusses the role of women in society, historical development and theoretical concepts with an emphasis on the explanation of concepts that are intertwined in the contexts of civil society. It describes the segment of foundations and endowment funds in more detail, clarifies the basic specifics of the non-profit sector with an emphasis on values and the meaning of work, and explains the individual concepts associated with the position of women in the management of organizations. In the empirical part, qualitative research is carried out, which deals with understanding the experience of women who hold a director's position in foundations and foundation funds at several levels. A key element is the clarification of the path of individual women to the leadership of a specific organization, their motivation and possible barriers. How do women see themselves in a leading position and what is their view of the story and culture of a particular organization. There is a lack of research dealing with the issue of the position of women in leadership positions in the non- profit sector, the data obtained could...
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The role of civil society in tackling indebtedness, with an emphasis on citizens' advice centres
Neckářová, Věra ; Legnerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
The presented work deals with the role of civil society in solving indebtedness with an emphasis on civil counselling. It captures civil society organizations as an important part of society that operates between the state, the market and individuals. It describes the development of the issue of indebtedness in the Czech Republic. It maps the emergence of citizen advice and the development of the way citizen advice in general and more specifically in the area of debt issues. It describes the main actors in the field of debt solutions who operate among civil society organizations from the point of view of civil advice.
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Perspective of Senior Homeless Population on Non-profit Organizations
Hofmanová, Petra ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (advisor) ; Košák Felcmanová, Alena (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of non-profit organizations focused on helping senior homeless senior people or people in otherwise difficult situations. In the theoretical part, we will find the anchoring of the topic in the literature and the definition of the researched topics, which are the theory of the emergence of civil society, the definition of homelessness, its forms and causes, the possibilities of solving the homeless situation and legal anchoring in the Czech Republic. The practical part is focused on obtaining the necessary data from narrative interviews in the targeted organization dealing with helping homeless seniors in Prague. With the help of interviews, information was obtained regarding the use of the services of non-profit organizations, how the clients got into this life situation and what their other options are. At the end of the thesis, a comparison of findings from interviews with clients of the asylum and recommendations for possible improvement of the services provided is given.
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Parental awareness of the issues of governmental and NGOs working in a legal protection of children in the town of Zlín"
Mahďáková, Milena ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee)
This graduation thesis is focused on a social law protection of children and organization working in this field in town of Zlín. The thesis is consisted of a theoretic and empiric part. The theoretic section explains concept of nonprofit nongovernmental organization (NGO), its operation and interrelationship of state and non-state nonprofit sector. The empiric part contains an implementation of document analysis, a research and an evaluation of results. The document analysis takes in social law protection of children and subsumes individual institution ingaged in given issues and its services. The follow-up research analyzes a mothers' awareness of governmental and NGO working in social law protection of children. Furthermore it ascertain facts about individual institution and their ability to distinquish them. The research also checks the information related to powers of national and NGO and statutory duty to those subjects. In conclusion there are some recommendations for educational institution, state institution of social law protecition of children and NGOs, how to spread information of this fieal and use their services in this field.
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Civic Engagement of Women Who Shop Ethically
Vojteková, Zuzana ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on ethical consumerism and its impact on the civic engagement of young women. Ethical consumerism, which includes, for example, boycott and buycott of products and services, is gaining momentum in the downfall of formal civic engagement. Citizens move to the market where they apply their ethical principles of noneconomic character. Their consumer choices are motivated by publicly beneficial motives. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis defines both civic society and its civic participation, and ethical consumerism. The theory of ethical consumerism addresses the definitions of basic concepts, the change in the political climate, which has allowed the expansion of ethical consumerism and the gender aspect of this phenomenon. The research focuses specifically on young women who live in Prague and regularly shop ethically, and their participation in civic engagement before and after becoming ethical consumers. From the data gathered, it was found out upon which products the informants exercised their ethical consumption, the representation of socio-economical, environmental and political motives and how they formally and informally engage in civil society. Choosing products is just like casting a vote. The consumer choice gives citizens a sense of who they are, it is...
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The Action Repertoire of Czech Women's Organizations
Zvelebilová, Anna ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
Concern of this master thesis are action repertoires of czech feminist organizations. The main goal of this paper is to find out whether there are some types of activism in terms of following characteristics in the Czech Republic: organizational age, political opportunity structure, human and financial resources, and action repertoir to be found. The thesis is devided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The author introduces evolution of the social movement theory in the theoretical part. Greater attention is given to an advocacy function of civil society organizations and to action repertoire, which social movement organizations use to reach their goals. Subsequently is shown how the literature talks about particular forms of action and its selection. There are characteristics mentioned above used in Hierarchical Cluster Analysis on sample of twenty-nine czech feminist organization in the empirical part. Finally, findings of this paper are being discussed. Keywords: Action repertoires, social movements, social movements organization, non-governmental organizations, feminist organizations, Czech activism.
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Solving HIV/AIDS problems in Prague's non-profit sector
Vochozková, Jana ; Guasti, Petra (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
This master's thesis is concerned with the HIV/AIDS primary prevention oriented non-profit organizations operating at Prague basic schools. Applying both quantitative and qualitative methods, it focuses on analysing the motives(reasons) of basic schools and non-profit organizations to cooperate, the way these organizations are rooted in the primary prevention system in the capital city, and finally the degree of cooperation among all participants of the process.
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