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Corporate foundations' transparency in Czech Republic
Hoffmannová, Veronika ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis discusses the topic of transparency of corporate foundations in the Czech Republic. This aspect of corporate foundations' activity is important mainly for gaining public trust and legitimacy in the society. The transparency is defined and subsequently researched as disclosure and accessibility of information about foundation on the internet. The purpose of this work is to analyse the level of corporate foundations' transparency and the association of the level of transparency with selected characteristics of foundations and their founding firms. The first, theoretical part describes theoretical background of corporate foundations and transparency including its indicators and determinants. The second, empirical part describes the research, its results and conclusions. The research population consists of all corporate foundations founded in the Czech Republic up to 2014. Two types of transparency were analysed; financial and performance transparency, which were made up of selected indicators. Analysed determinants of transparency were foundation size, foundation age, foundation board size, firm's foreign activity, firm size. Correlation analyses and independent samples tests were used to test the hypothesis. The results suggest higher level of performance transparency in comparison with...
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Volunteering of seniors in community
Stropková, Andrea ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Legnerová, Kateřina (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the theme of volunteering of seniors in the community. The work focuses on the specifics of volunteering of seniors, emphasizing the benefits of volunteering for participating seniors and how to identify them with other groups of people. Using a qualitative research work, it examines on a sample of eight respondents how these senior volunteers perceive the benefits of volunteering, how they relate to the geographical location in which they work, and what communities they form through volunteer participation. Key words: Volunteering, volunteering of seniors, benefits of volunteering, senior, old age, community, collective identit
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Volunteers Preparing for Emergencies in Regional Associations Czech Red Cross in South Bohemian Region
Pelikánová, Zuzana ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Šloufová, Romana (referee)
Volunteering in emergency situations requires comprehensive knowledge of the context of these situations: crisis management issues, including legislation, involving of NNO in the integrated rescue system and cooperation with a local government, the principle of access to those who are affected; including first aid, teamwork and self-care. The training of volunteers is very important for both, the quality of volunteer work and for volunteers themselves and humanitarian organizations pay special attention to it.The aim of this work is to summarize the findings from the literature, to prepare them for the use of volunteers and to map the training system of volunteers and members of the Czech Red Cross in general, and on the specific example of regional associations in the South Bohemian region. To achieve the objective, an analysis and summary of the domestic literature on training volunteers in emergencies was realised. Furthermore, the case study, using data from secondary sources, internal documents and from expert interviews was compiled. Attachments now contain information useful for training volunteers as a separated document. The conclusion of this work summarizes the findings and defines recommendations for a practical use. Key words Volunteering, volunteer management, disaster, humanitarian...
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Civic participation in Prague 10 city district - perspectives of key stakeholders
Ferjenčíková, Kristýna ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
Civil participation is on the rise. In the district of Prague 10, it is also gaining more and more importance - at least in the field of public spaces and their restoration or transformation. In this part of Prague, thanks to civil participation, many different groups of key stakeholders such as civil servants, active citizens, and politicians meet. The main part of the thesis, thus is comprised by qualitative research based on in-depth interviews with these stakeholders. The author tries to find answers to her questions as regards the perception of civil participation by the stakeholdres themselves, as regards the role individual groups are attributed and what is the role of (lack of) trust in the process of participation. As the research shows, in this particular district, there is a wide array of obstacles the process faces. At the same time, it bears a great potential and promises of a much brighter future. In the final part of the thesis, suggestions as to further research are presented and the results are put within the context of the current research and academic writing. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Non-profit Managers' Education
Jakubková, Tereza ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Navrátil, Jiří (referee)
This thesis covers the topic of Non-profit Managers' Education in the Czech Republic. The first theoretical part concentrates on the brief introduction of the non-profit sector, continues with the core management theories, managers' tasks and competencies, and introduces the primary differences between non-profit and profit organizations. It continues with short history of managers' education with concentration in non-profit sector. The first part closes with educational theories, the design of specialized study programs and opinions of current managers on needs of non-profit sector. The second part includes methodology with the main goals, research questions and their presumptions, and also the concrete chosen method and its description. The last part of the thesis is the empirical research which processes data from the questionnaire survey, by which are answered the research questions and fulfilled goals of the thesis.
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Civic participation of older people in the context of the University of the Third Age
Biláková, Kristýna ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
The thesis "Civic participation of older people in the context of the University of the Third Age" focuses on the role of civic participation in the lives of active older people who attend the University of the Third Age. This role is examined in the context of adult education, specifically through a leisure education program, which is dedicated to educating older people, i.e. the University of the Third Age. From a demographic perspective, the elderly population will continue to grow. This will be unavoidably reflected in the development of civil society in which older people participate. This makes it relevant to pay older people as an active group more research attention. Qualitative data were collected via in-depth interviews. Attention was paid namely to the interviewees' attitudes to and experience of civic participation they have accumulated over their life course. The analysed respondents' accounts indicate that they understand participation as activities related to politics and as politically oriented activities. They attach the greatest importance to political participation. Formal participation also occurs, but the respondents do not stress this participation as they rather take it for granted.
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Volunteer Patterns in Municipality
Hrubeš, Ondřej ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
The thesis aims to describe and analyze selected citizens' volunteer activities in a municipality. The theoretical part provides overview of theoretical concepts of volunteering and contemporary phenomenon in this area. The collective and reflexive volunteering model is introduced as a research tool focused on volunteer motivations, commitments and relations to place, tradition or organization from the sociological modernization perspective. The empirical part connects collective and reflexive volunteering concepts with praxis via the answers of informants. Using participants' perspective, the goal was to apply specific volunteer typology in the context of a municipality, perceiving it as a space which can both initiate volunteer activities as well as to be formed by them. Keywords Volunteering, civic sector, municipality, collective, reflexive, traditional, modern
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The case study of participatory demokracy's functionality in the example of a draft for shopping centre in Prague
Bartoš, Michal ; Cudlínová, Eva (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The work deals with participatory democracy and citizen's involvement in co-decision procedure in Prague 7 district, considering a particularly case of a planned construction of a shopping mall. The case study focuses on possibilities of involvement of the citizens of the particular district in co-decision procedures and provides an insight into this issue from the citizen's point of view. Another topic of this case study is citizen's perception of the issue connected with the opening of the shopping mall, considering the increase in traffic and the environmental impact using an example of increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the inspected locality. Keywords: participatory democracy, traffic intensity, environment, carbon dioxide, territorial planning, case study
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Social marketing in sport organizations
Brejtrová, Kamila ; Dohnalová, Marie (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The diploma thesis titled Social marketing in sport organizations presents information on the cooperation between sport clubs (as commercial companies) and non-profit organizations, especially the foundation sector in the Czech Republic. It is aimed primarily at finding forms of cooperation and to identify the supported target groups. The theoretical part deals with general sport organizations and their development in the world and in the Czech Republic and their segmentation. Part of the work is also devoted to social marketing, its forms and possibilities, from the perspective of commercial companies and also from the view of civil sector organizations. Thesis is also interspersed with examples from abroad that demonstrate the similarities and differences in the forms and goals of cooperation of non-profit organizations and professional clubs in our country and the world. The empirical part works through quantitative research methods to determine what specific forms of cooperation between the civil sector organizations and the football clubs (as commercial companies) exist in the Czech Republic, what the goals are and to which target group is the mutual cooperation primarily focused.
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Institutional Embeddedness of Non-governmental Organizations.
Kačaba, Ondřej ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The study aim is complex analysis of institutional embeddedness of non-governmental organization called Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic which is embedded into public sector administration. The first part defines basic arguments and research questions. The second part is focused on presentation of methodology and research strategy of this study which was case study. The third part includes analysis of institutional embeddedness characteristics. Last part of this essay includes conclusions and recommendations for future research. Conclusion of this study is that institutional embeddedness exists on multiple levels, different types and intensities. In connection with institutional embeddedness organization changes occur as a high level of professionalization and bureaucratization.
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