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Effectiveness Assessment Options for the "Ve dvou se to lépe táhne" Mentoring Program
Pfaurová, Petra ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Dragomirecká, Eva (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on measurement of effectiveness of the one to one peer coeval mentoring programme "Ve dvou se to lépe táhne" that was designated for youth at risk. The main goal of the thesis is to choose an appropriate way how to measure programme effectiveness and verify the possibility to integrate it with the methodology of the programme. In the introduction of the theoretical part of thesis there are given the definitions of adolescence and changes related with this age, circumstances that threaten youth at risk and the list of programmes, available in the Czech Republic, for youth at risk. Moreover there is introduced the program "Ve dvou se to lépe táhne" and possibilities for evaluation of the programme in particular from the impact on clients point of view. Practical part gives information about the chosen evaluation method and its modification corresponding with particularities of the programme, further describes the implementation stage of the method and finally a pilot version of the modified method on the basis of created questionnaires is assessed.
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Personal management of Junák
Chytrá, Markéta ; Vrzáček, Petr (advisor) ; Lejsal, Matěj (referee)
This diploma thesis investigates the human resource management in Junak. It focuses on the basic organisational units in Junak. The topic of the diploma thesis follows the personal areas from Strategy 2022, which contains visions that are supposed to be fullfilled by 2022. The aim of this study is to monitor the practice of human resource management in organisational units with good people management. The theoretical part involves explanations of human resource management fundamental terms and engages in relevant subjects which are related. The empirical part is divided into two areas. The first one introduces the Scout movement in general, the Scout organisation in Great Britain and the organisation Junak and its strategy. It describes the organisational structures and focuses on the department of human resource management and support for volunteers. The second area is the research itself. Sixty Scout units were chosen for the study. I addressed 18 leaders of units according to some qualitative indicators and special recommendations, 14 interviews took place. Interviews focused on the practical experience, inspiration, personal attitudes and opinions of the leaders or their deputies. The main outcome of the diploma is the human resource management recommendation for basic organisational units and...
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Volunteers in hospice care in the Czech Republic
Hoskovcová, Žaneta ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
The main topic of this dissertation is Volunteers in hospice care in the Czech Republic. The aim was find the role of volunteers in hospices and benefit of their work for clients of these institutions. The work is divided into six chapters. Theoretical part consists of five chapters focused on death and dying and of ethical issues of the end of life. The research and its results are described in sixth chapter. The overall goal of this dissertation is to talk about end of life dying and death because it is a taboo in our society.
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The Involvement of Civic Sector Organizations in the Area of Foreigner's Education: The Comparison of Situation in the Czech Republic and in the Netherlands.
Kolafa, Martin ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
In this thesis the activities of civic sector organisations (CSOs) in the field of foreign children's education in the Czech Republic and in the Netherlands are described. The aim is to analyze conditions which are in the field of foreign children's education in both countries, and methods and instruments which are used by CSOs. In the Netherlands there is a lot of experience with immigrants from all over the world so know how of Dutch CSOs can serve as an inspiration for Czech CSOs since in the CR there is lack of experience with immigrants. In both countries a qualitative research was done. The research was made on the basis of knowledge acquired in specialised literature. It includes semistructured interviews with CSOs members, and in the case of the Netherlands interviews with employees of two Dutch schools and with an expert on foreign children's education. In the research the information from CSOs websites were used and author's experience with volunteering for one of Czech CSO is used as well. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Volunteering at school
Křížová, Petra ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Burešová, Karolína (referee)
This thesis deals with volunteering at school and aims to inspire and motivate school (teachers) to involve students in volunteer activities. Volunteering is an activity which a person performs without remuneration and this activity fills and satisfies it. The first chapter is focused on high school students. It describes the development period of adolescence from the view of perspective of developmental psychology and evolutionary theories of Freud and Erikson. It also discusses students free time and studies at secondary school. The second part is about volunteering. It introduces the concept of volunteering and the motives for volunteering. It describes areas and forms of volunteer work, volunteering history, anchor of volunteering in the legislation of the Czech Republic. There are presented also organizations and projects in this part that use volunteers. Last and a central part of this thesis examines ways to engage high school students in volunteer activities. Why it makes sense to promote volunteer activities for students. It represents also the specific possibilities and ways to offer this activity and support. High school students are an important group of potential volunteers who are characterized by energy, ideas and enthusiasm. Voluntary work can be an important source of experience for them.
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The involvement of Czech volunteer doctors in the Balcan wars 1912 - 1913: Its impact and influence on the development of Balcan health care
Severa, Jan ; Pikal, Kamil (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
Bachelor thesis "The involvement of Czech volunteer doctors in the Balkan wars 1912 - 1913: Its impact and influence on the development of Balkan health care" focuses on the Czech volunteer doctors during the Balkan wars 1912 - 1913 but other volunteer workers are also considered. The relations between the Czech representation and the Balkan states are presented. To explain the motivation of the volunteers the Czech pan-Slavism and the relations to other Slavic countries are briefly examined. The reactions to the outbreak of the war among the ordinary Czech citizens are mentioned, especially the financial and other support. The responses of the Austria-Hungarian authorities are presented. The concrete actions taken by the Czech doctors are examined and compared to the local habits and knowledge. Difficulties and problems faced by the doctors are also presented.
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The Position of Volunteer in the Organize form of Volunteering and His Value for the Relationship with the Client
Dopitová, Michaela ; Šťastná, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Šabatová, Anna (referee)
The work focuses on the organized form of volunteering in social services. Theoretical part is concerned with the phenomenon of volunteering in social services and organized forms of work with volunteers Practical part focuses on the attitude of volunteers themselves towards selected organization and the work they perform within the organization and answers following questions: Is organized volunteering helpful or is it rather a burdening obligation? Can volunteers see results of their work with a client? How does organized form of volunteering affects the work with the client and do volunteers appreciate this form as a way of improving their work with the client? The research is conducted mainly by doing interviews and via questionnaires.
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Critical reflection of projects and platform Ushahidi
Růžičková, Silvie ; Souček, Martin (advisor) ; Valůch, Jaroslav (referee)
This presented work deals with crowdsourcing tools for mapping and filtering of data that are created by the Ushahidi, Inc. and ways of their use. Ushahidi and SwiftRiver platforms and hosted version of Ushahidi called Crowdmap are counted among the tools for crisis mapping; however, more and more they are also used for other topics or issues. The aim of this work is to subject to a critical point of view not only the Ushahidi platform as a tool, but also a number of significant or interesting projects in which it was used. Presented is also the recommendation, how to use Ushahidi to create a successful project and the other way round what to avoid, when you work with Ushahidi. The basic building elements of Ushahidi are crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, geospatial information, and in particular the work of volunteers. This work describes the role of these building elements in Ushahidi, and subjects to critical reflection also the problematic sides, which Ushahidi is struggling with. Following is the analysis of selected sample of Ushahidi and Crowdmap deployments, which deals with the thematic, geographical and time stratification of the maps in the sample. Some significant uses of Ushahidi with humanitarian and non-humanitarian purpose of the deployment are examined in the end.
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Specific attributes of Human resource management in Non-profit organizations
Glebova, Margarita ; Koubek, Ivo (advisor) ; Todica, Doina (referee)
There is a common idea that human resource management in non-profit corporations is very different from human resource management in for-profit corporations. From one side, there are a lot of differences in recruiting people or strategic management. From other side, there are enough similarities in both types of organization. To understand, how to set Human Resource Management in non-profit organization, the basic differences between these two types have to be understood. It means not only understanding in the Human resource level, but in general economical level. Any activity in the economy has to be set as an answer to the needs. After analysis of the main differences between both types of organization, it is much easier to find a need for particular policy of HRM in non-profit. To paint the whole picture of the problem, I will give a quick definition of Non-profit sector in general, after we will pay particular attention to HRM policies in non-profit sector and the goal of the last chapter is to show the main differences between non-profit and for-profit HRM. The question to answer is which of factors has a bigger significance in this topic. The main task is to show, that, even though financing of non-profits are very limited nowadays, it is still very important to pay attention to create HR...
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