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The mental and physical demands of teacher's work
Neubauerová, Karolína ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Kasíková, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the teaching profession and focuses on its possible demands and requirements. It takes into consideration an objective view of teacher's work as well as a subjective view of a teacher. The basis of this thesis is teacher's psychological professiography that describes individual teacher activities in specific conditions of school environment. It concentrates on requirements on the qualification, teacher's personality and time management along with atypical activities that are found in the teaching profession. An essential part of the thesis considers teacher's workload and its effects on teacher's personality and performance. A special attention is given to stress and its sources and consequences. The teaching profession is appraised as a relatively demanding profession with lots of different demands and expectations. The final section of the thesis contemplates possible ways and strategies of dealing with load and stress in a view of a natural organism defence and other means of dealing with stress. For instance, an effort to change an individual approach to a workload by means of various programmes and courses of continuing education, school resources and other ways.
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The workload of nurses in perioperative care
POLÁKOVÁ, Ivana
The basic theoretical background: It is known that the profession of nurses is very physically and mentally challenging. Otherwise, it is not even for nurses in the operating room. The work of nurses in operating rooms is highly specialized and demanding profession that requires specific skills and knowledge primarily because the operating rooms is very specific and puts high demands on the technical and material equipment, flawless organization work and to perfect the principles of antisepsis and asepsis. It's about challenging, diverse activities, including the preparation of operating material, devices, apparatus, instruments and sterilization. The correct execution of all these activities, the profession ranks between occupation with time pressure, physical stress and irregular rhythm of life and professions, in which psychological and physical depletion of reserves means not only a danger to themselves, but also the health of the patient. The objectives of the work: To meet the main intent of the work were established two objectives. The first goal is to find out what type of workload for nurses in perioperative care predominates. The second goal is to compare the differences of the workload for novice and long - term working nurses in perioperative care. Hypothesis: Depending on the set objectives have been identified four hypotheses. H1: the incidence of psychological burden for nurses in perioperative care predominates over the occurrence of physical exertion. H2: for nurses working less than three years in perioperative care is the presence of psychic load higher than for senior sisters. H3: for nurses working for more than three years in perioperative care is the presence of physical load higher than the sisters with less length of practice. H4: the workload of nurses in perioperative care does not differ from the standard, based on the Meister´s method of assessing workload. Methodology: Research method of quantitative inquiry of research using the techniques of a standardised questionnaire, supplemented by their own questions. The questionnaire was completely anonymous and respondents ' participation in the research was voluntary. Were used two standardized questionnaires. The first questionnaire was elected from Maister, which assesses the impact of work on the psyche of the individual. The second questionnaire was used as a working activity from Baecky, which is used to measure physical activity. The target group were the nurses working in the perioperative care. In total, were interviewed across nine hospitals of the Czech Republic. All selected Hospital have agreed to perform the research investigation to this thesis. The results obtained were statistically processed. Conclusion: The work provides information about what type of workload predominate for nurses in perioperative care and about the differences of the workload for starting and working nurses in perioperative care. The results of the thesis can be used by medical facilities to identify the workload for nurses in perioperative care and by the perioperative nurses. From the above results, it is clear that the issue of mental and physical loads primarily nurses in the operating room is a very current topic, and it is important to deal with manifestations of this load. In addition to this thesis was created, information material on the prevention of the workload and the methods of its elimination.
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Advanced Tools for Performance Measurement
Smrček, Jaromír ; Gajda, Zbyšek (referee) ; Kašpárek, Tomáš (advisor)
This thesis presents the I/O layer of Linux kernel and shows various tools for tuning and optimization of its performance. Many tools are presented and their usage and outputs are studied. The thesis then focuses on the means of combining such tools to create more applicable methodology of system analysis and monitoring. The practical part consists of applying SystemTap scripts for blktrace subsystem and creating a fragmentation monitoring tool with graphical output.
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Stress Evaluation, Coping and Reduction
Šubíková, Jitka ; Řezník,, Jiří (referee) ; Franková, Emilie (advisor)
The Master´s thesis „Stress evaluation, coping and reduction” deals with a very up-to-date subject of employees stress. It analyzes stress types, development, symptoms and influence on health and work results of employees. It also concentrates on factors which evoke the stress, their identification and elimination in corporate environment. The first part of my thesis focuses on theoretical analysis of the above-mentioned issues. Second, practical part deals with the process of finding and evaluting stress factors in a logistic company and its employees. Final part focuses on project of elimination of stress and its factors in the company.
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Effects of Stress on Performance in the Workplace
Hroníková, Eliška ; Hiršová, Miloslava (advisor) ; Míková, Irena (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis is focused on the effects of stress on the productivity of employees. The goal is to find out what type of stress and how much influence it has on workers, how it effects their work behavior and their productivity. The basis for putting together the research were the stressor selected from publications from the authors featured in the theoretical part and adapted to the situation in the organization. Partial goals are to determine what impact the stressors have on mental well-being. Examined are both, the negative and positive effects of stressors. Proposed recommendations which could help the management of organization to prevent negative influences or their complete elimination are based on theoretical knowledge and discovered results.
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Workload among State and Private Secondary School Teachers
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Eva
The aim of this research was to find the main stress factors of a state and private secondary school teachers as well as the gender differences in that. The research was conducted through authors questionnaires in which took part 89 respondents (63 women and 26 men) from six different schools. The age range was between 27 and 62 years, the average age was nearly 39 years . The average length of teaching experience was 12 years, the shortest half year and the longest 35 years. Teachers marked as the main sources of stress in their profession low salary, time demands, administrative and psychical demands.
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The Workload of High School Teachers
TLAMSOVÁ, Alena
The main aim of my bachelor thesis was to characterize parts of the secondary school teacher´s workload and to analyse the workload of teachers at selected secondary schools. The workload can be described as a dissonance between requirements for the teacher and his or her skills and possibilities. The workload is generally divided into the physical and the mental workload. The first part of bachelor thesis deals with basic characteristics of a teacher, a profession of a teacher, a workload and its parts. The second part of bachelor thesis describes the chosen secondary schools and analyses the workload of the teachers from several points of view (e. g. type of workload, school, gender and duration of doing this profession). The analysis provides information about higher rate of the workload of the grammar school´s teachers, women, and teachers who do this profession more than fifteen years. It also informs that the physical load is harder. All the respondents try to prevent themselves from the workload by means of ac-tive and healthy life style and also by active and passive relaxation.
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The Economics of Happiness: Are the busier employees the happier ones?
Tesařová, Jana ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Mirvald, Michal (referee)
The thesis analyzes the relationship of the perceived happiness level and the level of work busyness of full time employees. For this purpose, a questionnaire was built which mapped happiness and busyness with considering both subjective and objective variables. 205 employees participated in the questionnaire survey. The sample showed above-average education, a high level of busyness and above-average salary (or wages). It has been shown that the work happiness level depends on the level of workload: the unbusy employees are the least happy ones. Influence of ambitions or influence of the importance of work area to the relationship of happiness level and workload level has not been confirmed.
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Teacher personality
OUBRAMOVÁ, Petra
The thesis has a theoretical and empirical nature. It focuses on issues of teacher's personality and view of 2nd Primary school for her. The first part describes personality traits, teacher and diverse teaching styles. It defines the professional competence of teachers, such as competence and communicative competence reflect on their activities. Attention is paid to define the characteristics of "good" teachers, who are the authority, assertiveness, emotional stability, sense of humor, fair evaluation, creativity and flexibility. In conclusion, the theoretical part of the established requirements and objectives for the current school teachers and the teaching profession The influence of personality. The practical part presents the results of quantitative research, which was written the method of questioning. The data obtained explain the view of 2nd Primary school teacher and a personality show, which features students assessed as significant and which forms and methods of work adopted positively.
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