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EMPLOYMENT of PERSONS with DISABILITIES PROTECTED JOBS in the SOUTH BOHEMIAN REGION
HANZALOVÁ, Lucie
The bachelor thesis deals with the employment of disabled people and with their integration into the labour market - the open labour market or the protected one. The theoretical part points out particular situation of disabled people. It is concerned with the pre-vocational and vocational training, the possibilities of occupational rehabilitations and the following success in the labour market thanks to help desks of Job centre or in non-profit sector within the supported employment. Practical part deals with research based on quantitative research using the techniques of the questionnaire and the interview. The main aim of the thesis is to map and analyse sheltered workshops in South Bohemian region, and to find out how to possibly increase the success of disabled people in the labour market. The subsidiary aim is the comparison of situations in the labour market between districts České Budějovice and Tábor. As for the research, there are four hypotheses. H1: Employers are little interested in the employment of disabled people because of low qualification and frequent sickness absence. H2: It is too complicated to raise money from Job centre for foundation of sheltered workshop. H3: The amount of contributions to support the employment of disabled people at sheltered workshops is insufficient. H4: The employers who take the disabled people into employment reward their employees for their work done. According to the results of research, H1 was not confirmed. H2 was not confirmed since the employers do not find the process of asking for contributions complicated. H3 was not confirmed as well, because it turned out that the employers do not consider the amount of contributions to support employing disabled people insufficient. H4 was confirmed, the employers really reward their employees for their work done, and some of them even add rewards for well-done work. The results of this bachelor thesis can provide a feedback about the activity of Job centre workers.
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Supported Emplayment from the Perspective of Emplayers
MYŠÁKOVÁ, Hana
The philosophy of supported employment in the Czech Republic has been developing for over than twenty years. Nevertheless this service is still neglected and only a few non-profit organizations put it into practice. The service is not legislatively based and also the society does not have a clear opinion on employment of people with disabilities. Current labour market situation is not advantageous at all. Therefore some support of disabled people looking for a job is becoming more necessary and required. The employers are an important part of the whole problems, because their attitude to the idea of supported employment plays a significant role. The bachelor's thesis "Supported Employment from the Perspective of Employers" has pretentions to look into supported employment from the employers' point of view. They are not active initiators of the service, but they are important participants for its successful realization. The theoretical part of the thesis tries to describe the basic problems. It covers the service of supported employment from historical development to its importance. It focuses on special characteristics of disabilities and their social impact on human beings. The closing part is dedicated to working opportunities for people with disabilities in the circumstances of current legislative and economic situation. The practical part is written in the form of a qualitative research. The method of questioning and semi-structured interviews were used for the purposes of the research. Eight people were chosen intentionally for the survey. The data gained from the interviews were analysed with the method of open coding. The main aim of the thesis was to map out empoyers' experience with the service of supported employment. Motivation of employers to put this service into practice was the next part of the research. The question was: "What reasons for realization of supported employment do predominate by employers?" The research showed the most frequent facts, which predestine the integration possibility of disabled people in open labour market fundamentally. After the interviews and answering the questions of the research, it was possible to describe the employers' experience with the supported employment service and also their main incentives for its realization. It was found out that employers' experience with the supported employment service is quite limited. Employers often get to know it through the agency for supported employment, which is not only the initiator of cooperation, but it also plays an important role when a disabled person is being employed. An important point of successful employment is often how the emploeyer is satisfied with the agency. The employment of disabled people often brings certain risks connected with the limits of disabilities. Employers, who enable disabled people to work, are aware of that. The impulse for employment can vary from financial advantages, company philantrophy to personal solidarity of the employer. Social responsibility of the company is becoming a trend, that many employers start to know. But it can be presumed to influence the employment of more people with disabilities and at the same time the looking up the supported employment service by the employers. This bachelor's thesis can be contributive to understanding the importance of employment for disabled people's living. It brings information about the employers' experience with the realization of supported employment and motivation to the realization. It can also help to uncover integration obstacles of people with disabilities in open labour market.
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The Analysis of a Selected Quality Label (Czech Quality Programme): "Supported Employment"
RYJÁČKOVÁ, Sandra
The bachelor thesis introduces the Czech Quality Programme (CzQ), in which there are 19 quality labels currently listed. Since 2005 there is also the Quality Label Supported Employment in the Czech Quality Programme. The practical part is dedicated to the presentation of the label and its subsequent analysis, based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted at the level of individual holders, administrator of the label and the other providers of supported employment. In the final part the current situation of supported employment in the Czech Republic is depicted as well as its influence on the Quality Label Supported Employment and the strengths and weaknesses of the label.
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Transition programme
FLEISCHHANSOVÁ, Pavla
The author focused her thesis on the transition from school to work in people with mental disabilities. The Current Status section provides the basic terminology definition of mental disability. The Quantitative Evaluation section captures the division and characteristics of individual degrees of mental disability. These are followed by a description of individual signs and causes of mental disability. To achieve a theoretical balance of the thesis, abilities of people with mental disabilities are assessed also in terms of a qualitative personality structure. The thesis describes specific characteristics of mental functions: perception, memory, thinking, attention, emotivity, and volitive traits. The thesis mentions documents affecting the rights of people with mental disabilities and it emphasises the right to education and employment. Opportunities for upbringing and education of persons with mental disabilities are monitored by their age and within the Czech educational system. Job opportunities for young people with mental disabilities are governed by the Employment Act and specific social programs also have their impacts; they are, for example, supported employment and transition programme, which provide support to people with mental disabilities in fulfilling their right to employment and integration into the mainstream society. The objective of the thesis is to describe the method of the transition programme and the definition of the supporting factors affecting the degree of inclusion in the occupational environment. To answer the set research questions, the author chose a qualitative research. The qualitative research is conducted through a case study. The author chose the following methods of data collection: participant observation, document analysis, and problem-focused interview, using instructions, with the parents of young mentally disabled people who have used or still use the transition programme service. The course of the programme and the fulfilment of the set objectives are influenced by the user?s personality, his or her natural social environment, schools and teachers, employers and workplace environment, and the consultant?s personality and the quality of their work with the user. The author perceives the transition programme as a specific programme, defined by legislation, of social rehabilitation service, which has its established place in an open civil society.
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Use of Supported Employment by People with Health and Social Disability
FENCLOVÁ, Kateřina
I have focused my bachelor work from the theoretical and practical aspects to the problems of employment of people with health handicap and I have pointed out one of possible solutions - supported employment. The first (theoretical) part of my work describes the conditions of handicapped people on the labour market and the state measures in this area. Further I present the quite new service - supported employment, which helps people with health or other handicap to find and keep the suitable job. The second (practical) part of this work is devoted to the analysis of supported employment; there have been done two researches. The first research has been made in the agencies of supported employment and followed the position of people with health handicap on the labour market {--} seen from side of agencies. The goal of the second research was to find out the efficiency of activities of Agency of supported employment Ledovec {--} Rokycany, the research has been done among the agency clients.
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Group Advisory for Individuals With Disability {--} Job Clubs
ŘEHOŘKOVÁ, Jana
I have been working for more than three years in o. s. Asistence as a lecturer of group advisory meetings called Job Clubs. The objective of the presented thesis is to evaluate the importance and the key benefits of the group meetings for the clients. The thesis covers the theme of group advisory for certain job seekers with disability. The theoretical part describes the target group of individuals with physical or combined disabilities, the attitude of the society towards employment of people with disabilities, the importance of work for an individual, the issue of supported employment, group social work as well as Job Clubs. The research part of the thesis describes the qualitative research aimed at identifying and describing the benefits of Job Clubs for individuals with physical and combined disabilities in improving their employability. The research was carried out in o. s. Asistence from December 2007 to April 2008 using the structured interview methodology. Two groups of respondents were interviewed. The first one included 18 Job Club participants, the second one comprised of 6 Job Club lecturers. Information gathered in the research will be used by o. s. Asistence to improve the service. The research results underscore the importance and benefits of the group advisory for individuals with various disabilities. The thesis may also serve as a manual for future Job Club lecturers and to point out the importance of employing people with disability in the open labour market.
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The Comparison of forms of institutional care for the mentally disabled regarding the quality of life of clients - in Institute of Social services in Slatiňany.
ROJKOVÁ, Veronika
In the last time the people who are in some way disadvantaged are more considered than before. To insist on common human rights observacing, veneration of person as a human creature, freedom and equal opportunities between people in the community are the trends of the last years. After the Czech republic admission to European Union the social sphere began to develop and regenerate. In the face of some impediments and problems we can say that the society at the threshold of the 21st century has made first short steps to successful integration of handicapped people into the majority society. The goal of my Bachelor thesis is the view of the development of the insitution care in the Czech republic. I focused on one of the largest Czech institutions and it is the Institute of Social Services in Slatiňany. This organization passed by several phases {--} from classical, traditional institutional care to building the living in four family houses that work on principle of the family care.
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Work conditions of people with mental disability living in institutional care
JANOVSKÁ, Klára
The goal of my bachelor thesis on a topic: ``Work conditions of people with mental disability living in institutional care{\crqq} was to map this situation in residence social care institutions for people with mental disability in South Bohemia region. The goal was achieved. Contemporary world trends in care for people with mental disability prefer to class employment opportunities into the area of educational occupation in social care institutions. The problem of employment is one of the most serious questions regarding people with mental disability. A fulfillment on a labor market influences several factors in their lives. It is not only the economic situation and social statute but also self-realization. There are several forms of occupational and social fulfillment for people who are disadvantaged on labor market. These are supported employment, protected jobs or protected workshops. For achievement of the goal of the thesis a method of qualitative research, technique of structured interview with open questions was used. First target group were employees of residence social care institutions for people with mental disability in South Bohemia region. Second target group were employees from organizations dealing with supported employment in South Bohemia region. From the results of the thesis is clear that the institutions and organizations are interested in occupational fulfillment of their clients. They are trying to create jobs. But the supply is still insufficient. In connection with this thesis we can set following research questions. 1. In what direction will be a progress in attitudes of our society about the problems of employing people with mental disability in the meaning of financial, legislative and social securing of the problems? 2. Whether the employment of people with mental disability will be a part of companies{\crq} strategy (within company philanthropy)? The thesis should help to compare the situation of given problems in each residence social care institutions in South Bohemia region.
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Vocational rehabilitation and supported employment of people with disabilities in the Czech Republic
Kabátová, Veronika ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (advisor) ; Lapáček, Michal (referee)
The thesis is focused on the position of people with disabilities on the labour market in the Czech Republic, on the received arrangements for support of their employment and on their possibilities to get a job. The first part deals with characteristics of the present situation of disabled people on the labour market and with specification of various factors, which can influence their employment. The next part is focused on the supported employment service, which helps disadvantaged people on the labour market, especially people with disabilities, on the principles and advantages of this service and also on the comparison of the Czech experiences with experiences of the chosen European union countries. Only the nongovernmental non-profit organizations so far offer the supported employment service in the Czech Republic and that is why the following part discusses the topic of this organizations and their financing, especially funding from EU structural funds, which are the most important source of money for most of the mentioned organizations. The final part deals with the incentives, which can lead employers to employ the person with disability.
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