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Analysis of Corporate Performance Using Mathematical Modelling and Computer System to the Support of Organization's Strategic Management
Horáková, Eva ; Švehla, Michal (referee) ; Chvátalová, Zuzana (advisor)
The main goal of this diploma thesis is to analyse financial productivity of a chosen company, to find deficiencies and suggest possibilities for improvement of the situation. First there is theoretical part consisting of an introduction of chosen financial indicators, such as profitability, indebtedness etc., and also a description of Maple, programme used for mathematical exercises. In the practical part there is a description of Brno company TRON, the business objective of which is LED lighting. The financial indocators are made in the programme Maple, the balance and also profit and loss accounts for a few consecutive years are analysed, from which we can determine the financial situation of the company. The result should help the chosen company with future decisions.
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The Instruments of Social Worker in Social Work with the Family and the Child with disability
BUDKOVÁ, Kateřina
The objective of this research paper is to elaborate on issues surrounding coope-ration between families with children with disabilities and social workers who provide them with relevant social services. Family represents a core aspect of nurture, and is irreplaceable in the overall child's welfare. It today's society the families are also supported by qualified social workers who help with care for disabled children. There is variety of rehabilitation programs available with qualified professionals providing services that encompass medical, social, and educational qualities. Within these rehabi-litation programs it is necessary that a multidisciplinary, and well-functioning team is established with each professional playing a specific role. In addition, active cooperati-on of all family members is essential. Social services as well as state institutions play a vital role in aiding these families. The goal of this paper is to identify the role of institutions and social workers aiding families with children with disabilities. The research includes organizations whose social services are primarily focused on assisting families with disabled children. Qualitative research was performed to support the empirical portion of this paper. Coll-ection of data was accomplished by interrogations with structured discussions. The examined sample included ten social workers providing services to families with chil-dren with disabilities. The pivotal question was established as part of this research, as follows: To what extend does the complex support of a disabled child include both the family and an institution? A secondary question was posed as follows: How does a fa-mily manage disabled child's welfare in instances where social institutions and workers are not relied upon? The conclusion of the research established that the social workers mainly function as a support system for families with children with disabilities. Social institutions and workers mainly assist to such families with difficult social aspects, providing direction, and laying out options for child's development. However, the key effort lies within the family itself. Additionally, the study established that utilizing of the social workers by the families is advantageous. It was also made clear that it is extremely challenging for families to care for their disabled child on their own.
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Home hospice care from the perspective of family members of the incurably ill.
SVOBODOVÁ, Anna
The goal of my thesis I have chosen is to identify the way hospice care is perceived in the Telč region by family members of terminally ill patients. I based my thesis on available specialised literature, current legislation and internet sources dealing with home hospice care. In the first theoretical part, I deal with the definition of hospice care trying to explain the term of general and specialised care that have a common objective, namely dignified and tranquil dying. The second section deals with family in the context of palliative care that plays the key role in the patient care. If the family decides to care for the incurable patient at home, it is vital to support it. Moreover, in this section I define needs of family members summarised in three core topics. Including the care for the patient family that I included to the hospice care as not only the patient suffers from the illness but all his/her family does. That means that each family member needs palliative care. The end of this section deals with mourning of the survivors. The core point is not leaving them alone in their mourning, to have them accompanied by someone in their grief. The third chapter focuses on the role and position of the patient. It changes when a seriously ill human becomes dependent on third party´s help losing his/her capacity to fulfil his/her professional and family role. This enormously affects his/her physical and emotional condition. Moreover, I describe needs on terminally ill people that change when the patient approaches his/her death depending on his/her family and social situation. It changes also during his/her adaptation to adverse diagnoses and forecast and emergence of difficulties and complications. I describe four groups of needs: biological, psychological, social and spiritual. The fourth chapter characterises home hospice care that is described as specialised palliative care provided in the home environment amidst patient´s family and friends. I describe the history of Czech hospice care stating that before the WWII it was quite normal to care for terminally ill patients at home till the end. This trend emerges again in the 90s. I define objectives of the home hospice care and related activities. The fourth chapter includes the description of a multi-disciplinary team and funding of home hospice care. In the fifth chapter, I characterise the home care organisation that try to expand the range of services by including the home palliative care and also deal with the home care history, objectives, delimitation of the scope of activities, agency human resources management and home funding methods. In the sixth chapter, I represent the organisation Sdílení, o.p.s. Telč, services provided by it and basic duties according to the Act No.108/2006 Coll. as well as the mission and objectives of this organisation concentrating on help and support of seriously ill people and their family members/friends in such difficult life situation. The key objective of Sdílení is to preserve maximum possible self-sufficiency and dignity of seriously ill people and support of families that are able to find the courage and force to accompany a terminally ill family member to the end of his/her life. In the practical part of my thesis, I analyse data collected by means of qualitative research based on an inquiry in the form of semi-standardised and open-code processing. Who was included to the basic file were family members of terminally ill patients who were divided to two parts. The first group consists of 3 respondents who were entrusted to the care of the home hospice Sdílení. The second group are 3 respondents entrusted to the Home Care hospice. In the practical part, I describe the process of collection of data, record results of the interview process by the open-code method.
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Anti-ekonomie: vnímání organizace a spontánního řádu a jeho důsledky pro hospodářskou politiku
Ábelovský, Adam ; Pfeifer, Lukáš (advisor) ; Misic, Viktorija (referee)
Anti-economics is a fundamental critique of rationality in economics based in misconception of organization and spontaneous order. Some of the anti-economics is based in Folk Economics, mostly laymen. Economists also tend to be wrong when analyzing basic principles of neoclassical economics. These results are not persuasive. Complex character of the human mind - explored through Folk Economics, bounded rationality and Hayek's The Sensory Order -- transfers itself to the study of social phenomena and brings the need for use of subjective or ecological rationality. In the perception of objective rationality there is no incentive for learning and that is in contradiction with Hayek's theory of mind. Neoclassical economics might find common ground with subjective theory of mind in the fields of experimental economics, e.g. neuroeconomics. Hayekian approach to rationality enforces constraints to government and bottom up rules to be maintained.
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Sports leisure time activities for people with physical handicap
NOVOTNÁ, Petra
Bachelor´s thesis "Sports leisure time activities for handicapped people" is focused on availability of sports leisure time activities for the disabled population in South Bohemia region. The main target of this thesis is to find out and to map the possibilities and availability of the above mentioned in this region. The document also contains comments of handicapped people on the existing offer and also opens the discussion if they feel being positively affected by sport in terms of their physical development and health improvement. The theoretical part of the work is divided into fourth chapters. In the first chapter, I defined what a physical handicap or disability is. In the second chapter, I divided physical disability according to a certain body part that is defected. I considered this as important to be more specific here and to describe more in detail each form of physical disability linked to the various body parts. In another chapter, I deal with the sense and the purpose of leisure time sports activities for disabled population and their history. I presented also if there is a law regulation or statement that gives disabled people some legal support, and what sports opportunities are available. In the fourth chapter I looked into compensatory sports aids offer. I used the qualitative survey method in the practical part of my bachelor´s thesis. The information collection went through a direct-asking method and through a semi-structural dialogue. There were three groups of respondents involved. In the first group there were sportsmen with inborn physical defect. The second group consisted of sportsmen with gained physical disability. To set up the third group of respondents, I addressed the heads and the managers of sports organizations realizing sport activities for disabled people. The questions were asked to find out if the offer in the region is sufficient for handicapped sportsmen and also to learn if there are some specific barriers that need to be overcome by them. Moreover there were some questions on difficulty of doing sports and motivation to overcome obstacles. In addition, there were questions on the main purpose of sports leisure time activities for disabled population. The questions for the managers of sport-oriented organizations were pointed to the financial and the managerial sides of such institutions, and to introduce the existing offer of sports activities. The survey showed that the biggest barrier for disabled population is the financial demand. Individual organizations could not run without their foundation partners and sponsors. Just because of big interest and passion for sport in general, sportsmen and organizations overcome this barrier and carry on. Based on the survey the results show there are limited opportunities for handicapped population in South Bohemia region. Hence there are organizations that are trying hard to offer as much as possible. The research shows there is lack of cycling opportunities so this field might be the one to be improved and to be worked on. The list of organizations providing sports leisure time activities for the physically disabled can be found in Attachment number 2, on the South Bohemia map. The outputs of the bachelor´s work can be used for propagation of sport for disabled ones among wide public, caretakers, doctors and people with disability themselves. Especially the last mentioned ones often do not have complex information how to spend their leisure time effectively.
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The aim of non - state non - profit organisations in taking care of families of children with spinal muscular atrophy
ROUBÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor's thesis is called "The role of nongovernmental organisations in helping families looking after children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy." The theoretical part is divided into 5 main chapters. The first chapter defines basic terms: spinal muscular atrophy, classification, diagnosis and basic care of people suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. The second part deals with possible therapies. Particularly about rehabilitation and spa treatment, conservative and operative therapy, alternative treatment and medication, compensatory aids, mainly wheel chairs. This chapter also mentions respiratory, orthotic and physiotherapeutic care. Regarding physiotherapeutic care there are descriptions of: using a ball for massage, ergotherapy, basal stimulation, hydrotherapy and pool, hypotherapy. In the conclusion of this chapter there is a description of the project REaDY (REgistry of muscular DYstrophy). The third chapter is named "The family of a child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy." It seemed important to mention stages of grief parents are going through after their handicapped child was born. The stages were described by a famous Swiss thanatology expert Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. There are recommendations for parents and people taking care of handicapped child at the end of the third chapter. The fourth chapter addresses the upbringing and education of children with spinal muscular atrophy. The intellect of these children is not affected so they can be integrated into nursery, primary and secondary schools attended by unhandicapped children. The last chapter deals with nongovernmental organisations having great social benefit for handicapped people. The practical part of this work has two main goals: to find out what services are offered by nongovernmental organisations to the families of children with spinal muscular atrophy and how are these families satisfied with offered services. The qualitative type of research was used for achieving these goals: the technique of semi-structured interviews. The target set of the research part consisted of workers of nongovernmental organisations specialised in spinal muscular atrophy and the parents of children suffering from it. The interviews were focused on gaining the list of services provided by nongovernmental organisations regarding the caring families. Seven families were asked for participation in this research. Five families agreed to be involved in the interview. The list of provided services makes another part of the research. Therefore a social worker from Arpida (rehabilitation centre for handicapped people) and a special consultant from Kolping Family Smečno were addressed. It was found out that organisations mentioned above provide short-term stays, rehabilitations, ergotherapy, swimming pool, hypotherapy, compensatory aids and consulting. Parents are particularly interested in short-term stays, they can have a rest and an assistant takes care of their child. This service is of utmost importance for parents. It brings both a physical and a psychological relief. Intellect is not affected in children and it is not easy to invent new activities. At the same time the contact with another person is invaluable. There is also a great demand for rehabilitation, which is beneficial and unsubstitutable. Parents say that consulting is also important. The consulting is usually needed for purchases of compensatory aids or integration of children into schools. Almost all parents agreed to be fully satisfied with provided services. One of the respondents would be more satisfied if the short-term stays took place more frequently, not only during the summer. Concerning financial issue the basic income comes from social services The results of this work can be used to get an overview of services provided by nongovernmental organisations and to find out how satisfied those users of the services are.
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The integration of people with intellectual disabilities in society and their employability in the labor market
KŘOUSTKOVÁ, Petra
The theoretical part of the thesis entitled "The integration of people with intellectual disabilities into society and their opportunities in the labor market" is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the definition of mental retardation, which is struggling with terminological confusion, concretely the disputation of the use of the term mental disability versus mental retardation. In addition, this chapter includes classification of mental retardation according to the degree of mental disability and a brief description of each of these stages. This chapter continues with a disquisition of the etiology of mental disability and finally there is a description of the specifics of people with mental disabilities, which are manifested in sensory perception, memory, attention and emotivity. The second chapter is devoted to the education and training, including training opportunities with respect to the degree of mental disability. There is also mentioned today's trend of integration and inclusion in education and the associated very necessary function of the special education teacher and an assistant teacher. There is also mentioned today's trend of integration and inclusion in education. This also involves very necessary function of the special education teacher and an assistant teacher. The third chapter is devoted to the employment of people with mental disabilities. This chapter defines the legislative framework related to the employment of these people and represents the career opportunities which are offered to them. The practical part is based on qualitative research that was implemented through structured interviews with open questions. The research sample were consistedof employers of people with mental disabilities in the region Vysočina and seven interviews were realized there. For the realization of structured interviews it was necessary to determine the exact wording and order of questions. The interview included seventeen questions that were designed to detect characteristic information about the organization that employs people with intellectual disabilities and what are their experiences. Furthermore, what is the view of the employers at the current situation of employment of people with mental disabilities and what forms of support they use. The aim of the thesis was to introduce the issue of employment of people with mental disabilities from the perspective of employers in the region Vysočina. The thesis also shows us the current list of employers who employ people with mental disabilities in this region. Based on the research results, it is clear that employers of people with mental disabilities are both non-profit and profit organizations, but profit organization are struggling with financial problems. Except of these financial problems, the employers of these people are also atruggling with the lack of support from the state and also with the discrimination against people with mental disabilities, which still has prevailed in today´s society. An interesting finding is also the fact that people with mental disabilities find employment in various sectors, but it is always the ancillary works. The thesis could be an inspiration for both employers, who people with intellectual disabilities employ, as well as for employers, who do not employ these people. In this theses, both types of employers could find hints and tips there on how to implement and improve their intention to employ these people. A great asset of this thesis is also a comprehensive list of current employers of people with mental disabilities in the region Vysočina that can serve families or organizations that provide care for people with mental disabilities who are seeking employment in current labor market.
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Changing the access to ensuring fire protection at The Temelin Nuclear Power Station after the accident at The Fukusima Nuclear Power Station.
KŘÍŽEK, Luboš
The theme of the dissertation is a change in an approach to securing fire protection in the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant after the accident in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The theoretical part is an introduction to fire protection. It especially points out the statutory obligations applicable for both the public and the private sector, which are transferred to the companys fire rescue corps too. At the same time, fire protection is interconnected with legislation and specified in greater detail in EU countries. The theoretical part describes the process of building a uniform information system, safety-related issues and prevention of dangerous situations. The theoretical part summarizes the history of the nuclear energy industry, from the discovery of the disintegration of the uranium nucleus in 1938 and the first controlled reaction of uranium liberation by splitting a nucleus in 1942, when, at the same time, the first reactor was built. Unfortunately, this discovery did not only familiarize mankind with positive aspects associated with a controlled reaction, but it also showed the dark side of nuclear energy in the form of atomic bombs used mainly in the course of the World War II. After the World War II, civil defence organizations were gradually founded in the world. The main goal of all these organizations was to prevent nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel from being spread. At the present time there are three strong international organizations dealing with nuclear fission. Despite all the efforts to build a system of radiation protection, environmental protection and impacts on living organisms were not elaborated fully. First, passive attitudes aimed at protective equipment were the central theme, and these passive attitudes have been reflecting in an active approach to environmental protection in the past few years, the goal being to eliminate phenomena giving rise to threats to the environment and life as such. The actual history of nuclear power plants is very complex and complicated. The principle of all these power plants, no matter what type of reactor their operation is based on, is always nuclear fission the trouble is that in this case any wrong handling or storage has immense consequences for the whole world's population. The development of the nuclear energy industry in the Czech Republic was slow, which was caused by the occupation of the Jáchymov uranium mines by the Soviet Army after the World War II. Based on an agreement with Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Army exported the uranium extracted to the Soviet Union and left just 10% of it in the territory of Czechoslovakia. At that time, nuclear power plants began to be built in Czechoslovakia, such as the Jaslovské Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant, Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant and the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant as the last one, whose construction was started in times of Czechoslovakia, but which was completed and put into operation in times of the existence of the Czech Republic. The research is focused on emergency events which were the cause of the accident in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Based on an FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis), the issues related to the activities of the company's fire rescue corps were specified. Another analysis is focused on the evaluation of outside and inside factors and evaluation of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the company's fire rescue corps. Utilizing an FMEA, possible risks and failures are detected. The goal of this analysis is to eliminate risks and increase safety. The result is objective evaluation and increase in safety within the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant. A considerable negative aspect of this analysis is that it is very time consuming and varies in time due to the changeability of the factors monitored. The result of all the work is the evaluation of the existing state of the company's fire rescue corps through a SWOT analysiS.
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Principle of subsidiarity and participation in the conception of young people
JURÁŠ, František
This bachelor thesis addresses the opinion of young people on enforcing of participation and subsidiarity principles in the Czech Republic. The task of this bachelor thesis is to determine, whether young people act according to the subsidiarity principle, how do young people perceive the participation principle and whether they actively participate on social life. The theoretical part focuses firstly on defining social politics. Secondly it defines the principles of participation and subsidiarity, which are an inherent part of a democratic society, and clarifies their social significance. Another chapter is the history of these two principles. Both of them date back all the way to the ancient times. With the change of political thinking, the perception of these principles was also changing. The most important era in the Czech Republic recently is the period before and after the year 1989. In the next part this thesis focuses on the state's policy, which strongly influences the possibilities of enforcing participation and subsidiarity principles. The main task of the state is to create such conditions, so that both principles could be enforced by the state's citizens. This thesis focuses furthermore on the non-profit sphere and the task of nongovernmental non-profit organizations, especially on the most common form of nongovernmental non-profit organizations, registered association. Non-profit organizations are often run on a voluntary basis with people working or helping without remuneration. Next, the activities of the Government Council for Nongovernmental Non-Profit Organisations are explained. There is also mentioned the importance of education for young people, especially concerning education related to their professional life. The practical part of this bachelor thesis describes how people relate to the principle of subsidiarity and participation. As a method to obtain the required data, a written questionnaire was used. Overall, 179 respondents participated on the survey. The main goal of this thesis was to find out how young people perceive the principle of participation and the principle of subsidiarity. The partial goal was to find out the significance of a young person's value orientation and conception of subsidiary help. The survey implies that in terms of subsidiary help young people rely more on the state's measures, than on their own abilities. The relation to participation is almost balanced, half of the respondents has a positive relation to participation, the other half a negative one. Young people have the best relation to participation in education for professional life. Hereafter, 2 hypotheses were determined: the first hypothesis was formulated that according to the subsidiarity principle young people prefer state's assistance over resolving their social problems by themselves. The second hypothesis stated that with higher level of education reached, awareness and activity in terms of social participation among young people are increasing. Both these hypotheses were statistically confirmed. From the data collected I conclude that young people are rather passive in relation to participation and subsidiarity principles. They prefer state's assistance over resolving their social problems by themselves. In terms of participation, young people participate mostly in education, which is probably due to their age and hobbies. This thesis can contribute to better understanding of young people's attitudes towards the principle of participation and the principle of subsidiarity. It can possibly serve as an indicator of attitudes towards individual social measures and individual types of participation. For nongovernmental non-profit organizations this bachelor thesis will serve as a source of information about young people's attitude towards activities of nongovernmental non-profit organizations. For educational institutions it can provide better understanding of young people's values related to education.
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