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The best practices of diversity management
Wolters, Janneke Marjolein ; Dvořáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Quigley, Martin John David (referee)
This thesis describes and analyses diversity management and its best practices (with the focus on nationalities and cultures). The central question in this research is: 'what are the essential elements of diversity management to effectively manage diversity within organizations?' Via desk- and field research (interviews and questionnaires) information is obtained to answer this question and other sub questions of the thesis. Nowadays, organizations have to adapt themselves to a rapidly changing environment, both internal and external. Companies have to deal with a continuously evolving labor- and sales market, which is the result of various factors, including the changing demographic composition and globalization. Organizations cannot longer ignore diversity and should take it into account, to ensure that the company will not face any future problems related to recruiting, efficiency, innovation, growth, et cetera. Based on the conducted research, it became clear that implementing diversity management consists out of several stages, namely: 1. Establish diversity council and appoint diversity contact officer who together bear the main diversity responsibilities; 2. Previous diversity initiatives should be visualized; 3. Organizational data must be collected; 4. Diversity strategy and priority areas must be set up (inclusive organizational culture, management support and awareness & commitment); 5. Establish diversity policy (allowance of country-by-country deviations) and 6. Define diversity tools (recruitment, training, mentoring & coaching, career development, linkage diversity & performance, benefits/other factors and partnering with external bodies). During these different stages, it is important to communicate with all employees, since this will create support, awareness and commitment to diversity. After the process has been completed, it is important to monitor and evaluate the diversity vision, policy and tools. Main conclusions that can be drawn from the research are the following: 1. Diversity brings more advantages than disadvantages; 2. Management team diversity is of great importance; 3. Inclusive organizational culture is essential; 4. Diversity management must be integrated and 5. Attractiveness of diversity management should be promoted. In addition, the conducted research made clear that companies should spend more time and energy to diversity management and they should really focus on their 'ability to execute', since this will bring many advantages and will avoid future problems.
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Quality of working life in an international company.
Beranová, Hana ; Němec, Otakar (advisor) ; Dvořáček, Jiří (referee) ; Bucman, Petr (referee)
The dissertation thesis is focused on the quality of working life, its detection, measurement and mainly improvement. The topic of the thesis is solved in international companies. There are two points of view to the problem. The first one is the side of employee, because from all the sources available are employees the most important one. The second point of view is the side of employer. In the theoretical part there are mentioned factors influencing the quality of working life: work life balance, diversity management, gender stereotypes, religiosity, discrimination etc. The environment of international companies was narrowed to the Czech - Italian companies. For a better understanding the environment there are described labour markets of both countries as well as there is a comparison of both countries in the context of international indicators. The pilot and main research as well were realized in the Czech - Italian companies. The aim of the research was to fulfil the objectives of the thesis as well as to answer to the research questions and hypotheses.
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Diversity management in the selected organisation
Nová, Miroslava ; Pauknerová, Daniela (advisor) ; Ondřej, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis deals with the application of diversity management in the selected organisation, namely RWE Group in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the diversity of gender and age, particularly young women - students and university graduates. The aim of the thesis is to determine what factors play a role in the decision making about first job of young women as well as the expectations from their future employers. The results are evaluated and compared with the implemented diversity programme for gender and age in the RWE Group in the Czech Republic. The thesis further provides a verification if the findings of the thesis match the expectations of the identified target group. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part introduces basic terms such as diversity, diversity management including benefits and potential challenges that come along with the implementation. The practical part presents RWE Group in the CZ and the implemented diversity programme.
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Women in the Labour Market
Záhumenská, Jana ; Pauknerová, Daniela (advisor) ; Gligic, Danica (referee)
Nowadays more women are entering workforce compared to the past. However they face many problems when building their careers. The aim of the thesis was to describe this topic in a complex way, explain problems that are related to women's career and also name reasons for companies why they should pay attention to it. The thesis includes a case study of an international employer in Slovak republic that describes the company's attitude to the topic.
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Diversity management in a multinational IT company
Pavúková, Marianna ; Pauknerová, Daniela (advisor) ; Míšek, Karel (referee)
This thesis deals with the theme of diversity and its management, explains its significance and importance in today's dynamic times, historical development, legislative support, its benefits and costs to a company. It further describes the concept of gender, women's position in the labor market and the presence of women in the IT business. Thesis includes an analysis of diversity policies and strategies in multinational IT company and a research on this topic among Czech employees.
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Diversity management focused on gender issues in organizations
Roubíček, Jan ; Bedrnová, Eva (advisor) ; Pauknerová, Daniela (referee)
This thesis includes a theoretical background of the historical and biological nature to the Diversity management in organizations due to gender, as well as the controversy with the well-established bases of diversity management and equal opportunities. Thesis also contains a questionnaire survey on this topic conducted among respondents within the three selected organizations operating in the Czech republic.
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Multiculturality (multiculturalism) of the companies in the EU
Zadražilová, Lucie ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Ilinitchi, Cristina (referee)
The topic of the thesis is Multiculturalism of the companies in the European Union as one of the approach of managing cultural diversity. The aim of the thesis is to provide an overview on different approaches to this topic based on different materials already published as well as on good practices used in the companies. The main question of the thesis is: DO the companies on the EU market go toward the model of multicultural organization? The thesis contains of four parts. The first one explains most important terms which are multiculturalism, diversity and diversity management. It also summarizes the brief history of diversity management as well as the importance of managing diversity. It explains also the factors creating the interest of cultural diversity and its management. The second part explains the perspective of the EU. It elaborates recent demographic changes as one of the external factors influencing the attitude toward managing diversity. It explains also the Immigration Policy of the EU in more details. EU legislation focusing on discrimination and equal opportunities is also part of this chapter. The third chapter focuses on diversity from the organizations point of view. It explains the Cox model as one of the theories of dividing companies based on their approach to cultural diversity. It also describes the main techniques used for the transition to multicultural company. The part of this chapter focuses also on multicultural teams and their performance. The last chapter of the thesis describes good practices in managing cultural diversity of the companies on the EU market and the particular tips created by EU to help small and medium enterprises to manager diversity.
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Diversity Management
Matějková, Kristýna ; Fučíková, Jana (advisor) ; Vernerová, Hana (referee)
The Bachelor`s Thesis is concerned with Diversity Management and its implementation in companies situated in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to at least partially answer the question, whether diversity of employees is managed in the Czech Republic, or not. Situation in companies had been monitored by personal dialogues with managers, personal observation and internet research. The findings based on this research are that neither of the chosen companies fully implemented Diversity Management and is successfully managing diversity of their employees.
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Diversity management
Horázná, Eliška ; Fučíková, Jana (advisor) ; Stříteský, Marek (referee)
The thesis is focused on diversity management in the Czech Republic. The author deals with diversity of economically active population in the Czech Republic and also, based on the screening of websites of selected companies, analyses the extent to which companies in the Czech Republic deal with diversity management in the context of personal marketing. Emphasis is placed on how the studied companies present their approaches to diversity and whether it is also used in individual job offers. The aim is to prove that in the Czech Republic, the implementation of diversity management is relevant and also to map the approaches of selected companies to use of diversity management in their personal marketing. In conclusion the author summarizes the results of the conducted screening and creates suggestions for companies which have decided to deal with diversity management.
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