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The Possibility to Influence Public Affairs and Political Decision-making – February 2014
Čadová, Naděžda ; Marešová, J.
In February 2014 CVVM investigated how people evaluate their possibilities to influence public affairs. Specifically, questions concered to possibility to openly express view of problems in society, in the town, in the state and the posibility to achieve their legitimate requests. We asked respondents to assess their possibilities to influence political decision-making and also the effectiveness of each activity. This press release offer comparison with previous surveys which were realized from 1997.
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Decision-making on the purchase of an information system for an enterprise
Lorenc, Miroslav ; Fotr, Jiří (advisor) ; Pauknerová, Daniela (referee) ; Pour, Jan (referee)
This dissertation thesis concerns with the selection process of an information system / applications in small and medium enterprises. In the theoretical part, the focus is on the enterprise and aspects that significantly affect its functioning and decision-making and also have influence on the subject of this work. These include the enterprise size, organizational structure, incl. IT department position and the role of employees, their competences and interactions. In the following part, terms and concepts from the field of business informatics are described. Based on the literature and a combination of users' views (survey) with the management of small and medium enterprises and experts perspectives (interviews), a normative model of selection of an information system in small and medium enterprises has been set up, which aims to contribute to better orientation of the management of SMEs in the issue, to more efficient and faster selection of information systems and help prevent many unnecessary errors and potential financial losses.
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Decision Making in Management Process – Application of LMX Theory
Hourová, Tereza ; Hrůzová, Helena (advisor) ; Vrbová, Lucie (referee)
The Leader Member Exchange theory is based on the assumption that managers divide their subordinates into two groups: the "in-group" and the "out-group". A manager's in-group is composed of those employees who the manager is fonder of, for whatever reasons, than the members of the out-group. This thesis will first analyze the decision-making style of two managers based on personal interviews. Subsequently, using a questionnaire research, it will prove how the LMX theory applies to the management style of those leaders.
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Views on the participation of citizens in decision-making - February 2012
Šamanová, Gabriela
In February, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined views on the involvement of citizens in decision-making processes. People would like to make decisions primarily on important local issues. This view is supported by 83% of citizens. On the other hand, decisions on important laws and international treaties should do politicians. This view is supported by 65 % in the case of laws and 75 % in the case of international treaties.
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Is the male behaviour less altruistic than the female one?
Pekoč, Marek ; Chytil, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Zajíček, Miroslav (referee)
There are many papers using dictator game framework, but only few of them focus on exploring the differences between women's and men's behaviour in this game. The hypothesis we test is that men are more selfish than women. To do that we conducted two versions of the dictator game experiment. In the first treatment subjects were asked to divide money between themselves and well known humanitarian organization after presentation by a organization representative. In the second modification a different group of subjects divided between themselves evaluation points of a particular university course in two rounds and in between these rounds a histogram of the aggregate results of the first round was disclosed to all participants. Experimental results indicate that men behave less altruistic than women in some situations. Men redistributed by 22.7 % less money to the account of the humanitarian organization than women. On the other hand, there was no difference in behavior between two sexes in the first round of the second treatment. In the second round, however, the behaviour of the two genders was significantly differentiated as women were giving by 14, % more points for the benefit of "opponent", as a result of information provided in the first round about aggregate behaviour of the subjects.
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The concept, practice and culture of lobbying in the English speaking countries
Vymětal, Petr ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Žák, Milan (referee) ; Malíková, Ľubomíra (referee) ; Rychetník, Luděk (referee)
The regulation of lobbying is a current topic both at the level of international organizations as well as in many European and overseas countries. This work deals with the comparison of the rules on lobbying in selected English-speaking countries. Descriptive, doctrinal and comparative methods are used to analyze the main trends in the lobbying regulation of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as Australia. The text is structured into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the definition of lobbying and its differences from corrupt dealings; it also covers the types of lobbying activities and the various kinds of lobbyists. The second chapter attempts to contextualize lobbying into the theories of the decision-making process. A comparison of the similarities and differences of the lobbying rules is made and analyzed in the third and fourth chapters. Both the third and the fourth chapter have a similar structure -- first, the general rules and approaches to regulation are introduced, and then a comparison of selected English-speaking countries is made. The third chapter deals with the most common rules for lobbyists; the fourth chapter focuses on the relatively neglected side of lobbying contacts, i.e. the rules for the targets of lobbying (public office holders). In the end, some measures and recommendations for the Czech Republic are also outlined.
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Framework for Data quality assessment
Šíp, Libor ; Slánský, David (advisor) ; Pour, Jan (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to produce a tool that allow fast, conclusively calculate impacts of problems caused by poor data quality. Before making the tool is necessary to be familiarize with problems related to data quality like what is data quality, how to manage data quality, how to evaluate data quality and finaly how to choose right solution. First chapter is about Data Quality and shows it in different views. There is an explanation of the Data Quality meaning there, its state in companies is shown on research done by specialized organizations. The way how to solve Data Quality mananagement through the whole company is described in chapter two, which deals with Data Governance. The third chapter explains what is a Business Case and why should a Business Case be written. Otherwise shows key elements of a Business Case and provide approach how to calculate costs and benefits of the project. The fourth chapter describes potential threat which is related with decisions and how to minimize them. The fifth chapter shows examples of problems of Data Quality in an organization. There is an attempt to find evaluation of the problem and its causes. Suggestions of potential solutions towards disponsible finacial sources is made at the end. Comparison of the quality of solutions is also done.
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Optimization of advantages on business current account
Hach, David ; Švecová, Lenka (advisor) ; Theodor, Michal (referee)
The basic aim of this thesis was to evaluate the profitability of current accounts offered by the five largest Czech banks. In this context it was proposing to create such an evaluation device, which is sufficiently versatile and reusable. After a thorough examination of the general principles of decision-making theory and the basic characteristics and instruments of current accounts has been developed appropriate analytical base for follow-up of the work. In the analytical part proved very useful hierarchy of objectives and criteria, as well as the use of exact methods for determining weights of criteria and selecting the appropriate option. For determining the weights of the criteria were used point scale method, preferential ranking method, the method of paired comparisons, Saaty's method and compensation method. For the selection of variants were used multicriteria utility functions, Saaty's method and compensation method.
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Management vs. Leadership
Bouška, Pavel ; Kešner, Martin (advisor) ; Ondrušková, Hana (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis was to realize a qualitative research concerning different human's approaches, while meeting the tasks and reaching goals and on its results recommend optimal approach to leading and managing employees. For realization of quantitative research has been used an observation method, which provided wide possibilities of evaluation for investigation of existing phenomenon. Through analyze of observations has been succeeded to draw the difference between management and leadership approaches depending on the level of required communication between boss and employee. The elements of the communication are predetermined by held paradigms by each participant of a discussion. They then include considerable unstated information in their opinions. First step how to change of those paradigms is to realize of existence of present paradigms.
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