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Kulturní specifika managementu multinacionálních firem
Křečková Kroupová, Zuzana ; Pražská, Lenka (advisor) ; Zadražilová, Dana (referee) ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (referee) ; Dobeš, Richard (referee)
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly economically connected, and cultural diversity of employees is gaining importance as a crucial competitive advantage. Cross-cultural communication ability is becoming a key management skill in multinational firms and is equally important for other employees who are exposed to other cultures in the workplace. This work mainly focuses on cultural specifics of management in multinational firms. The goal of this thesis is to discover how different national cultures influence management of people, particularly work relationships, management tools and organization structures. The author discovers this through cultural dimensions that she updates for the Czech Republic and Slovakia for her work using methodology of Fons Trompenaars. The author tests three hypotheses: about the development of preferences of cultural dimensions in time, differences in preferences of cultural dimensions of Czechs and Slovaks and differences in preferences of cultural dimensions based on people's gender, age and the number of years spent abroad. The work also presents mapping of changes of attitudes in specific work and personal situations of Czechs and Slovaks over a period of time. The work additionally analyzes the influence of economic factors on work attitudes and preferences of cultural dimensions and identifies areas of potential conflicts between the cultures of Czechs and Slovaks in the workplace. It also compares results with other researches about cultural dimensions and cultural standards. The work concludes by presenting culturally specific recommendations for management of Czechs and Slovaks.
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Economic and social consequences of transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia
Baldrychová, Tereza ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
Almost seven hundred years of coexistence of Czechs and Germans in one country had ended by great catastrophe, by occupation and deportation. The idea of transfer of germans from eastern Europe was consequence of one of the deepest civilization crisis and came into existence in the period of general barbarism of the european continent. It needs to be mentioned that without nacism policy and atrocities, without Munich agreement, we can only hardly imagine, such transfer of germans was possible. However there is no sense to constantly compare who was the guilty person, who was responsible for chat happened or whose suffering was greater. In addition to its own problems of displacement, this work deals with the issue of a coexistence of Czechs and Germans as well. To make the reader to understand the broader context the work also introduces the meaning of Beneš Decrees. The main focus of this study is to evaluate the economic and social impacts of transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia, which contains the second half of this study.
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The Transfer of Sudeten Germans after the World War II. - Economical and Political Context
Lukášová, Tereza ; Váňa, Daniel (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
In the first part of this work I will remind basic landmarks of the Czech-German cohabitation in the historical area of Bohemia, Moravia and south part of Silesia as it is reflected in historical literature. In the main part I will analyze various president's decrees concerning the German minority in the postwar Czechoslovakia and describe the executive process of its creation. I will shortly describe the process of the transfer itself. A part of my work will be an analysis of the impact of the transfer of Germans on various sectors of Czech economy. Finally I will follow up how was this situation handled economically, politically and demographically. During this work I will ask myself i. a. these questions: What led to the transfer? How was the transfer realized? What were the economic and social consequences? How was the problem of resettlement in Sudeten area solved?
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Sensation and pain tolerance in the range of cultural vision
ČUTOVÁ, Jana
For the Diploma work we chose the theme: ``Algesia and pain tolerance across cultures``. We chose it because due to globalisation and migration of inhabitants cultures from the whole world reside in the Czech Republic. We decided for three the most numerous cultural groups in the Czech Republic, which are Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese. These cultures, despite living in one territory, have a different history, different customs and traditions and approach differently to health and disease. They perceive pain differently, it has a different importance for them and they use different ways of calming the pain. To get to know these cultures closer in the area of pain and to describe differences between Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese is the essential for a good quality professional and especially multicultural care. For better lucidity and coherence we divided the theoretical part into four sections. The first one is devoted to basic information about pain, its history, factors that affect algesia and its treatment. Other sections are focused gradually on each culture separately. We mention brief history of the relevant culture, pain treatment in the past and especially pain symptoms in the relevant culture, algesia and tolerance of pain. For the empirical section there were defined three targets and five hypotheses. We should find out and compare the differences in calming pain in Romany, Vietnamese and Czech culture in domestic and hospital environment. We should further find out whether the designated cultures consider pain a part of their lives and the last target was to find out the effect of pain on normal activity leading to initiation of activities for pain calming. The targets were established based on the assumption that members of nation minorities in the Czech Republic, in this work specially Romanies and Vietnamese, prefer non-pharmacological ways of calming pain to the pharmacological ones and that Czechs do not consider pain a part of their life unlike members of the nation minorities in the Czech Republic. Other assumption was that a church person bears pain better than an atheist. And last two assumptions were that Romanies have lower pain tolerance than Czechs and that Vietnamese higher. The research was carried out at a selected sample of representatives of all three cultures in form of questionnaires. On the basis of results it is possible to say that the work targets were met. The first two hypotheses were not proved and the last three were.
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The Development of Settlemet and National Structure of Population in the District of Prachatice
BEDNARČÍKOVÁ, Jitka
The thesis analyze the development of number of the population in the distrikt Prachatice in between years 1869 - 2001. Because of the decrease in population, this thesis also analyze the development of the seat structure of the towns and villages. Next point is to analyze the development of the national structure from the beginning with emphasis on the development after the World War II. Thesis text is supplemented with graphs, maps, tables and pictures of the individual seats, which records the most important phenomena. Last part is for the homeland study lessons. There are the working lists and subjects for the walks and excursions in the surroundings, which are targeted for junior elementary school classes.
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Business protocol and professional etiquette in Germany
Klimentová, Jana ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Laschoberová, Libuše (referee)
My thesis describes business protocol and professional etiquette in Germany. In first chapter there are definitions of the words etiquette, social behaviour, business protocol and professional etiquette. You can find there the explanations of the relationship among these words too. In second chapter I describe intercultural differences betweek Czechs and Germans and how these diversity influences their behaviour in business and in other areas. Both of the nations are compared with the method of cultural dimensions made by G.Hofstede and with the method of cultural standards. In next part you can find specific information about business protocol in Germany. I describe the rules we should keep by getting to know each other, by communication, rules we should keep by dressing into a work, behaviour rules connected with business meetings, social evenings and etiquette of gifts. Last chapter characterizes professional etiquette in Germany. It explains behaviour rules at the workplace, by official trips. It describes work etiquette and netiquette.
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