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Voluntarism in Sports - FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013
Hořejší, Veronika ; Voráček, Josef (advisor) ; Štědroň, Bohumír (referee)
Title: Voluntarism in Sports - FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 Objectives: The main target of the thesis is to evaluate the area of voluntarism during the FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 and to suggest recommendations for working with volunteers during other future sports events in the Liberec area. Methods: The method of electronic survey and subsequent observation was chosen for the research. The sample of respondents was chosen from the team of FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 volunteers. Results: The research showed that the organization of the volunteer program at FIS World Junior and U23 athletes was evaluated by the volunteers very positively; however, the research revealed weaknesses in the individual items of the agenda. The improvements are focused on the recruitment part of the program, training of the volunteers and the final evaluation and rewarding of the volunteers. Based on the results of the research, the draft of recommendations and proposals, which are suitable for further work with volunteers at sporting events, was compiled. Keywords: Voluntarism, volunteer, FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013, methods of working with volunteers.
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The Motivation of volunteers to work in developing countries
Cironis, Tomáš ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Klípa, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of motivation to volunteer in developing countries. The aim of the diploma thesis was to analyze the concept of volunteering in developing countries, with regard to the motivation of people who choose to volunteer in a developing country. The theoretical part characterizes the main concepts and topics such as volunteering, including its legislative definition, developing countries, motivation to volunteer. The practical part describes the research, which aimed to analyze the motivation of volunteers working in developing countries. The research sample consisted of 75 volunteers who were given a questionnaire of Author's own design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two other volunteers. Volunteers were found to be motivated to help, as well as motivation associated with personal gain. The motivation of volunteers was formed due to the experience with the effectiveness of aid in volunteering. Weaknesses were identified, in particular regarding the preparation of volunteers before leaving for a developing country. Part of the work is a recommendation for sending organizations, as well as for the volunteers themselves. Key words: Civil society, developing country, education, motivation, sending organization, voluntarism, volunteering.
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WILL ACCORDING TO ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Kubica, František ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Rybák, David (referee) ; Demjančuk, Nikolaj (referee)
This Ph.D. thesis aims to clarify the notion of will of Arthur Schopenhauer in a historical context. The understanding of will in Schopenhauer's predecessors - Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Hegel - will also be covered. The paper will try to discover what impact their notion of will had on Schopenhauer's philosophy, which is the topic of the second, most important part of the thesis. It will present Schopenhauer's understanding of the world as will and idea. According to Schopenhauer, everything in the world is subordinate to causal laws, which the thesis also presents. There are even more topics to be covered - the partition of the world to subject and objects, which exist only for the subject, examples of manifestation of the will in nature and different branches of science, the impossibility of freedom and so on. Our attention will also be focused on what impact Schopenhauer's notion of will had on his aethetics and ethics. The last part deals with the voluntarism of Friedrich Nietzsche, who transforms Schopenhauer's pessimistic notion of a cruel will to life to an optimistic will to power. In relation to this, several topics will be covered - ressentiment as a consequence of the massive spread of slave morality, the cruitique of Christianity and Nietzsche's expectation of the overman's arrival.
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The Peace Corps and Its Role in the Cold War
Válková, Aneta ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Anděl, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the activity of the Peace Corps in Africa during the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and under the conduct of its first director Robert Sargent Shriver. The thesis researches and evaluates the process of the Peace Corps establishment, its activities and its role within this period of time. The question whether the Peace Corps was a purely voluntary organisation or whether it fulfilled any political goal in the concept of the Kennedy's foreign policy is the main research question to which the thesis tries to find an answer. Firstly, the thesis deals with the Peace Corps establishment and the problems related to it. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the structure of the Peace Corps and its purpose as well as the profile, the experiences and the motivation of its volunteers to join the Peace Corps. It also covers the training programs of future volunteers. Last but not least, the thesis will focus on the activities of the American volunteers in particular African countries that are Somalia, Tanganyika and Nigeria. The closing chapter is concerned with the John F. Kennedy's foreign policy and the Peace Corps' role in its conduct on the African continent in the Cold War context. There is shortly discussed the reaction on the Corps' activities within the...
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Voluntarism in Sports - FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013
Hořejší, Veronika ; Voráček, Josef (advisor) ; Štědroň, Bohumír (referee)
Title: Voluntarism in Sports - FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 Objectives: The main target of the thesis is to evaluate the area of voluntarism during the FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 and to suggest recommendations for working with volunteers during other future sports events in the Liberec area. Methods: The method of electronic survey and subsequent observation was chosen for the research. The sample of respondents was chosen from the team of FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013 volunteers. Results: The research showed that the organization of the volunteer program at FIS World Junior and U23 athletes was evaluated by the volunteers very positively; however, the research revealed weaknesses in the individual items of the agenda. The improvements are focused on the recruitment part of the program, training of the volunteers and the final evaluation and rewarding of the volunteers. Based on the results of the research, the draft of recommendations and proposals, which are suitable for further work with volunteers at sporting events, was compiled. Keywords: Voluntarism, volunteer, FIS Nordic Junior & U23 World Ski Championships Liberec 2013, methods of working with volunteers.
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Philosophy of extreme voluntarism (Schopenhauer) and its influence on later authors (Friedrich Nietzche and Ladislav Klima)
LASTOMIRSKÁ, Jana
The work deals with the extreme voluntarism and his influence on later authors. First, is the work of Schopenhauer explained the concept of the metaphysical will. Here is insights will primarily as a form of objectification and the closest is served objectification of the body, understood as object.In next section, this will monitored in philosophy of Ladislav Klíma and his idea of egodeism. For Klíma however, metaphysical will lose its transcendent ability and insight from a purely subjective point of view. The last part is mentioned Friedrich Nietzsche, whose theory of the will to power and the death of God, could be an inspiration for the Klíma's idea of egodeism.
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Motivation of Volunteers Performing Canistherapy
BERANOVÁ, Diana
Abstract Voluntarism has recently been a more and more spoken point, and it has been popular with people of various ages in the society. The aim of this thesis: The Motivation of Volunteers Practising Canistherapy, is to find out, why the volunteers engage exactly in canistherapeutical activity and what is their main motivation. The next intention is to find out, in what way the coordinators of a particular programme work with the motivation of the volunteers and how they develop it. Within this thesis there has been defined another research issue: Why the volunteers devote their free time particularly to the canistherapeutical work, and one more partial research issue: What is the way the coordinators work with the motivation of the volunteers. The Bachelor thesis has been divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part has been completely devoted to the topic of zootherapy, mainly to its historical development. Next it has been devoted to the canistherapy itself, mainly to its participants, forms, techniques and its use in the society. Another part deals with the voluntarism from the point of view of choosing of the suitable volunteers, training of the volunteers, organisations that provide with the voluntarism in the sphere of canistherapy and coordinators of particular programmes including the helpful supervision. Last but not least it the part about motivation, mainly about the motivation of volunteers and its reinforcement.In the practical part there has been used the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of focus group. The selected set N1 has consisted of the volunteers who have practised canistherapy at least for 6 months and the set N2 have been the coordinators of the particular programme. The number of respondents in the set N1 is ten and in the set N2 is five. The data has been processed via the content analysis of dialogues. There have been addressed ten volunteers who have devoted themselves to voluntarism in the sphere of canistherapy for more than six mohths, so they have the necessary experience. The results of the research have shown that mainly women are engaged in canistherapy. The main motivation of the volunteers for practising of the canistherapeutical service is mostly their dog, that they want to devote their free time to, but at the same time, these people want to engage in the sphere of voluntarism to help other people. Another inspiration for the volunteers, have been their friends, who had practised canistherapy before. From the research there also arises that this activity enables some personal benefits, i. e. getting new skills, experiences and information that the volunteers subsequently use and consider them to be very highly-valued. These personal benefits subsequently lead them to the very important motivation. The research also shows that voluntarism has very strongly influenced the life of the volunteers and their sight of the world. Mainly from the point of view of reappraise of their life priorities, they consider mainly health to be really important. They also realize that the free time they invest is used to good purpose. At the same time these respondents want to devote to canistherapy in the future. The thesis can be used as motivation for other potential volunteers, who would like to take part in the process of canistherapy. Thanks to this thesis more privates than so far could be involved into canistherapy and also more organizations that are able to support voluntarism in this sphere. The public can get some more information about this activity and engage more in this sphere. The training canistherapeutical association Hafík, in which the research took place, is going to be provided with this thesis, because they have been interested in it.
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Analysis of Leaders' Program and Design of Motivation Program
Zdeňková, Milena ; Pauknerová, Daniela (advisor) ; Chládová, Martina (referee)
The thesis deals with a motivation of workers in the non-profit sector who participate in a run of organizations as volunteers. In the theoretical part basic concepts are explained with an emphasis on personality and motivation. Specifics of the non-profit sector and a voluntary question are clarified and in conclusion selected nonprofit organization -- Association of Scouts and Guides of the Czech Republic is presented. The practical part is an empirical research. In its framework, results of a survey are evaluated, validity of the defined hypotheses is tested and a motivation program is proposed with the aim of workers'satisfaction and motivation increase.
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