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Senior as a volunteer
HOLUBOVÁ, Denisa
The Bachelor´s thesis focuses on the importance of volunteering for seniors and aims to clarify the importance of volunteering for seniors. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first part defines volunteering and explains terms used in volunteering. This part also mentions motivation for volunteering, the place of volunteering in the Czech legislation and description of volunteer centres. The second chapter introduces key aspects of integrating the volunteers into an organization. The third chapter concentrates on the main topic ot the thesis - the importance of volunteering for seniors. The Bachelor´s thesis concludes with a research part that captures the views of selected senior volunteers. The respondents were selected from the Salesian Yount Centre in České Budějovice and from the Volunteer Center of Diocesan Charity in České Budějovice.
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Motivation of the voluntary therapists for providing psychotherapy in a project of The Social Clinic
ABRAMČUKOVÁ SEMRÁDOVÁ, Iva
The bachelor thesis deals with the motivation of the volunteer therapists in the Social Clinic project, which provides short-term psychotherapy to people in difficult circumstances and can not afford usually available treatment for financial reasons. The main aim of the bachelor thesis is to map the motivational structure of the volunteer therapists to their volunteer activities. The theoretical part characterizes and defines volunteering, describes the approaches to motivation for volunteering and brings closer the Social Clinic project. The core of the practical part is the case study of the organization, which brings closer the knowledge of motivation of volunteers thanks to the quantitative and qualitative research. The research sample consisted of 64 volunteer therapists from the Social Clinic project (total selection) and the qualitative research was conducted in seven of them (4 women, 3 males). The VFI (Volunteer Functions Inventory) and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The results of the survey show that in the motivation of volunteers in the Social Clinic project are represented all 6 basic themes in this order: values, understanding, social relationships, empowerment, career, defense. The highest representation was demonstrated in value motivation characterized by altruism and humanitarian aid to others. Another motive that has emerged as important for the volunteer therapists is the motive for understanding that expresses the need to acquire new learning experiences and to develop existing skills. Other motives were not so significant to therapists. The bachelor thesis also provides a deeper insight into the most represented motives and also monitors the tendency of motivation of the therapists according to the length of their volunteer activity and the length of their psychotherapeutic practice.
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Benefit of supervision for mentoring relation between volunteers and socially disadvantaged children
Archalousová, Alena ; Gruber, Jan (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee)
The aim of my work is to focus on the use of supervision as a suitable method development and support of volunteers who give their leisure time to children from socially disadvantaged conditions. Their work is very challenging, because social work or education is not often main field of volounteers, so they are laymen in this area. My aim is to determine the benefits of this method to volunteer as a method of self- knowledge and as a support in their work with children on the other side. I'll be based my on the methodology of organization mentoringových programs Hestia, os, where I work as a volunteer for a long time and with this topic I have practical experience. In the empirical section, I will survey the benefits of supervision in terms of supervizor and supervizants based on their experience.
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Role and motivation of volunteers in development projects: A case study of Czech volunteers
Pantůčková, Monika ; Chaloupková, Petra (advisor) ; Tereza, Tereza (referee)
Motivation is a key factor influencing an individual to become a volunteer. This study examines the motivation Czech volunteers to work on development projects, based on data obtained from the survey and scientific articles. The survey was conducted on 80 Czech volunteers from various Czech NGOs, 40 out of 80 were volunteers working for Kintari organization in Indonesia. The main motivation for volunteering were divided into five sections according to orientation; altruism, culture, philanthropy, traveling and socializing. Differences were identified among respondents when Kintari volunteers chose culture and travel, which is closely related to their length of stay, while volunteers from other Czech NGOs selected altruism and philanthropy. Subsequently, based on the test of factor analysis (FA) was created a domains consisting of the items questionnaire. In the statistical measurements and indicators were using factor analysis which was deemed appropriate, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which verified the estimate of the level of internal consistency and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measurement to determine the suitability of the selected data. The calculation used t-test for socio-demographic attributes excluded the thesis that females are more altruistically motivated than males. Respondents confirmed altruistic and egoistic gain experience from volunteering, including the development of communication skills, stress management, development of empathic skills, understanding of the local community, opportunities to participate in social events, work in a multicultural team and the ability to be part of social groups. Kintari volunteers cause on the project preferentially associate with opportunities to experience the culture and travel, while other volunteers from the Czech NGOs travelled mainly due to work and own education, which is closely related to the fact that they had more previous experience from other projects. The general rule confirmed that a shorter stay affects more altruism, socialization and desire to travel. As an area of weakness, Kintari volunteers market communication and cooperation with the management organization (missing feedback), and insufficient provision of educational aids.
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Psychological Context of Volunteer Fire Departments
SCHIMOVÁ, Martina
The thesis Psychological Context of Volunteer Fire Departments deals with motivation and inducement of individuals both to become members of a volunteer fire department (hereinafter VFD) and to carry on doing this voluntary activity. It discusses how a VFD membership affects values and attitudes of its members and it also deals with attitudes towards women members of VFDs. The thesis consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. Chapter One of the theoretical part specifies the conception of volunteering. Chapter Two discusses the conception of motivation and deals with motivation of volunteers. Other chapters dwell on values, interests and social impact of a VDF membership. In the practical part of the thesis the methods of qualitative research are described and the results of the research are presented.
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Engagement and Information Base of the Students of the Social and Charity Work Studies in the Volunteering and Donation Making in 2009-2012
FOITLOVÁ, Radka
Bachelor thesis is focussed on the engagement and information base in the volunteering and donation making of the students, who attend the subject Social and Charity Work Studies, the three-years combined form of the study at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. The theoretical part defines the basic terms and describes the historical development of the volunteering in Czech Republic. Herafter deals with the typology of the volunteering, the value of the volunteering, the prosocial behaviour of the volunteers and the forms of donation making. The final theoretical part is aimed to the issue of the motivation. There are the basic patterns of the motivation for volunteering and donation making described. The quantitative survey is carried out in the practical part and is focussed on the question, whether the study of the subject Social and Charity Work Studies affects the increase of the activities of the students in volunteering and donation making and whether the information base for this issue got increased during the study.
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Options of recognizing volunteers in non-profit organizations
KŘENKOVÁ, Eva
Bachelor thesis deals with the possibilities of evaluating volunteers in nonprofit organizations. Presents basic concepts related to volunteering, issues relating to the performance of volunteer work in the Czech Republic and abroad, such as the current Czech law on voluntary service, International year of volunteering, European voluntary service or monetary quantification of volunteer work. Main Chapter is a list of options, how can nonprofit organizations motivate their volunteers and evaluate them for their work. Inappropriate ways of these processes are mentioned. The thesis contains a survey by the three groups of respondents, volunteers, leaders of NGOs and persons professionally involved with volunteering.
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