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Character of the professionalisation of NGOs and its impact.
Dvořáková, Lenka ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Háva, Petr (referee)
The theme of this thesis is the professionalization of NGOs, which can be defined as the transformation to a formal organization with professional management. The process of professionalization consist in job creations and/or the professional management. Jobs can be filled by professionals with volunteer experience or by professionals without volunteer experience. If NGO employs professionals with volunteer experience, the character of personnel professionalization is organic, otherwise is inorganic. The main objective of this thesis is to determine the difference in process, level and consequences of organic and inorganic professionalization of nonprofit organizations. The presumption is that the organic professionalization implies less negative impact on the nonprofit organization than inorganic professionalization. In the theoretical part terms like nonprofit sector, NGOs and professionalization are defined and the theoretical background related to the character of personnel professionalization is presented there. In the empirical part - based on the methodology - is the relationship between the character of personnel professionalization and the process, level and consequences of professionalization in two researched NGOs examined.
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Who leaves academia and why? Professional identity development of early career researchers and its field and gender specific
Cidlinská, Kateřina ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Vostal, Filip (referee) ; Šima, Karel (referee)
The thesis follows the research stream focused on changes to the academic environment in the recent decades and their impact on academic professional paths and identities. Specifically, it is concerned with the phenomenon of attrition from academic profession which is pursued through a perspective of professional identity. We understand academic identities as an integral part of current changes to the academic environment and their study thus may help us better understand the changes as well as their influence on the development of academic ambitions. The aim of the thesis is to ascertain what kind of people and with what kind of professional identities enter and leave academia and for what reasons, and on this basis to identify barriers to the development of academic identities and paths. Special attention is paid to research field and gender aspects of the development of professional identities in order to explore the possible influence of specific structural factors (mainly field specific organization of academic production and gender specific biographies) and gain information needed for appropriate policy measures aimed at supporting professional development of early-career researchers. The analysis is based on narrative interviews with people who left academic professional path. The outcome of...
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Volunteer as a team member in an organization providing social services
LEŠUKOVÁ, Lucie
In this bachelor thesis, I deal with the issue of volunteering in social services, with the aim to determine the role of a volunteer in a team of workers within an organization providing social services. Partial objective were to identify the role that volunteers have inside the team and characterise the relationships between volunteers and professional employees in the teams of these organizations. In order to achieve this aim, the strategy of qualitative research, the method of interviewing, and the technique of semi-guided interviews, were chosen. The interviews were conducted with ten professionals and ten volunteers working in five different organizations providing social services in the capital city of Prague. Subsequently, I conducted an evaluation of the results of the interviews by the clustering method. The research results demonstrate that the role of volunteers in organizations is viewed very positively; professional employees consider volunteers to be beneficial and recognize them as part of the organization's team. Even volunteers feel like a part of the team, but some have stated that although they see their role in the team as worthwhile, they would rather regard it as ancillary, complementing the main work carried out by professionals. The research results also demonstrate that the relationships between professionals and volunteers are viewed positively by both sides, despite of occasional disagreements. Concurrently, research has not proved whether the quality of the relationships is influenced by whether the relationships are formal or informal. The results of this work can contribute to improving the public's informativeness of volunteering, specifically, that a volunteer has a place within the group of people working in social services, and that he/she can be a full-fledged member of the team.
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The development and structure of progaming and its importance in the contemporary world
Puharič, Petr ; Přibil, Jiří (advisor) ; Bína, Vladislav (referee)
The aim of this work is to describe progaming scene development since its beginings till present days. Also I would like to focus to progaming importance for current world. To achieve this goal I analyse individual years since 1997 till 2016 and I sumarize state of the current progaming scene. In this work I describe professional players chracteristics and I also describe various game types, some individual games, competitions, tournaments... In analysed years there are described prize money, players counts in tournaments and coutnry origins of players. In conclusion there is shown development of these statistics in the whole analysed period of time. Outcome of the statistics development in time is detailed overview of progaming scene including its current importance.
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Character of the professionalisation of NGOs and its impact.
Dvořáková, Lenka ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Háva, Petr (referee)
The theme of this thesis is the professionalization of NGOs, which can be defined as the transformation to a formal organization with professional management. The process of professionalization consist in job creations and/or the professional management. Jobs can be filled by professionals with volunteer experience or by professionals without volunteer experience. If NGO employs professionals with volunteer experience, the character of personnel professionalization is organic, otherwise is inorganic. The main objective of this thesis is to determine the difference in process, level and consequences of organic and inorganic professionalization of nonprofit organizations. The presumption is that the organic professionalization implies less negative impact on the nonprofit organization than inorganic professionalization. In the theoretical part terms like nonprofit sector, NGOs and professionalization are defined and the theoretical background related to the character of personnel professionalization is presented there. In the empirical part - based on the methodology - is the relationship between the character of personnel professionalization and the process, level and consequences of professionalization in two researched NGOs examined.
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The Process of Professionalization of Non-profit Organization Atmostéra, o.s. - Case Study
Kovaříková, Šárka ; Matyáš, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (referee)
This diploma thesis introduces case study that deals with problems of professionalization of non-profit organization Atmosféra, o. s., organization arranging experience programs for elementary and secondary schools mainly in Zlín Region. The aim of this thesis is to analyze members' attitudes to professionalization of the organization and on the bases of this analysis to recommend and suggest procedure leading to improvement of services of the organization. Theoretical part describes problems of voluntary work and professionalization. Practical part contains research dealing with members' attitute to professionalization of the organization. Due to specialization of this thesis, I chose method of case study, in which I use qualitative research methods.
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Professionalization in Context of Strategic Planning (Case Study - Maternity Centre)
Raušová, Petra ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
Synopsis Professionalization of non-profit organizations means basically hiring of paid staff . Maternity centre is social space especially for mothers and their children, that rely mainly on mothers' voluntary work and is based on non-professional rather than professional principle. This case study reflects situation in which non-professional, amateur work is being replaced by hiring of paid staff and paid attention especially to an impact on internal organization's atmosphere and position of the main participants of maternity centre - mothers. The situational analysis is a partial goal of this thesis, served as a basic step not only for strategic planning but mostly for considering of accessing to professionalized organization.
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Good Will in The World of Organizations Professionalization of the Olga Havel Foundation: A Case Study
Horáková, Jitka ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The presented work aims to map the trends in the development and professionalization of foundations on the background of the civil society that was formed in the Czech Republic after 1989. It addresses the importance of endowment and appreciation of foundation assets in the long-term perspective and describes the circumstances that led to the creation of the Foundation Investment Fund (NIF). It also tries to follow the legislative and economic conditions for the development of the Czech endowment sector. In this sense the paper aims to bring some contribution to the civil society studies. Through a case study on The Committee of Good Will - The Olga Havel Foundation the thesis deals with the causes, effects and changes of the foundation's professionalization process. The research uses the means of internal and external document analysis, interviews with the foundation representatives and the method of participating observation. The effects of the professionalization process have manifested in personnel management changes (eg. recruitment of paid employees, hiring external professionals), project management changes and overall change in the scope of the foundation's activities. The foundation also took necessary steps towards better appreciation of its assets, proper care of its existing donors and...
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