Köln, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2008.

University, Diss., 2004--Kiel.

Diplomová práce navazuje na předchozí bakalářskou práci, která se zabývala motivací pracovní činnosti dobrovolníků služby Dobroduš. Je srovnávána motivace dobrovolníků jiné dobrovolnické služby.

Zugl.: Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2005

Zweite Studienarbeit Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie Zürich, 2004.

Zugl.: Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2005

The aim of this thesis is to analyze motivation of companies to support social, environmental and development projects. The analysis is focused on Central European companies, namely the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. In the empirical part of the research interviews with selected companies and non-profit organizations are conducted. By interviewing both sides we can see how both donors and main recipients view the motivation behind the support. Afterwards, the relationship between supporting social, environmental and development projects and long term financial performance is examined. Coefficients are assigned to each company according to their involvement in the three categories - social, environmental and development. As measures of financial performance we choose stock market returns, which are then regressed on the three coefficients and selected control variables. The regression results show that supporting development projects tends to have a positive influence on companies' stock market performance. We do not confirm that supporting social and environmental projects improves stock market performance of companies. This outcome suggests that supporting development projects is a win-win situation for both companies and non-profit organizations. Companies can improve their...

In einem wichtigen Beitrag „on self-interest and greed“ hat Gebhard Kirchgässner im Journal of Business Economics die zu beobachtende Verhaltensvielfalt von Wirtschaftssubjekten hinterfragt. Die ökonomische Standardannahme rationalen, egoistischen Verhaltens trifft die Realität nicht immer. Menschen handeln auch irrational, teils sozialorientiert und teils sozial desinteressiert, teils unmoralisch-gierig, teils aber auch altruistisch-großzügig. Welches Modell erklärt die Vielfalt? In diesem Beitrag wird die von Kirchgässner aufgezeigte Verhaltensvielfalt mit den Erkenntnissen abgeglichen, die sich aus der Hamiltonschen Fitnessthese und den Ergänzungen durch Trivers, Fiske und de Botton ergeben. Damit kann gezeigt werden, dass sich je nach Gruppe, in welcher sich ein Mensch bewegt, Verhaltensweisen einstellen, die von extrem prosozialem Verhalten (z.B. zur Statussicherung durch Vorbild oder aus Angst vor Sanktionen) bis zu sehr unsozial „gierigem“ Verhalten reichen. Der Nutzen dieser Sichtweise für die Ökonomik wird aufgezeigt. Es sind nur drei exogene Mechanismen nötig, die Verhaltensvielfalt zu erzeugen. / In an important article „on self-interest and greed” in the Journal of Business Economics, Gebhard Kirchgässner questioned the variety observed in the behavior of economic subjects. The economic standard assumption of rational, egoist behavior does not comply with reality in many cases. People act irrationally, socially oriented as well as socially uninterested, immorally-greedy as well as altruistically-generously. The variety is immense. The question occurs: which model is capable of explaining the diversity? In this article, the variety of human behavior is being compared to findings that emerge from Hamilton’s Fitness Thesis and extensions by Trivers, Fiske and de Botton. The Fitness Thesis lays the ground. Depending on the social group to which an individual belongs in a certain situation, behavior can vary from extremely prosocial (e. g. to maintain status or to avoid sanctions) to very unsocial-greedy. As any individual is part of many groups he or she can act prosocially with respect to one group and unsocially-greedy with respect to another, will say: greed and altruism is not a question of character but a consequence of the specific situation in which an individual acts. Merely three exogenous mechanisms are required to create the observed variety in behavior.

This thesis deals with volunteering in the Czech Republic, focusing on the specifics of voluntary work in medical facilities. The theoretical part provides excursus into the back stage of voluntary work. The first chapter is designed to focus on prosocial behaviour, in particular on the phenomenon of altruism. Additional chapters focus on the topic of volunteering as a whole, including a short history of volunteering, typology of volunteering, typology of volunteers and areas where volunteers currently operate. The basic theme of this part, however, is the volunteer; the possibilities of her/his volunteer activities, motivation, psychological contributions and whole passage through the program from the applicant to the experienced individual. Empirical part deals with two points of view on volunteering. The first is the aspect of the individual - and the possibility of prediction of her/his staying in the program by filling the entry questionnaire, which has been developed in this work. The second viewpoint targets on volunteering in the health services as a system of work and on organizing the voluntary activities. The research is based on the method of evaluation of the volunteering program. Key words: volunteering, altruism, evaluation, choice of volunteers.