Why do the healthcare facilities incur debt? What troubles the managers most? In what conditions do the healthcare professionals work? Is there space for improvement? Is it possible to deliver higher quality care? Nowadays, the healthcare providers are looking for solutions, which could help them satisfy more patients, reach lower costs and therefore increase own financial results and answer the abovementioned questions. Key element of such a solution is a business intelligence system, which supports decision-making and aligns enterprise objects with its progress and improves the overall performance. The thesis elaborates on the topic of business intelligence software QlikView in selected hospitals, which already implemented or are about to implement the business intelligence software. The intention was to find out ways in which the software is used in the hospitals, what key performance indicators the software usually measures and what could be the possible opportunities for its further use in the selected facilities. Research results indicate that the software significantly increased the work efficiency and that it contributes to more effective hospital management. However, such improvement in efficiency has also its drawbacks, namely it is the higher price per personal licence in comparison to the other business intelligence software on the market. Research also confirmed the fact that only usage of such software alone will not help to improve the overall bad state of Slovak healthcare system -- systematic measures such as DRG system have to be implemented in the first place in order to also effectively use the business intelligence software.

The topic of this diploma theses is streamlining of HW purchasing process in a software company using methods and principles of project management. Firstly, it describes the theoretical concepts of project management and change management. In the analytical part, the company and the processes are analyzed. Based on this analysis, there are concrete changes and their execution designed.

Diploma thesis is focused on analysis of documentation method in business analysis team in chosen company. Based on this analysis it proposes elimination of identified weaknesses and risks by creating a tool for shared documentation in form of business architecture model and definitions of processes which will allow to build and maintain proposed method of documentation.

The demographics of today's workforce are changing at a rapid pace. Organizations are seeing an increase in the number of dual-career families, women entering the labor market, and single-parent households. Such changes have affected both organizations and the employees themselves. Employees are finding the need to manage increasing conflict between family and work roles. In response, some organizations are beginning to offer a variety of alternative work arrangements to enable workers to better balance opposing family and work demands. Organizations, in return, retain a greater number of skilled, quality, workers and obtain a broader pool of applicants. Furthermore, working an alternative, more preferred schedule may also reduce role overload and conflict and lessen excessive job involvement. These variables have been shown to relate to work/family conflict, ultimately affecting job satisfaction, commitment, and the propensity to remain with the organization. The purpose of this dissertation was to expand a model of work/family conflict by studying the effects of preferred versus unpreferred work schedules on work family conflict and the antecedents and outcomes of work/family conflict. Specifically, this study examined whether and how the desire to work a preferred schedule affected the relationship between work based role stressors, job involvement and work/family conflict on one hand, and job satisfaction, job commitment, and the intention to leave on the other, among a group of professional employees. A questionnaire consisting of eight summated scales was distributed to 122 employees of three firms: a computer firm, an electronics firm, and a hospital. Path analysis was used to analyze the results, offering a more robust interpretation of the responses. The results of the path analysis indicated that the desire to work a preferred schedule both directly and indirectly (through role conflict) affected work/family conflict, moderately supporting the extended model. Most respondents indicated that they would prefer a different work schedule to better balance work and family obligations. The work schedule preferred most often by employees was a full-time flexible schedule, four or five days per week. No relationship was found between the desire to work a preferred schedule and role overload, job involvement, or organizational outcomes.

Acknowledging the difficulties of achieving effective strategic management in practice, this thesis investigates how formal strategies quite often succeed in conditioning organisational actions even in firms such as professional service firms, which may lack effective measures for coercing action and which often depend on distributed decision-making. The fundamental question posed in this investigation is: what are the social processes that make strategies work? This thesis addresses that question by contributing to our understanding of strategy realisation as a continuing process of translating formal strategies into ‘strategies-in-practice’, i.e. the situated performance of strategies through choices, actions, and practices pertaining to the selection and accomplishment of concrete assignments. The thesis investigates this translation process in three small professional service firms, in which the responsibility for enacting the strategies lies with autonomous practitioners, making centralised strategy realisation difficult. Searching for integration rather than further fragmentation of different strands of strategy research, the thesis make use of Porterian activity systems theory, Giddens’ structuration theory, Wittgensteinian theory of rule-following, Searlean theory of intentionality, and the strategy-as-practice approach, in order to understand the translation process as the intentional structuration of practice. The thesis reports two main contributions, the first addressing a gap in strategy re-search, the second contradicting prevailing theories. The first contribution is an outline of a theory of strategy translation: how formal strategies are translated into strategies-in-practice, coping with insoluble strategic dilemmas, and achieving maintenance of strategic position and strategies-in-practice under pressure for unwanted change. Good strategies-in-practice are as much about managing dilemmas as about eliminating them. Second, in contrast to prevailing strategic positioning theory and generic strategies, this study documents the potential benefits of straddling strategically distinct services within a single activity system, in terms of: learning opportunities; work variation; better opportunities for attracting, developing, and retaining talented people; the possibilities of capitalising on client relationships; and the dynamics of routinisation of once-novel services.

A distributed business process is executed in a distributed computing environment. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is a popular option for the integration of software services and execution of distributed business processes. Entailment constraints, such as mutual exclusion and binding constraints, are important means to control process execution. Mutually exclusive tasks result from the division of powerful rights and responsibilities to prevent fraud and abuse. In contrast, binding constraints define that a subject who performed one task must also perform the corresponding bound task(s). (authors' abstract)

Although a growing number of scholars suggest that the construction of identity is an important form of institutional work, the complex interactions between identities and institutions remain under-explored. In particular, few studies consider how the affective aspects of identities may inform institutional work. This thesis examines the experiences of lawyers who volunteered to create and support a legal charity. As these volunteers grew to more than twenty thousand over fifteen years, the charity gradually centralized charitable work across law firms for the first time. In this way, it transformed the institution of pro bono work within the English legal profession. Drawing on this case study, this thesis employs a grounded theory methodology to generate a conceptual framework that connects emotion work, identity work and institutional work. This framework suggests that some professionals work to re-assert and ‘remember’ aspects of their traditional identities that compete with some contemporary demands. This can prompt identity contradictions that inspire reflection on professional practices. This identity work may also encourage professionals to evoke emotions of guilt that can imbue contradictions with enough significance to create a purpose for remedial institutional work. When enabled by meso-level processes, such micro-level work can reinvigorate traditional practices and accomplish institutional change.

Title: Business plan for the establishment of fitness club Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to develop a business plan of the newly emerging fitness centre in downtown of Prague and to verify the feasibility of the project. Methods: The first part explains important terms, structure and principles necessary on this issue by using the method of synthesis. In the second part methods of financial analysis and scoring model for analysing competition are used. Results: Business plan for establishing a new fitness club in central Prague showed that the club has the potential to thrive in the market. All analysis results are displayed using tables. In comparison with competitors it offers comparable products at similar or better prices. It offers to customers a large space filled with quality training opportunities, as well as relaxation. Keywords: Business plan, fitness club, business, financial plan, marketing, management

Title: Business plan for the establishment of fitness club Health+Prague fit club, s.r.o. Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to develop a business plan of the newly emerging fitness centre in downtown of Prague and to verify the feasibility of the project. Methods: The first part explains important terms, structure and principles necessary on this issue by using the method of synthesis. In the second part methods of financial analysis and scoring model for analysing competition are used. Results: Business plan for establishing a new fitness club in central Prague showed that the club has the potential to thrive in the market. All analysis results are displayed using tables. In comparison with direct competitors it offers comparable products at highter prices. It offers to customers a large space filled with quality training opportunities, as well as relaxation. Keywords: Business plan, fitness, business, financial plan, marketing, management.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of main activities that precede creation of an enterprise and to verify viability of a specific business plan. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of basic terms, analysis of legal environment concerning undertakings in the Czech Republic, business plan and event management itself. The practical part contains description of a specific business case for establishing an enterprise focused on event management. It also includes a company name choice, legal form of newly established enterprise and a thorough business plan.