Zugl.: Bonn, Universiẗat, Diss.

The theoretical part describes the basic knowledge of management, positions and operations of manager, motivation, and motivation to learn. At the same time it sets up the foundation for practical section. In the practical part are mentioned the objectives of work, research questions, research data and data processing procedures. In the practical part analyzes the motivation of students through a questionnaire survey.

This thesis analyzes present situation in a firm with an aim to detect weak points in management and motivation of employees. Also the thesis offers possibilities of improvement for purpose of an increase in effectiveness of the firm.

AND KEY WORDS The thesis is focused on the motivation of nurses working in intensive care and presents theoretical and empirici part. The aim of the theoretical part is to define the concept of motivation from the perspective of psychology. Among other things, it includes motivation of employees to perform a quality work and last but not least, motivation and job satisfaction of nurses in health care. The work will also include examples of research on thist topic. Practical part inculdes quantitative research which is in form of questionnaire. This research is compared to other researches with focus on the motivational elements of nursing. In conclusion, the data are analyzed statisticaly and evaluated in the final discussion. Keywords: motivation, lack of motivation, management, job satisfaction, nurse.

The aim of this thesis is to find out which areas of further education teachers prefer and which they would use in practice, to compare the relation between the personal choice of the teacher and the necessary reality and to identify teachers' motivation for further education as well as its current conditions. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts and describes the issue of further education of teachers in legislation. It identifies education policy strategies. It compares teacher training in past and present times. It characterizes contemporary forms of teachers' further education and also mentions its problems. In the research part the author examines the preferred areas of further education of teachers at his school in the form of a questionnaire survey, and at the same time compares the situation between the personal choice of the teacher and reality. Semi-structured interviews with teachers identify their motivation and current conditions for further education. The survey could provide feedback to the school management.

This thesis investigates the effect of profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes on employee job attitudes and behaviours by taking into account the critical role of participation in decision making. The data were obtained from a large British retail organization operating profit sharing (PS) and save-as-you-earn (SAYE) schemes. This is a quantitative study in which the data were gathered through a questionnaire. The unit of analysis is the individuals who responded to the survey, and the study is cross-sectional. To analyse the data a variety of statistical techniques, namely frequency, Pearson correlation, partial correlation, t-test, chi-square (X2), reliability, multiple regression, hierarchical regression, and path analyses, were conducted using SPSS. The sample comprised 1,000 employees subdivided into groups of managerial and non-managerial employees, and participants in schemes and non-participants in schemes. The administration of the questionnaire resulted in 450 returns (430 usable), an overall response rate of 45%. This study addresses four main research questions: (1)What are the effects of profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes (financial participation) on the job attitudes of individual employees in a large organization? (2) What are the effects of participation in decision making on employee job attitudes in a large organization? (3) What are the relative effects of financial participation in comparison to the effects of individual participation in decisions? (4) Does the combination of financial participation and participation in decision making produce more favourable effects on employee job attitudes than does participation in decision making on its own? The aim of this study was to construct a more advanced model of profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes by reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature and testing two theoretical frameworks, those developed by Long (1978) and Florkowski (1989). After reviewing the employee participation literature and testing Long's and Florkowski's models, it was found that both financial participation and participation in decision making have separate effects on employee job attitudes and behaviours, even if financial participation has a small (not statistically significant) impact on some attitudes and behaviours. Since financial participation shows a negligible effect on some job attitudes, and participation in decision making has a stronger effect on job attitudes than has financial participation, the new model is constructed on the assumption that both (a) the combination of financial participation and participation in decision making and (b) participation in decision making produce favourable effects on employee job attitudes, such as integration, involvement, commitment, satisfaction, motivation, perceived pay equity, and perceived performance-reward contingencies. The test of the new model shows that both (a) the combination of fmancial participation and participation in decision making and (b) participation in decision making produce favourable effects on employee job attitudes and behaviours, but the combination of financial participation and participation in decision making does not produce more favourable effects on employee job attitudes than does participation in decision making on its own. It should be noted that it is not known in this research whether financial participation changed employees' actual influence in decision making, as the study did not collect any data on this question. Therefore, there is the possibility that if the same study were conducted in organizations with financial participation schemes which increase employees' influence in decision making, the effect of the combination of financial participation and participation in decision making might be found to be stronger than that reported in this dissertation.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2007--Regensburg.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-115).

The thesis deals with the human resource management from theoretical and practical view. In other words, what should the right human resource management look like and how it works in the case of real company LINET. The thesis takes closer look at specific part of human resource management - work motivation. The questionnaire survey among current as well as potential employees was used as a main method to gain reliable data. Results of the survey showed minor imperfections that may have a direct influence on motivation, satisfaction and performance of employees.

Diploma thesis focuses on intra-company relations which are an integral part of company culture and intra-company communication. The Theoretical part of this theses is focused on communication process as such, individual types and theories of communication. One part of it is description of cultural influence and company image that strongly affect the communication inside the company thorough all the organization. On bases of questionnaire research the practical part is focused on particular company, i.e. on confirmation or disproof of the stated hypotheses that claims that individual elements of communication mains and quality of communication inside the company are direct tools, influencing and determining the company culture. Finally diploma theses summarizes all the findings arising from diploma theses and possible recommendations to improve the communication.