With the increasing emergence of multinational companies and the increased popularity of these companies, the question of the organization of their activities becomes interesting for the HR community worldwide. These companies are renowned for deliberate management structure of human resources and their effective use. For effective use of employees’ skills and knowledge the company has to constantly motivate them by intrinsic and extrinsic motivational tools. Motivational tools which use a company may be different depending on specific features of the country that the office is located. The purpose of this research is the study of how multinational companies organize the motivational system in different countries taking into account cultural characteristics and needs of the personnel in the offices of a particular country. On the basis of data derived from interviews with 12 representatives of 6 companies (4 of them Swedish companies, Oriflame, SCA, Volvo, IKEA, and two American companies, IBM and Deloitte, that have representative offices in Sweden and in Russia) it was revealed that modern multinational companies use similar motivational tools that partly standardized to keep the specifics of the company, and partly adapted to the local requirements.

This diploma thesis focuses on the motivation system of a particular company, its development and improvement. The current state of the motivation system and employee satisfaction with it are analyzed based on a survey. Subsequently, suggestions are made with the intention to improve employee satisfaction with the above-mentioned motivation system.

The subject of the submitted thesis is an influence of motivation and stimulation in a company on the labour performance of its employees. The thesis specifies a definition of terms such as motivation and stimulation, determinates motivational sources and stimulants in a company. It analyses the situation of the Backer Elektro CZ Comp.. The aim is to evaluate used motivational resources and to find out how the employees are satisfied with basic motivational factors. In the conclusion of this thesis the changes which should contribute to a higher motivation of the company employees are suggested.

The Master's thesis deals with the motivations of employees of non-governmental non- profit organizations that take care of modern war veterans. The various insights into the motivations that NGO employees could have form the theoretical basis of the thesis. The work clarifies the area of interest of war veterans, who are seen as a social problem, and describes the organizations of the civil sector in the Czech Republic, which deal with veteran issues and describes a non-profit sector as well. The empirical section analyzes in-depth interviews with employees of a non-profit organization that provides assistance to war veterans, and finally, the research questions on the topic of employee motivation and motivational tools of veteran NGOs are answered. Keywords: Non-profit organization, war veteran, motivation, employees of non-profit organizations, management and leadership of human resources, motivational tools of the head of the organization.