The work is focused on human resource management of non-profit organizations. The aim is to describe the similarities and differences of HR management in various types of non-profit entities. In connection with this is the theory of the non-profit sector and human resource management in general discussed here. HR processes are discussed in detail. The empirical part deals with the comparison of different types of NGOs. At first, there are tested several hypotheses based on the differences between the organizations, small and medium-sized. However, primarily, they are divided according to their functions to the service, advocacy and community. The empirical part consists not only of quantitative questionnaire, but additionally also of interviews with a representative of each researched category. As the result there is a summary of differences between every single type of organizations and description of three specific cases of human resources management in NGOs.

The goal of the thesis is to analyse the possibilities to apply the concept of age management within human-rights focused non-profit organizations in the context of risk factors of the age groups youth, middle age, old age, especially connected to their actual situation on the labour market. Author analyses the possibilities to react on such risks with age management on public, organizational and individual level and explains the connection with key problematics, such as active ageing. Own qualitative research is focusing on how managers of selected organizations approach the areas, which are key in terms of the possibilities to adapt the principles of age management. Key words: age management, ageing of society, ageism, personal management, personal activities, non-profit sector, protection of human rights

Annotation: The diploma thesis is aimed at processing the issue of adaptation of volunteers sent by humanitarian organizations on missions abroad. First, the humanitarian help and development aid with volunteering and principles of international volunteer cooperation are described. Second, the adaptation in relation to work abroad is characterized including tools for managing the adaptation process. Data were drawn from academic resources and reports issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and nonprofit organizations operating in the current field. The empirical survey objective is to identify and compare how adaptation of volunteers sent to foreign missions is being carried out by Czech organizations including ADRA, Brontosauři v Himalájích, People in Need, INEX-SDA, Doctors without Borders, SADBA and SIRIRI. The tools for managing the adaptation in these organizations will be compared as well. A method of qualitative semi-structured interviews with Human Resources managers ensuring the adaptation of volunteers will be used to gather the data. Furthermore, there will be made questionnaire survey with volunteers from each organization that have undergone an adaptation process within the last two years. It will be ascertained whether adaptation processes meet the needs of volunteers based...

The thesis is a case study of the Charity Czech Republic, a non-profit organization founded by the Catholic Church. In the first part, the author of the study analyses the mechanisms of transfering the religious values into the activities of non-profit organizations, based on these values, and the situation within NGO market in Anglo-Saxon world where these organizations are very active. In the second part the activities and functioning of the Charity Czech Republic are analysed. In the research part the ideas of the directors of local charities from several areas of the Czech Republic are gathered. In her conclusion the author compares the results of the research with the analysis of accessible documents and tries to answer the question whether or not the Charity Czech Republic is a regular member of the Czech civil society and suggests some steps to improve its functioning.

diplomové práce Studentka: Bc. Ivana Herzogová Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Petr Vrzáček Přesný název DP: Řízení lidských zdrojů v neziskové organizaci - specifika a dobrá praxe Název DP v anglickém jazyce: Human resource management in non-profit organizations - the specifics and successful practises Abstract This work focuses on human resource management among non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGO's). Attention is paid to the particular individual activities of the manager in this area and also to personnel strategy. The general aim of this work is to offer some practical information to the manager in this type of organization. The theoretical section of this work contains the definition of human resource management and its importance. There is also a practical guideline how to prepare personnel strategy and how to execute all of the particular activities. Planning of human resources, recruitment and selection, training and adaptation, evaluation and rewards, education and development and discharge are covered. The empirical section utilizes methods of combined research to evaluate the successful personnel activities of NGO management (in the research region). The author finds through the quantitative section of the research some "good managers" and observes how the respondents evaluate the...

Diploma thesis "The influence of the activities of non-profit sector on the quality of life of people with mental retardation" is concerned with the analysis of the area of social services for people with mental retardation. The thesis aims at characterising the current position of the non-profit sector in meeting the needs of people with mental retardation, identifying problem areas and proposing recommendations, which could support the activities of the non-profit sector in this area. Methods such as institutional framework analysis, stakeholder analysis, interview with experts and stakeholders and questionnaire survey in NGOs are used. The issue of mental retardation is based on the theory of needs, the quality of life concept and the concept of human rights. The role of the non-profit sector is analysed in a broader institutional and social context. The availability of social services provided by NGOs for people with mental retardation in the Czech Republic is investigated and the main spheres of activities of NGOs according to the services provided are indentified. The description of examples of good practice follows. In the next part the relations between non-profit sector and state are analysed. Recommendations leading to improving the system of social services for people with mental retardation are...

Synopsis The diploma thesis is focused on cross-sectorial cooperation between corporations and nonprofit organizations. The main goal of the thesis is to find the factors, which influence cross-sectorial cooperation. Furthermore, the aim is to determine typology and foundations of cross-sectorial cooperation and how this cooperation is presented in public within the Czech Republic. Several theories dealing with types of cross-sectorial cooperation and the theory that characterizes basic factors that influence cross-sectorial cooperation are introduced and compared in the theoretical part of this thesis. Research part presents conclusions and findings based on qualitative research, conducted in both corporations and nonprofit organizations. The results and the goals of the thesis are summarized in the conclusion of this thesis.

Criminal recidivism rate has been increasing till 1990 in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is also on one of the leading positions in the prison population index list of countries. These two indicators should work as a red alert for us that our justice policies and the system of criminal prevention do not work effectively in the long run. We consider it important then that the increased attention should be paid to the whole system, the programs should be evaluated and the weak spots should be identified. Hence in this work we are looking at the topic form the structural-functional perspective. Using stakeholder analysis methods we identify the key actors of the field. The actors are divided into three basic sectors: governmental sector, market and the third sector. We then focus on the third sector and its' role in the penitentiary and post-release care with special attention to the relations and connections with the governmental sector. The weak spots and the examples of successful cooperation of the two sectors are explored with the tools of the social network analysis. The research results into the functional analysis of the role of the non-profit organizations in the field. Key findings of the research are formulated into the recommendations for stakeholder from both the third and the...

The aim of this thesis is to explore a new phenomenon of professionalization in the non-governmental organizations and its impact on the sectoral identity of non-governmental organizations that are targeted to handicapped people. Because of the modernization a trend of professionalisation enters to non profit sector. This process changes the structure of organizations. The most important changes are a spreading of professional knowledge that leads to increasing of professionals in organizations. Other changes are the division of labour, changes in the hierarchy and the structure of the organization, the accessibility for the public, financing, and also that professionals start to have a bigger impact on organizations. This transformation changes characteristics of sectoral identity of non-givernmental organizations that are starting to be similar to public administratiion institutions or to commercial subjects. The basic hypothesis of this thesis is: The more proffesionalized the organizations are the less characteristics of sectoral identity they show. The sectoral identity is a concept that was determined for this thesis according to the definitiion of non-governemnetal organizations of Salamon and Anheier. They determined five characteristics of non-governmenatl organizations. This thesis...

Recently, the Swedish media have highlighted several cases of misuse of grants by non-profit organizations. This attention gave rise to the idea for this thesis. Non-profit organizations have no economic interest and should instead aim to protect the interests oftheir members. They play an important role in civil society, which is why various authorities can award them grants to support their activities. However, it has been discovered that some organizations misuse the grants and use the money for completely different things than the stated purpose. In Sweden, there is no law regulating non-profit organizations. In terms of accounting, also, not all organizations meet the requirements to be covered by the Swedish accounting act. This means that for many non-profit organizations there are no accounting obligations. The aim of this thesis is therefore to examine how the absence of an accounting regulation affects different stakeholders and to assess the role of accounting requirements in addressing scandals in light of stakeholder thinking. Interviews were conducted with stakeholders such as various grant-giving authorities and reviewing authorities. The results show that the majority of them feel that they have been and are affected by this in some way. The main reason is that the authorities have not been able to carry out proper controls on the non-profit organizations because they have not received enough information. The fact that not all non-profit organizations are covered by the accounting act means that they do not prepare information that many stakeholders would consider important in the control process. This in turn increases the risk of failing to detect errors and frauds. To meet stakeholders' information needs and reduce the risk of frauds and scandals, more requirements need to be placed on the non-profit organizations.