This dissertation presents three separate studies designed to provide systematic and evidence-based insight into how servant leadership could be a crucial success factor in helping non-profit organizations (NPOs) hosting cause-related sporting events achieve their missions. Thus, the purpose of my dissertation was to advance the literature and the practice of servant leadership. In Study one, I conducted a systematic literature review of studies that explored an application of servant leadership. A disciplined screening process resulted in a sample population of 39 studies. The synthesis of these applied studies revealed: a) there is no consensus on the definition of servant leadership; b) servant leadership is being applied across a variety of contexts, cultures, and themes; c) researchers are using multiple measures to explore servant leadership; and d) these studies provide strong evidence that servant leadership helps organizations and improves the well-being of followers. In Study two, I explored the leadership style of the founder of a cause-related sporting event to understand how this leadership style motivated volunteers. This was achieved through semi-structured personal interviews, document analysis, and personal observations of the 25th National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Surf Festival. Results indicated that the founder was a servant leader who influenced volunteer motivation by generating a shared vision dedicated to helping others, building a caring and loving community, and creating the freedom and resources for followers to become servants themselves. In Study three, using a longitudinal case study, I qualitatively explored if a cause-related sporting event could inspire participants to become servant leaders, and if so, how does the event achieve this? Data collection methods included focus groups, open-ended qualitative questionnaires, direct observations, document analysis, and semi-structured personal interviews with participants of the U.S. NKF Transplant Games, specifically Team Florida. Analyses revealed the event inspired participants to serve others and helped to build a community of servant leaders. It was found that three specific mechanisms of the Games generated community-level outcomes, which led to impacts on participants and helped them develop servant leadership. I then developed a model to describe a cause-related sporting event's ability to inspire participants to become servant leaders.

This is a study of several contentious issues in Canadian health policy involving the interaction of public and private payers and for-profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP) providers; the influence of health professionals on market structure; and the role of foreign investment. A case study was used, the Ontario physiotherapy market in 2003-2005, with its complex mix of payers and providers and foreign investment opportunities. Key market features were: fragmented but substantial payer influence, effective though uncoordinated cost control across payers, constrained labour supply, and fragmented patient referral sources. These features increased the complexity of providers’ interactions with patients and payers, reducing standardization and therefore favouring local, professional-owned small business FP providers (FP/s) for ambulatory care. NFP Hospitals’ market share declined. The findings generally confirmed expected behavioural differences between FP and NFP providers but expected differences between investor-owned FP providers (FP/c) and FP/s providers were not generally found. FP/s dominated the market, and FP/c providers appeared to mimic FP/s market behaviours, competing in local sub-markets. With no single or dominant payer, cost control difficulties were expected, but all 11 payer categories (public and private) used various cost control mechanisms, resulting in significant collective but uncoordinated influence. Generally, no payer alone supported a provider’s operations. The dominant labour suppliers, regulated physiotherapists, were scarce and exerted significant pressure, affecting market structure by asserting individual preferences and professional interests. FP/s dominance resulted, supported by the traditional patient referral source, physicians in small practices. Very little foreign investment was found despite little protection for domestic providers under NAFTA. In sum, this study showed FP and NFP provider stereotypes are subject to payer pressure: FP/c organizations can adapt by mimicking FP/s, and payers can modify NFPs’ assumed community orientation. Labour shortages and historical referral patterns can make individual professionals and their preferences more influential than their collective profession without diminishing the importance of professional interests. The degree and structure of payer control can make a market unattractive to foreign investors. Finally, this market – neither a planned or standard market – had a service provision pattern more broadly influenced by professionalism and practitioner interests than policies or prices.

Cette thèse montre que l’on peut trouver dans la théorie classique contemporaine deux conceptions du salaire selon que l’évaluation du travail salarié est le résultat d’une lutte pour le partage de la valeur ajoutée (salaire exogène) ou du jeu concurrentiel sur le marché du travail (salaire endogène). Sur cette base, nous soutenons que l’approche classique, dont les antécédents historiques reposent sur les œuvres de David Ricardo (1772-1823) et d’un auteur méconnu, Robert Torrens (1780-1864), est susceptible de rendre compte : 1) du partage de la valeur ajoutée et de son influence sur les prix relatifs dans les économies à l’équilibre et en déséquilibre, 2) du statut global des salariés, c'est-à-dire à la fois dans la production et dans les échanges, 3) de la condition d’existence du profit défini comme la rémunération d’une pratique spécifiquement capitaliste. Le chapitre I reconsidère les arguments qui font de Torrens l’antécédent historique du concept de salaire exogène. Le chapitre II expose sa théorie des prix, sur la base de laquelle le chapitre III étudie la relation entre les variables de répartition et les prix relatifs dans les économies à l’équilibre et en déséquilibre. Le chapitre IV analyse la répartition des biens de consommation finale entre les membres de la société (salariés et capitalistes). Le chapitre V dégage les éléments centraux de la théorie physique du salaire de Torrens. Par rapport au corpus théorique actuel issu des travaux de Piero Sraffa, cette théorie se singularise par un salaire réel déterminé par la concurrence sur le marché du travail et une expression du taux de profit en termes d’un surtravail, non assimilable à du travail non payé. / The dissertation shows that contemporary classical theory relies on two representations of the idea of ‘wages’. Those representations depend on the way labour is valued. If wages are the result of a struggle for added value, they are seen as exogenous. On the other hand, if wages are the result of competition in labour markets, they are seen as endogenous. The classical theory, which is based on Ricardo and Torrens’ seminal works allows to understand: 1) the distribution of added value, and its effects on relative prices in economies both in equilibrium and disequilibrium, 2) the position of wage-earners in the processes of production and exchange, 3) the source of profits defined as compensation of specifically capitalist practice. Chapter I discusses Torrens’ contribution to the classical idea of exogenous wages. Chapter II presents Torrens’ theory of prices. This theory is then used in chapter III to analyse the relationships between distribution variables and relative prices in economies in equilibrium or in disequilibrium. Chapter IV focuses on the distribution of final goods among wage earners and capitalists. The last chapter (V) underlines the main features of Torrens’ theory of wages. In comparison with Sraffa’s work, this theory proposes first that real wages are fixed on labour market, and then that the rate of profit can be defined as a surplus labour, but not as an unpaid labour.

Många ideella organisationer behöver bidrag och stöd för att kunna bedriva sitt arbete. Därmed blir det viktigt att vara synliga och sticka ut från mängden för att få människors stöd. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka specifika förutsättningar för marknadsföring av ideella organisationer som bedriver insamling i Sverige. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer undersöktes hur väl Barncancerfondens och Kvinna till Kvinnas uppfattningar överensstämmer med teorier som finns inom området. Slutsatser som överensstämde med litteraturen var att ideella organisationer ofta har som mål att nå en mycket bred publik eller till och med hela allmänheten. Men studien visar även att Barncancerfonden och Kvinna till Kvinna arbetar strategiskt med målgrupper för att rikta insamling och informationsarbete, trots att det finns en vilja att nå ut brett. Inom ideella organisationer är det även svårt att modifiera budskapet, eftersom det måste spegla verksamheten. Hur organisationen påverkas av detta beror delvis på vilken typ av ämne som organisationen berör eftersom det med ett intresseväckande ämne är lättare att nå ut. En annan specifik förutsättning är att gåvor ofta är en osynlig handling som gynnar någon annan. Avsaknaden av produkt nämns av organisationerna som något marknadsföringen måste bemöta, vilket kan ske på olika sätt. Ideella verksamheter normalt uppfattas ha ett gott syfte vilket gör allmänheten mer mottaglig för budskapen.

Diploma thesis deals with non-profit organizations with regard to their effective presentation, promotion and public relations. Theoretical part generally characterizes non-profit organizations and non-profit sector in the Czech Republic. First part outlines brief historical context, legal regulations in the Czech Republic, their operation, classification and fundraising. Second part describes public relations in non-profit sector, instruments of this communication and how to make this communication as effective as possible. Empirical part demonstrates these theoretical findings on examples of two particular non-profit organizations operating in the sphere of health care and social-service work. These two non-profit organizations are being compared in reference to public relations and public awareness about these organizations activity. Emphasis is laid not only on communication methods but especially on ethic aspect of this communication. Diploma thesis objective is to evaluate position of two non-profit organizations in terms of promotion and public relations. Conclusion summarizes ascertained facts.

This thesis is aimed at analyzing the marketing communication mix of the chosen profit and non-profit sports organizations. Based on a thorough analysis and proposing appropriate improvements or recommendations. Partial aim is finding funding sources and uses of funds for the marketing communication mix. Thesis is focused on theoretical knowledge of sports, economy of sports, marketing, marketing communication mix and findings in the field of characteristics profit and non-profit sports organizations. The practical part is focused on analyse of chosen profit and non-profit sports organizations in the Karlovy Vary region. It is a climbing and mountaineering organization or association, offering, brokering and ensuring climbing on indoor and outdoor walls, rock climbing, or other similar outdoor activities. On the basis of a personal interview the current marketing communication mix of organizations was analyzed, including funding sources and proposed improvement measures.

This thesis focuses on the communications sector, non-profit organizations. First, characterized by non-profit organizations and non-profit sector, then goes to the characteristics of marketing and marketing communications NGOs. In the practical part analyzes the communication tools of non-profit organizations and evaluate communications organization and its effect on attitudes and behavior of the target group.

The thesis is focused on impacts of the program World of Difference on the relationship of its graduates to the organizations of the civil sector. This paper consists of three main parts. The first one describes the theoretical definitions of the concepts connected with civil sector, organizations of the civil sector, business sector, cooperation between the sectors, values and motivation of the employees in the civil sector and management of Human Resources in civil sector. The second part is focused on methodology of the research, data analysis and the activities of the Vodafone Foundation and the program World of Difference. There are presented the outcomes of the research in the last part. The research is focused on the graduates of the program World of Difference and the fact if they remain in the civil sector after finishing the program. The research is focused on the specifics which they had to meet during the program and if they changed their opinion about the civil sector. According to the research questions, I chose the qualitative research and used methods of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Key words: non-profit sector, civil sector, non-for-profit organizations, motivation, World of Difference

This thesis covers the topic of Non-profit Managers' Education in the Czech Republic. The first theoretical part concentrates on the brief introduction of the non-profit sector, continues with the core management theories, managers' tasks and competencies, and introduces the primary differences between non-profit and profit organizations. It continues with short history of managers' education with concentration in non-profit sector. The first part closes with educational theories, the design of specialized study programs and opinions of current managers on needs of non-profit sector. The second part includes methodology with the main goals, research questions and their presumptions, and also the concrete chosen method and its description. The last part of the thesis is the empirical research which processes data from the questionnaire survey, by which are answered the research questions and fulfilled goals of the thesis.

The title of my thesis is "The potential of non-profit organizations in increasing the financial literacy of citizens". The goal of my thesis is to analyze and evaluate the activity of non-profit organizations in increasing the financial literacy of citizens. It is also focusing on the relation between the government, the for-profit and the non-profit sector in the field of financial literacy. I divided my thesis into six chapters. In the first chapter I defined the research problem, set the goals of my thesis and defined the research questions. In the second chapter I focused on the methodology and the definition of my information resources. For the purpose of this thesis I chose the semi-standardized interview, the analysis of participants and the analysis of documents. In the second part of this chapter I made the review of the information resources which I used for this thesis. My thesis is based on the theory of "the triangle" of the market, the government and the civil society, the concept of the social accounting and the benefits and failures of the non-profit sector. First I focused on the government policy in the field of increasing the financial literacy of citizens. I found out that the first steps the government made in this field were done in the year 2005 when the first strategy...