This thesis focuses on Czech-German business cooperation and how it is influenced by cultural differences. The goal of this thesis is to briefly summarize the Czech-German historical relations and the current state. The thesis also tries to predict the future course of this business cooperation. I also focus on the influence of cultural differences on business cooperation in the second part of this paper. I describe possible problems and also the suggested solutions to them.

The diploma thesis focuses on business support provided by the EU structural funds. The aim is to describe, analyse and compare the systems of transnational business support programmes implemented in the Czech Republic and in Ireland. In addition, the diploma thesis aims to find out whether the application of the Irish system would be suitable for the Czech environment and whether it would be beneficial to change the current state.

This diploma thesis dissertates about energy security of the European Union and the Czech Republic in the context of the foreign relations with Russia. It is focused on Russia as the biggest supplier of energy resources to the fore mentioned regions. Energy dependence of EU and the Czech Republic on Russia exceeds 50 %. This dependency is inevitable and is caused by the insufficiency of EU's and Czech Republic's own resources and above all it is very dangerous because of Russia's frequent nondemocratic behavior. The gap in demand of energy resources cannot be covered even by alternative energy recourses, which are in this thesis divided into renewable recourses and nuclear energy.

The main intention of the author consisted in understandable presentation of the application of Structural and Cohesion Funds in a member state of the European Union, particularly in the case of a small-sized company. The purpose of the diploma thesis was to provide the reader with an overview of European Union Structural and Cohesion Funds in general and of those available in the Czech Republic as well. The opportunities to gain funding from European Union of one small sized Czech firm were examined in the last part of the essay. The case study of Czech enterprise proved that the co-financing of projects in a member state can be cumbersome but also very beneficial when approached properly.

The aim of this master thesis is to define fast fashion and fast fashion retailing, and describe specifics of their business activities with deep focus on the Czech market. The theoretical part reviews literature dealing with international strategy and management and fashion and fast fashion retailing. The empirical part then focuses on real-life business cases. In order to illustrate the behaviour of fast fashion retailers on the Czech market, a case study method is employed. The attention is narrowed on three chosen fast fashion retailers MANGO, Zara and H&M. The separate case studies on MANGO, Zara and H&M focus on retailers' presence in the Czech market. The retailers' position on the market and strategies are then compared with the aim to identify the most successful fast fashion retailer and verify whether the hypothesis that the first mover to the market gains the competitive advantage is true for the chosen fast fashion retailers in the Czech market. Further, the work tries to find possible factors of the retailers' success in the Czech market.

The key question for this thesis is how to influence decision makers to make their decisions in favour of the society's well-being. This work studies which indicators are suitable in doing so. If it could be gross domestic product or if it is necessary to take into account more indicators. Theoretical background which describes the decision making in politics and the material and nonmaterial output of the economy is then elaborated on the case study of Czech Republic.

The dissertation thesis looks into motivation and retention of employees in the financial sector (banks and investment companies) of the Czech Republic. The first part of the dissertation thesis defines motivation and introduces theories of work motivation from the very beginning, through classic theories until contemporary theories of motivation and modern approaches towards it. Further, it explores employee motivation, motivational processes a factors influencing productivity of work. It also analyses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and motivation of work behaviour, it introduces motivation programs as a part of motivational strategies. It the following part, the dissertation thesis introduces the subject of employee retention and sets reasons why retention of employees is necessary, what factors impact it and it also describes programs of retention. The second part of the dissertation thesis is dedicated to a comprehensive empiric research of work motivation and retention of employees in the financial sector, which has been executed in a form of survey attended by 119 respondents from various banks and investment companies active in the Czech Republic. The respondents were working in different working positions in their company's hierarchy. The survey was on top of that supported by discussions around round tables attended by 23 respondents. In this part of the dissertation thesis, there were set goals of the research and hypotheses, verification of which served to achievement of the goals. The first goal was to investigate presence of commonalities in employee motivation and retention in the financial sector, their identification and description of key components. The other goal was to make a comparison by the research identified key components of motivation and retention from the point of importance for the employees and compare what importance they had for the employees in the period before and during the global depression and predict their development in the period of recession. A partial goal of this thesis is its contribution to both scientific-pedagogic and business area. A goal for application in the business area is to introduce work motivation and retention subject to managers on all levels of management as a useful and necessary tool for management of people not only in financial enterprises but all subjects acting in the market economy. This dissertation thesis wishes to become inspiration and partial guidance for managers at all management levels in their daily personnel work and show what tools should be used by financial companies for employees motivation and retention not only now but also after the depression is over. There are also described research methods and research data processing methodology in this part. The third part of the dissertation thesis presents a detailed evaluation of research results. They are summarized to clearly arranged graphs and shown according to different viewpoints. Further, the dissertation thesis contains a summarized evaluation of results, hypotheses verification and recommendations for science and further research, very specific and detailed recommendations for business practice as well as for education of students in the field of employee motivation and retention at schools and universities. The entire dissertation thesis is inspiration for managers not only in the financial sector but anywhere, where it can assist as a guidance for managers at all levels of management in their daily work related to employee motivation and retention. There are summed up results of the set hypotheses and evaluated the goals at the end of the thesis.

Parliamentary system of government demands parliamentary competent parties. Dissension within parties can block the entire political system; the government cannot rely on its majority and fails in processing its proposals on the agenda of the parliament. From the analytical perspective, inquiry in dissension in the parliamentary majority is one of basic questions. The thesis deals with dissension at the theoretical level. Using the Czech Chamber of Deputies as an example, the thesis conceptualizes forms of dissension (a disapproval of a governmental proposal at the first reading as the absolute dissent). The thesis conducts voting unity tests of Czech political parties that forge government. According to the empirical inquiry, the dissension that leads to the disapproval of governmental proposals stems from the dissent within the political parties, not from the dissent among parties.

This diploma thesis is supposed to bring an overall summary of knowledge regarding State treasury in the Czech Republic. It is meant to be a tool which will help both academics and specialists get sufficient information on this project whose purpose is to raise efficiency of public funds in the Czech Republic. Besides bringing the topic of State treasury in the Czech Republic into context with the situation in surrounding countries in the European Union brings this diploma thesis also the economic and investment point of view. It offers some arguments of the critics, too, because author of this diploma thesis is convinced that projects of such a huge range and influence have to be widely discussed amongst both political parties and academics or skilled experts from the public.

The thesis deals with a mortality modelling in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this thesis is to describe historical development of mortality in the Czech Republic on the basis of multinomial regression. In a theoretical part the basic knowledge demanded for model construction divided into two chapters can be found. In the first chapter the basic difference between linear and generalized linear model is described. Second chapter is devoted to a logistic regression. Here we proceed from simple, binomial variable and then we generalize it for multinomial variable. Practical part deals with a construction of a described model. In the third chapter data (type and source) are described and in the fourth chapter characterizes all three models itself (two of them are descriptive and the third one is used for simple prediction). The prediction is added rather for completeness than for the importance of the work itself because it was not the main goal.