Vocational training in the business academy and cooperation with employers Marcela Sládková ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with contemporary issues of secondary vocational education and involvement of employers in this process. The theoretical part focuses on the system of secondary vocational education in the Czech Republic, the framework educational programs and the legislative of cooperation between schools and employers. Further it describes the goals of the Education Policy Strategy in the Czech Republic by 2020 in the area of Vocational Education in cooperation with employers and follows concrete possibilities of cooperation between employers representatives and business academy, especially within the students' practical training. The important role of the school principal in this collaboration is pointed out. The research part analyses the cooperation between the teachers, employers and students in terms of mutual requirements for practical training. This section provides knowledge, experience and incentives for employers, and also provides recommendations for cooperation in the same or similar types of schools. Critical assessment of the specific cooperation of one business academy with employers' representatives reveals the difficulties of this area of secondary vocational education in a wider...

The thesis deals with the topic of managerial competences in pre-primary education. This topic has been chosen on the basis of ever-changing and evolving demands on the management of kindergartens and the need for high-quality and very comprehensive competencies of kindergarten headmasters. The aim of this thesis is to compare managerial competencies and on the basis of these acquired information to design the most appropriate model of competencies of directors of these contributory organizations. The theoretical part analyzes individual competencies in the field of economic, personal and legal management of the school. The practical part is focused on the comparison of individual areas of management in terms of their complexity and assessment of managerial competences with respect to the time burden. The work is based on professional literature, valid legal norms and results of the research conducted. KEYWORDS Management, manager, personnel management, organization, competence, pre-primary education, school principal.

This thesis focuses on the evaluation of how body height, BMI, gender, and leisure-time physical activities affect movement competence of pupils. The theoretical part analyses the younger school age and its characteristics in physical, psychical, movement, and motoric development. We further also analyze how movement activities affect child's organisms. The critical chapter of the theoretical part is a chapter about growth and development. Additionally, we add information about anthropometric and somatic changes in the younger school age. At the end of the theoretical part, we provide an overview of methods that can be used to measure movement competence. We mainly elaborate on MOBAK 3 method, which we chose to use in our research. The research part describes the selected research and statistic methods, research sample, and results. The data showed that there is no significant relationship between body height and movement competence. However, we found significant relationships with the other variables - BMI, gender, and leisure-time physical aktivity. KEYWORDS younger school age, body height, movement competence, motoric testing, Mobak

Disertacijoje teoriškai pagrįstas turizmo vadybos studentų socialinės kompetencijos modeliavimas, empiriškai patikrintas turizmo vadybos studentų socialinės kompetencijos modelis, kai akcentuojamos universitetinio ugdymo tendencijos ir problemos,įvertintas universitetinių studijų turizmo vadybos studentų socialinės kompetencijos lygis, parengta turizmo vadybos studentų socialinės kompetencijos modeliavimo schema. / In the dissertation tourism management students‘ social competence was substantiated on the theoretical basis, model of tourism management students‘ social competence was empirically tested focusing on tendencies and problems of university education, tourism management students‘ social competence level was evaluated in university studies, scheme of tourism management students’ social competence modeling was framed.

This thesis deals with the managerial competencies, which regards them as a means to develop students' vocational profiling of Economics University of South Bohemia. The aim of this thesis was to determine the competencies should students or graduates of universities with economic focus, to have. Based on these findings have been recommended and proposed activities, which should lead to improved professional development of students of EF JU and their better employability. The main method to determine the competencies required to survey. Another part of this thesis is to analyze the situation on the labor market with a focus on the graduates of universities with more detailed specification of graduates? economic fields.

The thesis is focused on the analysis of the project manager competencies using the selected tools and techniques considered as a signifiant means of increasing competitiveness. In line with the selected methodology, the thesis brings an assessment of 5 competencies of each mentioned categories pursuant to the IPMA standard (International Project Management Association)

Wound care is an important part of the daily work of nurses in all facilities like hospitals, institutes for long-term patients, social care institutions, or ambulances. In recent years, the treatment of wounds puts more and more emphasis on modern methods, mainly in the Czech Republic (CR) and Ireland. As already mentioned, nursing is constantly evolving, and possibilities for wound treatment are wide. Our aim will be to compare the ways and methods of wound treatment in three different countries. We will focus on the General Nurse, as a nursing care provider. In the theoretical part, the work was focused on characteristic of wounds, their distribution, general healing as well as concrete treatment in the countries concerned, specifically according to the competence of nurses. A major part was devoted to the education of nurses The main purpose of the research was focused on the way nurses treat wounds in Namibia, Ireland and the Czech Republic. Based on the research subject the following research questions and goals were set: Identify and describe how nurses treat wounds in the selected countries. How are wounds healed in Namibia, Ireland and the Czech Republic? How is the wound care in Namibia, Ireland and the Czech Republic? What kind of education does a nurse have to have in the countries concerned, in connection with the wound care? For the empirical part of the thesis, a qualitative approach was selected. A semi-structured interview with nurses from the selected countries was used. Further records of the wound treatment were used. These were obtained during the internship in Namibia, a personal visit to Ireland and my experience during my studies in the Czech Republic. Respondents were recruited by purposive sampling, the condition of which was wound care requiring hospital treatment. The interviews were conducted using a range of questions addressing nurses in those countries during their working hours and if needed, supplementing the required information via Skype. The research sample consisted of nine respondents - nurses from Namibia, Ireland and the Czech Republic and then records of the wound treatment of 9 patients from Namibia, the Czech Republic and Ireland were drawn. The countries have their competencies relating to this issue. In Ireland, Czech Republic there is a re-bandaging nurse, who creates a nursing plan and, if needed, consults everything with the physician. In Namibia, due to lack of nurses and physicians, only competences of local nurses which they acquired during their university studies, are sufficient. These competences lead to decisions and choice of care and wound treatment. In the Czech Republic, nurses shall consult the healing process and the course of treatment with the physician. In the area of education of nurses from the surveyed countries in connection with wound care the research investigation showed that university education is required in Namibia, in the Czech Republic as well as in Ireland. The third mentioned research question related to methods of care with clients suffering from acute or chronic wounds. Wound care in Namibia, Ireland, and in the Czech Republic does not differ in some specific procedures; however, in most cases it is very different. In severe cases of wounds, for many patients it is an unforgettable memory, which requires a professional approach, consisting of knowledge and experience. The nurse provides a unique support to the patient, education is therefore very important and unconditional in order to enable the patient coping with the situation. The results of this thesis can serve as information and study material to other grades of the surgical block and for further research on a similar topic.

The objective of this Diploma thesis titled "Managerial skills" is to propose a solution to particular skills performed in a chosen company. This Diploma thesis consists of two parts, a literary research and research itself. In the theoretical part, named Literary research, basic terms related to management, management functions and human resources management are explained. Managerial skills are also presented here in detail. The practical part, named Research, contains description of the company Studio Moderna, s. r. o., realization of a questionnaire survey of employees and a guided interview with the selected line manager of the company. For the questionnaire and the guided interview there were designed special questions which create the intersection of the theoretical literary research and requirements for the explored working position in the company. Based on the answers of the respondents, the level of managerial skills in the company is evaluated, and an effective solution which will increase the level of these skills in practice is suggested.

The aim of this diploma work is to solve the problems of managerial skills. The work affects the system of skills needed and used by managers when doing their job. The first part is a literary research that summarizes these issues on the grounds of studying reference books. The literature is concerned with general preconditions, which are important for a managerial job. This part affects every single skill and has taken account of the managers' work in the company of Kooperativa pojišťovna, a. s., VIG, Agentura západní Čechy/ Cooperative Insurance Company, joint-stock company, VIG, Agency of West Bohemia. The second part is practical and is based on theoretical knowledge. The contemporary level of managerial skills of the chosen company is determined by means of a dialogue and a controlled conversation. Individual managers use different skills to do their jobs. Each managerial level requires another composition of skills. In the last part, the results of the research are evaluated and recommendations, that will lead to the improvement of general level of managerial skills, are suggested.

The increasing migration of population in the 21 century causes development of multicultural societies. With the increasing number of foreigners in individual countries it is possible to also presume an increasing number of patients/clients from different cultures in medical facilities. These facts require modern attitude to nursing, developing of transcultural nursing, implementing multi- and transcultural education in the health care education and propagation of multicultural conception of nursing between the nursing personnel. The result of these necessary changes should be the ability to provide effective nursing care which is culturally adjusted to the patient/client that would also take their specifics, customs and traditions of their culture into account and that would saturate all their biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs according to their race, nationality or belief. This thesis deals with multicultural nursing and confronts cultural competence of the nursing staff in Czech Republic with that in German-speaking countries. This thesis aim is to state the level of multicultural competence of the nursing staff and explore conditions provided to the nursing personnel of the hospital for giving culturally adapted care to patients-foreigners. The results of the research give an overview of the state of culturally competent care in comparable medical facilities in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They will also give a feedback to the questioned hospitals. Such information may alert their management to possible lack of knowledge of their nursing personnel and help them direct its further education. The theoretical part of the theses defines the basic concepts regarding culture, ethnic groups, race or nation, formulates the difference between the terms "multicultural" and "transcultural" nursing, multicultural education and culturally competent care, compile the most common sections of specific cultural needs of the individuals. In short it also processes J. Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competence in health care delivery, the Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor Model for developing cultural competence and the Purnell Model for cultural competence. It also shortly deals with nursing frameworks for acquiring cultural data, such as the Sunrise model from M. Leininger, the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural assessment model and Bloch's ethnic/cultural assessment guide. The empirical part processes and evaluates data obtained during the quantitative research. The accumulation of the data was conducted through anonymous questionnaires that were distributed between the nursing personnel of internal and surgical wards of the hospitals in Czech Republic and in German-speaking countries. In Czech Republic these were hospitals in Prague and in Tábor, in Germany a hospital in Dortmund and one in Cottbus, in Austria the hospitals in Salzburg and in Weiz and in Switzerland a hospital in Aarau and one in St. Gallen. The collection of the data was conducted either on-line or by way of printed questionnaire forms. The acquired data were valorized and sorted into diagrams and tables for further clarity. From the respondent´s answers follows that the queried medical facilities in Czech Republic do not provide sufficient conditions for their workers to give culturally competent nursing care on such a level, as it is at the facilities questioned in the German-speaking areas. The results also show that language skills of the nursing personnel in these hospitals in Czech Republic are worse than those in the German-speaking countries. With the level of multicultural competence the situation is similar; in this field Czech nursing personnel does not match their foreign counterpart. It is necessary to remark that this research sample of two hospitals from each of the countries is insufficient for the results to be applied on the whole Czech Republic or German speaking countries.