The work motivation construct is central to the theory and practice of many social science disciplines. Yet, due to the novelty of validated measures appropriate for a deep cross-national comparison, studies that contrast different administrative regimes remain scarce. This study represents an initial empirical effort to validate the Public Service Motivation (PSM) instrument proposed by Kim and colleagues (2013) in a previously unstudied context. The two former communist countries analyzed in this dissertation—Belarus and Poland— followed diametrically opposite development strategies: a fully decentralized administrative regime in Poland and a highly centralized regime in Belarus. The employees (n = 677) of public and nonprofit organizations in the border regions of Podlaskie Wojewodstwo (Poland) and Hrodna Voblasc (Belarus) are the subjects of study. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed three dimensions of public service motivation in the two regions: compassion, self-sacrifice, and attraction to public service. The statistical models tested in this dissertation suggest that nonprofit sector employees exhibit higher levels of PSM than their public sector counterparts. Nonprofit sector employees also reveal a similar set of values and work attitudes across the countries. Thus, the study concludes that in terms of PSM, employees of nonprofit organizations constitute a homogenous group that exists atop the administrative regimes. However, the findings propose significant differences between public sector agencies across the two countries. Contrary to expectations, data suggest that organization centralization in Poland is equal to—or for some items even higher than—that of Belarus. We can conclude that the absence of administrative decentralization of service provision in a country does not necessarily undermine decentralized practices within organizations. Further analysis reveals strong correlations between organization centralization and PSM for the Polish sample. Meanwhile, in Belarus, correlations between organization centralization items and PSM are weak and mostly insignificant. The analysis indicates other factors beyond organization centralization that significantly impact PSM in both sectors. PSM of the employees in the studied region is highly correlated with their participation in religious practices, political parties, or labor unions as well as location of their organization in a capital and type of social service provided.

The diploma thesis considered to research problem new way of financing of social services from public resources as a source of financial uncertainity of social services providers. The thesis is a case study of the district of administration of municipality with extendent competency Jindřichův Hradec and also the results are for this territory only. Most of the dates have been gathered with validity to 31.12.2009. The goal of this study was to evaluate three years of validity of the Social services law in financing of social services sphere, whereas the partial goal of this study was to find out, which changes bringed the new equal rights system of social services financing to providers of social services for seniors and handicapped persons. To recieve the goals, five reserch questions have been determinated. These questions have been managed to answered. To recieve answers for these questions was used combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and primary and secundary dates. Regarding the theoretical resources, the study is based on the public service theory, the nonprofit sector concept, the economic social services concept with their economy, and the autonomy of seniors and handicapped persons concept. Next si used the legislation of human rights sphere, non-governmental oganizations, self...