This diploma thesis deals with the topic of work motivation. If focuses on ways to improve the motivation scheme in a particular company. Via a series of surveys, it analyses the current motivation scheme in a company. Based on the results of the analysis, the thesis suggests measures for improving ways to increase staff motivation to work, their satisfaction at work and the effeciency of the company.

This thesis concerns the ethical aspects of accompanying the caregivers and the dying in hospice care and problematic situations in this care. This thesis is comprised of four chapters. The first chapter concerns hospice care - form, goals and definitions of hospice care. The second chapter focuses on hospice care in social work, which belongs to hospices. The third chapter concerns the ethics in social work, ethical dilemmas in social work and the importance of ethics in social work itself. The fourth chapter is focused on ethics in hospice care, dilemmas and ethical aspects of communication and mourning within hospice care.