The master's thesis 'Lifestyle of students of University of Economics in Prague' focuses on the concept of healthy lifestyle, its definition and sub-areas, such as health in general, nutrition, work-life balance and time management. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the lifestyle of students of the University of Economics in Prague, namely in the areas of living, eating and physical habits, work-life balance and time management. The online questionnaire survey carried out a quantitative research, which was attended by 612 VŠE students. Based on the theoretical part, four hypotheses had been established at the beginning of the application section, which were either confirmed or refuted based on the results of the questionnaire survey.

Le travail contemporain est de plus en plus reconnu comme une expérience ambivalente, c'est-à-dire porteuse de satisfactions intrinsèques pour l'individu et des moyens pour s'accomplir et, en même temps, à l'origine de souffrances et malaises psychologiques divers : burn-out, stress, anxiété, dépression, etc. Prenant appui sur les contributions conjointes de l'approche française de la sociologie de l'individu et des sociologies du travail et de la santé mentale, l'objectif de la thèse est de poser un regard renouvelé sur les processus sociaux derrière les retombées foncièrement ambivalentes de l'expérience du travail contemporain. De la même manière que la sociologie a toujours reconnu le rôle irrémédiablement central joué par le travail dans la socialité moderne, la thèse postule que la société a toujours dû trouver les moyens de l'enchâsser, sa valeur morale comme son potentiel d'envahissement pratique, dans le reste de la vie sociale. La société a sans cesse eu à confectionner pour cela des mécanismes sociaux aptes à réguler le poids du travail sur la vie des gens : les freins et contrepoids du travail. Ces derniers réfèrent à l'ensemble des composantes de la socialité qui régissent la part de lui-même que l'individu engage dans le travail, ce qui revient à en baliser l'emprise objective et subjective sur l'existence. Cette recherche doctorale pose l'hypothèse que c'est en retraçant quelques-unes des transformations qu'ont connues les freins et contrepoids du travail, depuis la période fordiste (1940-1970) jusqu'à nos jours, qu'elle pourra éclaircir ce qui par-delà les normes et injonctions managériales amène les contemporains à se mobiliser si intensément vis-à-vis du travail et à accorder autant d'importance à ses rétributions expressives (reconnaissance, accomplissement de soi, etc.). Deux formes de « pathologie » professionnelle, le surmenage professionnel et le burn-out, respectivement liées à l'expérience du travail taylorien et contemporain (ou post-taylorien), lui servent d'ancrage empirique. À partir d'un corpus d'enquêtes interrogeant la plainte du surmenage professionnel et du burn-out, puisé à même la littérature existante, la thèse porte un éclairage sur certaines difficultés susceptibles d'avoir participé aux conditions d'apparition du surmenage professionnel et du burn-out au cours de l'histoire, au Québec et en France. Plus précisément, l'étude comparée de leur plainte cherche à voir si l'une ou l'autre des difficultés qu'elle recèle laisse deviner certaines transformations qu'auraient connues les freins et contrepoids du travail, entre la période fordiste et la période post-fordiste actuelle, et à en traduire certaines conséquences possibles pour l'individu de chacune des époques concernées. / Contemporary work is recognized as an ambivalent experiment, i.e. carrying intrinsic individual satisfactions and the means to achieve them and, at the same time, bringing various kinds of sufferings and psychological sicknesses: burn out, stress, anxiety, depression, etc. Our thesis is based on joint contributions of industrial sociology, mental health sociology and the French branch of individual sociology, and its purpose is to give a renewed approach on the social processes of the experiment of contemporary work. In the same manner as sociology always recognized the central part played by work in modern sociality, the thesis postulates that the society always had to find the ways to fit it into social life (both its moral value and its potential of practical invasion). For this purpose the society unceasingly had to create social mechanisms able to control the part of work on the life of people: brakes and counterweights of work. They refer to whole components of sociality which govern the personal part an individual engages in work, marking out the objective and subjective influence on the existence. Our research hypothesis is: by recalling some transformations within the brakes and counterweights of work since Fordism (1940-1970) until nowadays, we will be able to clarify what, beyond managerial standards and injunctions, leads our contemporaries to be mobilized so intensely with respect to work and to grant such importance to its expressive remunerations (recognition, oneself achievement, etc). Two forms of professional “pathology”, professional overwork and burn out, linked to the experiment of Taylorist work and contemporary work (or post-Taylorist), are used as empirical anchoring. Starting from a corpus of investigations questioning the complaint of burn out and professional overwork (drawn on the existing literature), the thesis casts new light on certain difficulties which took part in the appearance of professional overwork and burn out during the History, in Quebec and in France. More precisely, the compared study of their complaint seeks to see whether one or other difficulty lets guess some transformations which the brakes and counterweights of work would have known, between Fordism and the current post-Fordism, and to bring out some possible consequences for an individual of each period concerned.

The aim of this Diploma Thesis is besides theoretical clarification of the concept of Work-life balance, in particular to show how much time people spend to their hobbies a families and on the contraty how much time they spend at work, and partly from a women's perspective and from the perspective of men. To fulfil these objectives, the synthesis was used, especially in the theoretical part. The other methods used in the Thesis were quantitative and qualitative research through questionnaire survey and individual personal interviews. Using these methods work came to conclusion, how to the respondents manage to harmonize their personal and professional lives, and if there is a difference in the results from a gender perspective.

The master’s thesis analysis possibilities for work-life balance of women and men in leadership in academic sphere. It specifies gender roles, labor market segregation, stereotypes in population and outlines the benefits of implementation of equal opportunities for employers. The empirical part focuses in accord with the aim of the thesis on the issue of harmonization of work and family, and analyzes in detail the differences between men and women, their mutual cooperation and the reasons for the low representation of women in management positions.

This thesis is focused on the problems of women in managerial positions in a selected metalworking company. It analyzes the status of women in the company, gender in the management and gender integration in the company. The position of women in managerial positions, criteria for success and barriers to their career are examined by analysis of company materials and interviews with staff. The main objective is focused on woman possibilities of work-life balance. There are practical suggestions at the end of this thesis.

This diploma thesis deals with an actual issue of work-life balance. The theoretical part covers a development approach of private organizations to the topic. The practices of work-life balance are described in detail. The practical part analyses a current state of selected company using quantitative and qualitative methods of research. On the basis of acquired results, the appropriate work-life balance measures have been proposed into the strategy of selected company.

This diploma thesis deals with the issue of work-life balance. The aim of the diploma thesis is to suggest recommendations to effective work-life balance in a chosen company. In order to solve the diploma problem, it is necessary to analyse the possibilities of work-life balance in a chosen company on the basis of theoretical findings, the study of company’s documents and a questionnaire with chosen employees.

Due to the COVID19-pandemic many companies and organisations in Sweden have changed their ways of working from location dependent to teleworking. It has been discussed if flexible working conditions benefits or disadvantages workers possibilities to balance work life and family life. Previous research show that women and men traditionally have been responsible for different parts of the unpaid work at home. Studies also show that women tend to spend more time on unpaid work than men. The purpose of this study is to examine if and how the increase of teleworking, as a result of the pandemic, is perceived to have changed the boundaries between work life and family life. The purpose is also to examine whether the experience of the conflict between work and family life has changed due to the pandemic. The aim of the study is also to examine if the distribution of unpaid work is perceived to have changed. The results of the study are based on the answers from qualitative interviews of four women and three men who were teleworking as a result of the pandemic. The results of the study indicate that the responsibility for the boundaries between work life and family life has shifted from the employer to the employee. The conflict between work life and family life is expressed in different ways and has to some extent changed as a result of teleworking. When and how the unpaid work is performed has changed but the distribution between the sexes seems to be the same as before. The social aspect seems to be an important factor for the wellbeing and is lacking in this new way of working. / Till följd av COVID-19-pandemin har många företag och organisationer i Sverige ändrat sin verksamhet från platsberoende till arbete på distans. Det har diskuterats huruvida flexibla arbetsförhållanden gynnar eller missgynnar arbetstagarens möjligheter att balansera arbetsliv och familjeliv. Tidigare forskning visar att kvinnor och män traditionellt sett har ansvarat över olika delar av det oavlönade arbetet i hemmet. Samtidigt visar studier att kvinnor lägger mer tid på oavlönat arbete än män. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka om och hur det ökade distansarbetet till följd av pandemin upplevs ha förändrat gränsdragningen mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv. Syftet är även att undersöka om upplevelsen av konflikten mellan arbete och familj har förändrats till följd av pandemin. Syftet med studien är dessutom att undersöka om fördelningen av det oavlönade arbetet upplevs ha förändrats. Studiens resultat baseras på svaren från kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra kvinnor och tre män som arbetar på distans till följd av pandemin. Studiens resultat tyder på att ansvaret för gränsdragningen mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv har förflyttats från arbetsgivaren till arbetstagaren. Konflikten mellan arbetsliv och familjeliv tar sig i uttryck på olika sätt och har till viss del förändrats till följd av distansarbetet. När och hur det oavlönade arbetet utförs har förändrats, men fördelningen mellan könen verkar vara densamma som innan. Den sociala aspekten verkar vara en viktig faktor för välbefinnandet som saknas i och med det nya arbetslivet.

The rise in popularity of work-life balance (WLB) as an essential determinant of one’s health, wellbeing and effectiveness in modern society has included research on the WLB of those caring for children with special needs. Most previous studies have however focused on investigating the WLB of parents of children with special needs and consequently, very few studies have looked into the WLB of the professionals who work with these children. The purpose of my study was therefore to close this gap in the literature by gaining some insight into the work-life experiences of professionals who work with special children. The study sought to unearth how work-life balance plays out in these professionals’ lives and also to discover the factors that influence their work-life balance. Another objective was to ascertain the challenges that they face in integrating their work and life domains and to bring to light the strategies that they use to cope with their various work-life demands. An inductive qualitative inquiry carried out through combined phenomenological and autoethnography research design was used to investigate the work-life experiences of a sample of professionals who work with special needs children in therapy, pre-primary and primary schools, in the Gauteng Province in South Africa. Purposive and snowball sampling methods were used to select participants for inclusion in the study. Data was collected through a series of unstructured in-depth interviews, unstructured observations, personal memory and photographs. Seven themes emerged from the findings of the study. The results also indicated that the majority of the sampled professionals who work with special children were experiencing work-life conflict due to the time-based and strain-based conflict that emanated from their work domains. These professionals’ WLB was also found to be mostly influenced by work-related factors as the work domain appeared to be their major source of conflict. The study also unearthed some very interesting and unconventional micro-level WLB strategies used by these professionals in their attempt to achieve greater WLB. An example of such strategies include the use of prayer and faith in God to reduce perceptions of conflict and enhance capacity to deal with life’s adversities. The findings from this study may therefore be used to develop and focus meso and macro level interventions to assist professionals who work with special needs children to better manage the various demands from their life domains. This will in turn ensure a healthier lifestyle for these professionals, which also has positive implications for the developmental outcomes of the children under their care. Moreover, enhancing these professionals’ ability to achieve WLB is anticipated to improve their motivation, satisfaction and retention. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Human Resource Management / MCom / Unrestricted

Struharova, X. Management of diverse teams in the ICT sector. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2019. The diploma thesis deals with diversity management of companies operating in the ICT sector in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to develop recommendations for better application of diversity management in the ICT sector. Partial goals also examine what factors in the work environment affect the satisfaction of employees working in a diversified environment, and think about the opportunities for young women to apply in IT departments as well. Qualitative research that took place in the form of semi-structured in-depth interviews with HR staff, managers, and executives. Subsequently, a quantitative survey was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey, the results of which were interpreted by the statistical analysis of the data. At the end of the thesis are elaborated proposals and recommendations resulting from the results of the research part of the thesis.