Previous research indicates that Czechs harbor considerable doubt about the honesty of their political and economic system. One response to this perceived dishonesty has been disengagement, to the extent possible, from their work and public life. Disengagement was, both before and after 1989, the potent weapon used by Czechs in their workplaces to covertly make their wishes known on the factory floor. This behavior has proven problematic for the managers of the „new" private enterprises in the country. The tension between management and workers has resulted in the creation of complex interactions which can begin to be understood through an analysis of transactions in social capital. To accomplish this, this paper will examine two relatively successful companies in the Southern Moravian city of Brno during the period preceding E.U. accession. Through field notes, interview and survey data gathered during more than a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this paper will accomplish three objectives. It will analyze the interplay in those companies of discourses of honesty with the twin goals of managerial legitimacy and worker engagement. It will document the process of negotiation which has resulted in the development of a new moral economy on the workfloor and the growth of powerful worker networks within the enterprise. Finally, it will present a theoretical framework to capture the process of social capital creation and expenditure which is the product of these processes.
The Czech spiritual market is today as developed as that of western European countries. De-traditionalised and individualised holistic milieu has created a demand for spiritual literature and magazines as well as other marketable goods (“magic” stones, amulets, horoscopes, natural drugs etc.). This paper attempts to analyse the character and sources of contemporary best selling spiritual literature and its readership in the Czech Republic. It also provides a case study of a Prague spiritual bookshop and its comparison with five other Czech spiritual outlets (including an Internet outlet). The results clearly show that marketing spirituality has become a mainstream phenomenon with regard to all gender, age and class categories, although there was found to be an over presence of older middle-aged women among the buyers. There is emphasized “churchless” and “nonreligious” character of the buyers and the best selling books, that include predominantly those referring to “modem” and “esoteric” western or “ethnic” spiritualities. The supply side comprises both special and general publishers, the former having been more successful in specialised bookshops and spirituál outlets and the latter in addressing the wider population (including via the Internet).
There is a sharp discrepancy between the emphasis being placed on active ageing and labour market participation in older age and the high unemployment rates observed among older workers. Cross-sectional data in the Czech Republic consistently present evidence of job insecurity and employment vulnerability in older age groups. Aggregated data and statistical indices do not, however, offer a sufficiently detailed picture of the social processes (e.g. exit from the labour market, duration of unemployment, and exit from unemployment) behind the numbers. This article takes a dynamic look at the position of older workers in the labour market by investigating transitions between employment and unemployment using a sub-sample of older workers (50 year and over) from the Czech EU-SILC, who were interviewed repeatedly in a panel survey between 2004 and 2009. The authors use survival analysis methods to study the time-dependence of transitions into and out of unemployment and both with and without covariates. The results suggest that older workers are not at a higher risk of exiting the labour market (compared to other age groups), but once they are unemployed, their odds of getting back into employment are significantly lower. Even when controls (such as education level) are included in the model this disadvantage persists. Interestingly, while education generally protects people from labour market exit, this protective effect is weaker among older workers.
Dnešní podmínky na trhu vyžadují, aby vedoucí pracovníci neziskových organizací jednali stále více obchodním způsobem. Studie zjišťuje, zda vedoucí pracovníci neziskových organizací mají podobné dispozice k podnikatelskému jednání jako podnikatelé, ale jsou jinak motivováni. Při výzkumu byly pomocí standardních osobnostních testů a rozhovorů porovnány osobnostní rysy a vyjádřené motivy 72 vedoucích pracovníků neziskových organizací s 117 podnikateli. Obě skupiny vykazují podobné obecné a specificky podnikatelské osobnostní rysy, ale významně se liší, pokud jde o jejich motivaci. Zatímco motivace vedoucích pracovníků neziskových organizací pramení především ze smyslu jejich práce, podnikatelé jsou motivováni především nezávislostí a příjmem, které jim jejich práce poskytuje. Článek umožňuje lépe pochopit, kdo jsou vedoucí pracovníci neziskových organizací., Today's market conditions require nonprofit leaders to act in an increasingly business-like fashion. This study asks whether NPO leaders have a similar disposition to act entrepreneurially as for-profit entrepreneurs, but hold different underlying motives. For this purpose, the study contrasts a sample of 72 leaders of nonprofit organizations with 117 entrepreneurs on their personality traits and explicit motives using standard personality tests and interviews. Both groups exhibit similar general and entrepreneurship-specific personality traits but differ significantly regarding their motivation. While nonprofit leaders motivation stems primarily from the meaningfulness of their work; entrepreneurs are mainly motivated by the independence as well as by the income and profit provided by their work. This paper helps us understand who leaders of nonprofit organizations are., Martin Lukeš, Ute Stephan., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The article aims to identify the development phases in the process of the regional differentiation in the Czech Republic after 1989, and examines whether this differentiation trend is currently changing. The assumption the article's hypothesis is based on is that during recent development the basic 'parameters' of the principal features of the country's regional structure have been stabilized amidst the conditions of parliamentary democracy and a market economy. Unlike the first phases of socio-economic transition, when differentiating trends prevailed, a certain degree of stabilisation can now be assumed, alongside the emergence of new trends. The development of regional differences was analysed using indicators of GDP, the unemployment rate, entrepreneurial activity, and tax revenue from self-employed physical persons. The findings show that over the course of the 1990s regional differences intensified at both the mezo-regional (regional) level and the micro-regional level. It was also confirmed that at the turn of the millennium the phase of divergent regional development ended, and since that time regional differences have hovered around the same level.
The article focuses on the concerns of Czech expectant parents and their subsequent life difficulties. A qualitative longitudinal methodology was used to study parental experiences for a period of around four years. Three waves of semi-structured interviews were conducted with sixteen dual-earner parental couples who had their first child in 2011 or 2012. An analysis of 93 interviews revealed that the fears of the parents-to-be principally concerned childcare, paid work, free time, the relationships, and health. Actual experience of difficulties in these areas was often mentioned by different respondents from those who had expected to have them. The theory of intensive motherhood was employed to underscore the heavy demands and responsibilities placed on contemporary parents and the difficulties that accompany the use of a child-centred approach. The heavy demands on childcare felt by mothers who adhered to the intensive mothering model were cited as causing difficulties in the everyday lives of parental couples; the fathers mainly complained of a lack of rest and quality time with their partners.
Následující text prezentuje některé poznatky o občanské kultuře v České republice učiněné na základě speciálního šetření uskutečněného v srpnu 2009 jako součást mezinárodního komparativního výzkumu u příležitosti 50. výročí realizace původního výzkumu G. A. Almonda a S. Verby a následného vydání jejich známé knihy The Civic Culture: Attitudes and Perception of Democracy in Five Nations. Kromě toho se s využitím dat z předchozích dlouhodobých kontinuálních výzkumů veřejného mínění pokouší o stručný nástin vývoje občanské kultury v českých zemích v průběhu uplynulých dvaceti let po pádu komunistického režimu v roce 1989., Following text presents some findings concerning the civic culture in the Czech Republic based on results of a special survey conducted in August of 2009 as a part of international comparative research project commemorating the 50th anniversary of realization of G. A. Almond’s and S. Verba’s original survey and their classic study The Civic Culture: Attitudes and Perception of Democracy in Five Nations. Using data from continuous public opinion surveys the text also tries briefly to outline the development of civic culture in Czech countries during last two decades after fall of communist regime in 1989., and Jan Červenka.
V posledních letech byl podstatně redefinován vztah mezi českým a mezinárodním právem. Nyní je ČR povinna dodržovat závazky, které pro ni vyplývají z mezinárodního práva (čl. 1 odst. 2 Ústavy), vyhlášené mezinárodní smlouvy ratifikované se souhlasem Parlamentu jsou součástí právního řádu s předností před rozpornými ustanoveními zákonů (čl. 10 Ústavy) a na základě judikatury Ústavního soudu ČR mají mezinárodní smlouvy o lidských právech stejnou právní sílu jako ustanovení vnitrostátního ústavního pořádku.Právní důsledky těchto proměn jsou však stále předmětem debaty. To platí i o odpovědnosti české veřejné moci za škodu způsobenou porušením mezinárodních závazků. Tento článek se přiklání k tomu, že taková odpovědnost by měla být uznávána přinejmenším ve vztahu k mezinárodním smlouvám v působnosti čl. 10 Ústavy.Ve prospěch takového názoru svědčí srovnání s Francií a Polskem, tedy státy, které při obdobném ústavním uspořádání takovou odpovědnost uznaly, a rovněž odkaz na zásady právního státu, na které Ústavní soud ČR nahlíží jako na klíčový základ pro existenci odpovědnosti veřejné moci za škodu. and In the last years, the relationship between Czech and international law has been substantially redefined. By now, The Czech Republic shall be obliged to respect its undertakings under international law (Art 1-2 Constitution), published treaties ratified upon the consent of the Parliament shall be “the part of the legal order”with precedence over any conflicting provision of the Acts of the Czech Parliament (Art 10 Constitution), and, under the case-law of the Czech Constitutional Court, treaties on human rights shall have the same rank as the provisions of domestic constitutional law. However, legal consequences of these transformations are still subject to debate. This is also true of the liability of the Czech State in tort for breaches of its international undertakings. The present article argues such liability shall be recognized at least with regard to treaties coming in the ambit of Art 10 Constitution. This view is supported by comparison with France and Poland, or States, which, under comparable constitutional setting, have come to recognize such liability in tort, an, also by reference to the rule of law principles which the Czech Constitutional Court views as the key legal
ground for the existence of the State liability in tort.
The article focuses on the relationship of religionisity and subjective satisfaction, a problem that has recently become one of the topical themes of social sciences. The author on the one hand presents the great expectations that the society (even non-religious) puts in the "satisfactory" role of religion, and on the other hand their factual unfulfillment, or better to say the minimum real influence of (non-)religiosity upon the subjective contentment.