scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Implementation of the CSR Concept in the Czech Republic

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1979-1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Kučerová ◽  
Renata Skýpalová ◽  
Veronika Blašková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
P Value ◽  
Company Size ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Pearson Coefficient ◽  
The Subject

There is an increase of the companies’ engagement in the concept of social responsibility in the Czech Republic. However, the engagement is still at a lower level when compared to other countries of Western Europe. The use and knowledge of the CSR concept in the companies in the Czech Republic was the subject of the research realized at the end of 2013 and in the first half of 2014. This paper deals with the question which factors influence the engagement of enterprises in the CSR in the Czech Republic. The statistical testing proved that the company size and the form of ownership have a significant influence on the company’s engagement in the CSR activities. P-value is always < 0.001, Pearson coefficient is in the interval of 0.35 – 0.37 and Cramer coefficient is in the interval of 0.37–0.39. The dependence between the category of economic activity and the region of the headquarters was not proved as significant; p-value only < 0.05.

scholarly journals Factors influencing economic performance of the South Moravian Region

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-386
Author(s):  
Iva Živělová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The South ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Exploitation Rate ◽  
Negative Impacts

The paper deals with selected factors influencing economic performance of the South Moravian Region in the years 2003–2009. The economic performance of the region is evaluated by means of a contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of the Czech Republic. Considering the fact that the level of economic activity depends on the exploitation rate of production factors in the considered region, both development of soil exploitation rate and development of labour market indicators correlated with working force utilization are analysed, a number of employed adults and registered unemployment are taken into consideration. Attention is paid to the economic activity rate. The formation of the Gross Fixed Capital, which an assumption of favourable economic performance, and development of Gross Added Value are evaluated.All the regions nowadays fumble with the negative impacts of the economic crisis. According to the analysis of the economic performance of the South Moravian Region and the analysis of the factors influencing this performance, it could be stated, that the development of the South Moravian Region could be evaluated quite positively.

The Development of the Communication Skills of Individuals Living in Homes for People with Disabilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Petr Kopečný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given

This paper concentrates on the area of special educational support provided to individuals living in homes for people with disabilities in the Czech Republic and presents partial research results illustrating the state of the provision of speech therapy to users of social services facilities falling under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The subject of the research is an analysis of support for the development of the communication skills of pupils living in social services facilities. The partial results of the research outline the approaches employed by the managerial staff of the given facilities in implementing special educational procedures, describe forms of speech therapy provision in homes for people with disabilities, and compare the attitudes of teachers and social services staff to the development of communication with the importance attributed to it by speech therapists and demonstrated by the case studies performed.

scholarly journals School injuries and their prevention from the present perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
VACLAV BERANEK ◽  
PETR STASTNY ◽  
VIT NOVACEK
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Presentation Methods ◽  
Significant Health

Background: ‪Injuries are considered worldwide to be the most significant health problem, especially in childhood. In the Czech Republic, injuries are the most common cause of death among children and young adults. The aim of the study was to provide more insight in school accidents in the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2018 and to estimate future trends. Material and methods: ‪Annual reports of the Czech School Inspectorate (CSI) from 2007 to 2017 were the main sources of data. Results: ‪A high number of injuries occur in the school environment, especially at the primary level. In the Czech Republic, there has been a trend of rising numbers in reported school injuries over the last three years, from 33,000 in 2008 to 46,000 in 2018. Over the last 5 years, the number of reported accidents has increased by 1,000 per year. The most injuries occur in primary schools, within the subject Physical Education. Conclusions: ‪There are many activities which focus on the prevention of child injuries, the incidence of which has improved in recent years. Experience shows that when prevention programs include innovations and interesting presentation methods, they are successful.

scholarly journals Poetic landscapes of Wilhelm Przeczek

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Libor Martinek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Result ◽  
Puppet Show ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literary Output

Wilhelm Przeczek is a Polish writer who has lived in Karviná, the Czech Republic, since he was born in 1936. He is a member of a Polish minority and he has aimed his literary output at its members and at readers in Poland. Translations into the Czech language are aimed at readers in the Czech Republic. Having made a protest against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact armies into Czechoslovakia in August 1968, W. Przeczek was not allowed to publish and he was dismissed – he had worked as an editor of a Polish paper “Głos Ludu”. In 1970–1977 he worked as an actor, stage director, and dramatic advisor of a puppet show theatre Bajka in Český Těšín, the Czech Republic. In his article, the author deals with poems by W. Przeczek’s on the subject of journeys about Europe. The starting point is local, but a global result.

scholarly journals Current Implementation of the Circular Economy in Enterprises in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Otakar Ungerman ◽  
Jaroslava Dědková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Active Approach ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The subject of this paper is the contemporary use of the circular economy in business practice. The topicality of this theme was the reason for resolving the main objectives, which were to determine how enterprises in the Czech Republic are currently involved in the circular economy. The authors focused on empirical research, the methodological framework of which contains three interrelated parts. The basis was secondary research from scientific databases, which was followed up by the primary research. The objects of the primary research were based on three research questions, which were focused on the use of standardised environmental activities, the identification of tools of the circular economy and determining their importance. The research was evaluated using the methods of content analysis, descriptive and inductive statistics. The research showed that 71 % of enterprises present themselves as taking an active approach to the environment beyond the scope of the statutory obligations. Enterprises then make most use of regulatory tools such as the ISO 14001 standard or Ecodesign. An in-depth interview was used to identify sixteen tools of the circular economy as they are perceived by enterprises. When assessing importance, the highest rated tool was reducing energy consumption in production, waste from production, the consumption of materials, emissions and minimization of waste. Statistically significant differences were also identified with these tools. The research showed that the circular economy is most used in automotive industry enterprise.

Pre-industrial landscape of the Jeseníky region as a natural and cultural heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kolejka ◽  
Eva Nováková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Economic Pressure ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Protection

Small parcels of agricultural land are rare in the present landscape of Czech Republic and become the subject of interests of the state protection of the nature, the landscape and the environment. At the same time, such areas represent interesting subjects for the local administration as attractive tourist object. In the historical territory of Moravia (the eastern 1/3 of the Czech Republic), a regional inventory of areas with preserved ancient land use structure was carried out on all individual cadastral territories (focused not only on small parcels, but also on large aristocratic estates on agricultural and forest land originated before the main wave of industrial revolution Moravia, before 1850. The sites are still subjects to topic economic pressure on land consolidation. Their existence in the future is under threat and is decreasing every year both in number and size. The inventory results are presented on example of the Jeseníky region.

Did Communism Kill Religion in Eastern Europe?

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-65
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Czech Republic

This chapter examines how religion was affected by communism and how religious the Czech Republic and Hungary are today. It looks at how communist policy impacted various aspects of religion, including religious education and religious practices such as baptism and weddings. The chapter then analyzes current levels of religiosity in the Czech Republic and Hungary and discusses them in relation to religiosity in Western Europe. It is concluded that while religiosity in the Czech Republic is especially low, this may be due more to secularization than its communist legacy. Hungary's levels of religiosity are more in line with the rest of Eastern Europe and, given the government's recent inclusion of Christian values in public education, could potentially increase.

scholarly journals The capital structure of agricultural enterprises in the Visegrad countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 160-167
Author(s):  
Veronika Fenyves ◽  
Károly Pető ◽  
János Szenderák ◽  
Mónika Harangi-Rákos
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Visegrád Countries ◽  
The Capital Structure

The Visegrad countries – or the V-4 countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – is strong regional cooperation of four EU member states in Eastern-Central-Europe aimed at strengthening the positions of the members on both a European and a global level. The aim of this research is to analyse the capital structure of the agricultural and food companies in the V4 Member States. The results show that more profitable companies were less dependent on debt finance, while the fast-growing companies had limited access to the financial market. Company size had a significant effect only in the Czech Republic. Overall, the capital structure seemed to be strongly affected by the farm structure and the relative company size.

scholarly journals Revised soil erodibility K-factor for soils in the Czech Republic

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Vopravil ◽  
M. Janeček ◽  
M. Tippl
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Soils ◽  
Water Erosion ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Soil Erodibility ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Complex Evaluation ◽  
K Factor ◽  
The Subject

In the territory of the Czech Republic there are more than 50% of agricultural soils exposed to water erosion; it is a very urgent problem both at present and for the future. It must be solved now when there is still something to be protected. It is rather complicated to describe the soil properties in terms of soil susceptibility to water erosion because it is a complex relation in which many factors participate. For the complex evaluation of all main factors participating in erosion origination it is possible to apply the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). It consists of six factors interacting with each other and participating in the origination of soil erosion. One of these factors is the soil erodibility factor (K-factor), the revision of which for soil conditions of the CR is the subject of this study. In total ca. 5000 soil pits from the whole territory of the country were processed and evaluated in detail. The main results of this study are K-factor values (means and variances) for the soil types, subtypes and varieties (represented in the database) according to the Taxonomic Classification System of Soils of the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Comparison of Outcome Data for Shelter Dogs and Cats in the Czech Republic

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Veronika Vojtkovská ◽  
Eva Voslářová ◽  
Vladimír Večerek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Median Length ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Shelter Dogs ◽  
The Subject

Animal protection, which also comprises the subject of abandoned and stray animals, has become a pressing and widely discussed topic. The aim of this study was to compare dogs and cats from two shelters in a selected region of the Czech Republic, based on factors that affect the length of stay. The following factors were analyzed: outcome, sex, age, and purebred status. A total of 419 cats and 2580 dogs housed in the monitored shelters from 2013 to 2016 were included in the analysis. The results show that dogs (n = 1343; 52.1%) are returned to their owners significantly more often (p < 0.001) than cats (n = 10; 2.4%). Dogs stayed in the shelter significantly (p < 0.001) less time than cats regardless of the outcome (the median length of stay of dogs were 3 days, while that of cats was 51 days). Also the length of stay in the shelter until adoption is shorter in dogs than in cats (dogs: median 27 days; cats: median 53 days). Median length of stay tended to increase with the increasing age in both species. Monitored age categories of dogs and cats differed significantly (p < 0.05) in their median length of stay (LOS) until adoption. We found that purebred status does not affect the length of stay in the shelter until adoption, either in dogs or in cats. Overall, our results suggest that dogs are preferred over cats in the Czech Republic. Shelter operators should take into account this aspect affecting animal adoption. By targeted efforts and education of public, it is possible to mitigate the negative effects of favoring a certain category of animals over others.

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