Organizational Culture and Competence Group

Our department is a cornerstone of the Faculty of Corporate Strategy, offering a unique Bachelor study programme HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT and many more Bachelor and follow-up Master programmes to full-time and part-time students. The subject areas cover personnel management, business ethics and CSR, applied psychology, managerial skills, corporate culture, intercultural management, staff training and development and other related fields. We also teach the selected subjects in English to Czech and Erasmus students.

We currently guarantee STUDY FOR TEACHERS OF VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS, PRACTICAL EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING, a highly sought-after study programme sharpening required teaching and psychological skills.

We avidly seek deepening theoretical findings and their practical application in cooperation with companies, non-profit organizations, state administration and self-administration bodies, including many distinguished experts from practice.

Our research activities involve the current buoyant demand for effective and innovative human resource management and organizational culture, responding to changes in labour markets, cut-throat international competition and different needs throughout business sectors (according to the business size and specialization). We explore how human resource management and develops and adapts to the pandemic and post-pandemic situation.

External services – Personnel and organizational audit in small and medium-sized enterprises

  • Human resource audit (Personnel, i.e., management audit)
  • Human resource audit
  • Risk audit
  • Organizational audit

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Currently discussed topics are:

New trends in HR:

  • effective business education (content, motivation, methods and forms and assessment)
  • innovative, effective, and well-organized jobs (e-working and work schedule)
  • hiring disadvantaged employees
  • personnel diagnostics

Ethical audit and corporate social responsibility

  • implementing CSR in SME, reporting CSR in the SME segment
  • devising an effective ethical code
Our research aims at : effective, innovative, and developed human resource management and organizational culture, reflecting new trends in the sector, ethical process and corporate social responsibility.

  • Management of Human Resource
  • Communication Skills
  • Managerial Skills in Human Resource Management
  • Work Psychology and Management Psychology
  • HR Marketing
  • Staff Training and Development
  • Corporate Ethics and CSR
  • Organizational Culture
  • Intercultural Management
  • Personality Psychology
  • Personal agenda and documents
  • Motivation and Rewarding Employees
  • Case Studies in HR
  • Professional Experience
  • Personnel Management
  • Social Responsibility
  • Time Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Responsibility and Ethics
  • Psychology
  • Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
  • Management of Human Resource – Master Studies
  • Business Ethics
  • Personnel management
  • Ethical Entrepreneurship
  • Psychological-Entrepreneurial Competencies
  • Ethics and Philosophy of the Business Environment
  • Corporate Sociology
  • Intercultural Management
  • Corporate social responsibility

  • Department of Leadership and Management, Hungarian Agrar and Lifesciences University, Gödöllő (Hungary)
  • Department of Strategic HRM Wroclaw, University of Economics, Wroclaw (Poland)
  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
  • Department of International Management Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
  • Austria Economics and Social Sciences, University of Graz (Austria)
  • Faculty of Economics, Subotica, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)
  • College of Business and Technology and Foundation Professor at Eastern Kentucky University (USA)
  • University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication (Austria),
  • Szent István University Management and HR Research Centre and National Public University (Hungary)
  • University of Technology, Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Czestochowa University of Technology and Economic University Cracow (Poland)
  • J. Selye University (Slovakia)
  • University of A. Dubček in Trenčín (Slovakia)
  • Istrian University of Applied Sciences in Pula (Croatia)
  • Chamber of Commerce of South Bohemia
  • The South Bohemian Company for Development of Human Resources

  • Social responsibility – inside and outside the business
  • Personnel diagnostics
  • Job-shadowing and implementing effective measures
  • Implementing methods of self-planned shifts
  • Recruitment process management, communication, staff adaptation, motivation, mediation, courses of communication skills
  • Implementing/wider use of E-working in SME in the service sector
    I. The company has yet to implement E–working
  • Target group: companies in the service sector with 3 – 249 employees.
  • The project aims to implement e-working as a work innovation, increasing corporate performance and competitiveness, reducing costs, cultivating talents and hiring skilled workers.
  • Exploring possibilities, coming up with e-working instruction manuals, creating training materials and giving training courses.

II. The company has partially implemented e-working

    • The project aims to more efficient e-working as a work innovation, bringing greater competitive advantage to a company in the labour market, further e-working development in the enterprise and considerable cost reduction.
    • Target group: companies in the service sector with 3 – 249 employees.
    • Analysing the current corporate situation, coming up with e-working instruction manuals to make e-working more efficient, creating training materials and giving training courses.

 

  • Devising the corporate ethical codex, or auditing the current ethical codex

I. The company has yet to devise the code of ethics

    • The aim involves devising a corporate ethical codex as a company’s innovation, boosting corporate competitiveness and running sustainable business
    • Target group: companies with 3 – 249 employees
    • Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the ethical codex, including mechanisms of supervising performance.

II. The company’s ethical codex needs audit

    • The aim is to make the ethical codex more effective, bringing huger corporate advantage in the labour market and significantly reducing costs
    • Target group: companies with 3 – 249 employees
    • Analysing the current situation and the ethical codex, auditing documents, creating training materials and giving training courses

  • Internal Grant Competition of ITB:
    Current topics on CSR relating to HR development
  • TA ČR Transport 2022+: Methodology of corporate and school mobility plans CK03000135
    The project aims to devise certified corporate and school mobility plans suitable for sustainable urban mobility (SUM). The methods will give practical guidelines on corporate and school mobility – a thorny issue of sustainable development of urban areas. Direct analytical tools of the project involved in the methodology allow the target groups to operate transport policies in municipality-schools and municipality-economic subjects connections, supporting sustainable urban mobility. The suggested techniques will accentuate socio-economic, urbanistic, environmental and other factors behind the sustainable development of municipalities.
  • Target EÚS Czech Republic – Bavaria:
    Following modern teaching trends in view of Best Practice/ Unterstützung moderner Trends im Unterricht in Bezug auf Best Practices – č. 261

  • Personnel controlling as a tool of analysing, evaluating and improving staff development
    Main idea
    The project aims to encourage effective staff development, its analysis and stimulation – a globally less explored issue. The findings will offer possibilities for stimulating corporate education and effectively using financial resources.

Project aim
The project aims to apply principles of personnel controlling to corporate education as a useful tool of effective development.

Benefits
Companies will benefit from effective education, management, knowledge, organizational culture, strong motivation and engagement of employees, gaining popularity among the public.

  • Ethical management and CSR (SME)
    Main idea
    Although ethic management programmes and CSR have already taken root in large enterprises, SMEs are entering uncharted waters. The strict European legislation discourages companies from getting familiar with this high-potential and sustainable concept. A European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will replace the regulation on non-financial reporting (NFRD) 2014/95/EU, governing 49,000 European firms instead of 11,000 under NFRD. The Czech Republic will see an increase from 25 to 1,500 involved corporations, anticipating the first data reports in 2024, accounting for 2023. Publicly negotiable SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) will have three extra years before applicability.

The project aims to explore the extent and effectiveness of applied ethical management and CSR (economic, social and environmental mainstays) in SMEs in the CZ, including microenterprises, boosting their performance by CSR and ethical management methods and a reporting system.

Benefits
The main benefits involve improving corporate image, enhancing credibility and transparency, differentiation and gaining publicity, satisfying and more effectively cooperating with stakeholders, building reputation, inspiring confidence, exploring new business opportunities with potential partners, attracting new, eco and socio sensitive customers, winning customer loyalty and satisfaction and lasting relationships hereof.