Passing the study plan

The bachelor's state final exam in the Personal Development and Employment study program takes place every semester and has two parts: the defense of the bachelor's diploma thesis and a written exam.

The bachelor thesis is focused on processing one of the topics of personnel development and employment in the context of public or private, profit and non-profit sector organizations. The work is based on the reflection of the defined problem and its empirical investigation. The final bachelor's thesis verifies the student's ability to work critically with a professional text and through appropriate concepts and theories, as well as the ability to solve a specific problem at the level of social groups, institutions, or organizations.

The written exam verifies students' knowledge and their ability to apply and reflect on a specific problem. It has two parts: a test on the topics of Personnel and Organizational Development and a test on the topics of Public Policy and Employment.

Personnel and organizational development – verifies the student's competence in the field of organizational development and human resources development processes: changes in the concept of management and development of human resources and their importance in the development of the organization; objectives, tools, and impacts of the main HR processes (job analysis and description, personnel marketing and recruitment, selection, acceptance, adaptation and dismissal of employees, training, and development, evaluation and compensation, employee relations); approaches and schools in the field of organizational theory and management with an emphasis on the concept and management of human resources, organizational culture and structure, and their mutual interactions, managerial decision-making and its principles, possibilities of supporting organizational development and human resources development and related problems.

Public policy and employment – verifies the student's ability to assess and explain processes affecting the situation on the labor market and employment (human capital, labor market segmentation, marginalization, precarization, etc.), their connection to other areas of social and public policy; the connection between social processes (values, interests, institutions, problems, etc.) and the functions of public and social policy, including strategies for the development of human resources; the role of actors in the field of employment, in public and social policy; the link between the goals and instruments of public and social policy and economic policy with the development of human resources; objectives, instruments, financing and legislative regulation of public and social policy and employment policy in the Czech Republic, comparison with EU countries.

Analysis of the basic processes of people management in state administration/non-state organization from the perspective of employers and employees (recruitment and selection, development, adaptation and stabilization, motivation, evaluation and remuneration, dismissal)

The importance of intercultural teams in the organization, management of diversity and inclusion, managerial and intercultural consulting

Organizational culture and its influence on the work performance of employees

Employee relations and employee well-being, work with talents

Digital transformation, e-HRM, and personnel information systems

Education and development of adults (employed, unemployed)

Strategic planning in the state/non-state sector

Social responsibility of organizations, sustainable economy

Globalization and challenges of public administration (governance, HRM, leadership, ethics, e-governance, sustainability)

Analysis of the position of selected groups in the labor market and explanation of the causes, manifestations, and consequences of various forms of their disadvantage

Labor market policy programs and measures, their analysis, evaluation, and comparison at the national, regional, or local level

Equal opportunities in employment, gender pay gap, strategies and tools for harmonizing family and work

Approaches of workers of the Czech Labor Office to various groups of unemployed

Analysis of intersectoral cooperation in the implementation of a selected public or social program at the governmental, regional, or local level