Exploring Personality Traits in Elite Sport Players and Associate with a Good Project Managers

The paper deals with the issue of personality in the context of the professions of an elite tennis player and a project manager. The objective of the conducted research is to find a set of personality characteristics typical for tennis and project management and to find out which personality characteristics of the analyzed professions are similar, or different. To confirm the hypothesis H: "The personality characteristics of an elite tennis player correspond to the demands of his profession, just as the personality characteristics of a project manager correspond to the demands of his profession, and there is demonstrably a correlation in the personality characteristics of elite tennis players and project managers, which corresponds to a correlation in the demands of these two professions," we will use the Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Test, the Spearman correlation analysis, the evaluation of the relevant test indicators difference in statistical significance using the Student t-test, and the comparative analysis. A comparison of the demands of the analyzed professions on a person and a comparison of the personality characteristics of the elite tennis players and the project managers results in the conclusion that the personalities of an elite tennis player and a project manager are somewhat similar, as well as a striking difference between them in the emotional area. The hypothesis was confirmed. An elite tennis player can be a good project manager. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2023-07-04-019 Full Text: PD

Descriptive Statistical Analysis of the Coach-Player Relationship with CART-Q and SCI

Providing maximum performance in a long-term competitive load is associated with a quality relationship between the player and his coach. A coach plays one of the most important roles in an athlete's sports career and has the potential to positively or negatively impact the mental health of athletes. The aim of the presented paper is to map the bond between the quality of the relationship between the player and the coach and the sports self-confidence of elite junior tennis players. The research sample consisted of 236 elite junior tennis players competing at the national and international levels. The average age was 17.2 years. Data collection was carried out using the questionnaire methods of the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q) and the Sport Confidence Inventory (SCI). The results found significant differences in the perception of the quality of the coaching relationship between Czech and foreign athletes. Gender differences were also found among Czech athletes. A significant relationship was found between the quality of the player-coach relationship and sports self-confidence. The results point to the connections between performance, mental well-being, and the quality of the relationship between the player and the coach and can be the basis for further studies and motivate coaches to think about whether there is a need to modify the ways of training and dealing with their athletes. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-02-01 Full Text: PD

Analysis of the Management Positions Gender Structure in Sports Organizations in Slovakia

The aim of the presented paper is to capture the gender aspects of sports culture through the gender structure of Slovakia's national sports organizations members and their management positions. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper, a hierarchical cluster analysis was applied using IBM SPSS Statistics. As a part of this analysis, due to the cardinality of the input variables, the Euclidean distance measurement method and the Ward method were used. The results of the research examining 65 national sports organizations in Slovakia confirmed that the gender in Slovak organized sports is manifested on the one hand by the dominance of men in the membership of sports organizations, with the exception of sports those are explicitly understood as female, but also in the representation on the management and decision-making positions. Furthermore, we managed to find out that there is a relationship between the gender structure of the membership base and the gender structure in management and decision-making positions, which is reciprocal and at the same time asymmetrical. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2022-03-04-04 Full Text: PD

Early Career Project Managers: Well-being and Life Satisfaction Analysis

The essentials of the presented paper are the psychological well-being and life satisfaction of early-career project managers (maximum 18 months of experience in project management). The primary goal is to determine whether there is a relationship between the psychological well-being and life satisfaction of early-career project managers, and if relationships exist between these variables, to determine their strength. In the theoretical part of the paper, processed using the analysis of relevant information sources, we deal with the concepts of well-being and life satisfaction. As part of the research description, we define an early carrier project manager and describe a sample of respondents consisting of 88 early carrier project managers. To analyze the well-being and life satisfaction variables, we use the Psychological Well-Being Scale questionnaire and the Life Satisfaction Scale questionnaire, where the results of these questionnaires are subsequently subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. We found that there is a moderately strong and statistically significant relationship between the psychological well-being and life satisfaction of early-career project managers. The results of the research can serve as a basis for developing suitable adaptation programs for early carrier project managers, where HR professionals can devote their attention to improving the well-being of early carrier project managers and their life satisfaction and thus reduce the risk of burnout syndrome, which is a very common phenomenon not only among early carrier professions but also project managers. The issue of well-being appears to be relatively well researched and described, even in the context of project managers. However, the life satisfaction of project managers has not been analyzed in such detail, and it is no longer possible to find the issue of investigating the mutual correlation of well-being and life satisfaction of early-career project managers. It is our research that can narrow this gap in the theories of project management, human resource management, and work psychology. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2024-08-02-06 Full Text: PD

Influence of clay fraction on residual strength of soils

This bachelor thesis studies the influence of clay fraction on the residual strength of soils. The introductory part of the thesis outlines the topic of residual strength in soil mechanics. The main part contains a review of research papers that studied the influence of clay fraction on the residual strength of soils. The information from the review is summarized and used in the design of laboratory experiments. A series of ring shear tests were conducted on (i) clay fraction from the "Dobkovičky" area, (ii) sand from the Střeleč quarry and (iii) their mixtures. The experimental results correspond with the reviewed papers: the correlation between the residual strength and the content of the clay fraction is, without the knowledge of mineralogical compostition, insufficient. Therefore, the ring shear test is the most reliable method of determining the residual strength.Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá vlivem obsahu jílové frakce na hodnotu reziduálního úhlu vnitřního tření zemin. V úvodní části je nastíněna problematika reziduální pevnosti v mechanice zemin. Stěžejní část sumarizuje několik publikovaných prací, které se vlivem obsahu jílové frakce na reziduální pevnost zabývaly, a přináší jejich celkové zhodnocení. Poznatky z rešeršní části práce jsou dále aplikovány na postupy provedených vlastních provedených laboratorních zkoušek. Série rotačních smykových zkoušek jílové frakce vzorku z lokality Dobkovičky, křemenného písku (Střeleč) a jejich směsí poskytla data s podobným trendem poklesu pevnosti s nárůstem obsahu jílové frakce jako uvedené publikace. Ze studovaných podkladů i z laboratorních zkoušek vyplývá, že korelace reziduální pevnosti s obsahem jílové frakce je bez znalosti mineralogického složení zeminy nedostatečná a nejvhodnějším způsobem jejího stanovení je provedení rotační smykové zkoušky.Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied GeophysicsÚstav hydrogeologie, inž. geologie a užité geofyzikyFaculty of SciencePřírodovědecká fakult

Přeměna struktury jílových výsypek vlivem působícího napětí

The open-cast brown coal mining in Northwestern Bohemia produces vast amounts of a lumpy clayey material dredged from the overlying sedimentary layers and deposited into large landfills (clay fills). The clay fills are typical for their double porosity (inside and between lumps), which, when related to the absence of artificial compaction, results in their open and metastable structure. Their structural transition from a coarse-graded (lumpy) material into a fine-graded material (reconstituted clay) is influenced by time, degree of saturation, and stress. The structural transition of Bílina Clay Fill, induced by applied stress, is studied by two scaled-down physical models. Their isotropic compressibility and hydraulic conductivity are tested in a large triaxial cell under increasing stress. A series of standard laboratory tests in a small triaxial cell and oedometer on reconstituted and undisturbed samples provides the limiting characteristic values to the possible behavior of the models. The results showed that the hydraulic conductivity of a saturated clay fill non-linearly decreases as the macrovoids close, approaching the hydraulic conductivity of a reconstituted soil at 540 kPa of the vertical effective stress. Then the macrovoids are filled with the reconstituted soil only, and the trend...V severozápadních Čechách probíhá rozsáhlá povrchová těžba hnědého uhlí. Nadložní jílovité vrstvy jsou odtěžovány a ve formě hrud ukládány na výsypky. Pro tyto výsypky je typická jejich dvojí pórovitost (uvnitř hrud a mezi nimi). V souvislosti s absencí zhutňování, vede tato dvojí pórovitost k otevřené metastabilní struktuře výsypek. Přeměna struktury výsypky z hrubozrnné (hroudovité) na jemnozrnnou (rekonstituovaný jíl) je závislá na čase, stupni nasycení a napětí. Přeměna struktury vnitřní výsypky dolu Bílina vlivem napětí je zkoumána pomocí dvou fyzikálních modelů výsypky s redukovanou zrnitostní distribucí hrud. Změna stlačitelnosti a hydraulické vodivosti modelů je testována při zvyšujícím se napětí ve velké triaxiální komoře. Zkoušky na neporušených vzorcích poskytly doplňující informace o mechanickém chování překonsolidované zeminy, tvořící jednotlivé hroudy. Cílem zkoušek na rekonstituovaném materiálu bylo stanovení referenčních hodnot pro charakterizaci výsypky s plně degradovanou původní strukturou. Výsledky ukázaly, že hydraulická vodivost nasycené výsypky nelineárně klesá v souvislosti s postupně se uzavírajícími makropóry. Při vertikálním efektivním napětí 540 kPa se hodnota hydraulické vodivosti dostane na hodnotu hydraulické vodivosti rekonstituované zeminy. Makropóry jsou pak...Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied GeophysicsÚstav hydrogeologie, inž. geologie a užité geofyzikyFaculty of SciencePřírodovědecká fakult

The relationships and attitude of adolescents living in a diagnostic institute to formal authorities

The topic of this bachelor thesis is attitudes to authorities of adolescents who are currently in diagnostic institute and their relationships. The theoretic part includes definitions of terms such as authority, adolescence and attitudes and characterisation of diagnostic institutes. These terms are defined as they are crucial for the research in the following empiric section. Therefore it is necessary to explain the way they are viewed in this thesis. The aim of the empiric section is to characterise the relationships of the adolescent boys who have been placed in diagnostic institute by court with the authorities they have met in their lives, most of all the formal authorities. The research in the empiric section characterizes the subjective understanding of participants of their own attitudes towards formal authorities. This research has been executed in diagnostic institute in Prague 2, including 7 boys in the age of 16 to 18 years. The research has been designed as a qualitative research and the data collection has performed as a semi-structured interview with each participant. Results prove that the attitudes of adolescents are relatively stable. Changes appear as a result of the influence of a person of the same age. Moreover, my results show that the relationships of the participants with...Tématem bakalářské práce jsou postoje a vztahy adolescentů, kteří jsou umístěni v diagnostickém ústavu, k autoritám. Teoretická část představuje pojmy autority, adolescence, postojů a charakterizuje diagnostické ústavy. Tyto pojmy jsou v práci popsány proto, že jsou klíčové pro výzkumné šetření popsané v empirické části a je tedy nezbytné vysvětlit, jak jsou v práci pojímány. Hlavním cílem empirické části práce je zmapovat vztahy dospívajících chlapců, kteří jsou umístěni v diagnostickém ústavu na základě rozhodnutí soudu, k autoritám, se kterými se ve svém životě setkávají. Hlavní pozornost byla věnována autoritám formálním. Výzkum popisovaný v empirické části mapuje subjektivní pohled účastníků výzkumu na vlastní postoje k formálním autoritám. Byl uskutečněn v diagnostickém ústavu v Praze 2 a zúčastnilo se jej sedm účastníků ve věku 16-18 let. Výzkum byl designován jako kvalitativní a sběr dat probíhal formou polostrukturovaného rozhovoru s každým z účastníků. Výsledky ukazují, že postoje adolescentů jsou poměrně stabilní. Když dojde ke změně postoje, jedná se často o důsledek vlivu vrstevníků. Dále výzkum ukazuje, že vztahy k učitelům jsou u cílové skupiny velmi problematické, naopak vztahy k odborným pracovníkům diagnostického ústavu jsou účastníky hodnoceny velmi pozitivně. Autoritativní osoba...Katedra psychologieFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult

Secondary Socialization of Homeschoolers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The presented article deals with the description of the socialization of basic school pupils, i.e. pupils in younger and middle school age, who fulfill the compulsory school attendance in the form of individual education (homeschooling) in the context of the legislation of the Czech Republic. In the context of fulfilling the article aim, we formulated three research questions, which were evaluated using quantitative research in the form of a questionnaire survey. The research confirmed that parents of homeschoolers significantly support their children in participating in organized leisure activities and are actively involved in mediating their child's contact with other children. In the comparison of the examined groups there were no significant differences in how the children perceive their friends, what their favorite activities are or how much time they spend with them. The difference was more noticeable in the parental approach in education, when setting some rules. This article can outline areas that can be further explored in more detail and compared in context. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-SPER-12 Full Text: PD

European Real Estate Properties Valuation: Ten Years After Adopting IFRS 13

IFRS 13 had its mandatory implementation on January 1st, 2013. The new accounting standard, which represents one step closer to harmonization between U.S. GAAP and IFRS, aims to eliminate inconsistencies in fair value measurement and its related disclosures through the introduction of new reporting requirements, specifically for assets and liabilities with no active markets. Although these demands also encompass information concerning financial instruments, our focus was on the disclosure changes related to the fair value of investment properties, previously regulated solely by IAS 40. As investment properties comprise the majority of assets in the real estate industry, this sector was further examined. Through a statistical analysis of the sample companies’ annual reports for the periods immediately before and after the implementation of IFRS 13, the purpose of our descriptor-explanatory study was to investigate the level of compliance with IFRS 13 fair value disclosure requirements for investment properties in real estate companies in Europe. In order to answer this question, we first scrutinized the level of compliance with the new disclosure requirements brought up by the standard and then, intermediated by an adaptation of the model developed by Beretta & Bozzolan (2008), measured the disclosure quality for both periods considered. After data collection and analysis, our findings reveal that IFRS 13 does affect the disclosure quality of investment properties in real estate companies in Europe. Overall compliance is very high, while disclosure quality has increased since the implementation of IFRS 13. As a way to further broaden the research related to the more extensive disclosure requirements under IFRS 13, we suggest additional studies be undertaken where the point of view of the real estate companies could be explored. Moreover, it would be interesting to investigate whether the increased number of disclosures, both in relation to quantity and quality, is relevant from an analyst’s standpoint. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-03-04 Full Text: PD