N34 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-Return

The article focuses on changes of social development in post-Munich Czechoslovakia and analyses some new trends of social policy in this period. The particular attention is paid to work camps and its role in social policy of Second Czechoslovak Republic. The work camps should serve not only to decreasing of unemployment, but also to education its members and to agitation for values of new republic. The establishment of work camps in post-Munich era was associated with an suppressing elements of the market economy. The article shows that the service to the nation was presented as the key principle of public life in the Second Republic. The establishment of the work camps was the indication of new tendencies of Czechoslovak social and economic policy.

The main task of many businessmen is to generate profit. The purpose of business cannot be primarily a profit and if so it must be increase of the market value of the company. How to choose a business strategy which would generate a sustainable profit? The answer to this question a well-known businessman Tomas Bata the founder knew , the person who had created a very sophisticated system of management which had not generated sustainable profit only but socially responsible business too. The object of this research is to describe Bata management system and socially responsible behavior of Tomas Bata Company before 1945 through properly chosen research methods. Based on our findings, there is set a possible application of the results to the current business environment.