Our Graduate Petra Trojanová Received the ESOP Award for her Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis

The goal of the ESOP Awards for Excellent Student Academic Works – is to support students’ creativity by selecting, recognizing, and presenting exceptional seminar, bachelor’s, and master’s theses. 

This year, Petra Trojanová, our graduate from the bachelor´s study program Manažer Obchodu (Retail Manager), succeeded with her bachelor’s thesis titled “Employee Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Selected Company” supervised by our colleague Ing. Jitka Volfová, Ph.D. 

The first to congratulate her were doc. Ing. Petr Dvořák, Ph.D., the Rector of the Prague University of Economics and Business and doc. Ing. Martina Jiránková, Ph.D., the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations.

Congratulations!

Ing. Jitka Volfová, Ph.D., graduated from Prague University of Economics in International Trade and Commercial Communications. She is an Assistant Professor in the field of International Trade, a researcher,  lecturer in practice and a certified coach. She focuses on international management, intercultural and commercial communication, communication and managerial skills, cross-cultural business negotiation and self-development. She supervises courses on cross-cultural business negotiations and trading with Chinese taught in English for Czech as well as foreign students. She was one of the founding teachers of the minor specialization Chinese Studies and one of the founding members of the Center for Asian Studies. Among others, she is involved in teaching international management for Virginia Tech students and in the MBA program at Prague University of Economics. She has participated in full-time (Retail Marketing and Management, Business Negotiation Training) as well as combined form of teaching, PR activities of Faculty of International Relations and cooperation with the European Retail Academy. She has been active as a student, researcher and visiting professor abroad (France, Germany, Ireland, UK, China, USA, Russia, Austria). After coming back from her two-year research stay in China, she acquired her Ph.D. with her thesis on The Influence of Cultural Specifics on International Business Negotiation – Chinese Business Negotiation. She further deepened her professional experience e. g. by taking part in the Czech participation in EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.