The main purpose of this Masters thesis is to contribute to the understanding of high school teachers information seeking behaviour in the transition from university studies to occupational practice. The theoretical framework encompasses theories of professional socialization, the sociology of knowledge, of professions, and of library and information science. The empirical material has been collected through interviews with six recently qualified high school teachers in different subjects. The interviews have been analysed on two different levels; first on a descriptive level and then on a theoretical level. The major findings are that the academic context limited the student teachers information seeking and they did not have the opportunity to choose cognitive authorities on their own initiative.

On the first of October 2012 the media reported that the women in the Ikea cataloguehad been airbrushed in the Saudi edition. Initially the blame was put on either theSaudi government the Islamic culture or the Saudi franchise. In the end it wasrevealed that the Swedish company Inter Ikea Systems had the full responsibility forIkeas actions and therefore was the culprit behind the airbrushing. On whoseinitiative or why the airbrushing was done the media never found out. These areanswers only Ikea has, although they remain unresponsive to these questionsthroughout the news portrayal.This study methodology uses a qualitative content analysis as framework to furtherinvestigate the news media with support of theoretical perspectives such as mediatheory, power relations and cultural differences.

Ökad medvetenhet bland företagens intressenter och attitydförändringar i näringslivet har haft betydelse för långsiktigt värdeskapande. Företag kan upprätta en så kallad hållbarhetsredovisning för att rapportera om dess hållbarhetsarbete och långsiktiga värdeskapande. GRI (Global Report Initiative) har tagit fram en standard som företag kan använda sig av när de ska upprätta en hållbarhetsredovisning. I standarden finns en princip om väsentlighet som beskriver vilka områden och indikatorer som är av väsentlig grad för verksamhetens hållbarhetsredovisning.Uppsatsens syfte är dels att undersöka vad som är väsentligt för SCA och Boliden AB att inkludera i deras hållbarhetsredovisningar utifrån GRI:s riktlinjer. Dels att analysera vilka skillnader och likheter som förekommer mellan SCAs och Bolidens hållbarhetsredovisningar.Utifrån uppsatsens studie har vi kommit fram till att SCAs och Bolidens intressentdialoger ligger till grund för väsentlighetens gränsdragning och att det till största del är intressenternas åsikter som avgör vad som är väsentligt.

Swedish municipalities' websites contain vast amounts of information that caters to a broad audience. For users to be able to access this information, it is important that the website is accessible, to everyone. 74 percent of people with disabilities states in a survey conducted by the Swedish Agency for Participation (2015a) that they use the internet to make contact with local municipalities, but simultaneously more than 1 out of 10 experiences difficulties associated with the use of computers and the Internet, according to Statistics Sweden (2014). The purpose of this study was to identify how Swedish municipalities are working to make their website available for people with disabilities. The study also examined what municipalities should do to make available their website and what difficulties are in the process of making a municipal website available. In working with this survey people who have insights into the subject and seven community representatives were interviewed.

Ökad medvetenhet bland företagens intressenter och attitydförändringar i näringslivet har haft betydelse för långsiktigt värdeskapande. Företag kan upprätta en så kallad hållbarhetsredovisning för att rapportera om dess hållbarhetsarbete och långsiktiga värdeskapande. GRI (Global Report Initiative) har tagit fram en standard som företag kan använda sig av när de ska upprätta en hållbarhetsredovisning. I standarden finns en princip om väsentlighet som beskriver vilka områden och indikatorer som är av väsentlig grad för verksamhetens hållbarhetsredovisning.Uppsatsens syfte är dels att undersöka vad som är väsentligt för SCA och Boliden AB att inkludera i deras hållbarhetsredovisningar utifrån GRI:s riktlinjer. Dels att analysera vilka skillnader och likheter som förekommer mellan SCAs och Bolidens hållbarhetsredovisningar.Utifrån uppsatsens studie har vi kommit fram till att SCAs och Bolidens intressentdialoger ligger till grund för väsentlighetens gränsdragning och att det till största del är intressenternas åsikter som avgör vad som är väsentligt.

Syfte: Att undersöka hur hållbarhetsrapportering fungerar som strategisk kommunikation. Att granska hur 20 svenska börsnoterade bolags hållbarhetsrapportering struktureras.Teoretisk ram: Intressentmodellen. Systemteoretisk kommunikationsmodell.Metod och material: Samtalsintervjuer med nyckelpersoner verksamma inom CSR-kommunikation. Kvantitativ innehållsanalys av 20 börsnoterade bolags hållbarhetsrapporter.Problemställningar: Hur används hållbarhetsrapportering som strategisk kommunikation bland svenska börsnoterade företag? Hur påverkar hållbarhetsrapportering bolagens varumärken? Hur präglar branschtillhörighet och rapportering enligt det internationella ramverket Global reporting initiative, GRI, hållbarhetsrapporteringen?Slutsatser: De studerade bolagen använder hållbarhetsrapportering som strategisk kommunikation för att berätta för aktörer inom och utom organisationen om sitt CSR-arbete.

The Swedish social insurance agency provides financial support for families and children, but also for people with work injury, illness and at old age. During 2012 they saw the amount of notifications of insurance increasing in Sweden, which is a development that cost our society a great deal of money. With the aim to pursue a sustainable development I have therefore devoted this project to wellness and stress management within preschool.The employees of preschool are often dealing with a lot of stress, due to the big groups of children that causes high noise and sound levels. The high noise and sound levels is a contributor to stress which additionally can damage the health and cause impaired hearing loss. About half of the people around their forties until the age of retirement have difficulties understanding speech in large groups.The purpose of this project has been to investigate the causes of negative stress for my target group, women between 30-60 years old who works in preschool.

Over the past decade, the fashion industry has experienced a relatively high rate of consumption with material and clothing becoming increasingly subject to waste and disposal. As a result of the increased awareness within the industry the interest in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) amongst retailers has increased substantially in an attempt to shy away from the critically amplified media attention. In addition the underlying demand from external stakeholders has forced companies to ensure they focus and act upon each stage of the product life cycle.This study provides a further in depth analysis of the fashion industry and conveys the key messages and steps that firms are taking in response to the external pressures and requirements based on four different merged process areas. This research paper examines the impact of CSR on two Swedish fashion retailers Åhléns and JC and shows how accountability relates to the external expectations and norms that prevail in society. The result shows that the firms do meet the demands within each sub category as a response to market demands.

The work has been performed in collaboration with Jönköping University. The aim of this work has been to study different methods for mobile adaption of large CMS (Content Management System) websites, where the website of Jönköping has been used as a reference.The website at Jönköping University is used daily by current students, faculties, prospective students and external users. Research carried out by the University shows that the use of mobile devices has increased, and it is therefore necessary to examine the mobile adaptation of the large CMS website.A layout proposal has been suggested by determining which method that is most relevant for mobile adaption of a large CMS website. The website should adapt to different resolutions and devices according to how the existing website is based in the current situation. Emphasis has been put on menu operations, to navigate through the large website in a user-friendly way.

This study is about language use in text messaging. In this study there are 338 text messages: 206 of them written by girls and 132 written by boys. The informants in the study are 16 years old and they live in the countryside on the outskirts of a small town in southern Sweden. The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristic linguistic features in the messages, in order to determine what significant meaning an emoticon such as a smiley brings to a text and further, to explore what speech acts smileys occur in.The results show that the language in the messages is a mix of spoken and written language. The characteristic features that were found in the messages were short sentences, onomatopoetic expressions, words written in capital letters, English expressions and use of smileys.

The employer is obligated to call for negotiation on his own initiative, before he makes decisions in questions, which constitute important changes of the employer?s business or of the worker?s working conditions and terms of employment. The obligation to negotiate is reserved to the organisations, which the employer has collective agreements with. But what does the concept of important changes mean? What areas are included in the concept of important changes, according to legal framework and case law? How extensive is in fact the employer?s obligation to negotiate? The purpose of this report has been to seek answers to the above-mentioned questions, through partly describing how the employer?s obligation to negotiate has developed, and partly describing how the codes of negotiations in the Employment (Co-Determination in the Workplace) Act of 1976 are raised and applied.

Background: Investors have several options to choose from when the goal is to achieve the highest yield at the lowest cost and risk. Stocks are a common investment options, but is also associated with risks. Portfolios are usually constructed with several different assets to reduce the unsystematic risk of investment. Funds are similar to composite stock portfolios, the big difference is that they dealt with in their entirety and investors may not affect the fund's content. The problem remains that whether you choose stocks or mutual funds there is still uncertainty as to how the future will unfold.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the view on the personal encounter between staff and visitors in public libraries in order to detect possible differences between the two groups in order to see if the personal encounter as such could be used in order to market libraries. We believe that social competence must interact with the initial personal encounter in order for the visitor to experience the visit as positive. We have based the theoretical framework on Erving Goffman?s theory on social interaction, as well as on Christian Grönroos? theory on quality of service and marketing. We use the following questions: How do library staff view the personal encounter? How do library visitors view the personal encounter? How does the library staff?s treatment affect the visitor?s view of the library?Are there any differences in view between visitors and staff concerning the personal encounter? If so, what kind of differences are they? Using qualitative interviews, we have interviewed nine visitors and six staff members at two public libraries.

Results have shown that flow batteries may be a solution in the future as an effective and environmental friendly method to an energy storage system (ESS). The technology is reliable and has a high efficiency that comes with low energy losses and a long lifetime. The range of possible fields is suitable for cutting energy peaks in the power grid, by always have a ready and available energy storage that balances the production. By comparing the advantages of flow batteries with conventional batteries it is mainly the fact that they can conserve energy for a long time without being self-discharged thanks to that the storage capacity is in principle endless and limited by the size of the electrolytes tanks that makes them a great energy storage system. The batteries won?t take any damage or decrease in performance when charging or discharging it or if you exhausts it to 100 % and leave it discharged for a long time.

In 2014-2015 a large-scale Ebola epidemic occurred in West Africa. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency was given the order to conduct the Swedish response. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the impact on project planning of the three factors: the nature of the crisis, political initiative and developing countries. In this case study the crisis was an epidemic, and the project was initiated by the Swedish Government and conducted in two developing countries. The results were intended to contribute to developed understanding and recommendations for future project managers in similar projects.