Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka sambandet mellan kvantitativ anställningsotrygghet (oron för att förlora arbetet) samt kvalitativ anställningsotrygghet (oron för att förlora värdefulla aspekter av arbetet) och hälsa respektive arbetstrivsel. Vidare kontrollerades det för hur och om socialt stöd från chef och medarbetare hade en modererande effekt i denna relation. Resultat av hierarkiska regressionsanalyser visade att kvalitativ anställningsotrygghet predicerade lägre arbetstrivsel men inget samband med ohälsa erhölls. Socialt stöd visade sig inte heller ha någon modererande effekt på anställningsotrygghet. Socialt stöd från medarbetare hängde dock samman med högre arbetstrivsel men inte med hälsa, medan stöd från chef inte predicerade något av utfallen.

During the last decade research in leadership has escalated and newleadership styles have started to prevail. This study intends to examinewhether a leaders increased level of motivation in turn can motivateemployees. A major company included all employees in a leader position inan exhaustive intervention with the purpose to increase the leaders?motivation in order for them to motivate their employees. After theintervention, which ended in spring 2012, interviews with six differentemployees at the company were made to see if their level of motivation hadincreased.

Managing credit risk might be the single most important business area for any commercial bank. The assessment of "good" and "bad" corporate clients is a important task for a creditor. A bad debtor is a corporate client with hardships in meeting the continous claims (interest payments) that a creditor requires. One way of evaluating or separating a "bad" client from a "good" client is to assess the propensity for the client to file for bankruptcy. This thesis examines 226 firms in the Swedsh market in the quest of predicting corporate bankruptcy.

Under de senaste åren har de flesta bankerna i Sverige gått från att vara traditionella administrativa tjänsteföretag till att utvecklas mot försäljningsorganisationer. Detta har påverkat de bankanställdas arbetssituation så att de ska kombinera att vårda kundrelationen genom att lyssna på kunden och skapa lösningar samtidigt som pressen att nå försäljningsmål är stor. Förändringen kan kopplas till att fler banker numera är vinstdrivande företag och måste se till aktieägares och andra parters intressen, därtill har konkurrensen hårdnat. Det är denna förändring vi har fördjupat oss i för att se vilken påverkan det haft på bankpersonalens arbete.Vår problemformulering lyder:Vilka effekter har utvecklingen mot en försäljningsorganisation haft på personalens arbete inom banksektorn och hur uppmärksammas dessa av ledningen?Med denna uppsats försöker vi att öka förståelsen för hur marknadsorientering i form av relationsskapande upplevs av personal och chefer inom banksektorn.

The use of marketing research panels are a more and more frequently used source of information for studies within many different branches. The purpose of this report is to investigate the demographic composition of panels and compare it with the population of Sweden, a possible change in behaviour of respondents, and if the source of recruitment is the cause of possible differences in study results. The study was commissioned by Norstats Linkoping office. Sources for the data material include Norstat?s recruitment process and their two main panels with different recruitment sources.

This thesis aims to examine how the renowned swedish writer and critic Olof Lagercrantz wrote about communist China under Mao Zedong's leadership in the years 1970?1971. Lagercrantz served as editor-in-chef and as cultural director on one of Sweden's major daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, between 1951 and 1975. He travelled to China in 1970 as one of the first European reporters to get admission after the cultural revolution. This series of articles about China also changed the image of Lagercrantz, afterwards he was referred to as Maoist.

The use and attention given to the certification system ?Miljöbyggnad? has increasedin recent years. The system is completely Swedish and was initiated in 2005 by theBygga-Bo-Dialogen. Miljöbyggnad aims to create a healthy indoor environment, reduceenergy consumption and discourage the use of hazardous chemical substances. Thegrades that can be obtained are Classified, Brons, Silver and finally Gold.The work has been to examine three different models and conclude how the designof the models affect the grades in the certification system Miljöbyggnad.

Conect AB wants to know how they can use ITIL in their organization. Right now their company is in an expansive phase and needs a more structured way to work. They have been thinking of improving their way of work for several years but haven?t had the time to do so. Now they have realized they need to work more efficiently to able to grow further.

Background: Learning is important for companies? existence in today?s society and many studies discuss the importance of life long learning and learning organizations. An increased understanding for how the individual learn at the work place is importance to study to gain an accepting for how learning occurs, both formal and informal. Purpose: The purpose with this study is to describe the process of learning at the work place from an individual perspective, with focus on how formal and informal learning occur and interact. The purpose is also to confirm, contradict or develop existing theories.

This study examines how and why organizations evaluate training and development within the organizations. The study has a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews, with office and organization development managers. The purpose of the study is to contribute with knowledge about how three large Swedish organizations evaluates training and development programs for staff members. Another purpose is to describe why the organizations evaluate training and development programs and to research if there is a further need to develop the organization evaluation methods. Therefore the research questions are Why and how do organizations evaluate training programs? What further need is there to develop organizations evaluation methods?The conclusion of this study shows that evaluation of the training and development programs are not a high priority among the selected organizations.

Background: The use of reward systems can be of strategic importance as well as an affective mean of control for the organization in its work to achieve its goals. The municipal sector is characterized by its transparency and its responsibility for the taxpayer?s money. We therefore wonder which possibilities the municipal sector has to use reward systems as a men of control. Purpose: We intend to research the possibilities that the reward system offer as a mean of control for employees at the higher municipal level, with a special focus on commitment and motivation.

Företagen i dag existerar i en turbulent och snabbt föränderlig omvärldsmiljö. Det innebär att de måste vara flexibla för att vara konkurrenskraftiga och skapa långsiktig lönsamhet. De finansiella nyckeltalen måste kompletteras med icke-finansiella. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur ett tjänsteföretag kan använda sig av ett balanserat styrkort. Undersökningen baserar sig på en fallstudie i FöreningsSparbanken, Norra regionen.

Bakgrund: Sedan år 2008 har världen befunnit sig i ekonomisk kris. Denna kris har drabbat såväl svenska som utländska banker runt om i världen, men i olika grad. Bankerna och deras arbete anses ha haft stor del i den rådande finanskrisen, vilket skapar frågor om hur de regleringar som finns fungerar och påverkar bankerna i den meningen de är avsedda att påverka bankerna och hur bankens arbete med kreditrisker ser ut.Problemformulering: Både Swedbank och Svenska Handelsbanken har drabbats av finanskrisen men Swedbank pekas ut som den största förloraren av dessa två banker. Ser man till respektive banks prestation på den svenska marknaden är det dock Swedbank som visar de bättre siffrorna vad gäller kreditförlust i relation till bankens utlåning och har gjort så sedan 2008. Vi fann det intressant att jämföra hur dessa två banker arbetar med sin kreditgivningsprocess, särskilt då fördelning av kreditförluster skiljer sig åt och då båda bankerna anser sig hålla en låg riskprofil.

This thesis aims to contribute to improved functional procurement of photovoltaic systems, PV systems. Functional procurement means that criteria concerning a function are set rather than specifying technical details or products. Possible advantages and difficulties in using functional procurement have been analyzed by interviews, simulations and a case study. Electricity production and surplus production for different scenarios have been simulated via MATLAB. The MATLAB script was also used to generate rules of thumb on feasible solar fraction for six different load profiles; a church, a farm, a car mechanic, an office, an industry and an apartment building.

The domain of this thesis is Personal Information Management (PIM) which is a sub-domain to human-computer interaction (HCI) that specifically concerns the interaction between human and information. The purpose of the study is to make an exploration of information management in a scientific research setting, to study which tools and strategies for information interaction that are used in the context and to suggest possible improvements of today's practices. Three in-depth interviews with scientific researchers have been conducted followed by a qualitative analysis of the results. The results show that there are great variations among the three respondents and that there can be distinguished as much as 15 different dimensions that when put together forms a unique PIM profile for each individual. The recommendation following this is that tools for PIM have to allow a high degree of individualisation.