Purpose: To evaluate the management development course held at FöreningsSparbanken in Ronneby during 2000. The evaluation aims to map and describe what effects the course has had on the participants. We will assess to what degree the effects meets the objectives of the course set by the manager of the bank (future management recruitment, leadership, change catalyst, aligning the strive towards a shared organisational objective). Above mentioned also implies that the organisation should be influenced in some regards. Conclusion: Our conclusion is that all of the participants have as a result of the course increased their emotional intelligence in varying levels. We also conclude that the course participants? progress has not spread to the non-participants.

The purpose with this study is that examine if the contingency factors as sort of market and competition can affect the companies, which means of control they apply..

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att genom en teoretiskt informerad empirisk undersökning skapa förståelse för vad som anses maskulint/feminint bland verkstadsarbetande män samt hur dessa betydelser konstrueras. För att uppnå vårt syfte valde vi att använda en kvalitativ metod. Empirin samlades in genom deltagande observation och samtal med verkstadsarbetande män på en enkönad arbetsplats, för att sedan analyseras utifrån de teman vi fann kring maskulinitet och femininitet. Vi kom fram till att de verkstadsarbetande männen i mångt och mycket konstruerar vad som skulle kunna ses som traditionellt västerländsk maskulin identitet - men att också motsägelser finns. Utöver detta konstrueras även femininitet - trots att inga kvinnor är närvarande..

SAMMANFATTNING Titel: Könsstruktur & lönesamtal Författare: Anna Carlbrant, Erica Jönsson och Lisa Nilsson Handledare: Marie Aurell och Marie Hemming, BTH Institution: Institutionen för Ekonomi och Management Kurs: Kandidatarbete i företagsekonomi, FEC007 Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att förstå om och i så fall hur könsstrukturen förändras eller upprätthålls med tillämpning av lönesamtal som en del av individuell lönesättning. Metod: För att kunna uppnå syftet med vår uppsats valde vi att göra en kvalitativ undersökning där vi intervjuade kvinnorna i den organisation vi besökte. Slutsats: Vi har kommit fram till att lönesamtalet kan ses som både möjlighet och hinder för kvinnorna beroende på yttre faktorer och individens beteende. Den faktor vi ser som avgörande för att förändring av könsstrukturen ska kunna ske är graden av medvetenhet om könens betydelse i organisationen hos både ledning och anställda..

Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva hur användningen av feedback effektiviserar organisationer. Metod: I denna uppsats har en kvalitativ ansats använts för att studera upplevelsen av feedback på individnivå. Respondenterna, från två medelstora företag i södra Sverige, har dels intervjuats genom en riktad öppen intervjukaraktär samt fått svara på en enkätundersökning för att kategoriseras efter lärstilarna. Slutsatser: Vårt resultat visar att individers olika upplevelser av feedback kan spåras till individens lärstil. Varje lärstil har sina egna utmärkande faktorer som organisationer bör ta hänsyn till vid förmedling av feedback till de anställda. Vi har kommit fram till att organisationers effektivitet kan höjas vid medveten användning av feedback och genom att ta hänsyn till individens lärstil..

Title:Balanced scorecard in the public sector - the balancing of conflicting objectives.Level:Final assignment for Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.Authors:Erika Sundström and Lisette Lundstedt.Tutor:Stig Sörling and Tomas Källquist.Date:2014-05-20.Purpose:The purpose of our study, from a management perspective, is to increase understanding of how the public sector can develop and use the balanced scorecard to balance conflicting objectives.Method:Hermeneutic approach, Literature review, Qualitative case study.Result and conclusion:Under certain conditions, the balanced scorecard can help to deal with conflicting objectives in a public organization. Stakeholders and objectives are important factors for a balanced control. This is due to the fact that many different stakeholders often leads to the creation of conflicting objectives. Numerous and unclear objectives lead to both conflict and uncertainty. The organization?s structure and culture are other factors that also influence.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study the relations between internal information and the principal business objectives in a knowledge organization. The questions are: how does the organization behave to its internal information resources, how is the information management related to the principal objectives and strategies, what information policy does the organization develop, and how is the management experienced by the employees. The purpose was to study the supply and management of information designed for internal use and the study was carried out with qualitative, semi-structured interviews to get a picture of the internal information management. The informants were mostly key persons with deep knowledge of internal information.

The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the topic of business simulation from a theoretical foundation in social constructivism and theories concerning leadership as the management of meaning. The most important findings are that business simulation can be used for strategical leadership by management to create a common vision in the organisation members, which affects their perception of the business and the decisions and actions they make, which in turn can lead to a more efficient organisation that becomes better at meeting set goals. This can be viewed in different ways from different theoretical viewpoints: as inducing targeted changes in mental models to create changes in decision making and actions; as a secondary socialization process where the vision of management is externalized as a business simulation that is in turn internalized by the organisation members that participate in the business simulation, or as a way to frame and define the reality of the organisational members which creates a shared reference point against which a feeling of organisation and direction can emerge. In the future, business simulations may become increasingly used by organizations to create a common vision or to communicate a new decision to the organization members..

Several surveys indicate that corporate leaders still consider the aligning of IT and business functions as a top management issue. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how coordination emerges between IT and business departments and how formal structures intended to coordinate are influenced by human action. To deepen the understanding of this phenomenon we seek to analyze IT/business coordination from a perspective based on practice theory. A field study was conducted where observations and informal interviews were carried out at the IT department of a global company. The empirical analysis indicate that coordination problems between IT and business departments is in part affected by embedded factors such as different goals and perspectives on how IT is to be used in the organization or how to design IT related processes.

BACKGROUND: Project based structures has become more and more common in the organizations of today. As the project based structures are given a more central role in the organizations the interdependencies between the projects are getting more attention. These structures need a new type of control to meet the unique challenges that arise. The researchthat has been done has been concentrated around the project form and the projects internal control, the area of multi-project management is therefore relatively unexplored. The few existing studies on the subject focus on projects in the construction industry why research inmore complex fields of business have been requested.PURPOSE: The purpose of this thesis is to explore and analyze how knowledge intense multi-project organizations manage their project activities, and to determine how different organizational characteristics affect the need for management control systems.METHODOLOGY: The empirical data has been collected through interviews with personnel in BT Products R&D, Gambro R&D and AstraZeneca Development.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the flow of information in an administration of the municipality Borås Stad. To achieve the aim the following questions were asked: How accessible is information? How is information used in the organisation? How is information communicated? Totally sixteen qualitative interviews was accomplished with employees at the administration. The results of the interviews show that there is a difference in how much and what sort of information the respondents use. They all seem to prefer information to be communicated face to face if possible or over the phone.

The aim of the study is to investigate attitudes about rapists and to determine whether it is felt that they need treatment, imprisonment or a combination of the two. The study examines differences in attitudes between two different educational groups. The first group of students is comprised of those studying on programs that lead to careers working with people, whilst the other contains students who will work in business administration. The investigation also includes views on which punishment alternative the informants believed to be the most appropriate. The same differences are also investigated between gender and age.

The purpose of this study is twofold: First, to inquire how the George W. Bush administration plans to keep America safe from external threats and second ? based on the assumption that neoconservatives have influenced the Bush administration ? examine how neoconservative ideas have influenced this strategy to protect America. The research questions are as follows:What is the content of the Bush administration?s security strategy?How are neoconservative ideas reflected in this security strategy?To answer the first question, the main points of two studied documents were summarized.

Syftet med vår uppsats är att bidra till en bättre förståelse av teknisk förändring genom att undersöka och analysera hur anställda handlar vid införandet av ny teknik. Uppsatsen bygger på kvalitativ ansats och vi har använt oss av intervjuer och observationer som metod för att samla in empiri, som senare analyserades med hjälp av meningskategorisering och meningstolknings metoder.Vi anser att det är viktigt att behandla motstånd och acceptans tillsammans, för de samverkar och existerar i relation till varandra. Både de positiva och negativa reaktionshandlingarna bör betraktas som helhet för att få hela bilden av organisationsförändringen. Motstånds- och acceptanshandlingar är inte homogena hela tiden utan ändrar sin karaktär under förändringsprocessen. Information till de anställda vid förändring minskar inte nödvändigtvis motståndet.

In today?s constantly changing market place most organizations need to reorganize. Reorganization carries risks that could jeopardize the organization's well-being and profitability. To minimize these risks, companies need a tool to help them analyze how the reorganization will affect the business before they make major changes. Such tool has now been developed by researchers at KTH.