Nuclear power production carries potential risks both for the environment and for the work force. Different safety measures are employed and they stem from local rules as well as from regulatory authorities. This work describes the development of a safety promoting tool at Forsmark Power Plant, one of Sweden?s three Nuclear power plants. We describe the development of a computer based system for Pre-Job Briefing and Post-Job Debriefing.

Background: The development of the Swedish demography is one of the most important social and economic changes ever in Swedish history. Society as well as business is facing an age chock since almost every other company owner is over 50 years old. The complexity of managing a successful succession is pointed out as a major threat to the Swedish economy by the organization Svenskt Näringsliv.Purpose: The purpose with this master thesis is to identify and analyze critical success factors for a successful succession from a going concern perspective.Research method: By using the strong aspects from the quantitative as well as the qualitative method, high level of order and systematic could be reached, without loosing too much details and depth in this particular research. The empirical data was gathered by a digital survey sent to 3000 companies. The quantitative research was complemented by 6 qualitative interviews to increase depth and reliability.Results: The study shows that there is a great incongruence between the expected problems associated to the succession and the actual outcome.

problemdiskussion: Förmåga till förändring och förnyelse är en viktig och nödvändig process för att organisationer skall upprätthålla sin långsiktiga verksamhet. Förutsättningar för att en förändring ska lyckas implementeras hos berörda är att anställda måste ses som subjekt och de måste kunna tillåtas och vilja ha inflytande i förändringsarbetets alla steg där information, förankring, kunskaper, tid och resurser är viktiga instrument. I många organisationer saknas dessa förutsättningar vilket kan vara några av de bidragande orsakerna till att motstånd hos berörda uppstår vid ett förändringsarbete. syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om det finns något motstånd hos berörd personal till Länsarbetsnämndens beslut om sammanslagning av arbetsförmedlingarna i Karlshamn,Sölvesborg och Olofström. Om det finns motstånd är tanken att ta reda på hur detta motstånd ser ut. Syftet är även att ur ett ledningsperspektiv undersöka hur motstånd allmänt uppfattas samt hur eventuellt förändringsmotstånd hanteras/bemöts. Metod: För att få svar på mina frågor har jag genomfört semistrukturerade intervjuer med fackliga representanter, personal och ledning. Slutsatser: Sammanslagningen av AF Blekinge Väst har mötts med entusiasm och positiv inställning.

Vårt syfte med uppsatsen är att öka vår förståelse för förändringsarbete inom ekonomistyrningen. Det gör vi genom att undersöka processen kring införandet av nya mått och metoder i ett företags ekonomistyrning. Det väsentliga är att undersöka hur personalen mottagit förändringarna. Det undersökta företaget har inte infört förändringarna i sin ekonomistyrning enligt de teorier som finns inom ämnet. Det kan ha påverkat de anställdas mottagande av förändringen.

AbstractIn 1997 a regulation were introduced to the swedish school system, Förordning om kvalitetsredovisning i skolor m.m SFS 1997:702 (Regulation about account of quality works whithin the school system). The preceding discussion noticed that municipalities and schools lacked in their progresive quality work. Messures had to be taken. Since the introduction of the regulation the government has decreed changes and additions to the original regulation. This has led to changes of substance and form in the quality work account to the administration during time.

Problem discussion: To be competitive in a changeable environment, as the video surveillance market, in a time when the company and the market grow with almost 40% yearly, the sales organization must be well trimmed and effective. Knowledge about customers’ needs and what makes success are essential parts of the progress. Sales Product Management (Sales PM) is a new group at Axis with the main task to support local sales offices around the world in their work with different sales projects. Because of the number of ongoing projects Sales PM needs to be able to screen among these and focus on those where their help will be most valuable for the company. At the same time they have to know which kind of support their sales offices want and need.

70 % of all implementations of Balanced Scorecard fail. In this essay, we look into which difficulties that exist when implementing a Balanced Scorecard. We have chosen the general hospital of Ängelholm for our case and we have made qualitative interviews with key persons in the organization to explain these difficulties. The most difficult problem the hospital faced was to make the employees motivated for the change. It is important that the management is encouraging and is taking an active interest in the implementation as well as experience, patience and having a long term focus.

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.

High technology companies in Sweden spend a huge amount of money on research and product development in proportion to what they get back in earnings from their inventions. Product development has traditionally been regarded as much more important than business development. This thesis aims to point out the critical factors behind successful business development processes for high technology companies. We have chosen to make a case study of Hexagon, a highly successful and innovative company within the measurement technology business. Internal and external actors that are important for business development have been identified and interviewed in order to understand how ideas are developed and executed.

Syfte: Studien ämnar undersöka om och i så fall hur en organisations strategiska arbete av varumärket påverkas, vid avreglering från monopol till ökad konkurrens. Metod: Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och där både primär- och sekundärdata samlats in med hjälp av intervjuer samt textanalyser av årsredovisningar. Slutsats: Det strategiska arbetet för ett varumärke genomgår olika förändringar vid avreglering men mycket från den forna tiden lever kvar som en stark och stadig grund. En åtgärd som visade sig vara viktigt var att ha ett ständigt arbete kring företagets varumärke för att tydligare visa vad det står för, särskilt efter att konkurrenter har tillkommit och bidrar med att forma vad den berörda marknaden är..

This paper is a study of corporate governances in the municipal of Stockholm. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the problems and opportunities for the corporate governances of the wards in the municipal of Stockholm. The municipal of Stockholm is made up of 18 relatively self-governing wards, whose activities bear a resemblance to one and other. Therefore we have specified our survey to corporate governances in the ward of Skarpnäck (Skarpnäcks stadsdel), to be able to use this ward as an example to corporate governances in the entire municipal of Stockholm. The essay emanates from the important management theories: Budget, Integrated Management system (ILS), Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecard.The essay is based on interviews and a poll survey we conducted in the administration of the ward of Skarpnäck, and also based on interviews with Stockholm?s city hall.

Syftet med vår magisteruppsats är att ta reda på hur några mindre företag i olika branscher har uppfyllt sina informationsbehov för den interna styrningen samt att undersöka vilka faktorer som begränsar företagens utformning av redovisning för intern styrning. Samtliga företag vi har studerat har någon form av internredovisning, även om den inte alltid är så formaliserad. Endast de två företag som har den mest utvecklade internredovisningen är själva missnöjda med hur de uppfyller sina informationsbehov. De begränsande faktorer vi har identifierat är kostnad, tid, verktyg, intresse, tradition, kunskap, nytta, tillväxtambitioner och rådgivning. Bristande kunskap verkar dock vara den bakomliggande orsaken till samtliga..

The aim of this study is to look how the Social Service has handled custody issues. The study has a legal and social aspect with a purpose to investigate how the law affects the social administration as well as the family. During a period of one year a quantitative and qualitative study was performed within the social administration in a nearby community. The study focus is partly on the relationship between the law, family and society. The main questions have been: Which one of the parents, mother or father, did in fact get the custody and why? How has the children?s point of view been reported in the inquiry? A child needs a well organized everyday life in a preferably conflict free environment.

AbstractBachelor Thesis, School of Economics at Vaxjo universityProgram: Enterprising and Business Development, EBD 362, Spring 2006Authors: Jens Asp, Vivianne Holmer, Carl-Marcus WahlstromExaminer: Stig G JohanssonKeywords: Services, cooperation, collaboration, customer offer, knowledgeTitle: Service firms in collaboration ? A study of the development of small service firms in collaborationNutek presented numbers during year 2005 witched show that the Swedish service sector, for the first time ever, was greater than the industrial sector. The kind of firms that develop most is small service firms without employees. The topic of interest in this bachelor thesis is to study how this kind of firms can develop. There is a great number of strategic options for firms to choose.

To implement an ERP-system is not an easy process. The success of the implementation depend on many different variables. The most important one is perhaps the requirement process, to define what the organization wants and expects from the system. In this study, the advantages of a process mapping are examined, in relation to the phase where the requirements are expressed in an ERP-implementation. The conclusion is that a process mapping generates an increased communication with the supplier of the ERP-system, hence the business knows their processes and thereby what they want from the system.