The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and propose improvements to the current procedure for cost estimations of purchased maintenance work at Banverket, the Swedish rail administration. This governmental institution is responsible for the procurement of maintenance services for the country?s railroad network through open tenders. Due to the generally low number of contractors, it is particularly necessary to establish accurate cost estimates in order to assess the offers and ensure that a fair price is being paid to the suppliers. Several flaws associated with the current practice are identified and analyzed according to cost accounting theories.

How can a multi project organisation use Wiki to support improvement of knowledge management and project evaluation to become a learning organisation? The main purpose of this thesis is to give management and employees a better understanding of how Wiki supports knowledge management and project evaluation. The second purpose is to illustrate possible difficulties and pit falls that comes with the implementation of Wiki based learning. The theoretical framework initiates by explaining multi project organizations, then describes Argyris and Schöns theories about organizational learning and learning organizations. The second half of the theory chapter brings up theories about important areas for a learning organization.

Information handling has been a key issue for different companies for a long time. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is used to transfer different business documents from one company to another. This is done in such way that the information itself is separated from how this information is stored and handled in the companies internal systems. As different companies have different systems there is a need for a standardised format for this exchange. There is a big difference between EDI-systems based on what kind of EDI-standard is used.

AbstractPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to map out how the communication is organized at the Bällstabergs School in Vallentuna. The purpose with the essay is to illuminate the pros and cons with their system so that a communicationstrategy could be worked out from the basis of the results. The aim is devided into three different questions at issue: What does the organizational structure look like and how does it concide with the communication? What does the present communicative work look like? Which communicative needs can be identified?Method: The methodology contains two parts. The first part is an analysis of the present organization.

Kopplingar mellan interna prestationsmätningar och ständig förbättring undersöks genom fallstudie av IKEA Food Service. Uppsatsen genererar fem hypoteser kring ämnet..

Skillnaden i bedömning och uppföljning av kompetensutveckling och materiella investeringar ligger i graden av kvantifierbarhet. Materiella investeringar som maskiner, kan oftast bedömas och följas upp genom objektiva metoder, medan kompetensutveckling kräver subjektiva metoder. I de företag vi studerat finns en ambition att finna en mer objektiv metod för kompetensutveckling men det anses ta för mycket resurser i anspråk relaterat till den nytta som eventuellt skulle uppstå. En annan faktor som vi fann var att i den dynamiska miljö företagen verkar är det inte motiverat att utvärdera kompetensutveckling eftersom det anses vara en färskvara. Miljön företagen verkar i och själva syftet med kompetensutvecklingen påverkar också om man ska anse kompetensutveckling vara en investering eller inte.

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Work and health are strongly connected because people spend the most part of their adult life in a workplace. The work environment influences the fellow co-workers experience of health and learning in different ways. Accordingly the organizations influence has by doing so, created a great significance to fellow co-workers experiences. Organizational changes often create turbulence within an organization and are often experienced negatively by the fellow-co-workers even if it will give positive effects later. The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses- and assistant nurses experiences of health and learning related to organizational changes.

The care for the elderly in the municipalities has recently seen the need for a formalized system for quality assurance. Under increasing demands for monetary efficiency while bound by law to retain acceptable standards in health care, there is need for efficient and at the same time quality-assured management. The municipalities often solve this puzzle by introducing systems and standards influenced by theory-clusters such as NPM (New Public Management), TQM (Total Quality Management) or other quality management theories.This essay focuses on how the public administration in the municipalities defines quality and designs and implements system for formalized quality assurance. Our basic view of organizations is institutionalist and our theoretical framework includes theories about quality, NPM and TQM..

The aim with this thesis is to study the risk management in construction projects at the Swedish Road Administration, SRA. Furthermore, the aim is to find the effects of the risk management. The theorem of this thesis is that the positive effects of the risk management in construction projects create additional value to the project. These additional values are that the project itself becomes resilient and that the project goals are achieved without any significant disturbances.This thesis shows that the risk management in construction projects do not follow the guidelines set out by the SRA. This is due to a lack of education in the method and a difficult method all together.

In this paper we examine the view of mental illness is in a male dominated organization and what strategies are used to handle mental illness by the organization and the individual. We conduct semi structured qualitative interviews with persons who have in some way been in contact with mental illness within the organisation, we then encode our material from a themed analysis. We analyze the material and illustrate our problem area on the basis of Erving Goffmans theories of interaction and on R.W. Connells theory of hegemonic masculinity. We also show how previous studies of how men seek help for mental illness can help to enlighten our research area.

Abstract Title: Enabling Smart Research and Development through Knowledge Conversation Seminar date: 2005-06-08 Course: Master thesis in business administration, 10 Swedish credits (15 ECTS) Authors: Andreas Johnsson, Johan Rosendahl Advisors: Lars Bengtsson Key words: Knowledge management, Knowledge conversation, Research and development, Ba, Trelleborg Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to create a model that shows how knowledge management aimed at research and development processes can be used and how the theoretical fields can be connected. Methodology: The thesis is based on abductive perspective where empirical and theoretical material has been mixed to create a foundation for the analysis. Theoretical perspectives: Theories concerning knowledge management and research and development have primarily been used. These have been complemented with material about team structures and incentive systems. Empirical foundation: The empirical material is based on semi structured, mostly qualitative interviews and strictly quantitative inquiries performed at Industrial Hose within the Trelleborg group.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka fördelar det finns för affärsbanker att använda sig utav handelsalgoritmer inom aktiehandel jämfört med manuell handel. Genom att intervjua tre företag som verkar inom handel med värdepapper skall jag försöka få svar på varför den algoritmiska handeln ökat och vilka dess fördelar är gentemot manuell handel. Undersökningen visar att en stor anledning till att företag ökar sin användning av handelsalgoritmer inom sin aktiehandel är för att det är mer kostnadseffektivt alternativ jämfört med manuell handel. Datorernas snabbhet och möjlighet att överblicka flera marknader och tusentals värdepapper samtidigt gör att affärsbankerna kan göra fler affärer jämfört med manuell handel men med färre mäklare..

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att lyfta fram hur säljare aktivt arbetar med påverkansfaktorerna auktoritet och skrämsel vid försäljning av kreditkort och på vilket sätt faktorerna skapar intresse hos kunder att skaffa ett kreditkort. Vi vill även undersöka ifall vi kan se vilken av de två påverkansfaktorerna som är mest effektiv vid kreditkortsförsäljning. Metod: Undersökningen är baserad på en kvalitativ studie och vi har genomfört intervjuer med fem duktiga säljare från de största bankerna. Slutsats: Slutsatsen som studien har påvisat är att det finns tydliga kopplingar mellan utvalda faktorer och kreditkortsförsäljning. Vår undersökning visar även att det finns likheter i säljargumenten som skickliga säljare inom kreditkortsbranschen använder och dessa argument har betydelse när kunder påverkas..

Vårt syfte är att beskriva och analysera utformning, använd- ning och syfte med prissättningsmodeller för internhyror i kommunal verksamhet. Studien har genomförts utifrån en hermeneutisk metodansats, och en kvalitativ och en induktiv forskningsstrategi. Empiriskt material har samlats in via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teorikapitlet är strukturerat för att ge övergripande förståelse för målkongruens, organisationsstruktur och internhyror i kommunal administration. Vi har studerat fem kommuner med ett invånarantal mellan 30 000 och 50 000.