The purpose of this study was to investigate how social services workers describe, the risk of being exposed to threats and violence in their profession. Six social services workers were interviewed, four from the Welfare Office in a major city and two from the Child and Family Services in a minor city. Results showed that the majority of social services workers consider themselves exposed in their profession, meaning that they feel there's a risk of a violent or threatening situation occurring in their work situation. All interviewees had experiences from some sort of threat or violence in a work related context and they attested that non-personal assaults, such as threats made through telephone, email and answering machines are more common than verbal assaults made in personal meetings. Being prepared and listening to ones intuition is a way of dealing with exposure when meeting with a client.

Close to the City center of Reykjavik lies the combined national- and university library of Iceland. Usually, these two types of institutions are separated. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the library in fact selects the new digital material to offer the users in Iceland, and if the combined mission creates any problems or conflicts.The investigation examines the planning and the content of the digital library, what user groups are addressed and how the organisation is held together despite the different missions. If cultural context in Iceland makes a difference for what is selected and offered to the users is also discussed.Six informants in strategic library positions dealing with the digital national- or university library, were interviewed. The answers have been analysed in light of the library&information literature on building and maintaining digital library collections and organizational and marketing theory.The main result of the study is that the informants do not see a conflict between the missions of the organisation, although traces of a struggle were found in some areas.

Background: Mental ill-health among adolescents is one of the most increasing public health problems in Sweden. Particularly girls suffer from mental and psychosomatic symptoms. The National Board of Health and Welfare recommend the DISA method as a preventive measure. Problem: Investigations has been done of the DISA method, but further investigations needs to be done. Aim: The aim of the study was partly to investigate how participants in DISA groups in two counties understand the method and its eventual effect and partly how their mood change, to contribute with knowledge to the development of the DISA method.

Denna uppsats undersöker en informationskampanj från Fair Trade Center (FTC) som drevs under hösten 2012 under namnet A wage to live on. Uppsatsens syfte är att utröna om Fair Trade Center har nått ut med sitt budskap till media och söker detta svar genom fyra frågeställningar; Har FTC nått ut med sitt budskap till de undersökta medierna (Aftonbladet, Expressen, DN och SvD)? Vilket budskap har FTC med sin kampanj (utifrån mål och material)? Verkar Kalla Faktas reportage ha påverkat medias respons? Är FTCs budskap samstämmigt i mål och material? Fokus för uppsatsen ligger på vecka 43 2012 då detta var fokusvecka för kampanjen. Mot en bakgrund kring teorier om budskapsstrategier, målgrupper och olika mål och tidigare forskning kring framgångsrika kampanjer har jag genom retorikanalys som huvudsaklig metod gått igenom utvalt material. Materielet består av Fair Trade Centers egna pressmeddelande och debattartikel samt utvalda tidningars respons under fokus perioden.

The public spaces of the city from a social sustainability perspective, Jubileumsparken, a public space for the young, aims to see how public spaces can be open and accessible to all young people in the community. New public spaces can be created and formed by urban planning. A public space that is undergoing considerable development is Jubileumsparken, which is situated in Gothenburg. This area constitutes the case study for this thesis. Due to the commercialization in the neo-liberal society of today, there is a risk that economically weak people, such as the young, the unemployed or students, can?t take part of all public spaces.

Title in original language: Föreställningar om stadsomvandlingens KirunaLanguage of text: swedishNumber of pages: 106.

Städer blir i dagsläget mer och mer konkurrensutsatta och trenden är att samhället förändrasfrån ett industrisamhälle till att vara mer upplevelseorienterat där framför allt turistnäringen blir allt viktigare. Genom strategiskt varumärkesbyggande har städer möjlighet att skapa sig ett starkt varumärke som kan frambringa en konkurrensfördel.En svensk stad som har arbetat framgångsrikt inom detta område, som i teorin kallas city branding, är Göteborg genom sitt bolag Göteborg & Co som aktivt jobbar med marknadsföring och destinationsutveckling. I denna studie undersöks hur Göteborg & Co har arbetat med att utveckla Göteborg till en framgångsrik destination.Undersökningen har genomförts genom en kvalitativ studie med respondenter från samtliga affärsområden inom Göteborg & Co. Resultatet visar på att varumärket Göteborg har skaffat sig en styrka genom Göteborg & Co:s arbete med faktorer som långsiktighet, helhetstänk, framtidsvisioner och framförallt; samverkan..

Background: The increasing number of actors on the market has led to a more intense competition among superstores. With this, marketing has gotten an even more essential meaning. The marketing activities superstores perform are adapted to the context in which the store is located. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to, from different theoretical dimensions, compare superstores? application of marketing strategies in Tokyo with the marketing strategies used by superstores in Stockholm.

Bakgrund: Shared services är en strategi som innebär att en existerande verksamhetsfunktion, som tidigare varit spridd på flera olika platser, koncentreras till en enda enhet (center) inom en koncern. Det har blivit allt vanligare att koncerner väljer att upprätta ett SSC, avseende ekonomifunktionen, då det är ett sätt att effektivisera koncernens redovisningsprocesser. Till följd av denna utveckling har vissa revisorer påtalat problem kopplade till revisionen av företag inom en koncern som har ett SSC. Problem som kan uppkomma vid gränsöverskridande revisionsarbete är exempelvis bristande förståelse för lokala redovisningsregler och skatter samt språkskillnader som kan försvåra revisorns kontroll. Även problem rörande arbetsfördelning och arbetsinsatser kan behöva lösas.

Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: En organisation lever under ständiga krav från omvärlden att förbättra och effektivisera sin verksamhet. Målet för alla organisationer är självklart att värdet på det som produceras ska överstiga värdet på det som investerats. Vad som står på modet att förändra för att åstadkomma förbättringar har växlat över tiden. Tidigare har fokus legat på kostnadseffektivisering av kärnverksamheten. När arbetet med att effektivisera kärnverksamheten hade pågått ett tag fanns inte längre några större effektivitetsvinster att göra på det här området.

This essay deals with the relationship between the mendicant movement and the urbanization during the thirteenth century. The aim has been to explore the significance of the Dominicansand the Franciscans for the creation of an urban landscape. This was made through the study of the urbanization process in southern Halland focusing on the town of Halmstad where the friars were established. The importance of the mendicants was also studied through their absence in the towns of Laholm and Falkenberg. To achieve this investigation in a contextual perspective material from different areas was used such as archaeology, history and history of science and ideas.

The thesis strives to reveal the dynamics between a central and a peripheral shopping area in Kalmar, Sweden. The establishment of larger shopping centers has become a hallmark of postindustrial cities. Cities globally are at risk of creating an urban economic rift between the central and peripheral shopping areas. By establishing major shopping venues around the traditional central business districts, cities hope to create a larger customer hinterland and thereby also increased economic growth. The aim of this thesis is answered by two research questions regarding collaboration and competition between two shopping areas; the central Kvarnholmen and peripheral Hansa City Mall.

On the 11th of march 2006, the journal Landskrona Posten began an article series with the ambition to review the juvenile gangs in the city of Landskrona. The articles received heavy response from the readers. About six months later Landskrona was the centre of attention in the Swedish media. 22,3 percent of the city's population had voted for the nationalist party ?Sverigedemokraterna? in the municipal election.

The Swedish market for vehicle inspection is re-regulated since June 2010. More than four years after the re-regulation there are eight companies in the market. Two of these companies are a result of the former monopolist's owners divided the business among themselves. The remaining six companies have entered the market through acquisitions or by building up their business from scratch, these are known as new entrants in the study. The competition has developed slowly and the former monopolist still has the highest market share.

Dagens städer blir allt tätare i takt med att befolkningen ökar. Samtidigt avbefolkas vår landsbygd. Samtidigt avlägsnar sig staden mer och mer från omgivande natur och lantbruk. Samtidigt mår vår befolkning sämre och sämre. Sjukdomar som utmattning, stress och depression ökar.