The role of the quality manager has evolved from being a quality controller to work with a more global business. Within many organizations in Sweden, however, the traditional role of the quality manager's remains and the tasks categorized as quality control still takes up most of the quality manager's time. The survey conducted as part of this master thesis shows that the quality manager in most businesses has multiple roles in addition to the role of quality manager, which can create a role conflict. One consequence of this is that each improvement is not given priority due to time constraints. Although the importance of a clear and committed leadership is the key for succeeding as the quality manager.

Bakgrund: Sexualitet är något väsentligt och komplext hos människan. Tidigare forskning visar att ouppfylld längtan efter barn kan innebära att sexlivet blir kravfyllt. En arena där det finns möjlighet att diskutera sexuella problem är diskussionsforum på Internet vilket inspirerade till denna studie. Syfte och metod: Denna studie har genomförts på ett diskussionsforum som heter Svårt att få barn på www.familjeliv.se. Forskningsmetod har varit kvalitativ innehållsanalys.

Dagens situation för företagen innebär ständiga förändringar vilket ställer särskilda krav på deras anställda. Arbetet för personal på bemanningsföretag innehåller typiska egenskaper för det nya arbetslivet. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilka krav som ställs på personal som arbetar via bemanningsföretag samt hur dessa personer hanterar kraven. Denna studie bygger på kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med en konsultchef och sex stycken konsulter på ett bemanningsföretag. Resultatet från en tematisk analys visade att krav som ställdes på konsulterna var anställningsbarhet, anpassning samt hanterande av rollen som konsult.

Background;Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease characterized by airway obstruction. Common signs of COPD are the slow process and shortness of breath on exertion. The most important treatment is to quit smoking. Most nurses, regardless of where they work, will meet these patients, often when the patients are having respiratory disorders. Aim;the aim of this study was to illuminate how patients with COPD describe the daily life based on how he/she experience and cope with the disease.

 SAMMANFATTNING: Att skiljas/separera är inget ovanligt i Sverige. Som socialarbetare kan vi möta människor som befinner sig i kris efter en skilsmässa/separation. Dessa människor kan vi komma i kontakt med på olika arenor, exempelvis inom familjerådgivningen och familjerätten. Syftet med uppsatsen var att få en ökad förståelse för hur män och kvinnor som genomgått en skilsmässa/separation upplevt denna samt hur de hanterat situationen. Utöver genomgången av tidigare forskning gjordes sex kvalitativa intervjuer med tre män och tre kvinnor som gått igenom en skilsmässa/separation.

The purpose of this report was to investigate what characterizes a good psychosocialwork environment, and whether it may have impact on a vessel's safe voyage. Thisreport is proposed to increase the understanding of what creates a good psychosocialwork environment and its potential effect on safety at sea. In order to find out thesuccess factors for a good work environment group interviews were conducted in socalledunstructured focus groups. During these conversations, the participants discussedfreely by the question "what is a good psychosocial work environment for you?? Thesuccess factors were thereafter applied on selected accident reports, to investigate theextent to which they were represented and taken into account.The results of the study show three categories of factors: colleagues, communicationand competence, where colleagues are the main contribution to a good psychosocialwork environment.

The term ?social competence? is widely used by organizations in job advertisements, despite the problems of making a unified definition of it. The purpose of this study is to investigate which features the organizations require, why organizations require them and how the assessment is implemented for recruitment. To answer the purpose of this study, eight qualitative interviews conducted with recruiters from four different staffing agencies. Further a literature study was performed to define the concept of ?social competence? and its meaning, in order to later connect this to the result.

English is an international and global language that students, regardless of mother tongue, encounter in their everyday lives. In Sweden, students are introduced to English teaching in year 1, 2 or 3, and in some cases, year 4. English teaching can sometimes be problematic when the language of instruction often consists of Swedish, which for second language students becomes a challenge to acquire new skills in a week language.The study aims to examine, with a qualitative study, how pedagogues plan and implements English teaching in first grade with students whose mother tongue are other than Swedish. Further, the aim was to examine how pedagogues say they relate to the fact that second language pupils participating in English lessons and if they think it affects their English teaching.The conclusions is that the pedagogues has probably not been problematized the phenomenon examined and say they do not adapt their teaching. In the interviews reveals information about the teaching method which, in my opinion, indicates that, unconsciously, adapting their teaching when they have second language students.

Preschool is a place that is continually undergoing change at a rapid pace and developing the skills of our educators is essential for their ability to keep up with these changes. Guidance conversations can be used as a vital tool for the educators competence development.The purpose of this essay is to investigate how educators, special educators and preschool principals think and reason about the use of guidance conversations in preschool.A qualitative method has been used in the shape of interviews with educators, special educators and preschool principals working within different districts of a medium sized city in the south of Sweden.These interviews revealed that the use of guidance conversations is often controlled by specific needs and is used when a problem arises amongst the children. There are many expectations on the special educators role in these conversations, one of which is the role of conversation leader with the purpose of guiding the conversation amongst involved parties and give them the tools they need to resolve problems by themselves instead of delivering packaged solutions..

The present study deals with the importance of play for children's learning in preschool. The purpose is to investigate the importance of play for children's learning in preschool from a pedagogue?s perspective. The study is based on two issues: How does the pedagogue´s who were interviewed reason about the impact the play has on children's development? How does the pedagogue´s approach to make play a learning situation? The empirical data is based on semi-structured interviews with four preschool pedagogue´s.

The aim of this study is to explore hiphop music as an aspect of youth socialization and the relationship between music creation and identity. The study is conducted through five semi- structured qualitative individual interviews. Our theoretical starting points are Putnam?s (2000) bridging and bonding social capital symbolic interactionism. We also have used a model of learning presented by Fornäs, Lindberg and Sernhedes (1989).

Inom sjukvården förekommer patienter som befinner sig vid livets slut inom de flesta områden. För att underlätta mötet med dessa patienter är det viktigt att sjuksköterskan tar eget ansvar i att reflektera över sina känslor inför döden. Syftet är att studera vilka copingstrategier som sjuksköterskor använder sig av vid vård av patienter som befinner sig i livets slutskede. Metoden som används för att svara på syftet är en litteraturstudie över elva vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultatet från analysen visar tjugofyra olika copingstrategier varav de tre mest frekvent förekommande är Förberedelse/Planering/Planerad problemlösning, Omvärdering/Positiv omvärdering, och Dela med sig av upplevelser/Söka stöd hos kollegor.

Att bli frihetsberövad är något många har åsikter om men som få har erfarenhet av. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur intagna påverkas av att vara frihetsberövade under en längre tid samt vilka konsekvenser det kan medföra. Fokus riktas mot hur tiden i anstalten har påverkat dem själva, deras relationer med anhöriga, hur de tänker kring sin kommande frigivning och framtidsplaner samt hur de upplever att samhället och media framställer människor som blivit dömda till fängelse. I studien har en kvalitativ metod använts med en narrativ utgångspunkt och semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts. De intagnas berättelser analyseras med hjälp av utvalda teorier och tidigare forskning.

Prevalensen för kronisk smärta ökar med stigande ålder. För äldre som ofta har flera samtidigt förekommande sjukdomar kan smärttillståndet bli det som begränsar den dagliga livsföringen och aktivitetsnivån. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur kronisk smärta påverkar livskvalitén för äldre, granska effekten av olika behandlingsmetoder, samt hur äldre hanterar kronisk muskoloskelettal smärta. Studien är en litteraturstudie och litteratursökningen gjordes i databaserna Academic Search, Amed, Pubmed, Cinahl samt PsychINFO. Granskningen av 21 artiklar ingår i litteraturstudien.

Creating instructions is not just about words, but also about text structure. A company creates many instructions to document their management systems, which often are presented through an intranet. This study examines how the text can be presented to make content understandable and give employees the knowledge to take action. An interview survey was made at Skanska Sweden and their management system "Vårt sätt att arbeta". The results show that it is mainly about creating an overview of the system and creating separations between different text sections.