The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study the effects that geographical distance have on the control systems in a scattered organization and how this, ultimately, affects the employees in terms of loyalty and motivation. In order to do this, a case study has been conducted on a multinational travel group and its local branches in Thailand. The study is based on a selected number of theories focusing mainly on control systems in multinational contexts as well as on theories regarding communication and autonomy. The conclusion of the study is that geographical distance has led to a rather large autonomy for the local branches and that the headquarter to a large extent rely more on formal control.

The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of threats and violence among four social workers at a social services' reception center for individual and family care. The study uses semistructured interviews and an abductive approach. The analysis is based on previous research, communication theory, coping and sense of coherence, SOC. The study shows that the studied workplace isn't considered to be particularly exposed to threats and violence, although all four respondents have experienced threats and/or violence. The respondents make a difference between threats and harsh words from clients because they consider their clients are entitled to be upset considering the nature of the work conducted at the workplace.

Riksdagen antog 1990 regeringens proposition om ansvaret för skolan. Beslutet innebar en klarare ansvarsfördelning mellan staten och kommunerna när det gäller verksamheten inom exempelvis grundskolan. Denna nya mål- och resultatstyrning innebär att riksdag och regeringen anger nationella mål och riktlinjer för arbetet i skolan. Målen skall gälla för alla skolor och skall garantera att utbildningen i landet blir likvärdig. Inom dessa ramar som staten anger är det kommunerna som har huvudansvaret för verksamheten.

Som nytillträdd socialminister talade Göran Hägglund om det stora behov av reformering han anser existerar inom den svenska psykiatrin i allmänhet, och inom den psykiatriska tvångsvården i synnerhet. Sedan dess har debatten i frågan stundtals varit livlig, både i allmän media samt i fackpress, och planer om en stor, övergripande psykiatrireform har lagts fram av regeringen. I februari 2008 lämnades en första proposition över till riksdagen. Kortfattat innebär det nya lagförslaget att det ska införas ytterligare en vårdform inom tvångspsykiatrin där patienter ska kunna tvångsvårdas också utanför de speciella vårdinrättningar som finns tillgängliga. Även patienter som blivit utskrivna ska alltså kunna beredas tvångsvård, exempelvis i sitt eget hem.

I Polislagens 2 § 1: a punkten befästs polisens brottsförebyggande uppdrag. I Regeringens proposition 1983/84:111, kommenteras att Polislagen 2 § 1: a punkten inrymmer det brottsförebyggande arbetet som inriktar sig på personer som inte är föremål för rättsväsendets åtgärder pga. brott. Vidare skrivs att bl.a. undervisning i skolan och den ungdomsverksamhet som i övrigt bedrivs av polisen här åsyftas.

The aim of this study was to examine young men born between 1990-1995 with anorectal malformations (ARM) whom have undergone the new PSARP-operation starting in 1990, and how they experience their psychosocial and sexual health. The study also examines how they cope with their life situation and what their experience is of the health care and how they were responded to through out the years. This study is a qualitative research and consists seven semi- structured interviews with young men between sixteen and twenty years old. The analyses of this material resulted in three themes around which the study centers: psychosocial health, sexual health and the medical establishment and the informants thoughts about the proposition of counseling for themselves and other individuals born with ARM. The study shows that these young men have a good psychosocial health and a likely reason for that is good parental relationships and close friendships.

The Swedish integration policy acts upon that all citizen should have equal rights and possibilities no matter ethnic and cultural background. In today's Sweden it is more or less a self-evident that immigrants ought to prepare the possibility to preserve their original cultural distinctive character according to the Governments Proposition 1997/98:16. Simultaneously the term integration and its actual meaning and its political significance are not always clear.Immigrants as a categorization are often overloaded with negative overtone and risk to seem discriminated. The category reinforces also a ?we? and ?them? thinking.

I Läroplanen för det obligatoriska skolväsendet, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet, Lpo94, (Utbildningsdepartementet, 1998) står att tendenser till trakasserier i skolan ska bekämpas aktivt. Enligt Regeringens proposition 2005/06:38 skall alla skolor ha utarbetat en likabehandlingsplan mot kränkande behandling av elever. Utifrån detta har vi valt att undersöka om lärare bemöter och hanterar konflikter mellan elever enligt skolans handlingsplan, samt hur lärare arbetar förebyggande för att motverka konflikter. Syftet med undersökningen är att bli mer medvetna hur lärare kan hantera samt arbeta för att förebygga konflikter där elever tar till våld. Litteraturstudien i undersökningen ger en beskrivning av elevers beteendeproblem, förebyggande åtgärder och hantering av konflikter.

In recent years, employees at large companies have started to demand that their employer should work more for good causes. The money the company wants to donate to charity is distributed mostly through a vote to decide where the money will be remitted. The purpose of this design case is to develop a design concept for a web-based donation service that involves all employees at a company. Furthermore, the authors of this study intends to explore how the motivation for employees of a company can be affected by participation in this service. In this design case, the service function, quality and concept was tested and evaluated.

SammanfattningTitel:Hur agerar aktiebolag, i dagsläget, inför ett möjligt val av frivillig revision?Ämne/kurs: Företagsekonomi 61-90, inriktning externredovisningFörfattare: Sofia Lorentzon & Anna-Sara LööfHandledare:Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin.Nyckelord:revisionspliktens avskaffande, ekonomiförändring, relationsförändringBakgrund:I Mars 2010 beslutade regeringen om tre gränser, var ett företag måste uppfylla minst två för att få lov till att avskaffa sin revisor. Lagförslaget som än så länge ligger som en proposition säger att från och med den 1 november 2010 ska företagen få välja om de vill ha avskaffa sin revisor eller inte.Syfte:Vårt syfte är att förklara hur aktiebolagen agerar i dagsläget, inför ett möjligt val till frivillig revision.Empirisk metod:För att undersöka hur företagen agerar i dagsläget inför valet om frivillig revision har vi utfört en enkätundersökning.Slutsatser:Genom vår undersökning har vi kommit fram till att ju mer företag agerar mot att satsa på relationsförändring desto mer tenderar de att slopa sin revisor. De variabler som påverkar företagens relationsförändring är; storlek, bransch, kassalikviditet, lönsamhet, ägare och omgivningens åsikter..

Uppsats behandlar företags kapitalstruktur d v s fördelning mellan främmande och eget kapital. Det finns teorier kring ämnet som menar att ett företags värde påverkas av sammansättningen mellan skulder och eget kapital. Detta föranledde vår problemformulering om att närbesläktade verksamheter uppvisar en likartad skuldsättning. Syftet var att jämföra skuldsätt-ningsgraden mellan kapitalintensiva branscher och kapitaltunna branscher. Utifrån detta ställdes vår hypotes upp om att kapitalkrävande branscherna fastighet och tunga maskiner har en högre skuldsättningsgrad än branscherna läkemedel och tjänster.

For almost a century the debate about women as ordained servants in the Church of Sweden has raged on and on. The decision to open up the priesthood for both genders in 1958 was a milestone in the women?s liberation movement as well as it marks an important time in the church history. The debate has mainly been about how to interpret scripture, who has the right to do so, and so on. Feminist theology has become one way in recent decades to paint a wider and more nuanced picture of history and how to interpret the texts often used to repress women.This essay surveys some of the steps towards that decision, as well as it paints a rough picture of what leadership among women in the church could involve before ordination became an option.

During the last few years the alcohol consumption has increased and is now the highest in 100 years, one usually count that 10 % of the grown up population abuse alcohol and/or drugs and most of them are hidden abusers with families and work. This leads to great costs for the companies. But the much greater cost for the companies are the much larger group of risk abusers. According to the Swedish law the employer has a responsibility for the work milieu and also for the rehabilitate for the employed and drug/alcohol abuse applies to this.I have done qualitative interviews on four companies in the south of Sweden with one representa-tive for the management and one representative for the union. I have investigated their attitudes to alcohol and drugs and how they describe the alcohol culture at the company.The companies define alcohol problems when they are established and obvious and when it is dis-covered they put in resources and because of this they don't work preventive so much.

Near Field Communication, NFC, is a short-range wireless communication technology that enables data exchange between devices in a secure way. A NFC phone has the potential to enable the convergence of wallet, phone and keys, but as many other technological innovations, the launch is struggling. We have discovered that technological innovation is only the first step. For an innovation to be adapted, there need to be business model innovation too. Many actors form the ecosystem of NFC and the business model for each service is still an unsolved problem.

The purpose of this study is to contribute with new knowledge of  how Talent Management can be seen as a an opportunity or threat for organizational development, concerning competence, on the basis of HR. The research questions asked are: Out of wich aspects can Talent Management be seen as an opportunity or threat on the basis of HR-employees? How can it affect the work of HR? To answer these questions qualitative interviews with five employees within HR from four different companies has been executed. The essay has been investigated on the basis of an explorative aim and with a qualitative method. The empirical results has indicated common themes such as director support, HRs view of Talent Management, HRs development and shifts of generations.