Abstract______________________________________________________________________Title:A study about creating understanding for different kinds of empowermentLevel:Bachelors thesis in Business Administration, 15 creditsAuthor:Fredrik LegovicSupervisor:Tomas KällquistDate:2014 - JuneAim:The main purpose of this study is to increase the understanding for different kinds of empowerment and how it affects the staff in the public sector.Method:The choice of method was based on the research aim. The method used to meet the objective was qualitative. The qualitative study was conducted with a hermeneutic basis, where individuals were asked to describe their experience of empowerment and how they feel affected of it. This thesis has a deductive approach, where existing theories dealing empowerment formed the basis for the design of interview substrate, which is then paired with the empirical evidence, based on this the conclusions was drawn.Result & Conclusion:What separates the different kinds of empowerment and how it affect the staff depends most of all on how the management chooses to communicate and share information with their staff.Suggestions for future research:A study regarding managers that works with different kinds of empowerment, and how that affects them, could be regarded as an interesting future research.Contribution of thesis:It shows that different kinds of empowerment affect the staff in different ways, which I made clear to the readers.Keywords:empowerment, thinking skills, relations and organizational - structure and theory.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to present guidelines for making a digital repository. To attain this, useful factors for creating an archive were examined. Also different organisations? strategies were analysed.

Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents is increasing. Diseases which earlier occurred exclusively among adults are now also observed among children. There is an urgent need for new treatments that can change this negative trend. The aim of this study was to describe existing treatments for obesity among children in the age of 6-12 and the effect of those treatments. This descriptive literature study is based on 17 research articles published between 2000 and 2007 from different parts in the world.

The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on how evidence-based librarian and information practice (EBLIP) is understood and practised at some Swedish hospital libraries, and also to analyze how EBLIP functions as a strategy to bridge the gap between research and practice as described by Haddow & Klobas. The theoretical framework for the study is partly based on Haddow & Klobas description of the gap between research and practice in the field of LIS and partly a description of the EBP-process which plays a key role in the use of EBLIP. Interviews have been done with four people, three librarians, all with management experience, and an academic development officer, active at three different hospital libraries where EBLIP is practiced. All informants believed that it is important to make use of research results in order to improve services and practice. In their efforts to apply the research findings the informants face a number of hindrances, which indicates a gap between research and practice.

Att ha aktivitetsbalans är en fördel för att uppleva hälsa och förebygga stress. Tidigare forskning tyder på att de finns många outforskade samband mellan dessa faktorer. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka aktivitetsbalans, hälsa och stress hos yrkesverksamma individer samt sambanden mellan dessa variabler. Syftet var vidare att jämföra dessa variablers samband hos kvinnor respektive män samt hos de som har hemmaboende barn respektive de som ej har hemmaboende barn. Urvalsgruppen bestod av 300 individer, varav 250 var kvinnor och 50 män, 135 hade hemmaboende barn och 162 hade inte hemmaboende barn.

The objectives of this study was to examine the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a family of British Shorthaircats to determine the mode of inheritance and to investigate if the disease was associated with a mutation in myosin binding proteinC (MyBPC3). The family comprised 28 cats, seven male and 21 females. The cats underwent a physical examination, including cardiac auscultation, and an ultrasound examination. Blood was collected for DNA- analysis. The blodsamples were sent in a buffer solution to Kathryn Meurs, Washington State University, USA for analysis, where the genes coding for MyBPC, Troponin I and T were characterized using microsequencing technique. Out of the 28 cats, 8 were diagnosed with HCM, 2 were diagnosed with congenital heart disease but had no evidence of HCM.

This essay is a study regarding the existence of Bronze Ages and Iron Ages battlefields in Scandinavia and the possibility to trace and find them by using the Battlefield Archaeological Method.Based on a theoretical background and results from historical battlefield research and excavation experiences, the discussion deals with some of the problems and possibilities of applying the Battlefield Archaeological Method on older places. The existence of these battlegrounds is also an unknown factor, and a major part of this study is trying to find evidence of their existence. For that purpose I am using as an example a deeper analysis of an Iron Age battlefield archaeological excavation in Germany in order to compare and draw parallels with the Scandinavian society of that time. I am also using the evolution of weaponry, in particular the sword, to show parallels between the Mediterranean and the Scandinavian societies in the matter of warfare and tactics..

Kronisk Obstruktiv Lungsjukdom (KOL) är en av de vanligaste lungsjukdomarna i Sverige. En konstant nedsatt lungkapacitet kan påverka utförandet av aktiviteter. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka möjligheter, begränsningar och förändringar i aktiviteter i det dagliga livet (adl) hos personer med KOL. Vid insamling av information användes enkät. Deltagarantalet i studien uppgick till 144 personer och resultatet visade att nästan hälften av undersökningspersonerna utförde aktiviteter i det dagliga livet i långsammare tempo än innan insjuknandet.

There has been an increasing interest for ranking of Swedish health care and a lot of emphasis has been placed on the creation of indicators in order to rank hospital units. However, essays on to what extent the choice of statistical method affects the final result of the ranking of health care units have not been given the same attention. For this particular reason, the main objective of this essay has been to investigate whether the choice of statistical model has a significant impact or not on the final result, by using five different, more or less common, statistical approaches: bar charts (with and without confidence intervals), control charts, logistic regression, multi-level analysis using shrunken residuals. The analyzed material in the essay comprises 24119 patients that all have been prescribed some form of the lipid-reducing medicine statin. According to directives given by Region Skåne, doctors are encouraged to prescribe a particular type of statin medicine, namely Simvastatin, which has been proved to be equally effective, but significantly cheaper than other statin medicines.

Den Konduktiva Pedagogiken är ett kombinerat terapeutisk och pedagogiskt rehabiliteringsprogram som riktar sig till alla människor som har någon form av rörelsehinder som till exempel Cerebral Pares. Den Konduktiva Pedagogiken har funnits i Sverige i över tio år. Trots metodens framsteg i aktivitet och självständighet och trots metodens effektivitet när det gäller delaktighet hos barn och vuxna med Cerebral Pares har den inte fått någon framträdande position i Sverige. Studiens syfte var att studera den Konduktiva Pedagogikens möjligheter till ökad aktivitet, självständighet och delaktighet hos barn med rörelsehinder utifrån arbetsterapeutiska grundantaganden. Resultatet visade att samtliga deltagare hade förbättrat sin aktivitetsförmåga, självständighet och delaktighet genom sin träning enligt den Konduktiva Pedagogiken.

Ett arbetsterapeutiskt grundantagande är att människan upplever hälsa av att utföra meningsfulla aktiviteter. För arbetslösa ungdomar ökar risken för en ändrad tidsstruktur på dagen, isolering, känslor av meningslöshet och värdelöshet, sämre självförtroende och ökad passivitet. Arbetsterapi kan vara till hjälp för att motivera dessa individer till ett förändrat aktivitetsutförande då det behövs. För att studera tidsanvändning krävs insikt i individens aktivitetsrepertoar samt hur fördelningen ser ut mellan olika aktivitetskategorier. Tidsanvändningsinstrument, såsom loggböcker, gör det möjligt för arbetsterapeuter att kartlägga dagens aktiviteter.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the managers? perspective on leadership in relation to the motivation of the employees by an example of a manning and recruitment agencies. This is implemented by framing of two questions; What kind of leadership can be identified by middle managers to motivate their employees? Which motivation factors are relevant to employees based on the perspective of the managers? To answer the question and identify leadership strategies and motivational factors and the relationship in between, we have conducted eight interviews with persons who hold a middle management position. Through a qualitative investigation we have been able to go into depth and had access to these managers reflections, thoughts and experiences.

Många människor med diagnosen schizofreni har uppvisat en bristfällig aktivitetsbalans med endast få aktiviteter. Dessa aktiviteter består mestadels av vila och stillasittande. Symptom vid schizofreni leder till att personen får svårt att få en normalt fungerande situation i vardagen vilket ökar risken för isolering, känsla av meningslöshet, förämrat självförtroende samt social isolering. För att studera tidsanvändning och aktivitetsbalans krävs inblick i hur individen spenderar sin tid samt hur fördelningen ser ut mellan olika aktivitetskategorier. Tidsanvändningsinstrument, såsom tidsdagbok, gör det möjligt att kartlägga dagens aktiviteter och dess innehåll.

Nyutexaminerade arbetsterapeuter saknar ofta självförtroende och är osäkra på sin kompetens då de ska arbeta i team och med patienter. Intresset för kliniska utbildningsavdelningar har därför på senare tid väckts på många håll. På dessa avdelningar får studenterna öva upp sina kunskaper samt öka förståelsen för teamarbete. AKVA-U på Universitetssjukhuset MAS är en sådan avdelning. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur arbetsterapeutstudenter upplever betydelsen av praktik på AKVA-U, inför den kommande yrkesrollen.

The aim of this study is to examine whether the two factors SMB and HML in the Fama-French Three Factor Model proxy for default risk. The study is based on companies noted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange between 2003 and 2008. These companies are used to create the factors SMB and HML, as well as a default risk factor we call RMS. In a first set of regressions, we examine the explanatory power of the original Fama-French model on a set of portfolios consisting of Swedish companies of different size and book-to-market ratio. The default risk factor RMS is then added to the original Fama-French model.