Background: The dependency on knowledge and competence today is more critical than earlier. Today, companies need to put more effort into identifying and filling knowledge gaps, which can be achieved through mergers and acquisitions. It is important that the companies succeed in coordinating their operations after this process of change. Out of a theoretical point of view it can be argued that companies need to balance between different coordination mechanisms that result in standardized and flexible coordination respectively. Purpose: The purpose of this Master Thesis is, in the context of a merger, to investigate and analyze which coordination mechanisms that are used in knowledge-intensive companies, how these coordination mechanisms are combined and what explains the chosen combination.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study how public librarians? view mediation of fiction: the knowledge needed, the thoughts expressed about their own and other adults reading of fiction and how the informants define their roles as mediators of fiction. The method used was qualitative interviews with six librarians at main libraries in Swedish cities of different sizes. The theoretical starting points are Louise M. Rosenblatt?s reader-response theory, Michail Bachtin?s theory of speech genres and Åse Tveit?s and Jofrid Karner Smidt?s theories about mediation of fiction.

This essay investigates and compares the readability in two different schoolbooks: Eko Historia (the primary school grade 4-6) and Epos Historia (the upper secondary school). The questions of the survey are:- Which differences in linguistic and layout can be found between books meant for the primary school and books meant for the upper secondary school?- Are the texts easy to read according to the former research in readability?In order to answer the questions structural dimensions as lexicon, syntax, bounds between sentences and narrative voices have been studied. Also the texts disposition and typography have been examined.The results demonstrate that the book designed for the primary school has a verbal structure with an explicit vocabulary, lots of verbs and short sentences. A clear narrative voice gives an impression of spoken language.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate new knowledge about how children search for library material and which strategies they use, and if the latest research gives any answers whether we should adapt systems and services or teach information seeking in a better way. In this thesis knowledge is understood as research publications but also results from projects in library practise, and studies concerning children 6 to 18 years old are included. The method used is a knowledge survey. We have gathered and evaluated documentation from different sources like citation and reference databases within the field of library and information science. The result implicates that there are, both in old and new documentation, three main search strategies children use in their search for information in a library context; they browse, they search in library catalogues and they use some sort of reference service.

Idag är kunskap viktigt för värdeskapande inom nästan alla branscher, men inom konsultföretag är det extra påtagligt då kunskapen som genereras och delas bildar kärnan i företagets tjänster. Kunskap kan delas upp i två former, en explicit och en tyst form.?Tyst kunskap? definieras som den form av kunskap som är svår att dokumentera och som grundar sig i känslor, värderingar, personliga åsikter och erfarenheter samt ligger inbäddad i en organisations kultur, vilket medför att den är svår för andra företag att imitera. Mycket av den kunskap som bidrar till ökad prestation och konkurrensfördelar är baserad på tyst kunskap.Syftet med detta projekt är att undersöka vad tyst kunskap är, huruvida denna uppmärksammas och tas tillvara i konsultföretag samt hur denna kan utnyttjas för att uppnå konkurrensfördelar. Undersökningen bygger på en litteraturstudie om framförallt ?Knowledge Sharing? och tyst kunskap samt en empirisk och komparativ studie baserad på intervjuer med två konsultföretag som skiljer sig i storlek och bransch.Resultatet från litteraturstudien visar på att tyst kunskap är viktig inom problemlösning och leder till ökad kvalitet i konsulternas arbete.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka på vilket sätt Jesus beskrivs på film. Mer specifikt är syftet att beskriva hur Jesus gudomliga och mänskliga egenskaper gestaltas i fyra olika filmer. Film är ett växande medium och det är också ett medium för att behandla livsåskådning, både explicit och implicit. Det kristologiska grundproblemet kring Jesus natur aktualiseras på film ibland utifrån en teologisk medvetenhet, men ibland också omedvetet. Syftet med denna studie är alltså att undersöka hur Jesus gudomliga och mänskliga natur gestaltas på film.

This empirical work and base has been to analyze the new high school reform that the Swedish government introduced as a statement 2008/09:199 about: Higher demand and quality within the high school. This statement became legal through the government vote in spring 2010. But above all it is the investigation (SOU 2008:27) that is the central piece for these new examination changes for high school students that will come into effect 1 of July 2011. The purpose and questions asked in this analyze has been if the reform takes its base in a modernistic (traditional) way or a late modern scientific perspective. And also to find out how these new quality amendments in the investigation makes visible about the high school and what the purpose are about the changes. When scientific theories in these analyze is placed against the reform, the result shows that the modernization process reflects more of a late modern aspect, which constantly reappraise in a changeable society.

Background: Several accounting scandals have caused a development from rules-based to principles-based regulation. Swedish municipalities follow the principle-based recommendations issued by RKR (The Council for Municipal Accounting). An explicit requirement of component depreciation has been introduced prior to 2014. The principles-based regulatory framework raises some choices regarding the introduction and demands that professional judgments are made. There is some risk that comparability decreases.

The aim of this study was to investigate the production of knowledge that can emerge in the use of Practice Research by Mirror method. This by finding out what it is in the practical work that leads to the production of knowledge and how knowledge production takes form. The empirical data that form the basis for this study is recorded group within the Mirror method discussions and a focus group interview with social workers who participated in the discussions. Those who have participated are social workers with experience from working with financial aid support and only real cases have been used in the discussions. The results have been analyzed according to Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucracy and their discretion and Fook and Gardner´s theory of critical reflection.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse how corporations can learn from past issues and corporate crises and to see how they use this knowledge in the management of subsequent issues and corporate crises. Furthermore, the influence of media on the possible intensification of the issue or corporate crisis, but also its impact on the company?s usage of knowledge management, was to be analysed.Method: The study was carried out through a case study method, in the hope of being able to analyze how a company makes use of knowledge management in the communication that occurs during issues and corporate crises. A semi-structured interview was conducted, with the head of public relations of the chosen company as a respondent. The purpose of the interview was to analyze the underlying factors behind a specific way of communicating.

AbstractThe purpose of this essay is to investigate the views Swedish elementary school teachers produce on the subject of ethics. The teachers? thoughts on selection among ethical notions is described and also how these notions are assessed. The essay proceeds from the central content and the knowledge requirement in the syllabus of religious knowledge.The empirical survey is based on qualitative scientific interviews with four teachers employed in grades 4-6 at different schools.The teachers find ethics in its current state of the syllabus hard to define and they find encounters with parents and pupils difficult in their tasks. The selection of ethics is decided by previously planned basic values education or from conflicts erupting during schools hours.

Background: Every year, 2000 persons in Sweden are diagnosed with malignant melanoma, the most alarming form of skincancer. Sunexposure, sunburns and tanningbed use are the most appearing causes in the development of this disease. The skin of young people is sensitive to UV-radiation and their sunbehaviour could be determinant to their future health. Purpose: To illuminate the knowledge and attitudes of adolescents towards sunexposure in the meaning to avoid the development of malignant melanoma. Method: The study was designed to be a literature review, containing scientific articles of both qualitative and quantitative approach.

Regarding school-teaching most people have had the traditional idea that the teacher is the owner of all knowledge and the student is the receiver of that knowledge. Tradition tells us that the way the student receives the knowledge has been by listening, repeating, reading and memorizing what the teacher has taught. Research about teaching from the last decades show that there are other strategies, ways, and qualitys for helping students in learning. One of those ways is by integration of different school subjects.According to research every human being creates her own knowledge based on personal experiences. Johan Krantz and Pelle Persson (2001) wrote that learning is a process with experiences, ideas and opinions.

Denna studie behandlar begreppen kunskap och lärande, med utgångspunkt från Skolinspektionens (2012) kvalitetsgranskning av hur förskolan arbetar med det förstärkta pedagogiska uppdraget. I Skolinspektionens rapport menar man att studier pekar på den avgörande roll den pedagogiska ledningen har för hur verksamheten utformas och utvecklas för att bättre kunna arbeta med barns utveckling och lärande. Syftet med studien är att synliggöra och förstå fyra förskolechefers tolkning av begreppen kunskap och lärande samt hur de beskriver att de kommunicerar begreppen till personalen genom sitt pedagogiska ledarskap.Studien är kvalitativ med en hermeneutisk ansats och datainsamlingen består av intervjuer med fyra förskolechefer. Resultatet visar att förskolechefernas tolkning av begreppen kunskap och lärande bygger på individuella erfarenheter och att det finns ett behov av att reflektera över begreppen för att främja lärande i förskolan. Vi har uppmärksammat att det finns ett starkt engagemang hos förskolecheferna men att de har svårt att skilja begreppen åt, då deras tolkningar av begreppen går i varandra.

Studiens syfte är att kartlägga yrkesverksamma sfi-lärares kunskaper om ordförråd och ordbildning i svenska språket och vad de anser vara bra undervisning i detta ämne. Frågeställningarna är vilka grundläggande kunskaper sfi-lärare har om ordförrådets uppbyggnad och organisation hos enskilda språkanvändare, vilka grundläggande kunskaper de har om det svenska ordbildningssystemet och vad man anser vara god undervisning i ordkunskap. Materialet som har använts för att besvara frågeställningarna är en enkätundersökning som också innehöll en kunskapskartläggning. Denna undersökning kompletterades med fyra intervjuer, genomförda några veckor efter den skriftliga undersökningen. I undersökningen deltog tio sfi-lärare, yrkesverksamma inom två olika kommunala vuxenutbildningar.Resultatet visar att sfi-lärare har grundläggande kunskaper om det svenska ordbildningssystemet och om ordinlärning men att det finns utrymme för kunskapsförbättringar.