Officially, Sweden has a very low level of corruption and in 2008 topped Transparency International?s list in terms of the perception of a lack of corruption. However, on closer examination it would appear that the Swedish public sector is not as clean as the Transparency International list suggests. What appears to be relatively common and quite widely accepted in Sweden, especially in local government, are conflict of interest situations in which public officials use their position to obtain advantages for themselves, their friends and their colleagues, in particular with respect to public procurement. According to the Swedish constitution, the public administration shall be governed by the principles on legality and objectivity. Grave violations of these principles are deemed illegal and contrary to the penal code provisions relating to bribery, public misconduct and breach of confidentiality.

Många företag står inför det faktum att arbetet måste anpassas till globaliseringen för att konkurrenskraften skall bibehållas. Ett sätt att göra det är att arbeta geografiskt distribuerat för att på så sätt nå kompetens och fler kunder samtidigt som 24/7-arbete möjliggörs. Men för att effektivt jobba distribuerat över tid och rum krävs en medvetenhet kring de begränsningar som det medför och hur de skall överbryggas. Sandvik IT står inför förändringar och trenden går mot fler geografiskt distribuerade team. Syftet med denna undersökning har därför fokuserats kring det distribuerade arbetets nyckelfaktorer och hur Kanban kan bidra till ett effektivt arbete.

During the last year?s Swedish agriculture have had difficult times, with decreasing prices and at the same time increasing production costs, which has led to bad profitability and faith in the future. The dairies in Sweden have also had a rough time and there have been large rationalizations during the years. In the beginning of the 20th century there were almost 1700 diaries in the Swedish countryside. There has been a large technical development during the 20th century resulting in a decrease in diaries to only 46 in the whole country today. They are owned by 15 diary companies, of which 7 large and dominate on the market and the rest are small-scale companies. With this development the confidence and feeling for the diary companies also has decreased.

Authors: Sofia Eriksson and Malin Wändahl Title: To swim with sharks --? a qualitative study of female journalists work situation in Cape Town due to gender Level: Bachelor of Journalism. Autumn 2013 Location: University of Gothenburg Although the distribution of sex in the South African media houses is equal, research shows that the work conditions for women and men are unequal. Therefore, we have studied how the situation looks like beyond the statistics. The aim of our thesis is to examine, due to gender, how female journalists in Cape Town experience and cope with their work situation in a profession traditionally dominated by men.

Miljöcertifiering av byggnader ökar i takt med efterfrågan hos bland annat fastighetsägare, potentiella kunder och hyresgäster. Allt fler beställare väljer därmed att låta certifiera sina projekt med något av dagens miljöcertifieringssystem. För arkitekter innebär detta en stor utmaning, då det ställs hårda krav på byggnaden för att den ska uppnå den önskade certifieringen. Dessa certifieringskrav påverkar till stor del utformningen av byggnaden, och att då som arkitekt uppnå ett estetiskt uttryck samtidigt som kraven måste uppfyllas är inte enkelt.  Det är dessutom viktigt att projektera rätt redan från början.Det här projektet syftar till att utöka arkitekters kunskaper kring projektering i ett tidigt skede av lokalbyggnader som ska miljöcertifieras med miljöcertifieringssystemet Miljöbyggnad. Studierna genomförs med hänsyn till de gestaltningspåverkande indikatorer beträffande områdena dagsljus, energi och innemiljö som bedöms enligt Miljöbyggnad samt är viktiga att beakta i ett tidigt skede.

AbstractFörfattare ? Malin Andersson och Slaven MarasTitel ? Aspects of decentralizations effect on eldercare ? a qualitative study of three municipal authority office/ Aspekter på decentraliseringens effekter på äldreomsorg ? En kvalitativ studie i tre kommuners myndighetskontorHandledare ? Linda ErlandssonExaminator: Jan Petersson This is a qualitative study of the phenomenon of decentralization and its impact on care managers working in elderly care. The aim of the study was to examine how care managers margin for maneuver and need assessments continually are shaped by organizational conditions and municipal governance. With these aspects in mind, we wanted to identify similarities and differences in three different municipalities? ways to work with care management in the elderly care.

The purpose of Älvdalens besparingsskog is to develop the district and most of all the forestry in Älvdalen. It's owned by about 2 300 private forest owners who's landed properties are located in Älvdalen. Every year the besparingsskogen gives out a lot of its profit in form different types of subsidies for agriculture and forestry. The owners can apply for subsidies for several of the costs that occur in forestry. During the period 2000-2003 the owners are offered forest management plans and pcSKOG-gård at no cost for their private forest properties. The purpose of this master's thesis was to find out if the activity in the forestry changed when the forest owners got new forest management plans and the computer program pcSKOG-gård.

During the period of occupation of Norway between the years 1940-1945 the National Lutheran Church took the responsibility of supporting the Norweigans in their ideological battle against the Nazis. This was a period named Holdningskampen in Norwegian history. One person to remember was Eivind Berggrav, bishop in Oslo diocese. He was the one responsible for the theological document of importance Kirkens Grunn that became important as a document against the Nazis and the small percentage of Christians that related to the naziinspired-church. Berggrav was also one of the founders of Den Midlertidlige Kirkeledelsen, the organisation responsible for the non-nazified churches.

Under 2 månaders tid har jag befunnit mig på ett kontor i Alvesta, närmarebestämt hos sken- och konsolsystemstillverkaren Hyllteknik. Där har jag som denförsta designern någonsin på företaget jobbat nära dess ledning i arbetet med att tafram en ny skärmvägg.I designarbetet har jag fokuserat på, och lyckats med, att effektivisera produktenstillverkningsprocess och produktionskostnader. Designen har också en genomgripandemiljömedvetenhet. Bland annat har min efterforskning av miljövänligamaterial resulterat i att skärmväggens stålram håller en ljudabsorbent som består av100% polyesterfiber och har samma kretslopp som återvinningsbara PET-flaskor.Detta material har absorptionsklass A, med andra ord fungerar skärmen som enutmärkt ljuddämpare. Målet är att nå ut till kontor med en miljömedveten strävan,mån om de anställdas arbetsmiljö vad det gäller kontorets ljudlandskap och skapandetav rumsliga ytor för trivsel och arbete.För att ihopkopplade skärmväggar ska sluta tätt och kunna bära hyllplan har jag ritaten helt ny stålprofil som utgör skärmens gavlar.

An uncountable number of companies are present in foreign markets as a result of what we commonly choose to call globalization. This is especially true for Swedish companies traditionally operating on small markets. A company that is about to establish on a new market is faced not only with possibilities but also with challenges and risks. Researchers have found that companies that establish on foreign markets will have to deal with competitors on the national as well as on the global market, and therefore need consider how they globalize their brands. In addition to this, a brand can only reach international success if its message is coherent within and across every single market.

The activities of beavers in forested landscapes affect both ecological and economical values. The creation of the dynamic wetland mosaic associated to beaver activities can even improve the quality of water and have been documented as an important landscape engineer affecting the environment for many species. The local office of Sveaskog in Skinnskatteberg is responsible for the management of large areas of the forests in the County of Västmanland. In this area one of several company?s goals are to create ten new wetlands in their own forests as a part of cooperation with the Swedish bird society and Swedish wetland association.

This paper describes the integration of environmental assessment in Swedish municipality comprehensive planning through a chosen case study. The implementation of a new EGdirective in Swedish law, concerning Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, should lead to some changes in the way Swedish municipalities' deals with environmental issues in their comprehensive plans. This could later on lead to new preconditions for municipality comprehensive planning. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the planning organisation in the municipality adapts to new regulations for impact assessment of comprehensive plans required by the Planning and Building act. Secondly the purpose was to partly participate in the early stages of the planning process and thereby indicate and identify possible environmental impacts regarding the aspects of land and water. This was done as a case study in a well defined part of the process.

Forskning visar att våld mot kvinnor i nära relation är ett dolt problem medett stort mörkertal. Våldet riktas mot kvinnor i alla åldrar och samhällsklasser och utgörett av de största hoten mot kvinnors liv och hälsa. Hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal har enunik möjlighet att kunna identifiera våld i nära relation genom att aktivt fråga kvinnorom de utsatts för denna typ av övergrepp. Kommunikation är ett viktigt redskap förbarnmorskan och en förutsättning för att skapa trygghet i mötet med kvinnan.Studiens syfte var att undersöka vilken erfarenhet barnmorskor påbarnmorskemottagningar och ungdomsmottagningar i Västra Götaland har av attupptäcka våld, bemöta kvinnor och handlägga vården vid våld i nära relation.En enkätundersökning bestående av strukturella och öppna frågor skickades till32 barnmorskor. Enkäten besvarades av 28 barnmorskor; 17 arbetade påbarnmorskemottagningar och 11 på ungdomsmottagningar.

The efficiency of the harvesters work is more often reviewed, than the work of the forwarders. In a local Stora Enso office the differences between the harvesters reported volume of timber, and the actual volume delivered to the industry had been noticed. Therefore, the decision was made to do a review on the forwarders work. The review was conducted together with a worker from Vmf Qbera, who is working daily with wood measurement, in order to get a valid evaluation of the logs. Eight sites were included in the survey, and on each site 50 logs were marked. Approximately one third of the marked logs were pulpwood, and the remaining logs marked were timber.

År 2002 var det samlade värdet av patent inom EU 109 miljarder euro. Patentansökningarna till European Patent Office har stadigt ökat under det senaste decenniet. Det reella värdet av patent ökar ständigt och betydelsen av tillgångar i form av patent blir allt viktigare för företag. Uppsatsen behandlar om och, i så fall, hur det är möjligt att missbruka en dominerande ställning genom användning av patentinnehav. Syftet är att utröna om det är möjligt för företag att missbruka en dominerande ställning genom att hänvisa till patenträttigheter.