This thesis aims to provide Arvika with a deeper insight into what their new residents think about the information they receive. Anyone moving to Arvika gets the magazine ?Nyinflyttad/Recently moved in" sent home. The year 2011 Arvika had 1017 new residents, and they all got the same version of the magazine "Nyinflyttad/Recently moved in." A simpler version of the magazine hasn?t been made, although the municipality is aware that it is needed.The aim of my thesis is to see if the information that Arvika is sending to its new residents in meeting their information needs. To get the answer on this question, I have examined data from the target group perspective.

ICT and digital artifacts is an important resource in the society, especially in schools. That is why we have chosen to study if and how teachers uses ICT and other digital technology in their education in the history subject. We think that both subjects are important because history is a subject that has to do with the past, the present and the future.We made qualitative interviews with seven teachers from three different schools. We have analyzed if the teachers sees ICT as a burden or a resource in their education and also in which extend they have digital literacy. We have chosen to discuss different authors view on ICT in the education and digital literacy.

Syftet är att pröva genomförbarheten av postmoderna ideèr som medarbetarskapstankarna i en maskinbyråkrati utifrån medarbetarskapsteorier. Jag syftar även bedöma möjligheterna att införa medarbetarskap med hänsyn till kontexten och ställa denna bedömning mot att istället införa ett traditionellt belöningssystem enligt teorier för empowerment vilket förväntas vara tillrättalagt i maskinbyråkratin.Undersökningen utgår från medarbetarskapsteorier som ett normativt begrepp om vad ett önskvärt och gott medarbetarskap är samt från begreppet empowerment. Tidigare forskning berör förutsättningar för medarbetarskap i postmoderna organisationer, utifrån medarbetarskapsteori.En kvalitativ forskningsansats har använts i form av semi-strukturerade intervjuer med nio medarbetare och tre chefer. Resultatet har sedan analysertas med hjälp av analytiska verktyg hämtade från medarbetarskapsteori, samt utifrån teorier som berör empowerment och belöningssystem.Empirin påvisade fyra utmärkande särdrag för maskinbyråkratin som bromsar upp medarbetarskap i den studerade kontexten. Dessa är uttalad avhållsamhet att delge medarbetarna ekonomisk information, vältrimmad arbetsspecialisering, styrda arbetsuppgifter och kontroll av hur det operativa arbetet utförs.

I dag förväntas individen ha empowerment, ?egenmakt?, att själv göra hälsosamma beslut kring kost som är bra för den egna hälsan. Till hjälp finns många kostbudskap vars kvalitet kan vara svår att kontrollera. Hälsoinspiratörer är en kategori individer som aktivt söker och mottar kostbudskap. Kostbudskapen kommuniceras av flera olika sändare, exempelvis media, men även från andra individer i omgivningen.

I den här uppsatsen studeras vilken betydelse och funktion ett specifikt boendestöd har åt psykiskt funktionshindrade personer, specifikt åt personer med funktionshindret Aspergers syndrom. Uppsatsen tar också upp boendestödjarnas perspektiv på verksamheten och deras arbete. Detta gjordes för att få en breddare förståelse kring vilken betydelse den här verksamheten har. Brukare fick delta i en enkätundersökning och kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med personalen och en brukare. Genom det insamlade materialet fick jag ta del en mängd intressanta tankar och åsikter kring boendestödet, det visade sig också att diagnosen roll var en central problematik för så väl brukare som personal.

The Swedish social insurance agency provides financial support for families and children, but also for people with work injury, illness and at old age. During 2012 they saw the amount of notifications of insurance increasing in Sweden, which is a development that cost our society a great deal of money. With the aim to pursue a sustainable development I have therefore devoted this project to wellness and stress management within preschool.The employees of preschool are often dealing with a lot of stress, due to the big groups of children that causes high noise and sound levels. The high noise and sound levels is a contributor to stress which additionally can damage the health and cause impaired hearing loss. About half of the people around their forties until the age of retirement have difficulties understanding speech in large groups.The purpose of this project has been to investigate the causes of negative stress for my target group, women between 30-60 years old who works in preschool.

The purpose of the thesis is to examine the thoughts and opinions of a selected group of people regarding the terrorist attack that occurred in Stockholm 12/11-2010. This study has been conducted through the method of focus group interview. The study was methodologically and theoretically inspired by Grounded Theory, which simply means that the participants' opinions have formed the theory of the study. As a result of the study, we can see that the main focus of the discussion held by the participants was through a we and them thinking-perspective. Furthermore, the study reveals that the participants tried to include who we (muslims) are, and to exclude who they (non muslims) are, while arguing in the discussion. Another definition is the one of here and there, where the participants defined terrorism and what causes it. Finally, media's role was discussed in relation to the creation of the medie-muslim. To explain the participants' perceptive, part of Appadurai?s Fear of small numbers and part of Brune?s Dark magic in the white media was used..

The purpose of the study is to investigate the significance of organizing social- cooperative in relation to individual empowerment; and how this empowerment can be used to better the situation of others. Young surfers is a social- cooperativ that is run by cooperators with experience of substance abuse and criminality. The social- cooperativ is built on the premise that the cooperators are to set up and run a screen-printing shop where they will print t-shirts and sweatshirts. The purpose of this business is that the cooperators are given the opportunity to work and that youths with social problems such as substance abuse and criminality are given the opportunity to work-train. My study is comprised of a series of interviews and observations that I have conducted in relation to the cooperators of Young Surfers.

The aim for this paper is to investigate how a limited number of youth recreation leaders and leisure-time pedagogues view their vocational competence, which kind of power the persons in the essay experience to have in their workplace and which kind of status they experience that they have in comparison with other occupational groups in their schools. The final aim of the paper is to find out how teachers interact with youth recreation leaders and leisure-time pedagogues when it comes to their vocational competence. My questions are:How do a group of youth recreation leaders and leisure-time pedagogues view their professional assignments?How does a group of youth recreation leaders and leisure-time pedagogues view their power in their workplace in comparison with other occupational groups?How do a limited number of youth recreation leaders and leisure-time pedagogues view their status in relation to teachers, other occupational-groups and parents? Which role have my respondents been assigned by their team and why do they think they have gotten that role?To answer these questions I have used a qualitative method which includes four in depth interviews. The overall theoretical perspectives are symbolic interactionism and social constructivism.

The Swedish group contribution rules do not include a right to deduction for cross-border group contributions unless the receiving company is taxable in Sweden. There has been much discussion regarding whether the rules are compatible with EC law. On 11 March 2009 the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled ten cases concerning the right to deduction for cross-border group contributions. In three of these judgments deduction for a group contribution from a Swedish parent company to a foreign subsidiary within the EEA was allowed, despite that the subsidiary was not taxable in Sweden. The main purpose of this master thesis is to analyse whether the interpretation of the Supreme Administrative Court concerning the right to deduction for cross-border group contributions is compatible with EC law.

The aim with the study has been to get an overview of how students perceive their learning in group projects. The survey has been implemented with a quantitative questionnaire with qualitative elements during guidance. Students in grade 9 in a secondary school answered a survey study where they should take side to several proposals about learning and group work. The result shows that students in general do not find learning in group as the best learning method, but instead prefer individual learning methods when to learn new things. On the contrary, students claim that they learn best when group members not think as they but think in another direction.

The purpose of this study was to examine how school counselors in a specific municipalityviewed their work situation, if they experienced stress and how they would handle that stress.Five school counselors out of eight in the specific municipality participated in qualitativeinterviews where they could describe their feelings and thoughts. Their experiences wasexamined and analyzed with the theories of coping and empowerment. The results showedthat there were unhealthy levels of stress in the profession amongst the five counselors. It alsoshowed that the uttermost reason for the experienced unhealthy stress was the feeling of notbeing able to give as much time and help to the pupils as they want and need. The reason forthis was that an increasing number of pupils were, and are, experiencing unhappiness and arein need of seeing the school counselor.

Titel: Psykologiskt Empowerment: En kognitiv resa genom relationer och arbetskontextFörfattare: Niklas Hansson och Niklas JohanssonHandledare: Pia Ulvenblad och Ingemar WictorNyckelord: Psykologiskt Empowerment, PE, Arbetskontext, RelationerSyfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen kring psykologiskt empowerment (PE), genom att studera kopplingen till relationer och arbetskontext.Problemformulering: Hur kan uppfattad nivå av PE kopplas till arbetskontext och relationer?Metod: En kvalitativ metod har använts och fyra fallstudier har gjorts på organisationer med varierande branschtillhörighet, vilket gjorts för att maximera skillnaderna mellan fallen. Primärdata kommer från individuella intervjuer, vilka kompletterats med tillhörande frågeformulär och som gjort upplevda nivåer av PE kvantifierbara.Teoretisk referensram: Den teoretiska referensramen utgörs av klassiska PE-teorier tillsammans med beståndsdelarna av konceptet, för att forma basen. Detta kombineras med nyare PE-teorier kopplade till både arbetskontext och relationer, men även kortfattat vilka beteendemässiga utfall som kopplas till PE. Författarna har valt att fokusera mindre på eventuella utfall kopplat till PE, då dessa funnits i tidigare forskning, men inte kan negligeras helt, då det kan tyckas absolut väsentligt att på något sätt ta upp vad som är positivt och negativt kopplat till konceptetSlutsats: Både arbetskontext och relationer tycks kunna kopplas till uppfattad nivå av PE.

This Master's thesis concerns the public library as a public meeting place. Our aim has been to find out why and how the library as a social meeting place has been discussed within the Swedish library community and if there has been a constant core in the discussions from the mid 70's and up to the present day. In order to do this we apply a place and space-perspective. The result of the study is that the core of the said discussions concerning the library as a meeting place is to create belongingness. This is the reason why the library community has an interest in the public library's function as a meeting place with the idea that people, by using the public library in that aspect, may experience a feeling of belonging to the society.

This scientific essay is based on four self-perceived situations that all takes place in an outdoor environment. The children are aged seven to nine years. At least one of the children in the groups has some type of concentration difficulties. I have combined my practical experience with literature and previous research regarding outdoor education and children with concentration difficulties. Based on this I have tried to interpret and reflect on the opportunities and problems with outdoor education for children with concentration difficulties, especially so called situational concentration difficulties.