The main focus of this essay is to analyze whether strict employment protection legislation has a negative effect on the labour market possibilities for youth in the EU or not. To empirically examine the labour market possibilities for youth, data for unemployment rates and incidence of temporary jobs are used. By doing simple correlations between the different labour market characteristics and OECD?s employment protection legislation index the effect of the latter is tested. The result is that a tendency for youth unemployment and frequency of youth with temporary employment to be higher when employment protection legislation is strict can be seen.

A tough working climate and the lack of extrinsic motivation at workplaces within health care raise the question of what instead drives employees within this industry. A possible answer to this is Public Service Motivation (PSM) - a type of motivation that is based on the desire to do good for society and its individuals. In order to investigate this further we have performed a qualitative study consisting of ten interviews with people working with institutional care, where the purpose has been to identify the sources of motivation and determine the impact of PSM. The results show that the compassion dimension of PSM appears to be one of the most salient motivational factors. While the rest of the PSM dimensions fail to explain the level of motivation to the same extent as compassion, other factors are recognized, such as relatedness and aspects of the nature of the work itself.

Revisionsprofessionen images a?r sedan la?nge ett omdiskuterat fenomen. Genom denna studie o?nskades det att kartla?gga hur images pa?verkar uppfattningar om professionen och dennes attraktivitet. Syftet med studien var att underso?ka revisionsprofessionens images samt hur dessa images pa?verkar nya intra?dandes uppfattningar om professionen.

Enligt l?roplanen ?r det arbetslagets ansvar att se till att en god introduktion erbjuds till barn och familj. V?rdnadshavarna ska ?ven f? m?jlighet till delaktighet i verksamheten samt att ett gott samarbete m?jligg?rs mellan parterna. Syftet med unders?kningen ?r att genom v?rdnadshavares erfarenheter och uppfattningar bidra med ?kad kunskap och f?rst?else f?r hur trygghet skapas under barnets introduktion tillsammans med v?rdnadshavare och pedagoger.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to, through user studies, analyse whether Carol C. Kuhlthaus information search model is applicable in a Swedish school. Furthermore, the guidance that the students may receive from the teacher and/or school librarian is analysed. Answers are sought to the following questions: · How do the students perceive their information seeking? · How do the librarian and/or teacher support the students during their information seeking process? The study is based on a qualitative method of approach, through interviews with four informants: a librarian, a teacher and two pupils.

Working life changes, just like the rest of today?s society, at an accelerated pace. It is through changes and challenges that human beings develop, personally and professionally. Changes are often met by resistance. The purpose of this study is to see how different factors influence individuals? experiences of change.

?Arabiska våren ? framställningen av revolutionen i Mellanöstern/Nordafrika i mainstreammedia? är titeln på denna studie som har syftet att studera hur mainstreamkanalerna Al Jazeera och BBC rapporterat kring revolutionerna i Tunisien och Syrien för att på så sätt kunna uttala om den ?Arabiska vårens? framställning. Syftet har också varit att jämföra mediekanalernas konstruktion av revolutionerna med varandra för att belysa eventuella likheter och skillnader i rapporteringarna.Med utgångspunkt av tidigare forskning kring identitetsteori, diskursanalys som teori, andrafiering och postkolonialism har mediekanalernas rapporteringar analyserat med hjälp av den kritisk diskursanalytiska metoden.Resultaten och slutsatserna som kan tas i denna studie är kortfattat att Al Jazeera konstruerar diskursen om revolutionen genom att underminera postkoloniala strukturer. Al Jazeera tar en ställning mot väst och dess intressen, samt aktörer förknippade med väst där de västallierade andrafieras som ?De onda Andra?.

The aim is to find out how teachers apply the knowledge they get from mathematics pilots in preschool and from mathematics developer in the municipality, as well as how they work further towards the children with mathematics.The study is based on qualitative interviews with two teachers, one mathematic pilot and one mathematic developer. I used the semi-structured interview questions.The results show that teachers believe that mathematics pilots will inspire the teachers in their work with mathematics in preschool. One of the teachers who were interviewed said:?Mathematics pilots should be those that have the strongest glasses and coming up with new ideas and they push the rest of the teachers in their work with mathematics in relation to children in preschool?.The teachers use the correct terms for mathematical concepts with the children. They also stressed how important it is to point out to the kids that it is mathematics that they are doing.The conclusion of the study is that the teachers agree that it is their approach towards the children that is important and how they can lead the children?s interest of mathematics forward.

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att underso?ka hur Svininfluensan framsta?lldes i tva? tidningar a?r 2009, det a?r da? den var som mest omskriven. Underso?kningen utga?r ifra?n teorin om risksamha?llet och dagordningsteorin. Den fra?gesta?llning jag utga?tt ifra?n a?r: Hur ser rapporteringen av Svininfluensan ut i Dagens nyheter och Expressen under november 2009? Underso?kningen fokuserar pa? vilka som har fa?tt komma till tals i tidningarna och vad de fa?tt uttala sig om.

Medarbetarnas kunskap och kompetens a?r fo?retagens viktigaste resurs fo?r att ha?lla sig konkurrenskraftiga. Det a?r da?rfo?r av sto?rsta vikt att denna resurs bevaras och utvecklas inom organisationen genom kunskapso?verfo?ring mellan ansta?llda. Fo?retags ledningsgrupper besta?r av individer som anses ha ho?g kunskap och kompetens och som tillsammans ansvarar fo?r hela verksamheten.

Den elektroniska kommunikationen a?r idag en stor och viktig del i vardagen, da?rfo?r beslutade sig La?nsstyrelsen i Hallands la?n fo?r att starta ett projekt da?r de i ett samarbete med Ho?gskolan i Halmstad skulle utfo?ra en fullsta?ndig risk- och sa?rbarhetsanalys inom sektorn elektronisk kommunikation, tillsammans med kommunerna och regionen i Hallands la?n. Som en fo?rsta del i en risk- och sa?rbarhetsanalys, ma?ste en riskidentifiering go?ras och det a?r det som a?r syftet med rapporten. Resultatdelen i rapporten bygger pa? en sammansta?llning av svar fra?n intervjuer med ansta?llda inom kommunerna och Region Halland.Riskerna som fo?ranletts av de identifierade hoten a?r relativt ma?nga och a?r av olika form och allvarlighetsgrad.

The aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a mindfulness- and acceptance-based smoking cessation program in group (MRG). MRG was developed into an intervention consisting of 6 group sessions during 35 days including individual homework assignments. 8 of 10 participants completed the program. In order to evaluate the effect of MRG a quasi-experimental design with pretest and double posttest (second posttest at 1 month) was chosen. At second posttest, 50 percent (of 8 completers) were non-smokers, and the rest showed a decrease in smoking at a rate between 45 and 75 percent.

The aim of this study is to examine how two Kenyan school's approaches gender roles, by what the curriculum says and by how the teachers way of teaching are effecting the creation of gender roles. The aim is further to find out what the Kenyan school settings are, according to gender and equality, and how these are implemented in practice. This was examined through interviews at two local schools in Kenya, with five practicing teachers from grade one through grade six. This work compares the respondents' answers to the research that is related to the topic. Because of lack in the research about Kenya, the research has been based on mostly Swedish investigations.

Face-to-face communication is always complemented with non-verbal signals that give us clues as to how a message shall be interpreted, but as communication is moved online the possibilities to express oneself becomes more limited.This paper focuses on the instant messaging client Windows Live Messenger and three of the non-verbal functions that it provides (nudges, winks and emotes). The purpose of the paper and its underlying study is to compare the senders' intentions with the receivers' conceptions when it comes to these functions.The study was done as a questionnaire with two different versions of the questions, one looking at the senders' intentions and the other at the receivers' conceptions.The results were then compared in order to look for tendencies. The results showed that the most common intention among the senders was also the most common conception among the receivers, but that the rest of the attitudes didn't match at all. The functions that are supposed to help the conversation flow often create ambiguity instead and lead to vagueness, misconceptions and annoyance..

This thesis is concerned with how identity is connected to historical writings and what normsshapes the perspectives of history. The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibilitiesfor identification offered in history books used for history teaching. This study is concernedwith what role the nation plays and how it shapes the conception of history, with the hope ofcounteracting negative attitudes towards those not being identified as ?Swedish? in the historytelling.The study was conducted through discourse analysis. The material for this analysis consistedof three history books directed towards 4-6th graders.The study shows how identity is created through putting ?us? against ?them?.