The aim of this study is to enhance the knowledge of target and performance management?s effects on the judiciary. In the past decades there have been a number of reforms in the general public sector of many countries. The management philosophy often used to describe these public sector reforms is called New Public Management (NPM). One main theme has been an increased focus on the management control systems, for example a greater emphasis on target and performance management.

ABSTRACTThe principal aim of the study was to compare the feeding behaviour of cattle, sheep and goats on pasture and explain any differences between speices. Furthermore, I compared foraging behaviour between dry season and the beginning of the rainy season, in order to see any relationships between weather and behaviour.The study was carried out in Shompole in southern Kenya. Behavioural data were collected by observing herds of cattle, sheep and goats on pasture. The livestock were herded on pasture during the days and kept in bomas, where people live, during the nights. The weather in Shompole is characterized by high ambient temperature and low, bimodal rainfall.

Syftet med uppsatsen är ge en klarare bild av gasellföretagen, vad som utmärker dem utöver den höga tillväxttakten. Finns det något gemensamt hos gasellföretagen utöver den höga tillväxttakten? I andra hand vill vi se om en positiv korrelation mellan faktorerna i de studerade företagens strategier och den kraftiga omsättningsökningen existerar. Har gasellföretagen likadana strategier för tillväxt?.

This is a study of the trade union journal for female blue collar women in Sweden, Arbetets Kvinnor, between 1927 and 1931. The purpose is to examine how a female trade union activist's constructs collective identity by those notions of social class, sex, and moral values that are articulated in the journal. The main theoretical basis is Alberto Melucci's analysis where he argues that a collective identity in social movements is made in an interaction between individuals, where the action possibilities and limits are defined. Another purpose is how the female blue collar worker's resistance and/or adaption to the male hegemonic trade union and the bourgeoisie hegemonic society are presented. The essay shows how the collective identity is made of both historical and contemporary images of the working class women as workers and trade union activists.

This master thesis deals with reading and library habits among young male students at the vehicle engineering programme in an upper secondary school. Also their overall opinion of libraries has been looked into. For the completion of this study all of the 43 students in question took part in a questionnaire while 5 of them were interviewed. The result of this statistical survey complemented with more focused interviews show that at some time or another all the students read, but their preference lies within the news and engineering pages of daily newspapers and periodicals. Those who read books choose action and fantasy for content.

Går det att köpa en fastighet utan att bli lurad? Under flera år har mäklare florerat i media och deras etik och moral har ifrågasatts. Intresset för hur etik och moral egentligen ser ut vid fastighetsförmedling väcktes och vi ville veta om kritiken var befogad. För att få svar gjorde vi en kvalitativ ansats och intervjuade tre olika instanser. Dessa bestod av Fastighetsbyrån, Mäklarsamfundet och ARN.

This study is about Wikipedia which defines itself as a free online encyclopaedia. Our chief interest lies in the debate and the controversy which has arisen around Wikipedia. After reading critical articles concerning Wikipedia we found that the debate for most parts had one identifiable theme namely the question whether Wikipedia is an encyclo-paedia or not.Encyclopaedia as a term and a phenomenon has a long tradition. Wikipedia, despite calling itself an encyclopaedia, functions differently in comparison to more traditional encyclopaedias. These traditional views involve encyclopaedic structure, its organiza-tion and its functions.

Under slutet av 1970-talet förändrades marknaden, från att har varit säljarens marknad, där kunderna fick vara nöjda med de produkter de erbjöds, till att bli köparens marknad. Kunderna började ställa högre krav på produkterna, till exempel när det gällde prestanda och kvalitet. Konkurrensen mellan företag ökade. Företag från Japan lyckades slå sig in på de västerländska marknaderna. Detta berodde i stor utsträckningpå den tillverkningsfilosofi som japanerna använde sig av, som radikalt skilde sig ifrån den västerländska synen på tillverkning.

The purpose of the study is to investigate how much interest media has shown selected topics in the corporate governance systems in Germany and Sweden. The four selected aspects are: ownership structure, employee representation on the boards, disclosure of board members? compensation and female directors on the boards. The reasons for and consequences of the similarities and differences will also be discussed. The German and Swedish corporate governance systems construct the key basis of the study, emphasised on the four chosen aspects.

Three years after the Bosman case, it was decided that a socio-cultural approach on sports be introduced in Europe. EU presented a formulation for the same purpose ? The European Model of Sport. The purpose of this formula was to maintain the socio-culture and traditional ap¬proach to all kinds of amateur and professional sports in Europe. If we were to com¬pare this model with the American model of sport, it shows many different ways of thinking in terms of organised sport.

Högskolan i Gävle    Examensarbete C Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi   15 hp Lärarprogrammet     Vårterminen 2011Titel: Språket i första eller andra hand? En uppsats om språkutveckling, modersmål och svenska som andraspråk.   Författare: Kajsa Hjelmblom Handledare: Daniel PetterssonSammanfattning Studiens syfte är att undersöka om lärare i grundskolans tidigare år känner till hela skolans språkutvecklande uppdrag och ta reda på hur klasslärare arbetar med att främja elevernas språkutveckling. Syftet är också att ta reda på om arbetet med elevernas språkutveckling skiljer sig mellan skolor med få eller många elever med invandrarbakgrund samt att undersöka om det finns något samarbete mellan klasslärare och modersmålslärare. Studien är en kvantitativ studie i liten skala.

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate potential associations between usage of the cash flow statement report and time perspective in which companies? acts and set goals. Method: Our approach is quantitative, using empirical data summarized in a statistical procedure. The result is thereafter analysed through the developed analysis model from which conclusion is drawn. Results: We have in the investigation stated that the usage of the cash flow statement report varies depending on the time perspective in which companies? acts.

Att insjukna i sepsis kan vara livshotande och leda till sjuklighet och nedsatt livskvalité samt långa vårdtider och dyra vårdkostnader för sjukvården. Forskning visar att dödligheten ökar ju längre tid det tar innan behandling sätts in. Trots detta finns det ett behov av att förbättra identifieringen av sepsis. Det finns en mängd studier om sepsis, men det finns få som belyser patienters upplevelse av att insjukna i sepsis. Ambitionen med denna studie är att bidra till att minska denna kunskapslucka.Studiens syfte är att undersöka patienters upplevelser av att insjukna i sepsis.

Denna rapport beskriver utvecklingen av en kontorsarbetsplats för framtiden. Projektet utfördes som ett examensarbete inom integrerad produktutveckling vid Högskolan i Skövde under vårterminen 2011 i samarbete med Götene Specialinredningar.Götene Specialinredningar produktionsanpassar och tillverkar möbler som är specialdesignade av en arkitekt på uppdrag av en beställare. Kontorsmöbelbranschen har fastnat i ett tänk och de flesta möbler ser likadana ut, har samma funktioner och samma material.  Företaget vill därför få en ny syn på hur ett kontor kan vara i framtiden.Arbetet inleddes med förstudier för att få information om användning, ergonomi och material. Från förstudien erhölls krav som slutkonceptet skulle uppfylla. Det bestämdes att arbetet skulle rikta sig till öppna kontorslandskap eftersom det är det som används mest av företagets kunder.

Employers are becoming more and more aware of that the internal communication between employees is the reason why organizations are being held alive and also what impact the office environment has on employees work performances and their communication. The aim of our study was to gain an understanding of what significance an office's spatial design has for the communication between employees and managers in the workplace. We have through qualitative interviews with managers and employees from different business cases gotten a perception of their ways of communicating with each other. The results showed that employees and leaders thought that they shared the same picture of what their communication was like in reality, how they thought their ways of marking their territory in the office was understood and respected and what their opinions and expectations of how the communication between them and their leaders should be like. These results were then analyzed in consideration with relevant theory and previous research in the disciplines of office environment and communication studies.The main conclusions that have been drawn from the analysis are that the work environment's design can be both positive and negative at the same time and that what should be focused on is the leaders' communication. The leaders and their employees have to communicate more about their communication between them so thart misunderstandings can be avoided in the office environment - and therefore become more effective..