Abstract________________________________________________________________Författare/Author Richard TähtinenTitel/Title Youth hockey from a coach perspective. A qualitative study about coaches´appreciations concerning youth hockeyThe aim with this study is to strengthen the knowledge about coaches´ appreciationsconcerning youth hockey. This study contains interviews with three leaders that operate onthe strategic level within youth hockey and three coaches working with youth players in theages of 11 and 12. I have divided my main results into 4 categories, based on an earlier studyfrom Karin Redelius (2002). These categories include the following themes:1) Competition on the good and the bad2) The importance of winning3) Shake-out versus sports on children’s terms4) Instruction, play and learningThe main conclusions in this study show that leaders on the strategic level appreciate youthhockey in a very similar way.

Vi vet att fysik aktivitet har positiv effekt på vår hälsa. Idag finns det ett yrkes grupp som har kunskap att kunna hjälpa oss individer att må bra genom motion. Denna yrkesgrupp, de personliga tränarna, ska bland annat vägleda, inspirera och motivera oss individer i vår träning och fysiska utveckling. Enligt våra intervjuade personliga tränare har det blivit mer tillåtet för oss ?vanliga? människor att ha en personlig tränare, det är inte bara för stjärnor längre.

In the fall of 2014 a literature review and a scientific study of the topic; "... in the extent to which companies in the industry applies the evaluation of continuous improvement? was conducted at Mälardalen University. These studies are the foundation of this thesis.A strategic improvement is often divided into smaller steps of improvements at each hierarchical level from the top down through the organization. But if there is no response system that can confirm the results of these improvements back through the organization it is very hard to see if the improvements really are improvements or just changes and a waste of resources.

Det finns idag ett starkt empiriskt stöd för att socialt stöd motverkar ohälsa. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka om coachning påverkar upplevelsen av socialt stöd. Vidare undersöks om coachningen har olika effekt på stödkategorierna emotionellt, värderande, informations- och instrumentellt stöd, samt om upplevelsen av socialt stöd till följd av coachning påverkas av om denna är självvald eller inte. Den kvantitativa enkätundersökningen besvarades av 39 personer som deltagit i en coachningsprocess. Resultaten visade på en tendens att coachning påverkar upplevelsen av emotionellt, värderande och informativt stöd.

Livs- och karriärplanering (LKP) är en strukturerad tidsbegränsad form av coaching som undersöker tre frågeställningar: Vem är jag, vad kan jag och vad vill jag? I föreliggande studie intervjuades fem coacher och fem klienter om deras upplevelse av vad som driver coachingprocessen framåt i LKP. Resultaten visar en samstämmig syn mellan coacher och klienter avseende de framträdande faktorerna som påverkar LKP-processen i en för klienten utvecklande och berikande riktning. Dessa är samtalen mellan coachen och klienten, en professionell och empatisk relation mellan coach och klient, metoden med dess upplägg samt klientens hemuppgifter. Ytterligare framkom att en tydlig ansvarsfördelning mellan coach och klient samt klientens motivation också bidrar till en positiv utveckling av processen.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate if an automation of the manual packaging process at Legosan AB is profitable. Legosan AB, located in Kumla, performs subcontract work of dietary supplements and medical products to companies within Europe. The chapterportal robot is used in the other. As there are several options in the choice of packaging robot the suggestions of improvement are divided into two different designs. Other machines and equipment necessary for the different suggestions of improvement are showed and their measurements are presented.

The purpose of this study is from a case study develop a model that aims to cost effectively improve productivity in a manufacturing production process. The study highlights the importance of having knowledge about customer needs and using a holistic process perspective when improving productivity to identify the relations between the process stations and by this find problems that cause waste and losses in productivity. Tools and methods used to make production more efficient such as single minute exchange of die, spaghetti diagram, 5s and master production schedule is presented an applied in the model to see how these effect costs, productivity etc.Maintenance effects on quality and productivity in a manufacturing company will as well be covered in this thesis. The results and conclusions finally reveals how the process improvement tools, maintenance and production planning for example effects each other and why it is important to establish an attitude in the company where continuous process improvement should be emphasized..

The thesis has been carried out at Nedis AB in Jönköping. The aim was to develop proposals on approaches that could help the company to continually improve their warehouse operations by eliminating unnecessary operations, making the warehouse more structured and how they better could use the staff's suggestions for improve-ment. The collection of data consists of observations, interviews with a total of nine people from the staff of Nedis AB and a benchmarking conducted at Husqvarna AB. A number of shortcomings and weaknesses in procedures at the warehouse were iden-tified. Packing stations were not standardized and they were seen as poorly structured and messy.

Background and aim: Organizations must be able to manage change in order to survive in today?s competitive society. To continue to develop and reach better results is fundamental. Case Company Parker Hannifin Corporation, Quick Coupling Division Europe, Tema Ingenjörsfirman AB, Skövde has an ambition to have an organization that manage changes and continuously improve its performance. That is the reason why this examination work arises.

This study was aimed to investigate why team sport coaches use group training as a part in their build-up training. Issues covered in this study are: "What motives have coaches in team sports that use group exercise as part of the build-up training?" and "What are the positive and negative aspects experienced trainers of using group exercise as part of build-up training in team sports?". It was a qualitative study, seven interviews were made with team sport coaches that has used group training as a type of exercise in their built-up training in collaboration with Friskvårdskompaniet. The results showed that the reasons why group exercise were used was different from coach to coach for example one motive was to increase the players physically ability.

Coaching har blivit en trend i vårt samhälle och denna studie kan ses som en resa genom ?coachingdjungeln?. Undersökningen består av strukturerade telefonintervjuer blandat med litteratur- och artikelstudier där syftet var att ta reda på i vilken utsträckning NLP ? neurolingvistisk programmering ? förekommer i coaching av arbetslösa och hur det används. Urvalsgruppen finns i 14 av Sveriges 21 län och består av kommunala, privata och statligt anställda jobbcoacher som arbetar med individer som står utanför arbetsmarknaden.

Presentation av säljledaren och dennes roll i en försäljningsorganisation. Argumentation för att säljledaren skall arbeta aktivt tillsammans som coach med säljarna ute på fält..

Titel: Value stream mapping in practice ? A case study at Light MyFireAuthors: David Rydman and Tomas ÖnnemarMentor: Veronica Ülgen SvenssonExaminer: Åsa GustafssonBackground: Companies push their prices in today's markets to be competitive, which means that companies need to find ways to reduce costs while maintaining profits. (Cudney, 2009) According to Bergman and Klefsjö 2007, the basic rule of quality improvement says "there is always a way to achieve higher quality at a lower cost". One way is to improve a company's processes to get a more efficient flow and improvements that may cut costs. (Bergman & Klefsjö, 2007) Why it's important to look at the processes are that they often contain waste that can be eliminated.

Background: A common view about people with diagnosed psychosis is that they are socially withdrawn and that they neither cope nor want to engage in social relationships. Newly published specialist books on this subject also support this view.Aims: To unveil further dimensions of the phenomena by explorative analyzing consumers? own depictions about their ?social relationships".Method: The material is taken from a larger study that followed consumers regularly during a lapse of 3 years. Within this material 15 interviews from three respondents were chosen, a selection which gives maximal spreading concerning age, sex and background. The interviews where analyzed by methods based on Grounded Theory.Results: Three main dimensions were identified: supportive relationships, difficulties and social withdrawal.

Uppsatsen syfte är undersöka coachningens betydelse utifrån den anställdes perspektiv när det handlar om utveckling på arbetsplatsen. Genom uppsatsen kommer de framkomma hur företag använder sig av coachning för både individuell utveckling samt utveckling av företaget. Idag är coachning ett brett begrepp och används inom många områden. Termen coach har sitt ursprung i sportsammanhang, där det användes för att identifiera lagledare. I dagens samhälle är det nu av intresse att använda sig av coachning i företagssammanhang.