Hotellbranschen a?r en bransch som sta?ndigt expanderar. A?ven om bela?ggningsgraden pa? hotellen inte o?kar avseva?rt va?xer antalet o?vernattningar pa? hotell vilket tyder pa? en o?kad konkurrensbild pa? marknaden. Samtidigt fokuserar tja?nstefo?retagen alltmer pa? fo?retagets personalresurser och att kunna erbjuda na?got uto?ver ka?rntja?nsten fo?r att differentiera fo?retagets position pa? marknaden.

Problem Etiketterna i dina plagg avslöjar säkerligen att de flesta av dina kläder har producerats i Asien. En region där flertalet företag outsourcar sina mest arbetsintensiva delar för att göra kostnadsbesparingar. Inom en snar framtid kan dock fler europeiska länder komma att synas på etiketterna. Textilföretagens intresse för omlokalisering av produktion ökar och lokaliseringsbeslut har blivit ett alltmer strategiskt val. Många lokaliseringsbeslut börjar däremot i fel ände med leverantörsutvärderingar, vilket leder till att företag förbiser en del problem som kan uppstå vid outsourcing av produktion.

Title:Product abandonment ? A comparative study of five ABB-units Level:Master thesis in Business administration, spring 2011.Purpose:The purpose of this paper is to through a comparative analysis examine how different companies, within the same group, works with product abandonment and what factors influence the process.Problem:How important is situational and product specific factors in a product abandonment process in which the organizational factors are constant?Method:This study is based on primary as well as secondary data where interviews represent the primary data. Interviews, following the same interview guide, were made with five companies within the same group.Result:The results from the empirical studies presented in the text below recurring themes derived from the framework.Conclusions:Our conclusions are that the importance of product specific factors is of significant matters in a product abandonment process, even when organizational factors are constant. We base that on that although the companies are within the same group, under the same strategic direction and constructed according to the same organizational structure the product abandonment process is different for the respective companies.Keywords:Product abandonment, product deletion, product elimination, weak products, ABB .

Informationsteknik (IT) är en marknad som förändras snabbt. Att investera i IT kan därför vara kritiskt. Att ha en strategi för hur satsningar på IT ska göras kan minska risken för felinvesteringar på IT men strategin kan även ge andra fördelar. Att ha en IT-strategi innebär dock inte automatiskt att den ger fördelar. IT-strategin bör även användas.

Hotellbranschen a?r en bransch som sta?ndigt expanderar. A?ven om bela?ggningsgraden pa? hotellen inte o?kar avseva?rt va?xer antalet o?vernattningar pa? hotell vilket tyder pa? en o?kad konkurrensbild pa? marknaden. Samtidigt fokuserar tja?nstefo?retagen alltmer pa? fo?retagets personalresurser och att kunna erbjuda na?got uto?ver ka?rntja?nsten fo?r att differentiera fo?retagets position pa? marknaden.

This thesis concerns the subject of social media in the internal communication, how it can function to improve the communication among the coworkers. Good Old has been the web agency of our case study, through them we have gained understanding of the phenomenon. Media and communication theories and interviews have given us the foundation of the thesis.Our conclusion shows that it is beneficial to use social media internally in the type of company that Good Old is. Furthermore, the result shows that it can improve the communication, increase organizational learning and unity among coworkers. Finally social media can make organizations more effective..

Research now shows that the Individual Educational Programs (IEP) are dominated by individual- oriented actions. This despite the fact that the school`s policy documents advocate that IEP should be viewed in context of the school`s activities. Support must be seen from a holistic perspective and the student`s difficulties will be related to the whole school environment. In an attempt to understand why the individual- oriented actions are still there, I have studied how specific IEP are formulated, and how it relates to the school`s policy documents.In the study, I used discourse theory as a method. By examining the I E P in educational activity, I wanted to find the meaning with which the concept of individual, group and organizational level were filled.The results show that the IEP in comparison with the policy documents mainly differ on the definition of group and organizational level.

In this two years master's thesis a regional project, Futurum.kom, is studied through the experiences of eight librarians from two of the participating libraries. The interviewees have all attended local and regional seminars where questions about core values, target groups and the role of the public library were discussed, among others. The seminars resulted in a number of core values and target groups. During the project, a number of advertising campaigns are to be conducted. The first one of these had recently been implemented at the time of the present study. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the interviewees organizational self-perception in relation to the project.

The purpose of this research was to examine the current field of management in non-profit organizations, mainly focusing on managerial approaches, but also the impact of organizational size on the shaping of governance. Non-profits are widely discussed in contemporary research, particularly due to the increasing external pressure on voluntary organization to professionalize the way they work in line with standards in the private sector. Due to this our thesis aims to investigate whether professional, bureaucratic approaches are useful when governing a non-profit organization, or if social structures are enough to ensure goal congruence and efficiency. To conduct this research qualitative interviews were carried out and a case- study was made, using the Swedish Karate Federation as object of study. Results show that formal and more professional structures are useable to achieve efficiency and prevent inertia within the organization.

Syftet: Målet med studien var att utvädera kliniska intraorala foton som diagnostisk metod för att bedöma tandslitage (attrition, erosion och abrasion) och jämföra dessa bedömningar med kliniska registreringar. Material och metod: Studien genomfördes på Tandvårdskolan i Malmö, där man slumpmässigt valde ut 30 vuxna patienter. Dessa patienter undersöktes med avseende på tandslitage (attrition, erosion och abrasion) och kliniska foton togs. En månad efter kliniska registreringen gjordes en bedömning av de kliniska fotona, utan att ha kännedom om resultatet av de kliniska registreringarna. Båda undersökarna har på samtliga patienter utfört klinisk registrering och fotobedömning oberoende av varandra. Intra- och interobservatör överensstämmelse uppskattades genom Cohen?s Kappa- koefficient. Resultatet: Intraobservatör överensstämmelsen mellan bedömningar av foton och kliniska registreringar var måttligt-till-god med ett P-värde på 0,039-0,046.

Organisationen X är en traditionell linjeorganisation där en av linjerna arbetar uteslutande i projektform. Detta har lett till att vissa problem har uppstått, exempelvis nya hierarkiska strukturer, ett oklart rapporteringsförfarande samt att kollisioner i produktionen har uppstått. Uppdraget med detta examensarbete var att utforma en ny organisationsmodell som på ett bättre sätt illustrerar organisationens starka projektverksamhet, då den befintliga upplevdes som ofullständig.Utifrån en teoretisk referensram som berörde organisationsstrukturella variabler samt projektvariabler utformades en analysmodell samt ett intervjuunderlag som användes vid fem personliga intervjuer.Utifrån det empiriska materialet visade det sig att den organisationsmodell som Organisationen X tidigare hade innan denna uppsats genomfördes, redan i hög grad illustrerade organisationens mer organiska och decentraliserade karaktär. Vi valde av den anledningen att utveckla den redan befintliga modellen, men på ett bättre sätt visa Organisationen X starka projektverksamhet som på ett tvärfunktionellt sätt berör organisationens fyra linjer..

The aim of this essay is to examine the experiences of an introduction process of newcomers through an integrative perspective, by two guiding questions: How does the examined organization socialize newcomers? How is the organizational socialization experienced by the employees? Most Swedish corporations engage in some form of workplace introduction and this introduction should give the newcomer an understanding of his work and its relation to the organizations other business practices. Earlier studies have mostly focused on the effects of socialization tactics but few on the experience. This study, based on qualitative interviews with a regional manager, newcomers and established employees shows that the studied organization socializes its newcomers through many socialization tactics where the newcomers? personality and previous knowledge allows to direct the socialization process.

Title: The role of social media on today?s markets ? Companies? desire to understand theircustomersAuthors: Kristoffer Avci-Nåmark & Patrik WidlundBackground: The markets of today are characterized by dynamic conditions because of thecontinuous change in consumer preference. Due to this, the interaction between the company and its consumers is gaining importance as companies find the need to increase their knowledge about the market. Out of this need social media has emerged as a tool forcompanies to improve their communication with customers. The popularity of social media isincreasing at a rapid rate and sites such as Facebook now has around 500 million usersworldwide.

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Entrepreneurship is considered essential for the Swedish economy, as well as globally. Accordingly,massive efforts are put into creating environments that successfully can support new ventures. The business incubator is a prominent part of these efforts and is important especially for the knowledge shared within its internal network. The aim of this study is to further explore how different activitieswithin the incubator can influence the interaction, and thereby the construction of social capital,among the incubatees. Using a qualitative case study of three incubators, and the framework of theincubator model, it is concluded that three distinguishing components within the framework influence the interaction, namely infrastructure, mediation and business support.