The purpose of our essay was to understand better how two companies manage ethnical diversity in their organization and standards of a multicultural organization. For study objects we selected two companies nominated as ?good examples? of companies working with ethnical diversity in their organization. The study objects are Föreningsparbanken and Pågen AB in Sweden. The result verifies that both companies have by some term a heterogenic staff of workmen in some parts of the organization although the heterogeneity occurs only on a lower level at the organizational hierarchy.

SJ is a government-owned passenger train operator in Sweden. SJ currently uses asystem called Ford for control and monitoring of maintenance. Technical andorganizational factors have given Ford the character of a monolithic system withoutflexibility and conditions to meet SJ's increased requirements.The main purpose of this master's thesis is to investigate how data quality can bedefined at SJ and to examine the data quality in Ford. This will give SJ an indication ofwhat their quality efforts should focus on in the future.The technical data quality parameters found are: accuracy, timeliness, completenessand consistency. The user centred data quality parameters are: accessibility,understandability and reliability.

This paper aims to study the Armenakis´ theory of readiness, "are they ready?", which consists of five key components affecting the outcome of an organizational change. In this case study, the intention is to investigate if any component is important; alternatively if it is possible to discern a pattern between components, i.e. how they correspond to each other. During the past 30 years have a research group lead by Armenakis has studied organizational change and how resistance to change can be avoided by preparing employees in the introductory phase of change. The main object for Armenakis is the question "what determines whether the employees (change recipients) adopt and support, or reject and resist a change".

The aim of our study is to explore which norms that exists in the home care service, who is sending those norms, how are they maintained and how do they affect the interactions between staff and manager? We want to deep en our knowledge about home care service as an organization and increase our understanding for the psychosocial work environment and also the importance of leadership. We mean to read the organizational culture that exists which allows us to deal with the values that influence the behavior in the organization.The study is based on a qualitative method. The data consists of two focus group interviews, one with managers from the home care service - organization and one with staff from the same organization. T he interview with the managers consisted of five participants and the corresponding figure for the second interview with the staff was eight participants.The theoretical viewpoints have been communication - theory, organizational theory and Foucault´s th eory of power.Our result indicate that norms are something that unconsciously controls us and that we have learned that there are consequences when you step out of what is normative for the group.

Titel: Outsourcing ? på vilka grunder, en fallstudie av underlagen vid outsourcingbeslut Författare: Carina Asplund Handledare: Eva Wittbom Sektion: Ekonomi, Management och Samhällsvetenskap, Blekinge Tekniska högskola Course: Magisteruppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 högskolepoäng Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: Ett outsourcingbeslut kan fattas på många olika grunder och de vanligast förekommande motivatorerna i privat näringsliv är strategiska motivatorer som att renodla verksamheten och fokusera på sin kärnverksamhet eller kostnadsbesparande motivatorer. Många företag lägger ut delar av sin verksamhet utan någon grundligare förstudie, på grund av högre chefers personliga erfarenheter, familjeband, känslor eller lyckosamma anekdoter om andra företags framgångsrika outsourcingprojekt. Beslut som grundas på trender eller känsla kan ha en direkt negativ påverkan på det långsiktiga resultatet av outsourcingaktiviteten på grund av bristande analys och förberedelse. För att kunna fatta långsiktigt hållbara beslut är det viktigt att ta sig tid att utföra en grundlig förstudie för att kunna förutse vilka kostnader, utmaningar, möjligheter och aktiviteter outsourcingprojektet för med sig.

Gender mainstreaming has been an internationally dominant policy since the mid 1990?s. In 2004, the Swedish government decided to implement gender mainstreaming within the Government Offices of Sweden. However, little research seems to have focused on the reasons for an organization's decision to implement gender mainstreaming. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to answer the question why the Government Offices of Sweden have decided to use gender mainstreaming.

Denna uppsats lyfter ut Graham Allisons tre teorier från boken Essence of decision och applicerar dessa på U 137-krisen. Krisen inträffade 1981 då en sovjetisk ubåt gick på grund utanför Karlskrona. Var och en av de tre teorierna är ursprungligen gjorda för att förklara beslutsfattandet under Kubakrisen utifrån olika perspektiv. Uppsatsen prövar de tre teorierna på U 137-krisen och utser den teori som bäst förklarar utrikespolitiskt agerande under krisen. Huvuddelen av uppsatsen beskriver de tre teorierna Rational actor model, Organizational Behavior samt Governmental Politics och applicerar dessa på U 137-krisen.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how a valuation model of a Private Equity firm is interpreted into a management control system within the company's different organizational levels. A case study was developed based on the infra-net company Eltel. The management control systems developed by Malmi and Brown (2008)(1) was used to characterize the control systems at each organizational level. The building blocks of this system are planning, cybernetic, reward/compensation, administrative and culture. Miller and O'Learys (2007)(2) theory of mediating instruments and technology roadmaps was applied to analyze the mediating process of the valuation model.

Syfte Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att beskriva och analysera hur revisionen av företag påverkas då företaget har genomfört en outsourcing av delar eller hela sin redovisning till ett bolag, inom koncernen, i utlandet. Genom att studera ett företag, som genomfört denna form av outsourcing, samt att undersöka de fyra stora revisionsbolagens erfarenheter på området, ämnar uppsatsen uppfylla detta syfte. Metod Denna studie grundar sig på den kvalitativa metoden. En illustrationsstudie samt en flerfallstudie har genomförts tillsammans med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Valet av våra intervjuobjekt vid flerfallsstudien grundar sig i företagens storlek.

Studiens syfte a?r att ta del av fo?rskolla?rares tankar om vad som ha?nder na?r en ny potentiell resurs kommer in i fo?rskolan. iPad a?r na?got som nyligen gjort intra?de i fo?rskolan och det a?r iPad som potentiell resurs som denna studie handlar om. Vi har gjort kvalitativa intervjuer med sju fo?rskolla?rare som alla pa? na?got sa?tt jobbar med iPads i sin verksamhet.

New Economy Firms (NEFs) are considered being important drivers of economic development and growth in Sweden. Also, entrepreneurship is a widely discussed topic that is considered being essential for firms that are making business in a fast moving landscape. Usually, the growth of companies is put in context of the life cycle. The life cycle further implies that as a company moves from the startup-stage along the curve, the organizational structure increases. Further, increased structure is claimed to impede the entrepreneurial culture within the firm.

Date: June 10, 2011Level: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration, 15 credits.Authors: Erica Halvarsson Caroline Lundberg Moa RydbeckSupervisor: Peter SelegårdTitle: A comparison between a traditional and a new bank ? from a leadership perspectiveProblem: The study focuses how different organizational structures and leadership styles appear in a traditional bank compared to a young bank. The questions we asked ourselves in this study is whether there is any differences?Purpose: The purpose of the study is to from a leadership perspective see if there are any differences between organizational structures, leadership and communication depending on whether it is a traditional or a new bank.Method: In this study, primary and secondary data was used to best obtain comprehensive information, which was analyzed on the basis of a set of question. In order to obtain our raw data, interviews with staff from Swedbank and IKANO bank were conducted.

AbstractTitle: Effective internal communication ?A case study on communication between a manager and the employees in a sportsclub.Number of pages: 40, without enclosuresAuthor: Susan AnderssonTutor: Peder Hård af SegerstadCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Second term 2005University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: I aim to do a case study of a work situation, where there is no natural or direct form of feedback between the manager and the employees, and compare the purpose of the information efforts with how it is perceived by the employees.Material/Method: Qualitative research method, including an assembling method in the form of interviews, and a processing method of those interviews.Main results: All the used channels combined together (except one channel) seem to have created the right condition so that the content of the information can be perceived and used as the way it was supposed to, even though there?s no direct feedback of the information. The manager gets feedback indirectly and can therefore adapt the messages, or the information efforts, to the receivers.Keywords: Organizational communication, Internal communication, Information, Feedback..

Titel: Outsourcing ? på vilka grunder, en fallstudie av underlagen vid outsourcingbeslut Författare: Carina Asplund Handledare: Eva Wittbom Sektion: Ekonomi, Management och Samhällsvetenskap, Blekinge Tekniska högskola Course: Magisteruppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 högskolepoäng Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: Ett outsourcingbeslut kan fattas på många olika grunder och de vanligast förekommande motivatorerna i privat näringsliv är strategiska motivatorer som att renodla verksamheten och fokusera på sin kärnverksamhet eller kostnadsbesparande motivatorer. Många företag lägger ut delar av sin verksamhet utan någon grundligare förstudie, på grund av högre chefers personliga erfarenheter, familjeband, känslor eller lyckosamma anekdoter om andra företags framgångsrika outsourcingprojekt. Beslut som grundas på trender eller känsla kan ha en direkt negativ påverkan på det långsiktiga resultatet av outsourcingaktiviteten på grund av bristande analys och förberedelse. För att kunna fatta långsiktigt hållbara beslut är det viktigt att ta sig tid att utföra en grundlig förstudie för att kunna förutse vilka kostnader, utmaningar, möjligheter och aktiviteter outsourcingprojektet för med sig.

Sweden?s tourism increases and new hotel opens. Since 1978 to 2011, the hotel rooms in Sweden doubled. International congresses, sports- and artistic events are a few examples of what affects the hotel industry. Sweden is seen as an attractive destination and future forecast looks to have a positive trend.