This essay describes how theatre can be a tool in social work. The essay evaluates the Swed-ish KRAFT-project, a course for unemployed people with the goal to make them grow as in-dividuals by using drama exercises and performing a theatre play in front of an audience. The essay is a quantitative secondary study of the questionnaire used in the KRAFT-project. Through analysing the questionnaire the participants answered this essay tries to explain the results from a social psychological perspective. The essay also discusses how the participants? self-concept and self-esteem could have been affected by the KRAFT-project.

Addition to the Skellefteå Kraft headquarters: The main part of this thesis is constituted by the work I carried out as project architect for the addition to the Skellefteå Kraft headquarters during the years 2005-2009. The work is presented in the form of a selection of drawings..

In today?s changing environment, creation of projects by organizations has become more common. The problem is, though, that the knowledge of the subject is still limited which causes many projects to fail. This has made it extra important to have a good project manager whocanlead the project in the right direction. While doing this both the project method and the project manager?s motivation are contributing sources.

  iiiAbstract?We are living in a time of project. Everything becomes project. All development, all efficient,all changes are running as project?.

More than half of the implemented IT-projects go over budget, deadline or simply fail. The processes in an IT-project requires technical competence to be present among the project participants to ensure the achievement of business goals and to make organisations competitive. The success of an IT-project largely depends on the project manager which makes it interesting to further investigate what impact the project manager?s technical competence has on the project. Previous research shows differing opinions whether technical competence is considered important for the project manager to be successful or not.

Instruktionsmanualer är ett problem för många företag i samband med att de exporterar sina produkter. Att fylla anvisningarna med ett stort antal språk blir båda dyrt och opraktiskt. En fråga som är relevant för ett av dessa företag är vilken bild som skall användas som representant för begreppet kraft. Frågeställningen i denna rapport är således: Kommer försökspersonerna att uppleva att representerande konkreta bilder visar en bättre beskrivning av begreppet kraft än analoga abstrakta bilder. Resultatet visar att en överväldigande majoritet av försökspersonerna valde den representerande konkreta bilden som en tydlig och beskrivande representant för begreppet kraft..

I denna kvalitativa studie intervjuades tre kvinnor som lämnat relationer där de utsattes förvåld. Syftet med studien var att få en fördjupad kunskap kring kvinnornas känslomässigaprocess kring relationen där de utsatts för våld med fokus på ilskan. Frågeställningen var omdet kan finnas en positiv kraft i ilskan som hjälper kvinnorna i relationen ochuppbrottsprocessen. Studien kopplades till ilskans funktion utifrån affektteori.De tre kvinnorna i studien berättade om relationer som präglats av våld. De beskrev sinakänslor och reaktioner under relationen, i separationsprocessen och utvecklingen efterseparationen.

This project concentrates on musicians who work in a professional music studio.The task of this project was to design a new headphone system called Foldback system.The advantage of this system is that all involved in a music project could influence their ownlistening during the project. With a couple of adjustments should each and everyone get theirown individual listening from their headphone station.This report shows different methods, theories and results that came along in development ofFoldback system. The project has resulted in a finished product that will be in use atStudiomega..

Företag behöver bli mer innovativa för att utvecklas och överleva. I det sammanhanget är det viktigt att tillvarata den innovativa potentialen hos de anställda. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur företag kan skapa förutsättningar för utveckling av innovativ kraft och hur ett företag på ett bra sätt tillvaratar denna kraft. Uppsatsen skrivs ur ett företagsperspektiv och vi avgränsar oss från de anställdas perspektiv. Vår ansats har liknat fallstudiens.

There are several Project Management Softwares onthe market today. These tools are powerful andextensive to the degree they become too timeconsumingand complex and therefore often defeatits original purpose. This is the case especiallywhen the project manager is inexperienced and/orthe scope of the project is moderate.The purpose of this thesis arose from this context,there seems to be a gap between a home-made MSExcel spread sheet and the advanced softwaresavailable. The thesis and the product has beendeveloped in alliance with Faveo ProjectManagement with the shared goal to create a toolwhich is easy to use but still covers the essentialareas of project management theory. The tool willbe used internally by Faveo-employees as well asexternally together with Faveo?s clients in aneducational purpose.

Stockholm is constantly growing and changing. Despite this, for various reasons, it is difficult to execute large building projects. With starting-point in decision making theories we have tried to investigate these difficulties. More specifically we have chosen to study why it has not been possible to rebuilt Slussen in Stockholm. To help us structure our study we have based our research on another large comparable building project, the Globen City project.

This is a result of a diploma work in construction engineering. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the nature of the productivity in a given project and how the Skanska productivity tools were used in this project.Interviews were held among workers and management to get some answers on what affected the work and its productivity. The result of the thesis showed that the productivity tools as propulsion analysis and ?goal cards?, were not used to a wide extent in this project. Furthermore there was almost no feedback for the one who made the calculation and the offer for the project, which might affect the results on projects negatively in the future.Within the project there was a lot of waiting time which affected the productivity.

Our starting point has been to examine how a project manager without knowledge of the industry is able to plan a project. And also which difficulties that may arise. A qualitative study was conducted at project managers who worked in the construction industry and events industry. Seven interviews were conducted, four in the construction sector and three in the events industry. Respondents are active as project manager in Värmland and Närkes counties.

Background: The project controller is a function witch evolved due to the strong gaining ground of project operation. Why the area of the project controller is interesting to study is explained by the fact that increasing knowledge of this function is important in order to make project operation work well. The fact that opinions in this field disagree, further increases the interest of the field. In order to study the function of the project controller three companies have been singled out. They are IFS, Intentia and Saab Bofors Dynamics.

There is a settled stereotype for women and men which give them different possibilities in our society. The schools, which are one of the most important sources of knowledge, have a great possibility to influence. This is the reason why we are interested in how the schools are working with a project, which we will call X henceforth. What was the purpose with the project and what does it contain? What is missing in the former education, since the project was started? Are there any obstacles or prerequisite in the design of the project or in the school teaching on the basis of X? We have done interviews in the gathering of empirical material to find out all the answers to our questions.