Background: Children?s death is unexpected and unnatural irrespective of a long time of illness or a sudden death. Nurses working with palliative care of children experience a range of different emotions during the care. Palliative care is health promoting even though the purpose no longer is to cure. According to the nursing theorist Katie Eriksson health is possible to achieve even though the patient has got a deadly disease.

Sales is the foundation for all commercial business and companies that have the best sales process in conjunction with efficient deliveries will do well in the long run. The author of this report was tasked by the Organisation in South Africa to study new/alternative ways of attracting Swedish companies to South Africa and sell the services of the Organisation to these same companies (defined as the sales process in this report) by analysing how similar international service companies do the same. A benchmarking process has been conducted with four similar service organizations in South Africa to examine how these companies work in comparison to the Organization. Surveys have been used for purposes of this study, as the methodology is well suited to provide the author a view on the opinions, perceptions and experiences of the respondents.The project aimed to develop new methods to attract Swedish companies to South Africa or improve and streamline the existing methods. The aim was also to develop new ways to sell the organization's services to Swedish companies.The study concludes that there is little focus on marketing of services within the Organisation.

Syftet med denna rapport är att undersöka hur polisen som organisation definierar och framställer jämställdhet. Detta utförs genom att retoriskt granska polisens handlingsplaner gällande jämställdhet utifrån olika versioner av begreppet jämställdhet. I bakgrunden beskrivs begreppet jämställdhet som mångfacetterat och öppet för tolkning, vilket ger organisationen en möjlighet att själva definiera innebörden av jämställdhet. I bakgrunden beskrivs även de versioner av jämställdhet som rapporten bygger på. Resultatet av granskningen visar att polisens handlingsplaner innehållsmässigt betonar versioner av konsensus, skillnadstänkande och individualism.

Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge that is located inside individuals; it is not expressed or written like explicit knowledge. Inherently, tacit knowledge is often limited solely to one person and consequently individually based. Project based companies need to acknowledge the importance of transforming tacit knowledge into explicit in order to preserve the knowledge inside the organisation. If the knowledge is not transformed, there is a great risk of losing the knowledge when a key individual leaves the organization.One way of transforming the tacit knowledge is through Nonaka?s and Takeuchi?s knowledge spiral.

Level:This is a final thesis for a bachelor degree in Business Administration. The thesis is orientedin the field of marketing and written at the University of Gavle.Authors:Caroline Gustafsson & Caroline Tell LjungbergDate:May 2014Tutors:Lars-Johan Åge, Jonas Molin & Jens Eklinder-FrickTitle:The implementation process of ethical guidelines ? A qualitative study of the Swedishinsurance industryPurpose:The aim of this study is to create an understanding of different approaches to design andimplement organizational guidelines / codes to help the employees to behave ethically and deal withethical dilemmas.Method:By starting from the study's aim, it was appropriate to use a qualitative approach toconducting the survey. The study's empirical study consisted of semi-structured interviews. Weinterviewed ten companies in the Swedish insurance industry.

The forest owner cooperative has observed difficulties with keeping women as forest advisers/ buyers. This is a problem because the organisation wish to have both men?s and women?s qualifications. The organisation?s purpose in their equality and multiplicity plan is to increase the knowledge and awareness of equality and multiplicity, increase the credibility to the members and customers, and to be well prepared for the future need of qualifications. The purpose of this paper is to identify if there are any conditions that may limit female employees at this particular service.

Konflikter är idag ett normalt inslag i våra liv både hemma, på arbetet och på fritiden och anledningarna kan vara många. Vårt förhållande till konflikter är ofta dubbelbottnat. Vi både skyggar för dem och vi dras till dem. Syftet med studien var att belysa konflikt och konfliktsituationer i relation till ledarskap i en kommunal organisation. • Vilken betydelse har ledarskapet i en organisation? • Vilka synsätt och tankegångar har ledare angående konflikt? • Hur hanterar ledarna olika konfliktsituationer? De viktigaste som framkom är att ledarna behöver en förstärkt självkänsla och fortlöpande kunskaper angående konflikter.

Konflikter är idag ett normalt inslag i våra liv både hemma, på arbetet och på fritiden och anledningarna kan vara många. Vårt förhållande till konflikter är ofta dubbelbottnat. Vi både skyggar för dem och vi dras till dem. Syftet med studien var att belysa konflikt och konfliktsituationer i relation till ledarskap i en kommunal organisation. ? Vilken betydelse har ledarskapet i en organisation? ? Vilka synsätt och tankegångar har ledare angående konflikt? ? Hur hanterar ledarna olika konfliktsituationer? De viktigaste som framkom är att ledarna behöver en förstärkt självkänsla och fortlöpande kunskaper angående konflikter.

Our purpose with this master thesis is to look at school libraries in two separate municipal contexts and with the help of case studies try to reach understanding of how the municipal organisation in general influences and co-operates with day to day reality. In order to achieve this objective we have posed the following questions: What importance are school libraries given in relation to questions of overall management and goals in the greater organisation? How are resources distributed and management allocated in the two cases? How are the various school libraries in the two municipalities organised when it comes to workload, employee role assumption and teamwork? In the section dealing with theory and previous research we present the theoretical viewpoint and the literature of importance for our subject. This includes a short history, reports and laws, and also some research and theory on school library organisation. Our method has been to study the circumstances in two separate municipalities, Varberg and Växjö.

AbstractThis paper will examine the co-operation culture in teacher work teams in a primary school currently undergoing reorganization in the Stockholm region. This inquiry is based on qualita-tive interviews with teachers and work team leaders, and is aiming to answer how teachers co-operate during the reorganization process, to find the factors that affect co-operation. Our results show that the two teams practice communication, leadership and participation very differently. Currently there are clear differences in the work team?s tendency to develop and to work with the reorganization process, pedagogic methods, social and emotional awareness and ideological beliefs.

The aim of this masters thesis was to study how the members of a small non-profit organisation perceived the web forum, compared to the other information channels of the organisation. The organisation was defined as a virtual community. A literature review was conducted. The theory construction was based on the sensemaking theory. Interview questions were constructed based on the literature review and the sensemaking theory.

In recent years, Information Technology (IT) has gained more importance in workinglife. More and more organisations has shown an interest about how technology can beused to manage the competence of the employees, and how IT can contribute to thedevelopment of the organisation. In order to achieve this, there is a need for suitabletools to support this process. Even though the implementation of competencemanagement systems (CMS) is a highly up to date question for many organisations,there is a lack of scientific reserach concering this area. This study will contribute tothe research area by examining how CMS is used by employees in daily working life.The manager and the employees in a healthcare organisation in Sweden were observedduring appraisals in order to observe how they used the CMS to evaluate competence.The appraisals were considered a suitable place for studing CMS in use within anorganisation.By using theoretical perspecitves such as the Sociomateriality and Situated Learning,the study can contribute to the knowledge of the entanglement between technologyand working practice.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur man ser på lärande och arbetar med lärande inom två organisationer från ett ledningsperspektiv, för att sedan ställa detta i relation till teorier om den lärande organisationen. De organisationer som undersöks är ett byggföretag och ett arbetsförmedlingskontor. Studien tar avstamp i en genomgång av begreppet lärande organisation. Begreppets historiska bakgrund och viktiga förgrundsfigurer tas upp för att sedan visa hur begreppet har utvecklats och ser ut idag.Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ ansats och metoden som använts är informantintervjuer. Tre personer inom respektive organisation har intervjuats, alla med insikt och inflytande över hur man arbetar med frågor som rör lärande och kompetensutveckling.

AbstractTitle: A changing climate? A study on the changes of the communicativeclimate. Klimat i förändring? En studie om det kommunikativaklimatets förändring.Author: Anne BjörckAim: The aim of this essay is to study changes in the area of the communicative climate and link that to Karl Weicks thoughts on communication and change. Karl Weick is famous for his contribution to organizational theories and he is still very well used around the world and that is the main reason to why his theory is served as a base in this essay.Method: The essay has a theoretical base with elements of qualitative explorative research method.

This paper aims to examine performance monitoring in project organisations. The number of organisations that regularly performs projects as a key part of their operations grows rapidly, why this topic has become of large interest. Through a theoretical framework developed by Lars Östman in 1977, the performance monitoring system of the Swedish government-owned public utility Svenska Kraftnät is studied closely. The results from this analysis are then linked to an analysis of the organisation's internal structure through Mintzbergs generic organisational structures. Close connections are found between organisational structure and performance monitoring, which leads on to interesting observations about the connection between size of a project organisation and choice of monitoring method..