Title:Social media as a tool for organizational learningAuthor:David Chaaya & Filip FischerSupervisor:Stig Sörling & Tomas KÀllqvistBackground:People have always used different ways of communicating. Communication hasa vital role in organizations for control when management and employees are communicatingand interacting with each other to spread individual learning. Thru this contact, individuallearning can develop into organizational learning, which will benefit the whole organization.The most modern tool of communication is social media such as Facebook, Twitter andYoutube. The potential of these social media is disputed in society, but more and moreorganizations are using these kinds of media for communication.Aim:The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social media is used to control withinorganizations and also to create understanding how significant social media are fororganizational learning.Method:The method of this study originates from the ?aktörssynsÀtt? and is influenced byhermeneutics.

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore which inner conceptions about the abused older women the professional social workers had and how they experienced the enconter of an abused old woman in an intimate partner relation. The theoretical background is social construction by Berger and Luckmann. This theory was uset to analyze the transcribed interviews. This study is based on nine interviews with five professionals in social services, three volunteers from the voluntary sector and one social worker who worked in a community based support group for abused older women. The result of this study shows that older women were often abused, by a relative they were dependent on, in their home.

Detta Ă€r en kvalitativ studie vars syfte Ă€r att genom intervjuer med tidigare kriminella vuxna undersöka deras upplevelser av vilken pĂ„verkan anstaltsvistelser och ett tidigare kriminellt leverne har gĂ€llande socialt umgĂ€nge och identitet.Vi utförde intervjuer med fyra individer med nu ordnad tillvaro. FrĂ„gorna stĂ€lldes utifrĂ„n en semistrukturerad intervjuguide som baserades pĂ„ uppsatsens syfte, tidigare forskning, och teori.Även om anstaltsvistelserna upplevts pĂ„tvingade och konstlade har respondenterna i varierande grad kunnat pĂ„verka sin tillvaro och det sociala umgĂ€nget. Det har funnits ett stort avstĂ„ndstagande mellan intagna och anstaltspersonal. Vid frigivning har respondenterna upplevt Ă„ngest och vissa har fĂ„tt anpassningssvĂ„righeter till ett liv i frihet. SjĂ€lvbilden har utvecklats genom social interaktion med nĂ€ra anhöriga.

?Facebook has become as natural as having a phone? The use of social media in three libraries in the UmeÄ region ? an evaluationSocial media has come to be an integral part of people?s everyday life, as well as the business world in terms of communication and marketing. More and more libraries also embark in the use of social media, and the purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of social media in three libraries in the UmeÄ region. The libraries all use Facebook as their current, primary social media. Thus this study focuses partly on the analysis of the content on each library?s Facebook page, and partly on the experiences of the responsible librarians. The evaluation is based on a mix of existing tools in evaluating social media that are relevant in a library context.

Social media seem to offer a great possibility for environmental non-profit organizations to communicate with their members and audience, if the organization aims to build and maintain a relationship to the users of social media. This essay has examined how three environmental non-profil organizations are communicating in social media. To create an understanding of the organization?s communication strategies a netnographic approach was implemented..

The overall purpose of this essay was to provide a better understanding of the importance of discretion for social workers in direct social services. To answer the purpose three questions were formulated: (1) How do social workers define and describe their discretion and their ability to independently accomplish their work? (2) How do social workers experience that workplace organization, policies and economic conditions interact with their discretion and (3) How do social workers experience that the interaction with the client can affect how they use their discretion in the individual case? The method used was qualitative interviews. The theoretical framework was Michael Lipskys (1980) Street-level bureaucracy and the four themes organization, professional role, skills and interaction.The results showed that the respondents, although they did not consider themselves to be affected by the economy still adapted to budget restrictions when they said that they were cost conscious in their work. This adjustment to budget framework could possibly be what made them not feel limited in their work.

Syfte med detta arbete var att undersöka om och hur utomhuspedagogik kan frÀmja social kompetens och om utomhuspedagogik kan vara en möjlighet för att trÀna social kompetens i gymnasieskolan.Dagens ungdomar har fÀrre vuxenkontakter och blir influerade av det tekniska samhÀllet samtidigt som sociala fÀrdigheter trÀnas mindre. DÀrav blir ungdomars brister i social kompetens mer pÄtaglig för samhÀllet. Gymnasielever befinner sig i en kÀnslig utvecklingsfas dÀr social kompetens spelar en omedveten roll för sociala interaktioner. För nÀrvarande finns ingen aktuell forskning om sambandet mellan utomhuspedagogik och trÀning av social kompetens pÄ gymnasieskolan.Min empiriska studie har med hjÀlp av kvalitativa intervjuer av fyra verksamheter som arbetar med utomhuspedagogik tagit reda pÄ om och hur utomhuspedagogik kan anvÀndas för att frÀmja social kompetens. Respondenterna Àr verksamma i grundskolan, försvarsmakten, polisutbildningen och företagskonsulting.

The aim of this study was to examine what knowledge social workers express about home visits in child welfare investigations and how they know what to do. Sixteen social workers who work with social investigations concerning children were asked to discuss the topic home visit in three focus group interviews in three different municipalities in southern Sweden. The social workers in our focus group interviews mainly discussed the purpose of the home visit, what social workers do during home visits and furthermore their opinions about guidelines and policy documents regarding the home visit.  To get an understanding of what type of knowledge is the basis for social workers use of the home visit, we used Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing' as well as the Aristotelian theory of knowledge containing three forms of knowledge, that is, episteme, techne and fronesis. We found that the displaying of ?tacit knowing? was a consistent feature in all groups, as they had difficulty expressing their knowledge use.

The thesis had its starting point in the first paragraph of the eleventh chapter in the Swedish social services act, which discusses the immediate risk assessments that has to be made when the social services receive a report about a child. The thesis highlights an area that has received a lot of attention in media since the spring of 2014, when an eight year old girl was fatally abused by her legal guardians. The social services had at the time received a report about the girl but it was left unread. This tragic case has brought attention to the routines used by the social services for dealing with reports and risk assessments. This thesis was conducted through individual interviews with social workers working with children and families in the social services, with the aim to acquire an enhanced understanding of how social workers perform immediate risk assessments and what these assessments are based on.

The problem with narcotics is one of Sweden?s biggest social problems. Statistics shows thatthe number of narcotic related deaths and the numbers of heavy drug users are increasing. Thepresent narcotic policy has been questioned due to this increase. As a social worker you meetdrug users on a daily basis.

Bakgrund: InternetanvÀndandet erbjuder en arena för social interaktion men kan innebÀra en risk att bli utsatt för nÀtmobbning. Flera barn och ungdomar beskriver negativa emotionella och psykiska effekter till följd av nÀtmobbning. I skolsköterskans yrkesansvar ingÄr att arbeta förebyggande och hÀlsofrÀmjande samt att verka för en god fysisk, psykisk och social skolmiljö. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva skolsköterskors erfarenheter av hur nÀtmobbning pÄverkar elevers hÀlsa i mellan- och högstadiet. Metod: Data insamlades genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sju skolsköterskor.

AbstractTitle: Cooperation between social enterprisesLevel: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business AdministrationAuthor: Anna HammarbergSupervisor: Maria Fregidou-MalamaDate: 2012 - JanuaryAim: The aim of the study is to investigate social enterprises and the Glada Hudik-model to understand how social enterprises cooperate and how they can develop the cooperation through Social Enterprises in Co-operation (SAK). Method: I have done a qualitative research study. I have studied literature to get theoretical background. I visited a seminar to get information and inspiration. Interviews have been done with six persons to get empirical information.      Result and conclusions: Through this study I have seen that social enterprises can co-operate to strengthen their position in the community. Together they can run issues they have in common, undertake major assignments and purchase material to get better deals.

Denna rapport beskriver ett examensarbete som gjorts vid Linköpings Universitet under hösten 2012 och vÄren 2013. Arbetet gick ut pÄ att utforska de olika interaktionsmöjligheterna för Microsoft Kinect samt vad man sjÀlv kan utveckla till denna plattform. I detta arbete gjordes en förstudie för att utröna existerande metoder och hur dessa fungerar. UtifrÄn denna studie formulerades en frÄgestÀllning enligt nedan.Hur kan man anvÀnda Microsoft Kinect för att identifiera fysiska objekt pÄ en yta?Kan vi anvÀnda Kinect för att klassificera objekt?Kan vi utveckla en produkt som kan anvÀndas i hemmet?Metoden för att svara pÄ dessa frÄgor innefattar skapandet av ett scenario dÀr Kinecten kan anvÀndas för objektidentifiering.

In 2007 a project began in the Uppsala region, which aimed to help municipalities implement BBIC (Barns behov i centrum). BBIC is a system that helps social workers increase children?s participation in investigations relating to social work. This study follows up on BBIC?s implementation process in Enköping, a municipality in the Uppsala region.

The purpose of this essay has been to study if the social services adjust the choice of institution to every juvenile's need of care. If the choice of institution isn't adjusted to the juveniles the institutional placement can become a way to store them rather then treat them.To accomplish the purpose of the essay we have interviewed ten social workers with different worktitles and positions. We have delimited the study to three swedish communities with varying sizes. We have analyzed the material with Bourdieus theory of "field" and "doxa" and Antonovskys theory "a sense of coherence" (SOC).We came to the conclusion that the social service adjusted the choice of institution to the juveniles needs as much as possible. Although there are a couple of factors that some times makes the best choices impossible.