Background: Since the coining of the phrase lean production by Womack, Jones and Roos in 1990, this mass production system of Japanese origin has been implemented in a multitude of organizations throughout the world, the results being predominantly positive from a financial point of view. The possibly negative effects of mass production on worker motivation have been discussed since quality of work life became an important political issue in Sweden in the 1970?s. As the popularity of lean service is now increasing, there are still unresolved issues regarding the transferability of a mass production system to the service industry, particularly with regards to the motivation of service employees.Purpose: The purpose of our thesis is to study the lean system of a Swedish bank, SEB Way, from a management- as well as an employee perspective in order to describe how lean may affect the work motivation of service employees.Research procedure: The study is empirically based on observations and interviews on multiple hierarchical levels at SEB. We have conducted a total of 13 interviews with front line employees at SEB, with the central SEB Way team as well as two external lean specialists.Results: The study indicates that SEB Way has little direct influence on the intrinsic work motivation of the SEB front line employees, as work motivation was present prior to the implementation of lean.

A B S T R A C TTitle: Democracy- Choice of the people or the voice of media? (Demokrati- Folkets styre eller Mediernas Makt?)Number of pages: 36Author: Carolina VallinTutor: Else NygrenCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2006University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The purpose with this essay is to discuss which influence media has on the democracy.Material/Method: Qualitative explorative research method is used to see how much space the newspaper Dagens Nyheter gave to the parties represented in the parliament, and compare the results with the numbers the parties received in the general election 2006.Main results: This research showed similar results in the survey made of DN and the numbers the parties received in the general election 2006. Media can?t decide how people should vote in a election, but they can influence what citizens think and talk about by having the power to choose which information that shows on the agenda.Key Words: Dagens Nyheter, Agenda setting, Media, Power and Democracy..

Ohälsan ökar i västvärlden som en följd av bland annat försämrade kostvanor och alltför lite fysisk aktivitet. För att öka aktivitetsgraden hos den vuxna befolkningen i Sverige erbjuds många via arbets¬givaren möjlighet till friskvård på betald arbetstid. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka olika aspekter av motivation och inställ¬ning till motion hos individer som nyttjar respektive inte utnyttjar friskvårdsförmånen. Data samlades in genom semistruktu¬rerade intervjuer med tio personer vilka sedan analyserades enligt teoristyrd tematisk analys. Deltagarna besvarade även ett standardiserat mät¬instrument (Sport Motivation Scale).

Detta examensarbete unders?ker morgonfritidsverksamhetens roll och uppfattningen om det svenska fritidshemmet, med s?rskilt fokus p? diskursen om fritid som ??verbliven tid.? Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med utbildade fritidsl?rare utforskar studien hur ?morgonfritids? organiseras och genomf?rs, vilka faktorer som bidrar till en framg?ngsrik verksamhet, samt hur denna tid kan omdefinieras som en pedagogisk m?jlighet snarare ?n en f?rvaringstid. Studien bygger p? Haglunds (2009) analys av fritidshemmets diskurser, d?r fritid som "?verbliven tid" ofta f?rlorar sin pedagogiska potential, samt p? Vygotskijs sociokulturella teori om l?rande (S?lj?, 2020). Vidare lyfts Jonssons (2021) och P?lsd?ttirs (2012) forskning fram f?r att belysa vikten av dialog och samarbete mellan personal och elever samt hur otydliga pedagogiska visioner kan p?verka personalens yrkesidentitet. Hippinen Ahlgrens (2021) insikter om balansen mellan f?rplanerade och spontana strategier anv?nds ocks? f?r att analysera elevens delaktighet.

Förett företags konkurrenskraft och överlevnad är det idag av stor vikt att ha enfungerande rekrytering och kompetensförsörjning som matchar företagets behovmed individens. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att undersökaupplevelser av arbetsrelaterad motivation och lojalitet vad det gällerdeltagande i ett Traineeprogram. Två fokusgruppintervjuer med fem deltagarefrån år 2011 och fem deltagare från 2012 ligger till grund för studien. Dataanalyserades med kvalitativ tematisk dataanalys och huvudresultatet visademycket positiva upplevelser av motivation och lojalitet. Resultatet visade attdeltagarna upplevde att de fått en god inblick i hela organisationen och därmedutvecklat bättre förståelse, engagemang och tillit.

On the first of October 2012 the media reported that the women in the Ikea cataloguehad been airbrushed in the Saudi edition. Initially the blame was put on either theSaudi government the Islamic culture or the Saudi franchise. In the end it wasrevealed that the Swedish company Inter Ikea Systems had the full responsibility forIkeas actions and therefore was the culprit behind the airbrushing. On whoseinitiative or why the airbrushing was done the media never found out. These areanswers only Ikea has, although they remain unresponsive to these questionsthroughout the news portrayal.This study methodology uses a qualitative content analysis as framework to furtherinvestigate the news media with support of theoretical perspectives such as mediatheory, power relations and cultural differences.

This Bachelor thesis is a case study that explores the possibilities and complications to use social media in marketing purposes. The case involves a company that sells garments for men. The company, named Mouli, has decided to use social media as their marketing platform. The company makes an interesting case, since they are still quite new on the market and have all the possibilities to succeed.The purpose for the thesis is to examine Mouli?s use of marketing in social media and to evaluate what could be done to amend the communication.

När jag har varit ute i gymnasieskolan på praktik har jag mött elever med väldigt olika attityder och inställningar till matematik. Dessa attityder kan ha följt med eleverna länge, då de möter matematiken för första gången i förskolan. När eleverna sedan når gymnasiet är de olika motiverade för att lära sig matematik och som lärare kan det vara svårt att veta hur man ska motivera sina elever till att lära sig matematik. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att sammanställa och analysera vilka yttre- och intre faktorer som påverkar elevers motivation i ämnet matematik, för att sedan kunna diskutera vad dessa faktorer kan ha för inverkan på elever motivation på gymnasiet.Litteraturstudien visar att det finns flertalet yttre- och inre faktorer som kan påverka elevers motivation för att lära sig matematik under skolgången och att det finns olika teorier om när elevers motivation för att lära sig matematik sjunker. Dessa faktorer har olika stor påverkan på elevernas motivation på gymnasiet och de flesta av faktorerna kommer att kunna påverka eleverna även när de går på gymnasiet.

The overall aim with this study is to elucidate outdoor education as an education method and on the basis of that illustration to examine active educators vision on it as a way to motivate students' learning. This study is based on a literature component and a qualitative study through interviews five teachers.The results of the interviews show how to interpret the motivation and how to work with students' motivation. As well as outdoor education as part of the activity.  The interviews show the importance of outdoor education can be to increase students'motivation for learning. They also show the importance of outdoor education is for student learning and test scores have shown the effectiveness of student learning through outdoor education.

The purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate non-profit organizations way of working with social media within the organization, from a marketing perspective. We have made observations of three organizations and completed a series of interviews with representatives within the organizations.In the report we came up with five factors that are necessary for non-profit organizations in order to receive long term donations with the use of social media; Trust, awareness, involvement, interaction and Word of mouth marketing.Our result shows that the organizations have realized the potential and benefits of using social media, but have not come very far in the process of using it properly. Our conclusion is that social media can give assumptions for long term donations, if the organizations use a customer perspective and give their customers added value..

Motivation är drivkraften till mänskligt agerande, värderande och produktivitet. I skolan är detta ett aktuellt begrepp då motivation till lärande är en betydande del av en elevs utveckling inom skolan. Lärare får därmed dagligen försöka hjälpa elever skapa motivation till lärande för att de ska klara de utsatta målen som finns i läroplanen. Det är en svår uppgift att som lärare stödja elever i deras skapande av motivation till lärande. Begreppet motivation till lärande är inget outforskat område, däremot ett viktigt fenomen som jag tyvärr känner inte uppmärksammas nog mycket inom lärarutbildningen eller tydliggörs i de beslut som tas inom skolan.

Föreliggande uppsats undersöker sambandet mellan självbild ochanvändning av inlärningsstrategier samt deras relation med motivationoch autonomi hos inlärare av svenska som andraspråk. Huvudfokus iuppsatsen ligger på inlärningsstrategier. Jag utgår från Rebecka L.Oxfords klassificering av inlärningsstrategier (1990) och redogör ävenför självbild, motivation och autonomi. I samband med detta ges enöverblick i ämnet svenska som andraspråk samt hur kursplanen i ämnetbehandlar självbild, inlärningsstrategier, motivation och autonomi. Somunderlag för studien ligger kvalitativa intervjuer med fyraandraspråksinlärare.

In October 2006 the media began investigating the four ministers Billström, Borg, Borelius and Stegö Chilò who were all being accused of miner tax fraud. The two women, Stegö Chilò and Borelius became the primary victims of an extensive media hunt where the media already had made their minds up; the women had to go. The more the women tried to explain themselves, they only seemed to be digging themselves into a deeper hole and ten days into the ?hunt?, the media got their way, the women resigned while the men, even today remain on their positions. What was it then that made the outcome so different regarding the four ministers when the only thing to really set them apart was their genders?With support of theories from Giddens, Habermas and Thompson as well as theories regarding media, gender and the medias ethical responsibility we have in a qualitatively narrative analysis studied 20 articles from Dagens Nyheter and Expressen.

The purpose of this essay is to explore how social media affect the political orientation and commitment of youths. Three scientific questions highlight the purpose from different angles. The didactic perspective is discussed in the initial and closing discussion, and is analyzed in the corresponding chapter. Two methods are involved in the study; one survey and one interview with a focus group. The survey had a total of 98 respondents from four different classes, all in the first grade of upper secondary school.

The purpose of this diagnostic master thesis is to examine the motivation of the individuals working in a specific section at Sony Ericsson BGNMVNL. In order to do this, we will distinguish motivational and de-motivational factors that influence the individuals? in their work. Further, we also have the aim of giving recommendations on how to act on these outcomes in order to improve the motivation in BGNMVNL. Our thesis is a diagnostic study in which data is collected by qualitative face-to-face interviews and observations with selected individuals at Sony Ericsson.