Syftet med studien är att identifiera hur fenomenet motivation konstrueras i tre olika diskurser. Dessa diskurser är fokusgruppsamtal med gymnasieelever, läroplanen för gymnasiet samt en text om motivationsforskning för skolans värld. Analysen av diskurserna är baserad på Faircloughs tredimensionella kritiska diskursmodell. Studien synliggör skillnader och likheter i de studerande diskursena med särskilt fokus på vad detta får för påverkan på elevernas drivkrafter till lärande. Analysen visar att läroplanen konstruerar ett ideal där eleven ses som ansvartagande med motivation till lärande av ett meningsfullt kunskapsstoff.

Authors: Maria Bergholtz, Alexander WestessonTutor: Daniel EricssonTitle: Performance Measurement of Creative work ? a culture study at PS CommunicationKeywords: Key Performance Indicators, Organizational Culture, Macro-culture, Subculture,Micro-culture, Art, Business, Creativity, PS CommunicationIn the paper?s introductory chapter, the chosen problem area regarding art and business willbe presented. The paper?s studied empirical case will also be introduced here. This then leadsto the reports chosen research questions:How do the company management and the companies? creative personnel approach differ inthe discussion regarding performance measurement on PS Communication?-What causes these differences?What impact does the corporate culture have in the discussion about performancemeasurement of PS Communication?-Is the corporate culture weak or strong?The purpose of this paper is to resolve the stand still in the discussion regarding performancemanagement by creating an understanding of different people active in the organization?sapproach to performance measurement.

Forskning pekar på brister i dagens matematikundervisning som bland annat handlar om elevers motivation. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka gymnasieelevers studiemotivation i ämnet matematik. Genom intervjustudier har elevers upplevelser av deras mål, självförtroende och inflytande kopplats till teorier om motivation.Motivation är ett begrepp som har utvecklats av många forskare under en längre tid, vilket har lett till ett flertal infallsvinklar. I skolan är mål, självförtroende och inflytande några av möjliga faktorer som påverkar elevers motivation. Elevernas mål i undervisningen betraktas med utgångspunkt i relationen mellan lärandemål och prestationsmål.

Forskning har visat att arbetssökandes motivation till att söka arbete påverkar deras hälsa och sociala liv. Tre motivationsteorier som utvecklats inom området och som ligger till grund i studien ärFörväntning- och värdeteorin, Målsättningsteorin och Självbestämmandeteorin. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur positivt psykologiskt kapital, inskrivningstid på arbetsförmedling samt tillgång till jobbcoach eller inte inverkar på arbetssökandes inre motivation. En enkätstudie genomfördes där 154 arbetssökande, 83 män och 70 kvinnor deltog. De fick ta ställning till 50 påståenden gällande tron på den egna förmågan, hopp, hantering av motgång och inre motivation.

The purpose of this study was to implement an energy analysis and environmental evaluation of the property Hemsta 12:16 in Gävle. Based on two different methods, Energy Balance calculation and Environmental Building, the result of the property's energy use, energy performance and environmental impacts are presented. Except that, measures to reduce final energy consumption are presented.      The proposed measures can reduce energy usage by 100 400 kWh / year, which represents a decrease of 18% of the present energy usage. This would represent a total savings of 63 000 SEK per year. In addition, the environmental performance is improved by adopting the suggested measures..

The purpose of this paper is to examine motivation in studies and/or work among unaccompanied adolescents who received asylum in Sweden. We have examined how six unaccompanied refugee boys? ages 15-18 years describe their motivation, regarding both current studies and their potential future studies or work. We have attempted to capture the children?s stories about what the factors are that increase or decrease their motivation through qualitative research interviews.

Monetära belöningar är en vanlig förekommande metod i kunskapsintensiva företag för attöka motivation och därmed prestation hos en organisations medarbetare samtidigt sommonetära belöningars influens på motivation är ett omtvistat ämne där vitt skilda resultat haruppvisats. Ett förbisett område inom motivationsforskning är huruvida monetära belöningarinfluerar strategiskt lärande. Dock använder kunskapsintensiva företag monetära belöningarsamtidigt som anställdas strategiska lärande är av stor vikt för fortsatt överlevnad. Dennauppsats ämnar därmed belysa detta med intentionen att utveckla forskningsbidrag till såvälteori som praktik. Resultatet av vår kvalitativa undersökning tyder på att motivation tillstrategiskt lärande influeras av autonom motivation och att monetära belöningar indirektinfluerar till motivation genom att vara en symbol för att uppnå något för individen önskvärt.Subjektiva och otydliga mål kan vara fördelaktiga för att åstadkomma autonom motivationhos företagets individer då dessa uppmuntrar till nyfikenhet och egna individuella tolkningar..

Background and problemThe biggest difference between companies and non-profit organizations are their purposes. Companies? purpose is to generate profit to the shareholders. Non-profit organizations do not have any shareholders and their purpose is to offer service to receivers of benefits.There are a lot of non-profit organizations today and the competition for the donations is rough. Non-profit organizations can influence the publics? decision of who to support by creating a financial reporting that appeal to the public.PurposeThe purpose of this essay is to examine how non-profit goals are measured in non-profit organizations and if there are a practice on the subject.MethodologyWe choose a qualitative approach as we wanted to understand the reality by explaining it with words.

The purpose of this thesis is to study what motivational factors motivates the staff in the public elderly care and to investigate how the staff ranks the different motivational factors and if the rankings differ depending on gender, age, education, type of employment, time of employment, employer, income and ethnic background. The thesis is based on a questionnaire study with a total of 97 participants. The questionnaire was constructed with the help of prior similar studies conducted in the USA and Malaysia over a sixty-year time period. These studies are then used to analyze the results. The participants in our thesis were given ten motivational factors to rank according to what they believed motivated them the most.

After the mandatory rules for clearing was removed in 1994, the clearing area has increased in Sweden. After the storms Gudrun and Per, the areas became planted with new plants, mainly spruce, but also other tree species. Storm areas are now being invaded by naturally rejuvenated birch in the tilling tracks. Since the birch often is initially growing faster than the spruce it is inhibiting the growth and is also damaging the spruce. The purpose of this thesis is to study the new brush saw with chain and compare it with the conventional clearing saw, mainly in terms of performance and ergonomics. The results show that the new brush saw with chain is very good in almost all clearing operations compared to the conventional clearing saw.

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether gallop training, rather than regular drive training, is worthwhile for trotters race performance. Another aim of the study was to expand the author?s riding- and driving capacity, and get more practical experience on the impact of interval training on trotters. The sample population in the study was two trotters, one Standardbred, and one cold-blood. Given the small sample population, the results of the study is only indicative on the effects of gallop training on trotters, and not conclusive.

AbstractTitle: The effect of caffeine on performance during resistance training ?A systematic overviewAuthor: Amanda Jonsson and Erica BenderSupervisor: Mette AxelsenExaminer: Anna WinkvistProgramme: Dietician study programme, 180/240 ECTSType of paper: Examination paper, 15 hpDate: 2015-03-31Background: Products with high content of caffeine has in recent years become popular for optimizing physical performance. Caffeine affects mechanisms in our body which can be beneficial to perform better during exercise, but the theories have not yet been systematically reviewed.Objective: The purpose of this review article, is to examine the acute effect of caffeine intake before strength training on athletic performance with the outcome muscle endurance.Search strategy: A systematic literature search in databases PubMed, Scopus and Cochrane using keywords: ?Caffeine?, ?strength?, ?muscle?, "resistance training", "muscle strength", "strength training", "athletic performance", ?repetitions to failure?, ?muscular endurance? and ?endurance training?.Selection criteria: Healthy subjects, 16-50 years old, with experience in strength training. Studies with a caffeine intake > 5 mg/kg body weight, which participants performed dynamic strength exercises on a weight > 60% of their 1 RM.

Open source is growing outside the boundaries of hackers, amateurs and software development, creating a humongous potential in many different areas and aspects of society. The intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that drives open source have been in the subject of much research recently, but how they affect each other when paid and unpaid contributors come together is still hidden in obscurity. In this study I investigate how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation correlates with each other and how those correlations affect paid and unpaid open source software contributors. The literature synthesis is based on of systematic reviews through searches in library databases, identification of articles by searching on the Internet and by reading relevant books. My results indicate that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations continuously affect each other and that paid contributors are more vulnerable since their extrinsic motivation in terms of money is reached only when many other motivations are fulfilled.

Altervall, Joakim & Ivarsson, David. (2007) Om lärares och elevers motivation. (On Teachers? and Pupils? Motivation). Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Allmänna utbildningsområdet 60 poäng, Lärarutbildningen, Malmö Högskola. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att ta reda på vad som motiverar lärare och elever och vilka drivkrafter de har för att verka i skolan.

I hälsoprofessionen är beteendeförändringar gällande fysisk aktivitet och kost centralt. Self-Determination Theory är en motivationsteori som i forskning använts för att undersöka motivation till fysisk aktivitet. Det finns däremot mindre litteratur som kopplar teorin till hälsosamma kostvanor. Studiens syfte är att kartlägga och jämföra motivation och målsättning till hälsosamma kostvanor hos en grupp studenter. Studien avser kartlägga samband mellan fysisk aktivitetsnivå, motivation och målsättning samt jämföra könsskillnader.