The aim of this two years master's thesis is to examine public librarians? views of their pedagogical role towards school children, and to illustrate the relationship between public libraries and schools as a background for the role of the public librarians. The theoretical framework is Carol Cullier Kuhlthau?s theory of the roles of librarians as mediators in reference work (Levels of Mediation) and in education (Levels of Education). The main question of the study is: How do public librarians view their pedagogical role towards elementary school pupils and high school students? Related questions regarding the use of the public library for school purposes, the communication and cooperation between the public library and the schools, the difference between public libraries and school libraries and the librarians? view of pedagogical work are also made.The method used is qualitative interviews.

This master thesis is a study of the Swedish Lending Centre for immigrant literature (ILC), which opened in 1991. The purpose of the thesis is to examine problems and possibilities in the organization of ILC, which has a number of powerful stakeholders. In this study focus has been on the development of the organization, and especially on the planning of the conversion of the non-public Lending Centre to a library open to public (to be called the International Library in Stockholm) that will be inaugurated in May 2000. ILC is governmentally financed, but incorporated in the organization of the public library in Stockholm. Other stakeholders, except the Swedish Government and Stockholm City, are the County of Stockholm, the staff of ILC, and the public libraries that use the Centre's long-distance-lending facilities.

The purpose of this study was to identify the positive and negative aspects of the work and dynamics of a management team and from that recommend how the team can improve. The aim was also to investigate whether there was a gap between how the members of the management team comprehend themselves and how the project, section and team managers comprehend the management team. The management team contains of seven core team members and is the head function of a research and development site in central Sweden. The results are based on interviews with the present members of the management team and three former members, a survey among the project, section and team managers and by participating observation on meetings with the team. The results show that the management team is an overall well-functioning team that with some changes and improvements, especially concerning communication and information, can reach even further.

The use of insecure networks -such as the Internet- to send and receive information has made the need for preventing unauthorised people reading it yet more important. One of the easiest way to do this is through public key cryptography. However, the problem with this solution is how to tie a specific public key to a certain subject. This is solved by letting a trusted third party issue a certificate that holds, as a minimum, the name of the subject and the subject's public key along with the issuer's digital signature on the information. The rules we make for issuing, revoking and verifying of certificates and the entities that are being used to do so are called PKI - Public Key Infrastructure.

Starting in January 2007, capital adequacy of internationally active banks will be regulated by the new Basel Capital Accord, International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards ? a revised framework, [Basel II]. The framework introduces for the first time minimum capital requirements for operational risk and encourages market discipline of capital adequacy by initiating requirements for public disclosure of quantitative and qualitative information on operational risk exposure. This thesis examines the nature, definition, management and public disclosure of operational risk in Scandinavian banks based on regulations and recommendations presented in Basel II. We find that the models currently available for addition of operational risk to the capital requirement do not reflect actual operational risk exposure of banks.

Title: Talent Management: Retention and development of employeesLevel: Bachelor?s Degree in Business and AdministrationAuthors: Amra Abdulic Dzankovic and Anna JaurénSupervisor: Per-Arne WikströmDate: June 2013Aim: The purpose of this study is to examine how an organization can implement talent management strategies to retain and develop their employees. We intend to increase the understanding of talent management by highlighting various strategies to retain and develop employees.Methodology: The study has been carried out with a qualitative approach through a case study in cooperation with a large organization within the public sector in Sweden. Empirical material has been collected through semi-structured interviews with all the divisional managers. An extensive analysis of literature and research connected to Talent Management and tools for retention and development has formed the basis of the theoretical framework.Result and Conclusion: The conclusions we have drawn from this study is that to succeed with Talent Management, and the strategies that are in place to retain and develop employees, there must be an integral and comprehensive approach where business strategy and vision also permeates personnel strategy.

Syfte: Att undersöka SVT Barnkanalens anstÀlldas syn pÄ public service och hur de anser att de tillÀmpar denna syn i sitt arbete.Metod: Kvalitativ innehÄllsanalys, intervjuer samt observation.Material: InnehÄllsanalys av Ätta dokument om public service, intervjuer med sex anstÀllda pÄ SVT Barnkanalen samt en observation pÄ SVT i Malmö.Resultat: Resultatet av denna studie visar att alla de sex personer som vi varit i kontakt med har sin egen syn pÄ begreppet public service och vad detta innebÀr i praktiken. Beroende pÄ vad respondenten har för yrkesroll pÄ SVT anges olika definitioner pÄ vad som Àr det mest centrala kÀrnvÀrdet inom public service-television. Kanalcheferna tycks ha en mer övergripande syn pÄ vad public service-uppdraget innebÀr för dess organisationer. Producenter, inköpare och programledare tycks dock ha en mer branschorienterad syn pÄ uppdraget och har sjÀlva plockat ut relevanta komponenter som passar deras yrkesroll. Vi anser att ingen syn pÄ public service-uppdraget Àr helt fullstÀndig, men adderar vi alla medarbetares tolkningar anser vi att hela public service-uppdraget representeras..

ABSTRACT TitelDen digitala kaffestugans grÄzon- En beskrivande studie om lÀkemedelsbranschens anvÀndning av sociala medier FörfattareLouise Ottosson & Rebecka Hoberg HandledareEmma HÄkansson KursMedie- och kommunikationsvetenskap GR (C), C-uppsats 15 hp, HT2010 SyfteStudien syftar till att beskriva hur lÀkemedelsbranschen anvÀnder sig av sociala medier utifrÄnde förutsÀttningar branschen har.Teoretiskt perspektivDen teoretiska grunden i denna studie bygger pÄ Issues Management och Publics kopplat till Det nya medielandskapet. MetodStudien har genomförts med kvalitativa samtalsintervjuer med sex styckenkommunikationschefer inom lÀkemedelsbranschen. ResultatResultatet tyder pÄ att lÀkemedelsbranschen har insett att sociala medier Àr en viktig del förbranschen i bÄde omvÀrldsbevakningssyfte och för att interagera med publics. Dock har intesociala medier en framtrÀdande roll i den dagliga omvÀrldsbevakningen men sociala medierhar en desto större del i branschens samarbete med patientföreningar. I anvÀndandet avsociala medier handlar det frÀmst om att informera eller sprida sitt budskap för att förebyggaryktesspridning. PÄ grund av lagen kan inte lÀkemedelsbranschen ta del av del av den dialogsom sociala medier erbjuder men i samarbete med patientföreningar har man hittat ett sÀtt attÀndÄ föra en dialog med publics. NyckelordPublic Relations, Sociala medier, Issues Management, LÀkemedel, OmvÀrldsbevakning.

This essay intends to provide an understanding of the developments in the right of public access and recreational activities in the forests of Sweden, and which factors and prerequisites that have affected this development. The forest and its history, along with recreational development has in many ways shaped today?s rights of public access, but there is also an age-old tradition of public access that has affected how we have used the forest, and that also has enabled the development of outdoor recreation. Many are unaware of this, which causes misunderstanding to appear around the rights of public access and how it is supposed to be used.The essay opens with historical descriptions of public access, the Swedish forest and outdoor recreation, to thereby provide a picture of how these three fields have influenced each other over the centuries. This is followed by a description of the current access rights and the problems associated with those, and a description of other countries' equivalent of the right of public access.

Management by contract is nowadays a common method within the public sector since the NPM overtook as paradigm with its mechanisms of control inspired by the private sector. The public agency is foremost a service provider where they interact with citizens in the service process. Swedish eldercare has significantly increased its expose to competition which means that eldercare can be executed not only by the municipalities own provider. Such an adaption increases the requirements to inspect quality and how the purchasers assure goal achievement by control. The outmost liability stays with the municipality to ensure that the service produces god care since their position as the service purchaser implies the responsibility to plan, precise and evaluate the required work that the executor has to accomplish.

Med hjÀlp av filosofen John Rawls definition av rÀttvisa och David Beetham finner uppsatsen att dagens system med tv-licens dels skapar ett rÀttviseproblem och ett legitimitetsunderskott inom vissa grupper i samhÀllet. Dessa grupper Àr vad Rawls skulle kategorisera som de sÀmst stÀlld. RÀttviseproblemet uppstÄr p.g.a. det nuvarande systemet med en tvÄngsfinansierad avgift som inte tar hÀnsyn till mÀnniskors inkomster. För att göra systemet rÀttvisare i Rawls mening finns det tre alternativ, 1) avskaffa public service, 2) finansiera public service via skattesedeln och 3) införa en frivillig avgift i den mening att de som anvÀnder public service Àr de som betalar..

This study examines how the local rescue services relate to the brand of the rescue service and the concept of brand management. To understand the attitudes against the brand and brand management, empirical data, theoretical modelling of brand and current laws have been discussed together in a try to get an overview how the rescue services practically works with the brand. The study results are based on a questionnaire survey and qualitative semi-structured interviews. The survey was sent to employees working with the communication of the rescue service. The interviews were held with two employees working with the communication of the rescue service and two fire chiefs.

The aim of this Master thesis is to study the public libraries' function as a place for people to meet. Four major questions are taken up: + Do the public libraries have the function of a meeting place? + How important do the librarians and the visitors find the libraries possible function as a meeting place? Do they think that this function is important? + What differs the public libraries from other places in society when it comes to the function of a meeting place? + What differences are there between a larger and a smaller library when it comes to the function of a meeting place ? The basis of this study are interviews with employees at a province library in Jönköping and at a smaller library in Sjöbo in BorÄs municipality. Our study deals with the history of public libraries, its functions as a meeting place, its architecture, culture, and statistics concerning numbers of visitors and loans of books. The conclusions that are drawn are that the public libraries have qualifications to function as a meeting place even if that isn't always the case.

The majority of managers of public libraries in Sweden also work as librarians on an operative level within the organisation. This thesis discusses how the manager role is affected by his/her specific assignments and multiple tasks. Seven public library managers, who work in districts with around 10 000 25 000 inhabitants, have been interviewed. They reflect upon their experience of leadership and different assignments. The main focus lies on: - leadership - communication - decision making - organisational development The interviews show some positive effects, the manager is present most of the time, has a great knowledge about everyday work and daily routines, and is also able to represent the library successfully in the local community.

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the ideas about functions that public libraries have in the local society. We have used the method idea analysis on four municipal library plans, to find out which ideas about library functions that frequented each plan, and what similarities and differences there were between the ideas about functions in each plan. As a theoretic base, we have used a theory about three dynamic spheres in modern society: the state market and civil society, and examined how these three spheres influence and control the library functions. We have extracted six different ideas about library functions: educational, social, economical, entertaining, serving and democratic functions. The most dominating ideas in this study are ideas that the public library should be an educating and formative institution.