The workplace has a direct impact on the physical, psychological, economic and social well-being of the workers. A healthy workplace leads to increased health among the employees which also makes the employees more productive (KÀllestÄl, 2004). A poor working environment can have negative consequences for individuals, companies and society (SOU, 2009:47).This is a qualitative study that investigates companies? view of health promotion and how they practice health promotion in working life. Five private and five public companies, with representatives from the management were interviewed.

I have chosen an action research approach for this essay. I want to incorporate a method of conflict management in the work of the personnel at a school and also discuss their thoughts and experience in conflict management. I wanted to incorporate modern knowledge about constructive conflict management for everyday use and I stress that if we can evolve these skills among the personnel in schools then we have a better chance of helping children with deviant behavior which often end up in conflict because of it. This will also help all the other children and personnel to manage conflict situations in a better way. I want to introduce a new way of thinking about conflict management which in many ways is different from how it is today. Briefly the method which I advocate revolves around paying attention to every ones basic needs and says that everyone can win and no one has to loose. he main purpose of this essay has been to find out if focus group conversations is a viable method for improving conflict management in the school system. Several of the participants has in their evaluations written that it was a rewarding and interesting way to work.

Several public libraries are displaying media, such as literature, on the websites of their own. The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to make a survey of the display phenomenon at Swedish public libraries. Therefore the authors of this essay seek to understand why media is being displayed on the websites of public libraries, how it is being displayed and what kind of consequences the displaying will provide according to the respondents. The theoretical framework is based on different theories where marketing and availability defines the equal summary.

Diskussioner kring kostnader inom hÀlso- och sjukvÄrdsverksamhets kan betraktas som ett omtvistat Àmne. AvvÀgningen mellan kostnad och kvalitet Àr kanske mer komplext pÄ detta omrÄde Àn pÄ mÄnga andra. Moraliska aspekter, liksom vÀrdighet och diskretion Àr exempel pÄ avseenden som Àr svÄra att mÀta i ekonomiska termer men som Àr nödvÀndiga för att kvaliteten pÄ vÄrden skall betraktas som hög. Det kan sÄledes anses finnas en inbyggd konflikt mellan vissa kvalitetsaspekter och kostnaden för vÄrden.Denna uppsats har sin utgÄngspunkt i vÄrdverksamhetens ökade ekonomiska styrning, vilket Àr en följd av de rationaliseringar och omstruktureringar som sedan 1980-talet uppmÀrksammats inom den offentliga sektorn och som gÄr under benÀmningen New Public Management. Syftet Àr att utifrÄn relevant teori genomföra intervjuer för att samla information om hur de förÀndringar som kommit att ta plats inom hÀlso- och sjukvÄrden mÀrks av och hur de bemöts av vÄrdpersonalen, samt konsekvenser av styrningens villkor och effekter.Slutsatserna har landat i att det inte rÄder nÄgot tvivel om att New Public Management kommit att förÀndra organisation och styrning inom hÀlso- och sjukvÄrden.

This thesis will explore how swedish Talang 2010 used their strategic communication in Kalmar and Stockholm and how the effect of this work was shown in the two cities. With a focus on how the sender was working with the external communication in the two cities, the heart of the research was studying Talang 2010?s communication strategy in these two contexts. The research was made with surveys during two audition days in Kalmar and two days in Stockholm. The competitors, the audience and the general public were answering different surveys but with the same base to study the effect.

The aim of this study is to investigate which management control mechanisms evolve in companies that receive funding from Venture Capital companies and why the management control systems evolve in the way that they do. A case study was performed on three Swedish high technology companies, that all received funding from Venture Capital companies for the first time in 2006. Merchant?s framework, defining all management control mechanisms as either, results control, action control or personnel control, was used to structure the study. Results show that the companies that received Venture Capital all increased the use of management control mechanisms within results control, action control and personnel control.

The aim of this Master's thesis was to examine the political and cultural reasons for making music materials compulsory at Danish public libraries by the new library act of 2000. The aim was also to examine how the public libraries have responded to this reform. To answer these questions a literature study was conducted as well as interviews. The results of the literature study indicated that the main reason for making music materials compulsory is to increase the influence of the library users. The study of the debate concerning the new library act showed that a majority of the Danish political parties as well as the Danish library organizations had a positive attitude towards the new obligation.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the design and function of an engine production management?s control system and its intended function, and to contrast it with the present management control systems in use on an operational level. Interviews conducted with employees from all levels of the engine production are the main source of this study?s empirical foundation. Information has also been gathered from relevant written material such as annual reports, internal documents etc.

This project started when LIC Audio AB wanted help with development of a hearing aid for public rooms. The problem is that a lot of people suffer from some sort of hearing impairment. In places with a lot of people and background noise the problem becomes bigger and the sound seems to flow together. During the project we found the solution for the problem in the shape of a headphone. The headphone receives a signal from a preinstalled hearing loop.

Today, Sweden has about forty companies owned by the government. These are active on markets with variable competition. Some have been given special areas of responsibility that in a practical notion make them monopolists. The period when most public companies where formed (and with that the following subjection to competition) during the nineties and early 2000's, forced the formerly protected businesses to act on the terms of the open market. Parallel to this development the brand has for the last twenty years evolved into something great strategic importance for the business, including the business-to-businesses (B2B).

The research within the management control systems-field and more specifically performance management has been rather shallow and not much has happened the last decades besides the balanced scorecard. The researchers see a lack of studies focusing on the effects of an integrated performance management system and also how it affects the different hierarchical levels and the tasks to perform.We decided to perform an essay with case study-characteristics by looking at both the strategic and tactical level at Volvo Group, or more specifically Group Trucks. We performed three different interviews, one at the group level and two at the division level. The aim was to see what effect an integrated performance management system had on the tactical level (i.e. the divisions).Our findings and corresponding analysis suggested that Volvo was a rather centralized company in order to get the performance management system to work by enabling a ?weekly control?.

In writing this study, I wanted to examine which principles of organization that are possible for Swedish public libraries to use, and what these principles mean for the libraries customerorientation. This is done by examining a number of written sources, as well as studying the organization of six public libraries. I found several possible principles, but a number of principles have been more commonly used than others. Historically most public libraries were organized according to the functions needed to be carried out within the organization, but today it is much more common to use subject-based organizations, with some examples of organizing according to user-groups and needs. I have also encountered the possibility of organizing according to the sources that are to be handled, or the way in which these sources are used by the customers.

Fifty employees at a local industrial company answered a questionnaire about coping strategies and personality traits. One purpose of the study was to investigate if officials and public employees used different coping strategies in stressful work situations. Another purpose of the study was to investigate if there was a relationship between the personality traits of the officials and the public employees and their chosen coping strategies. Ten Item Personality Inventory and Brief COPE were used to examine personality traits and coping strategies respectively. The results showed a difference in exhibited personality traits where conscientiousness was higher among the official employees than the public employees.

Inledning: NÀr företag genomgÄr rekryteringsprocesser sÄ finns dÀr flera olika strategier attanvÀnda sig utav. Denna studie kommer att skapa en förstÄelse för rekryteringsstrategiernasom ett specifikt företag som uppger sig jobba enligt Talent Management anvÀnder sig av.Syfte: Syftet med denna undersökning Àr att skapa en förstÄelse för hur ett företag somuppger sig jobba med Talent Management utformar sin rekryteringsstrategi och dÀrigenomkunna uppfylla ett kunskapstomrum angÄende rekryteringsstrategierna inomforskningsomrÄdet Talent Management.ForskningsfrÄgor:Hur definieras talang vid rekrytering i ett företag som jobbar med Talent Management?Hur vÀljer företag vilka rekryteringsstrategier som Àr lÀmpliga?Vilka rekryteringsstrategier anvÀnder sig företaget utav?Metod: Denna studie har genomförts med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod som har innefattatsemistrukturerade intervjuer för materialinsamlingen. Intervjuerna och det empiriskamaterialet Àr insamlat frÄn ett ledande företag inom sin branchen.Slutsats: Denna studie kunde pÄvisa att de centrala rekryteringsstrategierna i ett företag somuppger sig anvÀnda sig utav Talent Management Àr Head Hunting, Employer Branding,profilering samt talangpooler. Vi kunde Àven dra slutsatser att samtliga rekryteringsstrategiersom förekommer inom ett företag inte nödvÀndigtvis behöver tillhöra den rÄdande uttalademanagementstilen.

The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) aims toenhance and standardize sustainability reporting to support the green transition. While the public sector is expected to lead in sustainability, the application of CSRD within Swedish municipalities is fragmented. Many municipally owned companies fall below reporting thresholds individually, creating a transparency gap despite the municipal group often exceeding these thresholds collectively. This discrepancy raises moral and strategic questions regarding public accountability and the effective utilization of the framework. This thesis investigates the rationale for the proactive adoption of CSRD principles bySwedish municipalities, irrespective of formal legal requirements.