The Afghan war post 9/11 has become the source of multiple case studies. Recent studies suggest that variations in domestic support for deployment of troops in Afghanistan can be explained by means of the strategic narratives provided by the policymakers of the contributing state; a strong consistent narrative increases public support. Scholars recognize a Swedish catch-all narrative, which suggests weakens the narrative, thus raising the uncertainty among the public. This thesis investigates the projection of Swedish strategic narrative through elite Swedish newspapers. The content analysis reveals an inconsistency between the policymaker?s formation of the strategic narrative and the narrative projected by individual newspapers.

A performance measurement system can be used as a means to evaluate past performances and to communicate prioritizations. It has also been proposed that a performance measurement system can serve as a method to execute strategies, guide in operational decisions and constitute a tool for making the organization more efficient. Yet one may question if such a system will ever reach this capacity if operating managers do not utilize it as a management tool, but rather treat it as a mere report in the bunch. This paper explores how middle managers in fact apply performance measures and what obstacles there are to integrating them in the management of subunits. Furthermore it serves to investigate whether these managers experience a conflict between how they are expected to use the measures and what they deem possible to adopt.

During recent decades several studies have investigated how different social roles and socialization processes between women and men affects our attitudes, values and priorities to environmental problems. Many empirical studies among the general public, indicates that women tend to show a greater environmental concern than men, because of women?s different health- safety- and risk perception. Even though the results are well established among the general public, when investigating if elected women in public offices tend to express a higher environmental concern, than do men, the results are not that clear. By using a dataset covering all the 290 municipalities in Sweden, this study aims to investigate if there is any correlation between the amount of female representatives in the municipality and the amount of emissions of CO2e per capita.

In public relations and marketing, lawsuits traditionally connote crisis. The purpose of this study is to explore the design and critical considerations concerning risks and opportunities when companies voluntarily initiate lawsuits with the partial aim to get publicity in the mass media. In the following paper, the communicative aspects of two such Swedish cases in the European Court of Justice are studied?a large corporation challenging the Swedish monopoly on gambling and a small company challenging the government on their restrictions for individuals to import alcoholic beverages. The case studies have been conducted through interviews, analysis of legal acts and press articles.

The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze youth community service in the Kalmar municipality. Our focus was on juvenile offenders and predecessor of public authorities. The juvenile offenders in our study have completed youth community service. A qualitative study was undertaken which include seven interviews. Our empirical data were compared and analyzed with previous research data.

When an organisation is going through a work of change, it is highly important that both management and employees has a healthy communication in order to make everybody feel involved. It is then important to be observant for both the managements and employees thoughts and ideas.This study has been performed on an upper secondary school which is performing a work of change. The change has divided the employees in three different groups. One, which thinks the change have evolved the organisation to something better. The second group of people means that it is preventing individual development of competence.

The aim of the project is to develop a tool for a management system at the advertising agency ofConfetti. The company has during a longer period of time felt a need of introducing a quality and environmentalsystem but have a lack in resources of knowledge, time and money. Their goal is to have aconcrete documentation which describes their quality policy and the function of the activity.The work has been performed by mapping and analyzing the processes of the company according tothe process model with focus on one pilot process. New routines have been developed and documentedin a management system.Confetti would like their management system to fulfil the ISO-standard so that they eventually inthe future can be certified. Therefore a literature study has been done according to management systemsand standards.

Riskmiljön i dagens samhÀlle Àr under stÀndig förÀndring och pÄverkar mÀnniskan i bÄde privat- och arbetslivet. Det blir allt viktigare för företag och organisationer att arbeta förebyggande mot risker som pÄverkar sÀkerhetsfrÄgor, miljöfrÄgor och ekonomiska intressen. Ett arbetssÀtt för att analysera och hantera en verksamhets riskmiljö Àr Risk Management. Huvudsyftet med uppsatsen Àr att beskriva och analysera hur Helikopterflottiljen Malmen och Scania AB arbetar med Risk Management med fokus pÄ miljöarbete. Studien bygger pÄ tvÄ fallstudier som har utförts genom kvalitativa intervjuer.

In this essay we have examined how social workers experience their positions as a public authority person in a society of democracy. As a public officer you have to follow rules and obey the law, which can be difficult if they don't agree with your personal opinion and values. In social work you work with people in a vulnerable situation and it may become extremely demanding to stand between the directions of established public administration and your own opinions. We have interviewed ten social workers working in social childcare division and analysed how they experience their situation at work. Our starting point is the critical theory of professor Lennart Lundquist about how democracy works in Swedish administrations.

The purpose with this study is to examine what kind of support there is for school libraries at the selected independent upper secondary schools and how these schools ensure that libraryservices is available to their students and their teachers. The purpose is also to examine what attitudes the administrators of the schools have to school libraries and teaching in information seeking. A qualitative method with interviews was used to fulfil the purpose. As a theoretical basis of the study Loertschers taxonomies of the school library media program and Limbergs three levels of pedagogic research were used and the interviews were analysed with these two theoretical frameworks as a background. The result of the study showed that neither one of the three examinated schools has a school library which means that they use the public library instead.

Syfte: Denna uppsats syftar till att skapa förstÄelse för NPM och resursfördelning med avseende pÄ resursfördelningsmodeller och dess anvÀndning i offentlig sektor. Metod: UtifrÄn studiens syfte har en deduktiv kvalitativ metod anvÀnts. Empirisk data har samlats in genom ostrukturerade intervjuer. Det empiriska materialet har sedan tolkats och redovisats i uppsatsens analys. Resultat och slutsats: Fördelningen av utbildningssektorns resurser diskuteras utifrÄn skillda uppfattningar av lagen ?offentliga bidrag pÄ lika villkor?. Detta stÀller stora krav pÄ den resursfördelningsmodell som Àr framtagen av barn- och ungdomsnÀmnden i GÀvle.

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine how public librarians and people engaged in sports associations think of the possibility of collaboration between their organizations regarding children and youth and furthermore how they think this collaboration and collaboration in general would or should be practiced. This is done in the light of the increasing necessity of collaboration in today?s information society as well as the view that reading and sports could make a good match. Focus is placed on the libraries? perspective and also on the respondents? perceptions and thoughts.

Denna rapport Àr skriven inom ramen för magisterkursen Management och pÄ uppdrag av HSB Malmö. Rapporten Àr indelad i tre delar dÀr den första utgör huvuddelen och syftar till att spegla vÄrt projektarbete pÄ HSB Malmö. I denna delen beskrivs och tolkas HSB Malmö i nulÀget, samt presenteras rekommendationer till hur ledningen i framtiden bÀttre ska kunna skapa organisatoriska förutsÀttningar för ett strategiskt förÀndringsarbete. UtifrÄn vÄrt syfte och den information som vi samlat in, har vi valt ut ett antal teman som vi anser Àr mest intressanta och utmanande för HSB Malmö att jobba med i önskan om att nÄ större framgÄng i strategiskt förÀndringsarbete. Dessa teman (medlemsorganisation eller vinstdrivande företag?, kundorientering, kommunikation och information, kompetens, visionsarbete, ledarskap, företagskultur och organisationsstruktur) utgör grunden för den diagnos av situationen pÄ HSB Malmö som vi presenterar i rapporten.

Det har lÀnge pÄvisats fördelar med innovation och effektivisering av verksamheter. Med konceptetambidexterity har ett senare forskningsparadigm försökt förklara hur organisationer lyckas uppnÄbÄde innovation och effektivisering samtidigt genom att balansera strategiska initiativ.Denna litteraturstudie Àmnar att visa vad existerande forskning ger för svar pÄ hur organisationerkan uppnÄ ambidexterity ur ett IT-management perspektiv. Genom att kombinera litteratur omambidexterity med litteratur om IT-förmÄgor (IT-baserade organisationsförmÄgor för att möjliggörastrategi och initiativ) ger denna studie en bild av vad existerande litteratur kan ge svar pÄ och vadsom saknas.Studien pÄvisar mÄnga likheter mellan de förutsÀttningar som beskrivs för att uppnÄ ambidexterityoch IT-management som organisationsförmÄga. DÀremot existerar en avsaknad av djupareförklaringar vad gÀller de komponenter som IT-management som organisationsförmÄga innefattar..

This thesis examines how techniques from place marketing, developed to market places, can be used in the process of designing a visual identity for an institution. The thesis is a case study of the development of a new visual identity for the public art institution Malmö konsthall. The essay presents Malmö Konsthall, defines the term visual identity and describes the main principles in place branding. I then define target audiences and key values, discuss the application of place marketing principle and go through the design process of the new visual identity. The process showed that theories about flagship buildings, signature design and signature districts have the biggest influence on the design.