The study has shown that retailers in the mid-price segment differentiate their brand through developing a strong company identity around the brand. The personality involves store atmosphere, merchandise and advertising. Larger companies have chosen to lay the responsibility on management level, which facilitates on store level. By controlling the strategies on a central level the company can make sure that the stores are steered in the direction that the company wants them to be steered in, and also that they follow the positioning-concept. The company can also devote its efforts to working with its core value, which is service.

Vi vill beskriva och analysera hur målstyrning med inslag av Balanced Scorecard används inom sjukvården Metod: För att uppfylla uppsatsens syfte använder vi oss av en kvalitativ undersökning. Vår fallstudie har genomförts på Universitetssjukhuset i Malmö. Angreppssättet är av deduktiv karaktär eftersom vi utgår från befintlig teori som vi avser testa i vår fallstudie. Slutsatser: Vi finner att sjukvårdens styrning lider av många av de problem som tas upp inom teorin. Samtidigt finner vi stöd för att om problemen tas på allvar kan en lyckad målstyrning med inslag av Balanced Scorecard uppnås inom offentlig verksamhet.

Occupational Health Service (OHS) has an important role in society. It is designed to prevent illness and strengthen the health of workers. OHS operations and development are currently being studied at the School of Technology and Health at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. One of the industries studied is the home maker service. During the 2010s were such employees one of the most ill groups in Sweden.This master's thesis in occupational environment development and change management focus on examining the special knowledge an OHS and its clients in one home maker service need to strengthen the workers of the industry and find out how the interaction between OHS and home maker service works and how it could be evolved.A qualitative study was conducted in a Swedish city on the basis of an organizational perspective.

Syfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om det finns anledning att göra skillnad på organisationer i forskning om kunskapshantering. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är också att besvara om och i sådana fall hur och varför hanteringen av kunskap skiljer sig mellan organisationer i offentlig sektor och organisationer i privat sektor. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ ansats, då en sådan lämpade sig bäst för att besvara uppsatsens syfte. Semistrukturerade intervjuer användes som datainsamlingsmetod. Intervjuerna genomfördes med en organisation från privat sektor och en organisation från offentlig sektor. Utifrån den teoretiska referensramen analyserades empirin. Slutsatser: Båda organisationerna arbetar med kunskapshantering även om det ofta sker på ett omedvetet sätt. Vilka aktiviteter de ägnar sig åt som kan klassas som kunskapshantering sker därför undermedvetet och ger inte de effekterna på organisationen som de skulle kunna få.

Quality Assurance in Service Procurement --- Total Quality and Total Quality Management refer to popular management philosophies in organizations these days. The purchasing department has an important part in the strive for organizational quality as several studies show corporate spend is significant and increasing. In this master thesis I study the actions companies take to ensure quality in service procurement. I argue that managing quality when sourcing services is particularly tricky, because of the special characteristics that belong to services. The purpose of the study is to examine whether different actions are taken to ensure the quality of different kinds of services.

Syftet med denna studie är att hjälpa den svenskkinesiska föreningen Kang Le Hua Ren i Göteborg att utveckla sina kulturmötesplatser genom att ta fram riktlinjer som stöd för utformning av kulturmötesplatser i det offentliga stadsrummet. Studiens geografiska avgräsning är Angered i Göteborgs nordöstra områden där Kang Le utövar sina aktiviteter. Avsikten är att ta fram ett första utkast på ett kreativt förslagsunderlag innefattandes visualiseringsbilder och förklarande texter som kan utgöra stöd vid utveckling av befintliga mötesplatser. Studien baseras på kvalitativa undersökningsmetoder med en fallstudie av Kang Le som kompletteras med enkätundersökning med föreningens medlemmar. Resultaten visar att tai-chi är den mest uppskattade aktiviteten bland Kang Les styrelse och medlemmar. Tai-chi och andra former av motionering, tillsammans med mat och musik utgör de allmänt betydande elementen som kan bidra till att skapa en offentlig mötesplats för kinesiskt kulturutbyte som kan tilltala fler än de som har anknytning till den kinesiska kulturen.

Background and problem: In Croatia, the hotel industry has undergone difficult and unstable conditions since the 90s. Since 2001, however the results in the sector has improved due to increased investment in the renovation of facilities and construction of new hotels.Purpose: The study aims to examine hotel operations on the Makarska Riviera on the basis of tourist business perspective, and examine its quality, service and accessibility.Method: In this study we used a qualitative approach. The survey was conducted through structured interviews and a non-participant observation.Result and conclusions: Satisfied and fulfilled employees, in turn that the hotels will have satisfied customers and may have profitable operations. Many hotels aim at constantly working to improve profitability and customer satisfaction. When measuring customer satisfaction, many hotel owners felt that the service is good and that they have received a good response from their guests.

Titel; Vilka faktorer i service branschens arbetsmiljö har betydelse för social trötthet? Hur ser sambanden ut mellan utbrändhet och social trötthet? Författare; Jennie Andersson Nyckelord; Utbrändhet, Social trötthet, arbetsmiljö Syftet med undersökningen har varit att få fram vilka faktorer i service branschens arbetsmiljö som har betydelse för social trötthet samt undersöka eventuella samband mellan utbrändhet och social trötthet. Undersökningen är riktat mot vårdanställda och reseledare då tidigare undersökning påvisat samband mellan social trötthet och reseledare. Undersökningen är av en kvantitativ metod i form av en enkät. Denna enkät skickades ut till sammanlagt 110 personer i service branschen (vårdanställda och reseledare).

AbstractTitle: The Moment Of Truth; A study of service quality assuranceAuthors: Fanni Helminen and Linda ElsborgLevel: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration, C-level.Advisor: Lars- Johan Åge and Jens Eklinder FrickDate: 2014- JunePurpose: Quality assurance has become a vital concept and an important tool to ensure that employees are able to deliver high service quality. The purpose of this study will be to elucidate how service companies can apply the use of sevenfundamental features supporting service quality in their quality assurance; recruitment and selection; training, teamwork; empowerment; performance appraisals and rewards; communication, and culture (of the organization). Furthermore, we will illustrate how the type of business entity, organizational structure and organizational resources afflicts the seven features.Method: Method: We will, from a hermeneutic point of view, apply and qualitative deductive research method. Data have been collected through a case study. The data have been transcribed and the analytical method has been selected based on the conducting purpose.

The purpose of this study was to examine the resources and barriers that social workers have incorporating the Social Service Act states during meetings with clients, using and developing the client's skills and knowledge, develop their own resources and to promote the use of self-determination. A qualitative study was done by interviewing six social workers working within the in social service?s department for family and individual welfare. Social workers were encouraged to describe and discuss the key aspects of cases that developed positively respectively negatively. Motivation theory, evidence-based practice, empowerment, and expert-expert relationship are the theories and concepts that we used to analyze the material.The study's main conclusion is that the most important prerequisite for positive development of cases is that the social worker emphasizes and stimulates the client's own resources during meetings.

När de nationella riktlinjerna för vård och ångesttillstånd utkom 2010, ansågs psykodynamisk terapi sakna evidens och förbisågs nästan helt som metod i offentlig vård. Vad detta inneburit för de offentliganställda dynamiska terapeuterna och deras patienter är okänt. Syftet med studien var att få veta hur psykodynamiska terapeuter upplever sin arbetssituation och om de nationella riktlinjerna som utkom 2010 förändrat arbetet som dynamisk terapeut i offentlig sektor. Som metod användes en kvalitativ intervju med en öppen frågeställning där fem seniora legitimerade terapeuter med minst femton år i yrket deltog. Intervjuerna bearbetades i en med en tematisk analys, vilket resulterade i fyra övergripande teman.

Denna studie syftar till att fo?rsta? chefers relationer till sina medarbetare och hur de konstruerar en offentlig och privat sfa?r. Studien vill med hja?lp av chefers egna upplevelser fo?rsta? hur cheferna balanserar na?rhet och distans i sina relationer till medarbetarna. En kvalitativ ansats har valts och fem chefer inom den offentliga sektorn har intervjuats om sina upplevelser av att skapa relationer till medarbetare.

The explosion of new digital media puts pressure for developments within copyright law both in Sweden and internationally. These developments are taking place on two different international areas: (1) WIPO which is a part of the UN family and (2) the EU where a new directive on copyright law is being prepared and probably implemented during 2001. The aim of this thesis is twofold: (1) to study which considerations libraries must make when handling the new digital media both under today's copyright laws and under those which are being developed internationally. (2) What will be the consequences, for Swedish libraries, if the new EU-directive on copyright law is implemented in Sweden? By analysing current copyright laws, international treaties and the proposal for a new EU-directive as well as the national debate the thesis brings attention to a number of central issues for libraries.

The purpose of this thesis was to study how internal marketing affects service quality in the tourism industry. It was decided to conduct a case study on two hotels with summer seasonal employees. Pite Havsbad and Strand Hotell Borgholm were chosen as study objects. The case was based on interviews with the hotel manager at Pite Havsbad and the vice president at Strand Hotell Borgholm, who coordinates the internal marketing at the companies. The findings were that seasonal employees do not affect service quality much.

Many children in Sweden are exposed to maltreatment. Among the purposes of the Child health care (CHC) are to decrease mortality, infirmity and handicaps among mothers and their children, and to decrease hurtful strains for parents and their children. CHC-nurses get critizism for not reporting child maltreatment in high enough numbers to the Social service. The aim of this study was to chart how CHC-nurses finds their work with families suffering from maltreatment. Ten CHC-nurses were interviewed with semistructured interviews.