Problemformulering: . Idag såväl som historiskt har chefspositionerna dominerats av män, vilket har resulterat i att de flesta människor förknippar en ledare med en man. På den svenska arbetsmarknaden innehar män sammanlagt 71 procent av alla chefspositioner (SCB 2008). Framgångsrika ledare beskrivs således ofta av vad som vanligtvis associeras med maskulinitet. Den maskulina könsmärkningen av ledarskapet har bland annat bidragit till att minska kvinnliga chefers handlingsutrymme att utöva ledarskap jämfört med män.

Syftet med den ha?r uppsatsen har varit att genom ett genusperspektiv underso?ka hur dagspress framsta?ller makthavare, det vill sa?ga beslutsfattande kvinnor och ma?n pa? ho?ga positioner inom na?ringsliv och politik. Underso?kningen har fokuserat pa? om gestaltningarna sker utifra?n ko?nsstereotyper och hur det i sa?dana fall ser ut.Materialet har varit Dagens Nyheter, DN och Svenska Dagbladet, SvD under perioden 2011-10-01 till 2012-04-01. Underso?kningen har gjorts genom kvalitativ inneha?llsanalys av artiklar som inneha?ller personintervjuer, da?r makthavaren fa?r komma till tals genom citat och i lo?pande text.

I uppsatsen görs en läroboksanalys av samhällskunskapsläroböcker från 1970-tal och 2000-tal. Samtliga läroböcker som ingår i analysen vänder sig till elever i gymnasieskolan. Fokus för analysen är hur arbetsmarknadens parter framställs under 1970-talet, respektive under 2000-talet. Framställningen av dessa aktörer kopplas bl.a. till samhällsutvecklingen och till för tiden gällande styrdokument.  .

Att medarbetare är av existentiell betydelse för en organisations överlevnad ärsedan länge känt. Därmed är rekrytering en av de viktigaste funktionerna inom HRför att attrahera rätt kompetens till organisationen då en misslyckad rekryteringvanligen leder till bortkastad tid och dyra rekryteringsprocesser. Något somkommit att få allt större betydelse vid urvalet och bedömningen av nyamedarbetare är kandidaters personlighet. Forskning visar att personlighetsdragspelar en stor roll när det kommer till framtida arbetsprestationer och förmågan attgöra rätt bedömningar av människor är därför central. Teorier om synen påpersonlighet, kompetens, kompetensbaserad rekrytering och urval samtbedömningsmetoder och personlighetsbedömning används för att analyserastudiens resultat.Denna kvalitativa studies övergripande syfte var att öka förståelsen för hurrekryterare bedömer en kandidats personlighet vid en rekryteringsprocess inombemanningsföretag.

The paper is a research of"The Library project", a three-year collaboration project betweenArbetarnas Bildningsforbund, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, Sveriges Författarförbund and public libraries at 14 places in Sweden.The goal of the project is to find new forms for collaboration between libraries, authors and organisations for adult eduacation under the motto "two branches of the same education tree".The purpose of this research is to make a close description of the project and also look at the goals anf purposes of the different actors in the project. The main thought is that the different goals and purposes have caused at least some of the problems in the project..

This study aims to look at female executives? view of their leadership in the male-dominated construction industry. The study is  qualitative and focuses on the respondents' subjective perceptions. We have conducted six interviews with women in different companies whose positions within each company varied. Using theories of subjectivity, emotions, impression management and organizational structures, to support the analysis conducted, this study shows that there are obstacles for women in the industry, but it also shows that it  seems to be facing a brighter future.

Som huvudproblem hade vi frågeställningen: Hur skiljer sig mäns och kvinnors preferenser för och köpbeslutsprocesser vid val av mobiltelefon åt och vad påverkar dessa? Hur kan marknadsföringen utformas för att möta dessa olikheter? Syftet med uppsatsen var att genom teori och empiri undersöka kvinnors och mäns preferenser och köpbeslutsprocesser och vad som påverkar dessa samt att undersöka den marknadsföring som finns idag och hur denna tar eller skulle kunna ta hänsyn till olikheter mellan könen. Metoddelen på uppsatsen bygger till stor del på en kvalitativ studie. Vilket innebär att flertalet personliga intervjuer genomfördes. För att tolka marknaden och dess olika form av media användes även content analyse som metod för att tolka detta.

During the last few decades a new kind of business operation have developed and this hasforced organisations to adapt themselves to a new competitive environment characterized byincreased customer demands as well as a larger amount of competitors. Therefore companieshave had a shift in their strategies from focusing on sales numbers to focusing on thecustomer. To build lasting customer relationships, in order to create customer loyalty, havebecome an important part of the organisational strategy and the collection of consumer datais essential in achieving this loyalty. Customer relationship management systems assistorganisations in managing information about individual customers as well as managing allaspects of customer contact, with the purpose of increasing customer loyalty towards thecompany. The collection of consumer data also enables for companies to design personalizedoffers to individual customers in the form of direct marketing.

Preemraff Göteborg, som ligger på Hisingen i Göteborg, framställer drivmedelsprodukter till den svenska och internationella marknaden. Till produktkatalogen tillhör LPG, liquefied petroleum gas, som består av butan- och/eller propangas. Butan och propan är brännbara gaser som kan bilda explosiva blandningar med luft. Följaktligen finns det risker förenade med produktion, hantering och transport av LPG. Gasen som tillverkas leds på raffinaderiet till Skarvikshamnen i 6 km långa pipelines ovan mark.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how organisations can keep their crisis preparedness alert although crises do not occur often. A crisis organisation will lay dormant within a larger organisation for long periods of time. This may cause a problem when a crisis does occur if the preparedness has not been kept alive.From previous researchers that we have studied within this field we have identified two distinct methods to do this. The first focuses on the importance of detailed crisis plans, while the other method suggests that it is more essential to develop specific competencies with the employees. We also find that keeping knowledge within an organisation is a matter of organisational learning and memory which we therefore discuss and analyse.We have performed an interview study at E.ON in Örebro, and we have also had the opportunity to read E.ON?s crisis plan.

This essay ventilates the relatively new phenomenon employer branding. Due to societal changes, such as demographical and financial changes, the labour market in Sweden has changed. It is evident that an increasing number of organisations need to put more of an effort in their methods of attracting talent and retaining competence within the organisation. By a case study based on five interviews, the purpose of the study was to compare literature and practice to see how well they compare as well as how employer branding bring about different aspects of the effect. There was also an ambition to highlight aspects of employer branding considered important to have in mind when undertaking an employer branding exercise.

The main purpose of this master thesis is to identify the issues concerning the transformation process of a product oriented company into a service oriented company, and how these issues can be overcome. We will exemplify this by developing a dewatering pump rental concept for ABS, and identify the drivers and barriers for ABS when implementing the service oriented rental concept in Sweden and Poland. This master thesis is based on the systems perspective. The reason for this is the required holistic perspective, where the system has to be regarded from different points of departure in order to be understood. The theoretical studies include services and change management.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the United Nation?s work and structure to find possible factors that can explain why some peacekeeping operations have achieved to mainstream a gender perspective, when others have not. This study is based on two cases; the peacekeeping operation in Namibia and the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.The theory I have chosen to apply is feminism, a theory that allows an alternative explanation to this phenomenon. The conclusion is that there are three decisive factors: The leadership and its will to recruit female personnel to decision-making positions, the number of female employees and whether the peacekeeping operation cooperates with local women-organisations or not. All this is of great importance whether the institutional hegemonic masculine culture within the United Nation and its peacekeeping operations, is challenged or not..

The purpose of this study is to extend the understanding of how professionals in modern organisations want to be managed. We especially investigate professionals changing industries to describe if, and how, aprofessional in this situation is becoming a professional again after the change. This to find connections between intrinsic motivation and attitudes towards professionalism on one side, and applicable managerial methodson the other. Best practice in managing professionals is traditionally considered to be non-invasive methodologies such as indoctrination and training. Beyond that, operational-level management is usually considered to be bound to fail.The analysis suggests the following:? A professional changing industry will become professional again.? The driving force for becoming professional again is the strive for horisontal specialization, induced by higher education.? Management of professionals needs to account for the integrity of the horizontal specialization of the professional.

The purpose of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of how elderly people seek and use information in everyday situations. A further aim is to suggest ways for the library to offer more services specifically tailored for pensioners. This is an important topic as pensioners are a rapidly growing group of library users. We conducted qualitative interviews with four elderly people concerning their information needs in everyday life, and discovered that they rarely use the library, preferring instead to get their information from various internet sites and their pensioners? organisation.