Much attention has been directed to Charity Foundations and how they use the donations given to them. Donators and external organisations put pressure on and evaluate the performance of Charity Foundations. The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how Charity Foundations handle the pressure from external parties through a qualitative case study of one Swedish Charity Foundation. The most important external factors have been identified and the accountability relationships between each party and the Charity Foundation have been examined. The empirical material was collected through semi-structured interviews and from written sources.

Syfte: Studien syftar till att unders?ka hur en kommun i V?stsverige arbetar med planering och servering av konsistensanpassad kost inom ?ldreomsorgen, med s?rskilt fokus p? de sensoriska aspekterna utseende och smak.Metod: Studien best?r av en kvalitativ metod och genomf?rdes som en fallstudie vid ett s?rskilt boende inom ?ldreomsorgen i Ale kommun. Datainsamlingen omfattadesemistrukturerade intervjuer och informella samtal med nyckelpersoner inom kost- och omsorgsverksamhet samt observationer av m?ltidsmilj?, tillagning och servering avkonsistensanpassad kost. Urvalet inkluderade enhetschefer, kock och omsorgspersonal samt en boende, f?r att belysa arbetet ur olika perspektiv och delar avm?ltidsprocessen.

Intresset till studien uppkom genom att en webbgemenskap uppta?cktes i vilken fa?der so?ker sto?d fra?n varandra i fo?rha?llande till socialtja?nsten, det va?ckte va?r nyfikenhet kring vad orsaken och syftet a?r till att fa?der so?ker sig till webbgemenskapen. Syftet med studien a?r att so?ka fo?rsta?else fo?r varfo?r fa?derna va?nder sig till webbgemenskapen pa? internet, att beskriva vilka fo?resta?llningar som skapas kring socialtja?nsten i webbgemenskapen samt hur fo?resta?llningar begripliggo?rs och fo?rklaras av fa?derna. Fo?r insamling av empiri har en kvalitativ observationsstudie pa? internet genomfo?rts da?r empirin som legat till grund fo?r resultatet a?r texter och kommentarer publicerade av personer som utger sig fo?r att vara fa?der.

After the last election Sweden has got a government that claims to be feminist. This thesis discusses whether the change of labels has also brought along policy formulated in a feminist way, arguing that the way policy is expressed affects how people see a certain problem. Three policy proposals are analysed, and in only one case the government seems to have been influenced by feminist ideas. The other proposals partly support claims made by new institutionalism that norms and routines in an organisation work to resist policy change, but also shows that feminist ideas are resisted more actively. The fact that so called policy entrepreneurs was present in the policy process at a certain period in time, probably counts for one explanation to the exceptional policy.

Kommunikation har stor pa?verkan pa? hur en organisation fungerar och hur va?l den arbetar enhetligt mot sina uppsatta ma?l. Kommunikation a?r ett komplext a?mne som kan vara sva?rt att fo?rsta? och beskriva. O?vergripande finns tva? skolor vars synsa?tt a?mnar angripa fo?rklarandet av kommunikation.

The aim of this study was to look at introduction for staff in a social service office and the social workers experience off the first period at a new workplace. Qualitative interviews have been used as a method of investigating how social workers look at introduction in the workplace and how social workers have experience the first period at the workplace. The empirical material have been analysed by using the theory of Human Service Organizations, street-lever bureaucracy theory and theory concerning work environment. This papers first chapter presents the methodological preferences, the second chapter the theoretical perspective and the results of the study are presented in the third chapter followed by a discussion and ending comments in chapter four. My study showed that introduction is necessary in a complex organisation and could be a way to improve the social workers situation in social service organisations..

Children who have fled to Sweden, without their parents or guardians, have been a controversial subject during the winter of 2002. Their situations on refugeestations and the responsibiliy by community and the state have been discussed. My composition is about these children. The composition is not about the situations of the children - focus is instead on the people who operate with the children; community, state and organisations. I want to find empirical levels which show what the children associate with.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study the information needs of the homeless. The main focus is to investigate what kind of information needs that are to be found among the homeless and also how information is exchanged and shared by the group. Another aspect of our study includes the sources that are used to fulfil these information needs. The homeless use of the library, as one of these sources, is also examined.

Sammanfattning Bakgrund: Typ 2-diabetes ?r en kronisk metabol sjukdom som kan leda till allvarliga h?lsokomplikationer. D?rmed utg?r egenv?rd en fundamental och central komponent i behandlingsstrategin f?r att f?rebygga sekund?ra komplikationer och optimera patienters prognos. Egenv?rd inneb?r att individen har ett kontinuerligt ansvar f?r att vidta h?lsofr?mjande och behandlingsrelaterade ?tg?rder i syfte att hantera sin sjukdom samt uppr?tth?lla god livskvalitet.

Ma?ns va?ld mot kvinnor i na?ra relation a?r ett omfattande och aktuellt samha?llsproblem. A?mnet ges dessva?rre ett mycket begra?nsat utrymme pa? Socionomprogrammet vid Go?te- borgs universitet. Syftet med studien a?r att underso?ka och beskriva en grupp va?ldsut- satta kvinnors upplevelser av erha?llet sto?d fra?n ett specifikt skyddat boende, samt hur sto?det pa?verkat deras livssituation.Vi har utfo?rt en kvalitativ studie och med hja?lp av semistrukturerade intervjuer genom- fo?rt intervjuer med fem kvinnor.

I denna undersökning behandlas kreditprövning vid svensk mirkrolångivning. Undersökningen är om ALMI:s mikrolångivning som är statsfinansierad och vissa av Nordeas krediter, exempelvis krediter till nystart av företag, som per definition är jämförbar med svensk mikrolångivning. Syftet är att undersöka och förstå eventuella skillnader och likheter i de nämnda kreditgivarnas kreditprövning vid mikrolångivning.Empirin baserades på material från Nordeas och ALMI:s Webbsidor samt de intervjuer som genomfördes med respondenterna på respektive företag. Sedan sammanställdes materialet som tillsammans med teorier om kreditprövning, lade grunden för en undersökningsmodell som fungerat som stöd i analysen.Det finns många likheter i Nordeas och ALMI:s hantering av kreditansökan. Det kan förklaras av att kreditgivning innebär risktagande och för att minimera riskerna följer båda kreditgivarna vissa principer som är grundläggande för kreditprövning.

This study was carried out at Luftfartsverket (LFV Group, SwedishAirports and Air Navigation Services), AstraZeneca and Svenska Spel. The purpose of the study was to examine and compare how these companies work towards becoming, and maintaining to be, an employer of choice. Facts were sought about the companies and their work to become an employer of choice.To get a discerning and profound picture, a qualitative method with semi-structured interviews with twelve key persons in this work was conducted. The method Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used for analysis.The results showed that an amount of factors have an input on how attractive the employer is. Common were compensation and benefits, competence development, leadership, information and health-related activities.

Vi har gjort en vetenskaplig studie som berör bland annat marknadsföring, organisation och hälsa. Undersökningen genomförts som en kvalitativ fallstudie där tre olika företag har utgjort empirisk data. De metoder vi använt oss av är intervju, observation, dokumentstudier och informationen har analyserats med hjälp av tillämplig teori och egna erfarenheter. En organisations interna klimat och miljö påverkar den enskilda individens prestation och upplevda situation. Individen i sin tur är en viktig del av företagets olika kontaktytor med omvärlden.

The murders of Pela Atroshi, Sara Abed Ali and Fadime Sahindal, started a debate concerning the underlying motives of honour related violence. This paper aimed to describe and explain in what way honour related violence is perceived in publications by academics, public authorities and voluntary organisations to name a few. Different types of literature were thematically analysed as well as analysed using a model by Lorentzon. The scope of this paper was narrowed down to Swedish conditions and excluded men as victims of honour related crimes.The conclusion suggests a definition of honour related violence as a result of general patriarchy with different features. For example, men?s honour is connected to women?s behaviour and retaining of virginity.

This thesis investigates techniques for stealth hydroacoustic communication using spread spectrum. The Swedish naval defense organisations have a vision that all their units should be able to communicate with each other, even between underwater vehicles. But the properties of water makes it a complex channel to use for wireless communications. Radiomagnetic waves have very limited range in water, therefore acoustic waves are used. In this report the basics of wireless communication systems are described including source coding, channel coding, modulation techniques as well as different techniques for spread spectrum.