A growing number of companies realise that to achieve their environmental goals and satisfy stakeholder expectations, they need to look beyond their own facilities and to involve their suppliers in environmental initiatives. A life cycle approach means that the production system should be optimised as whole, across national boarders and individual organisations taking part all the way from extraction to disposal. This study is a Life Cycle Inventory of resources used when producing a piece of cotton garment and the method is based on the standardisation series of ISO 14040-43. The area of study, Tamil Nadu the most southern state of India, accounts for more than 90% of India?s knitwear exports to Western Europe.

Syftet med studien var att skapa ett underlag för hur en organisations hälsofrämjande arbete kan utvecklas samt vilka eventuella möjligheter som finns till en framtida integrering med andra områden inom organisationen. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer och omfattade sex strategiskt utvalda informanter, fyra män och två kvinnor, på ledande positioner inom Peab. Resultatet visade att den hälsofrämjande verksamheten som bedrivs inom konceptet Peab Fritid upplevdes positiv, men det förekom vissa önskemål om utveckling, bland annat vad gäller aktivitetsutbud kopplat till mer vardagliga områden. Vidare framkom att uppfattningen kring en framtida integrering med övriga verksamhetsområden skilde sig åt mellan informanterna. De menade att det faktum att de hälsofrämjande insatserna är förlagda till fritiden, och inte till arbetstid, kunde försvåra ett möjliggörande av en integrering.

Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka en organisations förutsättningar till att använda intranätet för kunskapsspridning. Även vilken roll som intranätet har för användarna kommer att studeras. Vidare vill jag synliggöra ett problem som många gånger uppkommer med intranät, att organisationers förväntningar på intranät inte lyckas realiseras. Tidigare forskning har visat att intranät kan användas som ett verktyg för Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management handlar om att använda lärande som ett sätt att utveckla organisationens materiella och immateriella tillgångar.

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a further development of the Six Sigma draft to carry through preventing quality measures in developing and designing of new products and processes. With increasing demands on enterprises development processes to be more safety and faster the need of DFSS arise as a product, process and service development concept in the organisations. Design for Six Sigma aims to improve and structure the development process of an organisation and consider the application of the innovation problem solving. The concept aims to leave the structure of the traditional Six Sigma concept and instead, from an innovative perspective, search for new solutions to existing problems. The concept constitute of a toolbox with a lot of quality tools that are divided into phases in a development model.

This paper examines the consequences of membership and participation in immigrant associations on individual immigrants? political integration and indirect political participation with reference to Swedish society. The theoretical underpinnings consist of a social structural outlook on social capital, combined with the Civic Voluntarism Model, both of which focus on the potential role of social networks for moving people into political action. After a presentation of parallel qualitative data over the experiences of individual members in a Finnish and Bosnian-Hercegovinian organisation, it is suggested that immigrant associations support the political integration of their members into the host society. Firstly, the case studies indicate that members of immigrant associations gain the opportunity to augment their civic skills, which is a significant prerequisite for political participation.

The main purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine what librarians in seven public libraries experience as major change in their work tasks. We are also interested in exploring how these changes influence librarians? ways of working. In addition to this we want to explore if librarians have experienced change in relation to user?s expectations and demands and if so, how they are met.

Denna studie syftar till att försöka förstå och förklara vilka komponenter IKEAs organisationskultur består av och hur denna kultur i sin tur reproduceras. Vi definierar reproduktion av kultur som en strävan att bevara en organisations grundläggande värderingar och idéer. Till vår hjälp har vi använt Edgar H. Scheins teori om kulturnivåer och John Van Maanens sju strategier för socialisation. Våra data har samlats in genom intervjuer, observationer , tryckta texter och IKEAs svenska hemsida.

Groddjur (amfibier) ?r viktiga indikatorarter i b?de akvatiska och terrestra ekosystem, men globalt hotas denna organismgrupp av habitatf?rlust, f?rs?mrad vattenkvalitet och klimatf?r?ndringar. Stadsmilj?f?rvaltningen i G?teborg jobbar st?ndigt med att bevara biodiversiteten i den urbana parken Slottsskogen och att gynna groddjursdiversiteten ?r en del av detta arbete. Denna studie unders?ker groddjursdiversiteten i Stora dammen i Slottsskogen med syfte att kartl?gga artdiversiteten, att bed?ma dammens l?mplighet som groddjurslokal och att ge ?tg?rdsf?rslag till Stadsmilj?f?rvaltningen f?r att gynna groddjuren i Stora dammen i framtida naturv?rdsarbete. Hypotesen var att f?rekomsten av vanlig groda (Rana temporaria), vanlig padda (Bufo bufo), st?rre vattensalamander (Triturus cristatus), mindre vattensalamander (Lissotriton vulgaris) och ?tlig groda (Pelophylax esculentus) skulle observeras. N?rvaro av amfibier indikerar p? h?lsosamma ekosystem och god biodiversitet vilket ing?r i Slottsskogens m?l.

SammanfattningTitel: Controllers anva?ndning av affa?rssystem vid utfo?rande av deras arbetsuppgifterA?mne/Kurs: Verksamhetsstyrning, Kandidatuppsats, 15 hpFo?rfattare: Martina Svensson och Elin Wiberg Handledare: Titti Eliasson Nyckelord: Controller, affa?rssystem, integration mellan controller och affa?rssystem, stora fo?retag. Syfte: Syftet a?r att underso?ka hur controllers anva?nder affa?rssystem vid utfo?rande av deras arbetsuppgifter. Genom att underso?ka interaktionen mellan controllers och affa?rssystem i verksamheten vill vi ta reda pa? hur affa?rssystem anva?nds. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att skaffa o?kad kunskap inom omra?det som bero?r interaktionen mellan controllers och affa?rssystem, samt att ge la?saren djupare fo?rsta?else inom omra?det. Teoretisk referensram: Uppsatsens huvudomra?de a?r interaktionen mellan controllers och affa?rssystem, fo?r att kunna beskriva interaktionen har vi valt att fo?rst beskriva affa?rssystem och controllers var fo?r sig.

According to the national legislation concerning discrimination within labour law, it is prohibited to discriminate on the grounds of sex, ethnic belonging, religion or other religious belief, functional disability, sexual nature and part-time work or time-limited employment. The EC-law goes further and also prohibits discrimination on the ground of age. According to an EC-directive the member states must incorporate a national provision against age discrimination by the 2nd of December 2006 and the Swedish legislator is now in the progress to implement this into Swedish law.Even though national legislation does not contain any provision on the area, the EC-law directive has a certain influence at national law. Measures that are in breach of the purpose of the directive can for example not be taken. When the time for implementation has expired, the directive has direct effect and can be referred to within the member states.

As IT service departments in organisations are becoming more complex and customised, the indirect costs are increasing in relation to the total costs. The difficulty of fully estimating and identifying the spread of the cost in the IT service department is increasing. As a result, firms tend to budget the business unit as a total cost rather than as a spread of defined costs. In order to deal with this challenge an ABC calculation will be applied. The Time Driven ABC model will be conducted in OMX´s Servicedesk unit within the IT services.

The aim of this study is to from a gender perspective to examine whether spa is a place for both genders or it is focused on female spa visitors only. Also to study the organisation`s point of view of gender performances within spa tourism as well as to see spa organizations views on gender distribution.To be able to answer the questions, the qualitative method was used in our research. The method is relevant to our study since we sought to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. During the data collection we have used previous researchs and qualitative interviews. Overall we had conducted four interviews, one of which was the personal interview, two were made by email and one by phone call.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how four decision makers at a University College and a library director at the same University College perceive the profile, image and identity of their library. This University College library is used as our main example. We have evaluated the main example in relation to two other University College libraries, in order to obtain a deeper understanding of how these library directors view their own libraries and to attain a more multi-dimensional view of the main example of our study. Our intention is to analyse the current situation, not the past nor the future. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with decision makers and library directors have been conducted.

The aim of my study is to look at two specific schools and their work with Internet in the classroom and compare their work to what experts say about how you should educate. The study focuses on how teachers guide the students to be critical to the information they encounter on the internet. What do the experts say? How should the teachers work with Internet in the classroom? What do the teachers say about their work with Internet? What do the teachers say regarding children and the Internet?  To answer these questions I have interviewed two teachers from different schools, which had classes with children 6 to 8 years old. The schools are very different from each other concerning investment on Internet devices in the classroom.

Title: Shall I, shall I not? ? A study of how the intention to engage in entrepreneurial behaviour in Norrbotten is influenced by the financial support from the Structural Funds and the establishment of Ikea in the city of Haparanda. Author: Erica Carlson Tutor: Professor Carin Holmquist/ Docent Monica Lindgren Purpose:The purpose of this thesis is to study what aspects that cause the intention to start a company. Therefore this thesis will look at two different situations, the Structural Funds and the establishment of Ikea in Norrbotten, to try to find out if and how these two situations affect the intention among potential entrepreneurs to engage in entrepreneurial behaviour. Method: A qualitative method is used, since this thesis aims at getting an understanding of a specific phenomena; the intention to entrepreneurial behaviour.