The estimated number of people living in extreme poverty is 1.3 billion and 70% of those are women. The aim of this study is to explain in what ways and why women are regarded as poorer than men.The definition of poverty has expanded and is now multidimensional. In order to answer the aim of this thesis the following dimensions will be included and work as a theory in which the analysis will be structured after. Through a gender perspective, will the role of woman emerge through a multidimensional definition of poverty. If the balance is a negative in these dimensions, the situation for women will worsen and become permanent.

Sammanfattning Petter Ulmert (2013), Samtalets betydelse för organisatoriskt lärande (Significance of conversation for organizational learning), Specialpedagogprogrammet, Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Lärande och Samhälle, Malmö högskola. Problemområde Detta arbete handlar om hur kunskap och lärande uppstår i samtal. Jag har undersökt hur anställda uppfattar denna process och hur de tänker kring en organisations förståelse för fenomenet som sådant. Informanterna har fått diskutera hur och när samtal blir lärande, reflektera över sina erfarenheter och i fokusgruppen ta del av andras. På så sätt kan man säga att arbetet i sig självt bidrar till det kunskapande och lärande som jag är ute efter att skapa en större förståelse för. Syfte Studien syftar till att skapa en tydligare bild av hur organisatoriskt lärande och kunskap genereras i samtal. Mina preciserade frågeställningar är; Vilka faktorer inverkar på samtalets förmåga att bli lärande? Hur påverkas lärande samtal av interaktion deltagarna emellan? Hur uppfattar anställda i olika organisationer möjligheter till lärande samtal? Metod och teori Jag har använt ostrukturerad fokusgrupp för insamling av empiri.

The estimated number of people living in extreme poverty is 1.3 billion and 70% of those are women. The aim of this study is to explain in what ways and why women are regarded as poorer than men.The definition of poverty has expanded and is now multidimensional. In order to answer the aim of this thesis the following dimensions will be included and work as a theory in which the analysis will be structured after. Through a gender perspective, will the role of woman emerge through a multidimensional definition of poverty. If the balance is a negative in these dimensions, the situation for women will worsen and become permanent.

This paper is about street children in Delhi and how they get through the day. The content is based on interviews with staff in different Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) in Delhi. The facts from the interviews are complemented with different researches about street children in general and not only about street children in Delhi. Our main question is "How is it possible for a child to deal with the street life in Delhi?".

A central discussion within society and businesses today, is the change of generations in the business market which occurs within the upcoming years. A change of generations is unavoidable and a natural step in business. The challenge of the forthcoming reform is the large number of people leaving the labour market and the grand entrance of new labour; Generation Y. The characteristics of Generation Y differ from the older generation which enhances the challenges for the businesses to attract a new workforce. It may also be necessary for the organisations to adapt to the younger generation.

The increasing public concern regarding the government?s priorities in spending public resources puts pressure on public organisations to address quality issues in their practice. In United Kingdom both BRTF (Better Regulation Task Force) (BIS, 2005b) and the Hampton report (BIS, 2005a) highlighted management and quality problems in public organisations in UK. These reports revealed obstacles within institutions? intent to offer recommendations and appropriate solutions for agencies working with legal enforcement and control.

Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes towards the labour movement?s strategies, goals and organisational issues in Swedish Miners? Union?s (Gruvindustriarbetareförbundet, hereafter Gruv) paper, Gruvarbetaren 1917-1925.The theoretical starting point is Engels? view on the class state. This perspective turns the question of socialism and the way to get there into an issue of working class power over the state. Another theoretical perspective is the partition of the labour movement into a trade-unionistic branch, seeing unions as financial organisations of interest, and a pro-state one, considering unions as political organisations.During the period investigated Gruvarbetaren was quite radical and advocated a firm class struggle strategy towards employers. Since these were considered unreliable, class struggle was seen as the only way to better the conditions for the working class.

ABSTRACT Poverty, and in particular child poverty, is a serious social problem. Statistics show that the number of children living in poverty has increased over the last ten years. Earlier research shows that there are huge gaps in our knowledge of how the actors in civil society handle child poverty. With this study we hope to help fill this gap. The aim of our study is to look at how four different organisations working in the civil society in Uppsala perceive and handle child poverty.

The purpose of this paper is to perform an in-depth analysis of how New Public Management reforms have impacted management practises in two publicly financed elderly care providers in Sweden. The paper studies one public and one private elderly care provider and analyses to what extent they have implemented New Public Management methods. The results are based on interviews with several persons within the two organisations and analysed using the seven New Public Management doctrines as described by Christopher Hood (1991; 1995). The major finding in the thesis is that the level of exposure towards New Public Management reforms differs between the two studied organisations where the private provider is exposed to the reforms to a greater extent than the public. The paper concludes that the main reasons for the low extent of exposure in the public provider could be attributed to the lack of measurable standards performance as well as the proximity to the political leadership..

Företags och andra organisationers konsumtion av produkter och tjänster bidrar till miljöpåverkan i alla dess faser. Det är enklare för ett producerande företag att identifiera sina mest kritiska upphandlingsområden, till skillnad från organisationer som huvudsakligen upphandlar varor och tjänster. Med upphandling avses i det här fallet en organisations inköp av varor och tjänster. Upphandlingen av varor och tjänster bidrar till indirekt miljöpåverkan och den upphandlande organisationen har ofta svårt att påverka produktions- och slutfas av varor och tjänster.Syftet med studien är att utveckla ett arbetssätt för att kunna bedöma en icke-producerande organisations miljöpåverkan av dess upphandling av varor och tjänster. Detta arbetssätt kommer att testas och utföras som en fallstudiestudie på Linköpings Universitet (LiU), där syftet är att identifiera kritiska upphandlingsområden.Denna fallstudie bygger på en tidigare studie på LiU där miljöpåverkan har bedömts i produktionsfasen med hjälp av miljöexpanderad inputoutputanalys (MIOA).

BackgroundThere are different organizational structures and control and it has been proved difficult to find a combination between these that leads to goal congruence and improved efficiency. An organization can be structured according to hierarchical levels and the decision making can be either centralized or decentralized. Organizational control can be classified according to the amount of rules and balanced scorecard can be used to weld together the structure with the control.PurposeThe purpose is to create an understanding of how two types of structures and control in an organization appears and also to investigate how these differ from one another concerning the balanced scorecard as a control system. We will also investigate how the variables goal congruence and efficiency are affected by the implementation of the balanced scorecard.MethodTo answer the purpose of this thesis we have mainly used the qualitative method since we have studied two organizations thoroughly through interviews on different levels of the organization. The study also has some quantitative elements since we wanted to get a more truthful picture of the organizations.

This master thesis deals with the differences in the design of the environmental scanning between different kinds of organisations, as well as the demands and regulations etc. in the respective environments that influence the environmental scanning. The content of the environmental scanning and the organisation of the function are outside the scope of this study. Two organisations that do not have an organised function but are scanning their environment were chosen for the investigation. A model for conducting the environmental scanning developed by Frankelius is used to analyse the practice of environmental scanning.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka vad som får män som brukar våld mot sin kvinnliga partner att motivera sig att få professionell hjälp, samt att påbörja och fortsätta ett förändringsarbete. De frågeställningar som använts handlade om hur männen hittar motivation, vad som gör att de vill förändras, vad i den professionella relationen de tycker är positivt respektive negativt för förändring samt vad i deras övriga tillvaro som hindrar eller främjar förändring. För detta användes en kvalitativ metod som bestod av halvstrukturerade intervjuer med tre män som gick i ett behandlingsprogram via frivården efter att ha utövat våld i nära relation. Det insamlade materialet strukturerades upp i teman som var centrala i männens berättelser och som kunde kopplas till syftet. Resultatet analyserades med hjälp av ett ekologiskt systemteoriperspektiv samt begrepp från generell systemteori och socialpsykologi.

The aim of this Master Thesis is to examine how the national intranet at Nordea serves the organisation as a channel of information and communication. The intranets of today, have partially or completely come to replace other channels of information within larger organisations, and the intranet has become an increasingly important issue to the communicational process of organisations. To address the problem stated, qualitative interviews was accomplished with several employees at a department at Nordea. The achieved result reflects how the intranet supports variable everyday end-user situations. The result shows an intranet that is sparsely used in comparison to other channels of communication such as colleagues.

Denna studie har undersökt den praktiska användbarheten av befintliga teoretiska ramverk inom service recovery-området som utgångspunkt för att utvärdera och utveckla recovery-arbetet i tjänsteföretag. En datainsamling på ett större svenskt tjänsteföretag har genomförts med ett fokus baserat på befintliga teorier om service recovery. Det insamlade materialet har sedan bearbetats av nyckelpersoner på företaget och funnits leda till en inte oansenlig mängd insikter och åtgärdsförslag relaterat till organisationens recovery-verksamhet. Detta leder till slutsatsen att de teoretiska ramverk som beskriver service recovery-processen framgångsrikt kan användas för att styra utvärdering och utveckling av en organisations recovery-verksamhet. Information som insamlats med befintliga teorier som lins har visats vara relevant för en organisations insikter om det egna recovery-arbetet samt bidragit till utveckling av recovery-verksamheten..