This essay is a case study of how two non-profit organizations, in the same line of business work with external communication and new media such as Internet and social media (Facebook and Twitter).Both these organizations are located in different countries and the purpose of the case study is also to find out if the differences in their work methods in communication depend on organizational or cultural differences. The case study was conducted in the organizations Sverige Amerika Centret in Karlstad, Sweden and The Swedish Council of America in Minneapolis, US. A qualitative approach executed through interviews and a qualitative content analysis of the organizations annual report from 2010. The result of the interviews and the document content analysis shows that there are differences in the way these organizations handle their work with external communications and new media. One of the organizations uses new media more actively in their work with communication and through that channel creates a relationship with its external audiences. The theories that has been used for this case study is Organization communication, Intercultural communication, Public Relations and Organization culture. Keywords: external communication, new media, culture and employees..

Aim: To investigate the observed issues about the economy units? importation in the municipal of Bollnäs, Sweden, and study the internal communication according to this matter. Method: This paper is written as a process where the information flow has been decided by the information held in the interviews. The interviews have dealt with the economy units issues and the communication linked to it, within the oganization. The persons that have been interviewed are Olle Nilsson Sträng -principal of the municipal executive board, Leopold Stoltz - head of the municipal, Jan Lahenkorva? principal of the youth and child care board Maj ?Britt Karlsson? head of the youth and child care management and Eva Eklunddirector of junior school.

Many IT projects that have been developed in recent years are often considered to be unsuccessful. According to a study by Exido up to the 72% of all IT projects are considered to be failed. A failed IT projects means that the organizations that have ordered the new system may have higher costs or/and the system will not be ready in time. If costs are too high the new system might not be installed in the organization or if the system is not completed within the specified time frame the organization can become stagnant.In this paper we conduct an investigation of the failure of IT projects there we will examine where, in the systems development lifecycle four different phases, projects fail. We will conduct an empirical study of each phase, where we describe the key steps in the process; we will also investigate failed IT projects that are linked to the current phase.

It has become more common for organization to operate a lot of projects at the same time. These projects affect each other, either in way of resources or technical. Projects in a multi-project environment depend and affect each other, and in most cases they rival about resources, decision-makings and priority. To lead a project portfolio with several projects is a major challenge. The most common problems that occur are vague objective, unclear working conditions, resource shortage and problems of priority.

Denna C ? uppsats i sociologi syftar till att undersöka varifrån förstagångsväljare får sin påverkan till ett ställningstagande inför riksdagsvalet år 2006. Studien belyser även förstagångsväljarnas syn på vikten av att rösta. Våra frågeställningar är således; Varifrån kommer påverkan till störst del ifrån för förstagångsväljare till riksdagsvalet år 2006? Anser förstagångsväljaren att det är viktigt att rösta? Begrepp som socialisation och könssocialisation visar att påverkan hemifrån är av stor betydelse för förstagångsväljaren.

Background - The trend of new soccer stadiums took off in England and the three key factors of this trend where security, economic value and growth. In the early 2000s the trend came to Sweden and Växjö. The soccer stadium, Värendsvallen were old and needed modernization.Purpose - The overall purpose of this study is to understand how Östers IF as a nonprofit organization has organized themselves when planning a large and complex project as the construction of a new soccer stadium. It also aims to portray how Östers IF has moved from concept to reality with the new soccer stadium.Method - The case study of the project organization in Östers IF where made ??using semi-structured interviews and participant observations.

Under hösten 2003 skrev jag tillsammans med en annan student vid Lunds universitet en C-uppsats om hur långtidsarbetslösa upplever sin situation. I denna uppsats nystar jag vidare på denna tråd för att undersöka några arbetslösas upplevelser av sina behov av stöd och hjälp som arbetssökande och sätta detta i relation till deras upplevelse av de arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder de möter och intentionerna bakom dessa åtgärder.För att närma mig en förståelse angående detta har jag utgått från arbets- och utvecklingscentra som idag arbetar för att slussa arbetslösa personer genom rådgivning och praktik till arbete.Då jag är intresserad av att lyfta fram arbetslösas beskrivningar och önskemål vad gäller arbetsmarknadsåtgärder har en kvalitativ studie utförts. Åtta djupintervjuer har genomförts, sex med arbetslösa personer inskrivna på arbets- och utvecklingscentra, resterande två med tjänstemän som arbetar med arbetsmarknadsfrågor. Utifrån utarbetat material har analysen delats upp i olika teman. Det teoretiska perspektiv som anlagts på denna studie är hämtat i Göran Ahrnes teori om vardagsverklighet och struktur, nätverksmodellen så som den beskrivits av Marianne Liedholm och Göran Lindberg, samt två processer presenterade av Bengt Furåker; dekommodifiering och rekommodifiering.Arbetet med att skapa program och förberedande insatser för individer som står utanför arbetsmarknaden är en process som hela tiden står under förändring.

The aim of this thesis is to explore how a bookstore chain and a public library meet the needs of their customers through environmental scanning. The empirical material is derived from six semi-structured interviews with six informants, three from each organization, together with an analysis of internal documents. The method used is a case study and the theoretical framework is based on models used in the process of environmental scanning, as described by Choo, Hamrefors and Hedin & Sandström among others, and which facilitate a comparison of the environmental scanning of the two organizations. The results of the study indicate that the library, as a public organization with a mission in society, perceives the environment as society as a whole and all its members as their users, whereas the bookstore concentrates on the sectors of the environment that affect their sales. The consequences of these different views are that the library is more active in the environment and uses surveys as a basic source of information, while the bookstore is more passive, and relies on statistics for information.

The Swedish government corporation Försäkringskassan is currently undergoing large organizational changes. Modifications are made regarding the national insurance system and work procedures. In this study we have investigated the procedures of change with the aim of identifying which pedagogical processes in work procedures that enables organizational learning. Furthermore, the study aimed at gaining insight of how the work procedures enable organizational learning in a learning organization. We have utilized case study tradition to examine specific occurrences in their natural environment to thereby understand the matter of investigation.

AbstractThe rise of globalization has made ??the sustainability aspect emerged as a sign that peoples? actions must change. Tourism is now one of the fastest growing industries in the world that has an impact on people, nature and cultures. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding how different tourism actors use and express the concept of sustainable tourism development in the co-operation organization Kiruna Lapland. One of the most visited places in the north of Sweden.

So- called ?Network Based Defense? (NBD) was introduced in Sweden in connection with the transformation of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1999. NBD is based on the U.S. variant Network Centric Warfare (NCW), which in turn is derived from research on the concept of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). In Sweden the concept was introduced and included not only the Armed Forces but was intended to also support the Swedish civilian agencies in order to create networks and hence share the available information and thus more effective crisis management and to provide more "bang for the buck." In developing the concept of NBD the Swedish Armed Forces used both economic and human resources, in the form of research, new technologies, new organization and new methods.Between year 2004 and 2006 the Armed Forces once again entered the process of reorganization.

I sin iver att förbli konkurrenskraftiga väljer idag många företag att outsourca de aktiviteter man inte anser tillhöra kärnverksamheten. Human Resources (HR), dvs. en organisations olika personalfunktioner, är en av de verksamheter som numera i allt större utsträckning läggs ut till externa leverantörer.Denna studies syfte var att ur ett arbetslivspedagogiskt perspektiv, problematisera företeelsen outsourcing av HR, vilket har genomförts genom en kvalitativ litteraturstudie. En kritisk och ifrågasättande inläsning av forskning på området, med fokusering på kompetensbegreppet, har kompletterats med teorier kring lärande och kontextuella villkor.Detta har bland annat utmynnat i slutsatser som att outsourcing av HR rymmer både potentialer och paradoxer. Den främsta potentialen ligger i att man genom outsourcing möjliggör för ett samarbete som kan ge ett vidgat perspektiv på verksamheten och dess medarbetare för både moderföretaget och dess leverantör.

This essay reflects upon how recruiters working at a recruitment-agency interpret their gender equality plan and their understanding of the term gender equality. This was done by semi-structured interviews with five recruiters. Through theories concerning the gender system, organization theory with a gender perspective and the doing-gender-perspective we have come to the conclusion that the employees of the company lack a coherent interpretation of gender equality. Concerning the gender equality plan there were diverse understandings of its meaning and the application of the plan is partly insufficient. As a recruitment agency there are a number of specific difficulties related to working towards gender equality.

This thesis is a case study of the informal internal communication at a Swedish government agency called Swedac. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the employees perceive and use the informal internal communication, what communication media they utilize for it and how the informal internal communication correlates to certain aspects of the organizational structure. In order to achieve this, six qualitative interviews was carried out with employees in the organization. Since informal internal communication is not a well-defined concept I explained my view of the concept in the thesis. The results show that the informal internal communication is very important and fairly widespread at Swedac.

This thesis examines the organization Empower and their members, who consist of sex working women in Thailand. The purpose is to explore the more liberal point of view of prostitution and how the female members perceive Empower. Furthermore the study investigates if the organization can improve the sex workers empowerment. The study also delineates how these women reflect on their professional role as a sex working woman and whether the women relate to feminine discourses. The study is implemented in Chiang Mai, Thailand during the fall of the year 2010 and is based on qualitative methods like interview, focus group, observations and text analysis.