The interest in providing a post 9/11 image of Islam to contrast the media?s frequent focus on its practitioners? alleged tendencies toward hostility and violence has in Sweden manifested itself (among other things) in an increased range of courses on Islam given by denominational Muslim Organizations. In this paper I examine the construction of Islam by two Muslim Organizations that offer education in Islam to non-Muslims in the context of the management?s stated goals of the education. My aim is to illustrate how discourses within these Organizations are a result of the combination of local and global conditions..

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..

AbstractTime after time the world is struck by humanitarian catastrophes, whether it is through a war or a natural disaster. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to have a functional and effective aid, as it is a matter of life and death. Thereby the actions of the humanitarian aid Organizations are interesting. The investigation treats the three specific Organizations Star of Hope, Sida and the Red Cross movement and the process from decision to action in times of war. The Organizations are different from one another in many areas.

This report is a study of Swedish traditional ships and their safety organization. The focus is on how the non-profit Organizations that operate the traditional ships can adapt to current regulations in the best way. Initially a background on traditional ships, their organization and regulations that regulates them will be presented.The study is focused on which parts that can be more important in the safety Organizations for traditional ships. The questions also includes if a non-profit organization might affect the safety and how the role as designated person should be handled in these Organizations. Furthermore the study addresses how a non-profit organization that operates traditional ships might improve their safety organization.The information is gathered by interviews with persons that work with safety, controls safety Organizations or is active in Organizations that operate traditional ships.

This study focus on Organizations transfer to cloud computing. Today many companies are shifting their attention towards cloud computing and the possibilities that it offers, with more flexibility and lower costs. Different kinds of cloud services, both for use by the individual and the large enterprise, are getting more popular. More and more Organizations therefore decide to do the move to the cloud. There are several different strategies and many pieces of advice for these Organizations to follow, but there?s not much research that have been conducted on this subject.

This essay is about how Organizations reveal their employees in the annual report. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Organizations reveals their employees in the annual report, and the purpose has three questions: How do the Organizations present their employees in the annual report? What do they choose to report? What motives lies behind?The problem today is that Organizations can´t account the employees as assets, they can only be accounted as an expense in the income statement. This can lead to that stakeholders can´t convey an organization's "true" value.With a combination study, we examined how Organizations certified by Investors in People presents the employees in their annual reports. In the framework, we have, among other things dealt with personnel mandatory disclosure in the Annual Account Act, the difference between private- and public sectors accounting.

This essay discusses organizational culture and focus on corporate creativity and innovation. The aim is to see which organizational factors that foster creativity and innovation in Organizations. The essay will provide answer on how organizational culture can encourage creativity and innovation and how Organizations can promote the rise of a creative work environment. The research design of this essay is a qualitative case study with interviews at Gotland Energi AB (GEAB). The interviews provided insight in factors that can foster creativity and innovation in Organizations.

The subject field studied in this essay is environmental scanning. The aim of this study is to analyse how three public Organizations within the subject field sustainable development work with their environmental scanning. Most Organizations have to relate to their surroundings such as clients and competitors. Environmental scanning is another very important field that Organizations have to relate to in their work. This essay has three questions in focus which are the following;How is the work with environmental scanning in the three Organizations arranged?How does the work with environmental scanning differ in the three Organizations?How important is environmental scanning for the subject field sustainable development?The study was carried out through four conducted interviews with key persons within the three Organizations.

The interest in providing a post 9/11 image of Islam to contrast the media?s frequent focus on its practitioners? alleged tendencies toward hostility and violence has in Sweden manifested itself (among other things) in an increased range of courses on Islam given by denominational Muslim Organizations. In this paper I examine the construction of Islam by two Muslim Organizations that offer education in Islam to non-Muslims in the context of the management?s stated goals of the education. My aim is to illustrate how discourses within these Organizations are a result of the combination of local and global conditions..

Title:Social media as a tool for organizational learningAuthor:David Chaaya & Filip FischerSupervisor:Stig Sörling & Tomas KällqvistBackground:People have always used different ways of communicating. Communication hasa vital role in Organizations for control when management and employees are communicatingand interacting with each other to spread individual learning. Thru this contact, individuallearning can develop into organizational learning, which will benefit the whole organization.The most modern tool of communication is social media such as Facebook, Twitter andYoutube. The potential of these social media is disputed in society, but more and moreOrganizations are using these kinds of media for communication.Aim:The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social media is used to control withinOrganizations and also to create understanding how significant social media are fororganizational learning.Method:The method of this study originates from the ?aktörssynsätt? and is influenced byhermeneutics.

This essay is about how Organizations reveal their employees in the annual report. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Organizations reveals their employees in the annual report, and the purpose has three questions: How do the Organizations present their employees in the annual report? What do they choose to report? What motives lies behind?The problem today is that Organizations can´t account the employees as assets, they can only be accounted as an expense in the income statement. This can lead to that stakeholders can´t convey an organization's "true" value.With a combination study, we examined how Organizations certified by Investors in People presents the employees in their annual reports. In the framework, we have, among other things dealt with personnel mandatory disclosure in the Annual Account Act, the difference between private- and public sectors accounting.

The purpose of this thesis was to examine relevance of the proposition made by new insitutionalists about institutional and technical environment. This proposition originaly made by Meyer & Rowan (1977) has two core assumptions: The first is that all Organizations are controlled by combinations of types of demands; technical demands for efficient production and institutional demands to adept to cultural and normative expectations. The second assumption is that there exists a few Organizations dominated almost entirely by one typy of demand. Organizations dominated by institutional demands are said to live in an institutional environment, while technical Organizations is said operate in a technical environment. This thesis has examined if these assumptions are still applicable in describing organizational interaction with the environment.

The purpose of this study is to exam how two environmental Organizations reason about the loss of biodiversity. The research questions are; what is the view in these Organizations regarding biodiversity? What are the underlying environmental discourses behind their reasoning, and how do they reason about the risks associated with the loss of biodiversity? As a first part of this thesis a thorough review of existing literature and online resources about the actions of environmental Organizations was conducted. Two Organizations were interviewed, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Naturskyddsforeningen. The questions for the study were analyzed in light of Dryzek´s (1997) reasoning about environmental discourses and using the concept of risk by Beck (1998).

Outsourcing in IS/IT offers Organizations the possibility to use external resources, maximize flexibility and focus on core business, this prompts many Organizations today to be less keen on developing IS/IT-services in-house. Sourcing IS/IT is however a complex activity in itself thus requiring competencies in many areas of expertise and lots of Organizations has experienced the challenge of managing the necessary competencies to ensure successful Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO). A literature review in the field of outsourcing revealed the lack of a comprehensive competency management framework with the ability to guide competency resource planning in ITO projects. In order to highlight the problem area, an extensive and thorough literature review and an empirical case study which investigated the skills and assets in ITO projects at ten major Swedish Organizations was conducted. The study found that it is possible for Organizations through structured analysis of their intellectual capital, using the competency framework developed within the study, to plan sourcing processes and prepare the necessary changes to ensure the ITO projects can be implemented with the desired effect..

This thesis examines if commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) systems meet the needs in different types of Organizations. This was investigated through a case study of a COTS system. The system is built for contact centers and used in different types of Organizations. Contextual inquiries with users from six different Organizations were held together with interviews with stakeholders of the system. This gave an understanding for how the system is used and the needs to be met in the different Organizations were recognized.