Syftet med denna studie var att analysera förhållandet mellan tre inom detaljhandeln väsentliga områden; ledarskap, medarbetarskap och service.En allt större konkurrens på den svenska detaljhandelsmarknaden tillsammans med utökade krav från konsumenterna, innebär stora påtryckningar på branschens butiker. De som i första hand möter de förändrade kraven är butikernas medarbetare, vilka således utsätts för allt större press från flera håll. För samtidigt som konsumenterna ställer högre krav på servicen som medarbetarna förmedlar, växer företagens interna krav på att göra butikerna så konkurrenskraftiga som möjligt. Följderna blir då ofta en begränsad bemanning och färre arbetstimmar för butikerna, vilket skapar en paradoxal arbetssituation för butikernas medarbetare.Forskning på området för service och servicekvalitet framhåller ett stort värde hos personalen i frontlinjen. Medarbetare bör ses som en förutsättning för att kunna erbjuda en hög servicekvalitet, varpå forskningen betonar vikten av att göra medarbetarna delaktiga i utformningen och utvecklingen av butikens servicearbete.

This study discloses Swedish human service organizations and their methods of integrating unaccompanied children into the Swedish society. The purpose of the study is to investigate how social workers at HVB-homes for unaccompanied children depict their experience in and knowledge of how the unaccompanied children are integrated into Swedish society. The method of investigating the questions raised by the purpose of this thesis has been qualitative analysis of answers derived from interviewing personnel at HVB-homes for unaccompanied children. In doing so we have made use of a semi-structured method of interviewing the above-mentioned personnel. The data derived from these interviews has thereafter been analysed and filtered through the concept of integration and the theoretical formations human service organizations and street-level bureaucrats.

The project was conducted during a period from November 2014 to January 2015 at the company Westermo Teleindustri AB (WTE). The subject of the project was to make an inventory more efficient. The inventory was located at WTE, but was owned by the subsidiary Westermo Sverige (WSE).The inventory had a high amount of tied up capital. This was due to products that hadn?t been sold.

Uppsatsen innehåller en studie av hur etiska regler, vilka framför allt återfinns inom advokatyrket, påverkar konkurrensen och de konflikter som uppstår mellan de svenska och europeiska konkurrensreglerna och dessa etiska regler. Mer specfikt identifieras vilka konkurrenshämmande effekter dessa regler medför, och vilka alternativ som finns för att kombinera etiska regler och konkurrensregler på ett sådant sätt att minsta möjliga skada uppstår för konsumenterna av advokattjänster. Resultatet av uppsatsen är att vissa etiska regler bör elimineras eller modifieras, eftersom de påverkar marknaden på ett negativt sätt utan att medföra motsvarande vinster annorstädes. The essay contains a studie on how ethical rules, here represented by the rules for the law profession, influence the competition. Furthermore are the conflicts that appear between the ethical rules and the Swedish and European competition rules identified and analysed.

The aim of this study is to create an increased understanding of shared leadership and how it takes shape in the relationship between first-line managers in human service organizations. Shared leadership is seen as a complement to the traditional one-man leadership and briefly means that two managers share the role that usually is held by a single leader. The study has a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with managers in human service organizations. The interviews mention the mangers thoughts and experiences about shared leadership and gain approval in the hermeneutic science field. The study is analyzed based on symbolic interactionism where perspectives from the theoreticians Mead and Goffman are used.

Teorier inom relationsmarknadsföring har talat om hur företag kan vinna konkurrensfördelar genom att erbjuda kunden ett totalt serviceerbjudande, där kunden och dennes behov står i centrum. Teorierna beskriver vidare humankapital som den viktigaste resursen och talar i anslutning till detta om utbildning, befogenheter och god kommunikation med ledning. För en mindre aktör på detaljhandelsmarknaden krävs nya vägar att differentiera sig när större, väletablerade kedjor erbjuder likartade sortiment till liknande priser. Parfymeri L är ett familjeföretag med butiker i fem svenska städer som säljer selektiv kosmetik. De satsar på att erbjuda personlig service och uppger att personalen är den viktigaste resursen för ett företag i deras position.

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the mobile library development in Sweden since the start in Borås, Sweden in 1948. We have concentrated on three six-year periods. Our aim has been to describe a part of the mobile library development. We wanted to research the background of the said development. To do this we also studied the library and overall development in Sweden during the same years.

The furniture retail industry in Sweden has gone trough large changes during the last decades. Today the industry is tough and in the maturity stage where few new companies enter, especially if they do not have a unique offer. The furniture companies have become larger and fewer, the changes have lead to difficulties for smaller and medium sized companies to grow and be profitable.Our purpose is to analyse, evaluate and compare three smaller companies in Stockholm with the intention to find what kind of marketing strategies they are using to survive on the Swedish market. First we interviewed the three companies to see what they do to survive on the market, then we asked 100 persons to fill in a questionnaire to see if they had the same opinion as the companies described.With help from theories we prepared questions which laid the foundation to the empirical part of the essay.The result from this study shows that the three companies differ from each other when it comes to using relationship marketing and placing the customer in the centre. All of them are aware of the importance of doing so, but because of different limits and possibilities they can not fully adjust everything to the customer.

Denna rapport baseras på en undersökning som går ut på att ta reda på vad man sombutikschef på Systembolaget kan göra för att förbättra kundservicen inom ramarna för despecifika försäljningsregler som företaget måste följa på grund av det monopol påförsäljning av alkoholhaltiga drycker som föreligger.I rapporten tas teorier om servicekvalitet upp där vi bland annat har utgått ifrån tekniskoch funktionell kvalitet, olika teorier om kundservice och personlig service,påverkansmetoder samt teori om organisationens betydelse för servicekvalitet.Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod där vi intervjuat butikschefer i treav Systembolagets butiker. Vidare har vi även använt oss av observationer ochbenchmarking. Det sammanställda resultatet har tillsammans med teorin utgjort en grundnär vi analyserat resultatet av undersökningen och tittat på likheter och skillnader mellanteori och praktik.Den centrala slutsatsen vi kom fram till är att Systembolaget ligger efter i kundservice, dådetta ämne börjat uppmärksammats fullt ut först på senare år. För att utveckla sinkundservice rekommenderar vi bland annat att företagets butiker i större omfattning skallanvända sig av både extern och intern benchmarking för att på så sätt förbättra den egnaverksamheten. Vi kommer även med rekommendationer på åtgärder som vi anser skullekunna öka kundservicen inom Systembolaget..

The aim of this essay is to study how the University Church is represented in student newspapers. By conducting an inductive thematic analysis on sixteen articles chosen from newspapers distributed by the student union at three Swedish universities, the main purpose of the study is to further understand the role and function of the University Church in a contemporary Swedish context. Three themes emerging from the initial step of the thematic analysis were chosen for further analysis: (1) a secularized church?, (2) provocation and (3) reasons to seek out the University Church. The themes were then highlighted by two theoretical perspectives: Mark Chaves? theory of internal secularization and a theoretical framework developed by Anders Bäckström with the aim to explain the role of the church as a welfare agent in Sweden.The study shows that the University Church is portrayed as both an ambiguous and complex organization.

This is the end report of my final exam at Medieteknik. It covers the planning, work process and review of a Flash based web application that I set out to do. The goal was to create a user friendly, interactive e-shop with embedded functionality for playing music, displaying rich media content and researching possible payment solutions, to enable buying music files online. The project involved creating the user interface, the programmatic functionality of a Flash client (an SWF file). Also, setting up an Apache HTTP Server and establishing a working ?bridge? between the Flash client and the web server with Flash Remoting components and AMFPHP.

Because of the large supply of information is today's leisure travelers very enlightened and have firsthand knowledge of what can be demanded on a hotel stay. Along with business travelers, who are not price sensitive, they place higher demands on the standards and service they require. It has become increasingly important to attract the visitors in a unique way.The purpose of this study is to reveal those aspects which hotels focus on in their business in order to keep their guests, despite the strong competition and the new demands of the changing hotel industry. The study has examined more closely if the hotels have specific concepts in their approach, if their servicescapes (the environment where the service is assembled) are designed in a unique way to attract visitors and if the hotels have special relationships with their guests.The study is qualitative and in order to answer the purpose has observations of the selected hotels and interviews with managers and receptionists been made.One of the conclusions that we reached is that the most important aspect in the hotels business is their relationship to the guests. Each respective hotel strives to have a special and unique relationship with its guests conveyed by its staff.

The market for security is one filled with great opportunities. The security services companies are numerous and diverse, the Swedish market is dominated by two large companies: Securitas Bevakning AB and Falck Security AB. In this study we have focused on the bigger of the two, Securitas. This report describes and analysis the security service branch and its surroundings in an involved manner. The target group of the result is mainly people within the security branch.

On 1 January 2005, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)was mandatory for all listed companies within the European Union. The introduction is to create a transparent and consistent reporting. Mainly to provide companies, investors and financiers the same access to world capital markets. Since the introduction of IFRS, the goodwill value is determined by annual impairment tests. If an impairment of goodwill is a fact the goodwill decreases in value.

Teorier inom relationsmarknadsföring har talat om hur företag kan vinna konkurrensfördelar genom att erbjuda kunden ett totalt serviceerbjudande, där kunden och dennes behov står i centrum. Teorierna beskriver vidare humankapital som den viktigaste resursen och talar i anslutning till detta om utbildning, befogenheter och god kommunikation med ledning. För en mindre aktör på detaljhandelsmarknaden krävs nya vägar att differentiera sig när större, väletablerade kedjor erbjuder likartade sortiment till liknande priser. Parfymeri L är ett familjeföretag med butiker i fem svenska städer som säljer selektiv kosmetik. De satsar på att erbjuda personlig service och uppger att personalen är den viktigaste resursen för ett företag i deras position.