I många år har det stått klart att på grund av ökning av antalet äldre kommer det blir svårt med framtida bemanning i hemtjänsten. Arbeten anses vara låg status och underbetalda. Om arbeten i hemtjänsten anses ge anställda upplevelser av empowerment är det möjligt att flera söker sig till dessa arbeten och att befintlig personal stannar kvar.Syftet med denna uppsats är att få ökad förståelse för hur personal i hemtjänst upplever empowerment i sitt arbete samt att studera på vilket sätt ledare inom hemtjänsten kan arbeta med att stödja upplevelser av empowerment hos sina anställda. Undersökningen är genomförd som en kvalitativ fallstudie i hemtjänsten i Reykjavík. Med semistrukturerade intervjuer har sex anställda och tre ledare intervjuats och materialet har analyserats med en tematisk analys.Det visar sig att de anställda i hemtjänsten i Reykjavík upplever delvis strukturell empowerment i sina arbeten samt pyskologisk empowerment genom alla fyra kognitionerna; mening, kompetens, självbestämmande och påverkan. Ledarna stödjer personalens upplevelser av empowerment genom tillit, respekt och värdighet samt tillåtelse att göra misstag..

This essay is about integration of theoretical subjects and practical subjects at the vocational training education in a Swedish Upper secondary school. The purpose of the essay was to examine if integration of the subjects increases the students` motivation for, interest in and knowledge of the subject Swedish. Other purposes were to examine how the teachers organize their teaching of Swedish in order to adjust it to the students? interests and to examine the students? attitude towards Swedish as a subject.The essay also describes the recent development of the vocational training education of Swedish Upper secondary school and presents theories about learning and other examinations about teaching of theoretical subjects at the vocational training education.The examination carried through with a questionnaire which was distributed to the students at three programs at the school and interviews with the headmaster and two teachers. The result of the study showed that a small majority of the students believe that integration increases their motivation in and knowledge of Swedish.

The aim of this quantitative study was to from a gender perspective understand and measure the mental health among young people as a sense of managing to handle situations and also how satisfied young people are with their personal qualities. The study also aims to see if there is a connection between these two ways of explaining mental health. This study takes its standpoint from a gender theory and gender stereotypes. The study was conducted as a survey with 100 young girls and boys, all of whom was students of a Swedish upper secondary school. The result of the study show that young people in general has a good sense of being able to handle situations.

Thesis purpose: The main purpose of this study is to empirically verify the applicability of Kozinets´ model on an interest, activity or lifestyle based online community, in order to develop an adaptive segmentation approach for segmenting online communities. Methodology: This research is deductive by nature, cross-sectional by design and undertakes a quantitative approach using self-completion questionnaire as a part of a web survey to collect the empirical data needed. Theoretical perspective: The main theories guiding our work and supporting the findings of this study include: market segmentation (descriptive and behavioural) and communities (consumer communities and online communities). Empirical data: A web survey with self-completion questionnaire used to gather empirical data from members of interest, activity or lifestyle based online communities. Conclusions: This study took the specific characteristics of online communities into more consideration than previous research and literature has done and also recognized that an adaptive segmentation approach is needed, depending on the communities of study.

Arbetet handlar om hur föräldrar till barn i behov av särskilt stöd känner sig förstådda och bemötta av personal i förskola/skola. Fokuset är på hur föräldrar har blivit bemötta av personal och pedagoger i förskolan/skolan. Föräldrar beskriver en skola som inkluderar alla, ur deras synvinkel. För att få svar på frågeställningarna har åtta föräldrar som har barn i behov av särskilt stöd intervjuats. Syfte: Syftet med arbetet är att försöka förstå hur föräldrar upplever att personal och pedagoger bemöter deras barn i förskola/skola, samt hur föräldrar tänker kring en skola som inkluderar alla barn. Metod: Kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer är den metod som har använts i arbetet. Efter intervjuerna är empirin sammanställd och analyserad.

International negotiation is the link between international planning and implementation. The ability to negotiate successfully may very well depend on the efforts being put into preparatory activities, leading to the purpose of this research, to gain a better understanding of pre-negotiation in an international context, by exploring, describing and partly explaining the process. Personal interviews were conducted with two Swedish international companies to obtain thorough information within the area. The collected data from these two cases are discussed, compared and then finally used to draw general conclusions. The study indicates the different issues that either occur or should be considered prior to the first formal meeting in an international negotiation.

Det är ett stort antal barn som söker asyl i Sverige, de är på flykt från ett annat land och anländer utan vårdnadshavare. Då barnen är i Sverige ansvarar Migrationsverket och vistelse kommunen för deras välbefinnande. När barnen slussas ut till vistelsekommunernas boende är det främst personalen på dessa boenden som har den närmaste kontakten med barnen. De ensamkommande asylsökande barnen har olika bakgrunder och livsöden och är i en speciellt utsatt situation. Personal som arbetar med dessa barn har ett yrke som ställer stora krav på god insikt, kunskap och förståelse för barnens situation.

Previous research shows that Swedish teenagers? reading of fiction have decreased during the last decade (Skolverket 2006). As future librarians we found ourselves asking why, and an interest to look into this was triggered. The purpose of this Bachelor thesis is therefore to examine why teenagers? reading of fiction is decreasing. Focus lies on students? perception of their own reading, both inside and outside the school environment.

The concept of a Sharia compliant financial system has been a frequently discussed topic among scholars, bankers and media since the 1960th. It origins from the prohibition of interest, riba, which is stated in the Quran. Islamic banking is spread across the Muslim world and also exists in some western countries. This paper will try to create an image of what Islamic banking is in theory and in practice. This will be done by looking into the different methods of interest free banking, the Quran and the annual reports of four Islamic banks in different countries.

Bakgrund: Forskning pa?visar pa? skolor som arbetsplats en o?kad stressniva? och minskat va?lbefinnande. Fokus i denna studie var utifra?n detta att underso?ka hur rektorn i sin ledarrollresonerade kring motivation och personalens va?lbefinnande pa? arbetsplatsen ur ett salutogent perspektiv samt att se om rektorns fo?rsta?else av dessa begrepp ansa?gs vara ett redskap i den kommunala grundskolan fo?r att utveckla sin personal.Syfte: Studien utforskade hur rektorer i kommunala grundskolan uppfattade att de motiverade sin personal och skapade va?lbefinnande pa? arbetsplatsen.Metod: Elva kvalitativa intervjuer med rektorer gjordes. Data analyserades genom en kvalitativ inneha?llsanalys.

The aim with this master thesis is to study which ambitions and strategic aims Gothenburg?s district libraries have regarding their music sections. I have utilized my theory from Sanna Talja, a Finnish researcher in Library and Information Science. She identifies three perspectives in maintaining a music library. She calls them, general education, alternative and demand.

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine upper secondary school teachers? views of their students? information seeking practices and their perspectives on consider the concept of information literary. The theoretical framework consists of a sociocultural perspective and the empirical material has been collected through interviews with six upper secondary school teachers. The material is analyzed phenomenographically and revealed three practices. Social science teachers consider the library and librarian to be valuable resources for students? information seeking, particularly in view of information overload in society today.

I detta arbete har jag undersökt hur anställda på IT-företag uppfattar arbetsklimatet i dagens IT-företag och hur de önskar att arbetsklimatet egentligen skulle vara. Anledningen till att IT-företag skall satsa på ett bra arbetsklimat är flera. Ett bra arbetsklimat ger dels en konkurrensfördel vid rekrytering av kompetent personal och dels finns det en koppling mellan lönsamhet och ett bra arbetsklimat.Jag har gjort denna undersökning genom att intervjua personal vid olika IT-företag och fått fram information om deras uppfattningar om arbetsklimatet. Arbetsklimatet har jag delat upp i flera delar vilka alla har gåtts igenom och undersökts. Svaret på dessa delar har varit positivt men med vissa negativa aspekter som bör ses över.

The new Library Act came in force in January 2014, external changes such as globalization and information technologies had changes the way libraries work and the new law aimed to reflect this. The aim of this study is to examine ideas surrounding the mission of the public library as it appears in the referral statements that three state agencies and three interest organizations gave to the ministry publications series Ds 2012:13. The questions this thesis examines are: what ideas can be discerned in the respond-ents' opinion regarding public library's mission? How is the con-sultation bodies? way of looking at public library's mission to-wards the government's approach? In this thesis the empirical ma-terial has been analyzed using a theoretical model called The four spaces ? a new model for the public library designed by Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Henrik Jochumsen and Dorte Skot-Hansen. The model consists of four different goals and four differ-ent spaces and can be used as a basis for discussions about the public libraries role in society.

In this paper we have investigated which visual components that are of importance when designing a website with the purpose of influencing peoples attitudes in a positive direction regarding the specific phenomenas crowdfunding and microinvestments. To investigate how people respond to these concepts we made a survey. The survey showed us that the respondents were indecivise regarding risktaking and that Personal interest was of great importance weather the respondents were to invest or not. Therefor we included visual components in the design with the purpose of expressing professional and trustworthy impressions and at the same time reach the user at an emotional level. In the following interviews that we made we tested if our visual components had the intended effects.