The purpose of this study was to examine and illustrate whether employed social workers, working with supplementary benefits at a social service office, felt stressed. If so was the case, we wanted to investigate if this stress that they felt had any effect on their clients. This study was based on eight qualitative interviews, of which four was with social workers and four was with clients. For a better understanding of our results we used Karasek & Theorells demand-control-support model.The study reveals that the social workers do feel stressed, but they only do so in periods. They declare that they would like to have more time for their work assignments, the meetings with the clients in particulate.

Social games have become a digital phenomenon over the last few years, affecting a lot of peoples everyday life. This paper focuses on how social games can affect workplace relationships. Through qualitative interviews I investigate how people who play with their colleagues experience the social games and their influence on the social interaction in the workplace. 10 interviews were carried out with people from four different organizations. The findings from these interviews were then put in relation to previous research and existing theories concerning workplace relationships and social games.

This research outlines studies about the relationship between social integration process of Japanese immigrants in Sweden and how social media assists in this process. The purpose of this research includes: To find out the reasons of migration to Sweden for six Japanese immigrants, any difficulties that they faced at the beginning of their immigration process and/or any positive qualities that they found in living in Sweden, whether they have accessed social media since they have moved in, if they do so, how the social media has been used and also, whether the social media has had a role to play in contributing to help their social integration process. In addition, it has been considered whether the participants have plans to return to Japan. In Sweden, there is relatively small Japanese migrant population. This social science research paper is the first in Sweden which explores the immigration process of Japanese migrants into Sweden.

Bakgrund: Virtuellt arbete blir allt vanligare därför att tid och pengar kan sparas och arbetskollegor behöver inte finnas på samma plats för att samarbeta. Forskningen har dock inte hållit takten med utbredningen av virtuellt arbete, och forskning på team i praktiken efterfrågas.Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka konceptet virtualitet i praktiken, och hur virtualitet upplevs av medlemmar i team som arbetar virtuellt. Fokus ligger specifikt på geografisk spridning.Genomförande: Genom en litteraturstudie gjordes en sammanställning av olika dimensioner av virtualitet och hur graden av dessa kan bestämmas. Genom en kvalitativ studie av fem team som arbetar virtuellt fångades åsikter och upplevelser angående virtualitet. Resultat: Litteraturstudien visar att forskningen har börjat behandla virtualitet som ett attribut i alla team.

The term ?social competence? is widely used by organizations in job advertisements, despite the problems of making a unified definition of it. The purpose of this study is to investigate which features the organizations require, why organizations require them and how the assessment is implemented for recruitment. To answer the purpose of this study, eight qualitative interviews conducted with recruiters from four different staffing agencies. Further a literature study was performed to define the concept of ?social competence? and its meaning, in order to later connect this to the result.

A Social Enterprise is a business that features a mixture of characteristics that originates from the third and private sector. A general conception of Social Enterprises is that they aim to improve social welfare by the use of sustainable business models. The mixture of social and business features has created ambiguity about how to define Social Enterprises. The purpose of this study is to clarify Swedish Social Enterprises as a phenomenon and to examine antagonism that arises from mixing the two different sets of organisational characteristics. This is achieved by conducting a qualitative study of ten Swedish companies that the market considers to be Social Enterprises.

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The purpose of this study was to examine divergences in assessments of social assistance in one big and one small social welfare office in the municipalities of Malmö. To examine this we used a qualitative method. We held interviews with social workers and their superiors. At the end of the interviews with the social workers we presented two vignettes, describing different cases of first time applications of social assistance. The social workers was asked to assess whether the application should be granted or not, and motivate their decisions.

Uppsatsens syfte är att redogöra hur människor socialt kan konstruera och omkonstruera sin identitet. Frågeställningen vi arbetat utifrån är: Hur kan serber, kroater och bosniaker i Sverige socialt konstruera och omkonstruera sin identitet? Frågeställningen är framlyft ur teorin som används i uppsatsen, konstruktivismen. Teoridelen behandlas utifrån detta synsätt, där centrala aspekter vid identitetsskapandet tas upp. Dessa är att identiteter: är sociala konstruktioner, enbart är meningsfulla i kontext, motiverar till gemensam handling, är multipla och flerdimensionella och betonas i gränsytan mellan vi och dom.

SammanfattningDen här undersökningen handlar om hur svenska massmedier, i det här fallet dags- och kvällstidningar, framställer våldtäkt i sin nyhetsrapportering. Artiklarna är utvalda från två olika fall som blev omskrivna i svensk press. Utifrån bland annat filosofen Michel Foucaults diskursteori och med ett socialkonstruktivistiskt och genusviklat perspektiv analyseras en rad artiklar med hjälp av diskursanalys. De teoretiker som använts är bland andra Norman Fairclough.Med diskursanalysens hjälp synliggörs de underliggande betydelserna av en till synes oskyldig nyhetsrapportering. Dessa jämförs sedan med en Social kontext som utgörs av en redan utförd undersökning om ungdomars förståelse av våldtäkt.

Ett regelbundet återkommande utvecklingssamtal kräver organisationens resurser i form av medarbetarens och chefens tid, vilket gör att utvecklingssamtalen bör hålla hög kvalitet för att vara meningsfulla. Studien har genomförts med intervjuer på en myndighet där medarbetarnas och chefernas upplevelse av utvecklingssamtal har undersökts. Resultatet visar att myndighetens syfte med utvecklingssamtal är otydligt och att det är oklart var frågor som rör medarbetarens lön ska diskuteras. För att utvecklingssamtalen ska bli meningsfulla för såväl organisation som de anställda är tydliga mål och syften med utvecklingssamtalen av betydelse. Val av plats där utvecklingssamtalet äger rum bör noggrant planeras för att minska den negativa kontextens inverkan på samtalet.

This paper examines, through questionnaire, how young students in upper secondary school in Malmo experience social integration. It also contain what they think should be done in order to improve the integration between youth that are ethnic Swedish and youth that have a foreign background. To understand the subject we started with a review over Swedish integration politic and its influence over Malmo and social integration in the country. We have used such theoretical starting points as identity and ethnicity in relations to the social surroundings, social affinity theory and flexible mindedness, making of groups among youth and factors to promote social integration. Our conclusion is that the experience of social integration between the two groups depends on how you experience yourself.

Social enterprises make up one of the groups of participants that provide welfare services financed by public funding. The object of this study is to describe and analyze from a theoretical point of view which conditions, in what fields, by which division of responsibility and finally through what decisions these social enterprises are allocated a place in the market for social welfare services. The company that has been the object of study offers services in the field of social welfare and in employment. In the study a triangulation of qualitative methods has been used: studies of literature on the subject, recurrent interviews and observations and also reviews of documents. The results have been analyzed from theories on the space available on the market for social services, on social economy and on social capital in the form of strong, weak and bridging bonds.

The purpose of this essay was to examine what Ungbo in Kalmar has meant for the adolescent from their point of view and to examine the social workers opinions of Ungbo.My questions were: What expectations did the adolescent and the social workers have on Ungbo? How has these expectations been fulfilled? What expectations does the social workers think the adolescents has on Ungbo? How is the impact of involvement for the adolescents when planning the living environment in Ungbo? What changes has Ungbo brought to the adolescent? What changes has Ungbo brought in the work of the social workers? What does Ungbo mean for the adolescent? What does Ungbo mean for the social workers and what experiences does the social workers have on the importance of Ungbo for the adolescents? How has the teamwork been working around the adolescent during the time at Ungbo?The questions were answered by asking four adolescents and two social workers with their experiences of Ungbo. My study showed that Ungbo was of importance for the adolescents that has been a part of the project, but it is also important in the work of the social workers. The adolescents noticed a change in them selves after their stay in Ungbo. The social workers were positive to Ungbo but they felt a need for others resembling activities in Kalmar..

När digitala produkter ska utvecklas, egentligen alla typer av produkter, måste dess användbarhet utvecklas av någon behörig i området. Vad som är bra design är dock delvis subjektivt, beroende på bland annat faktorer som tidigare erfarenheter och kunskap. Något som ibland blir bortglömt är de yttre faktorerna som påverkar användbarheten. Det är precis vad kontext handlar om, de faktorer som normalt sett inte faller under användbarhet, utan mer som ett extra tillbehör. Vikten av kontextuell förståelse får dock aldrig underskattas, och det är precis vad den här studien är ämnad för.