Title:Social media as a tool for organizational learningAuthor:David Chaaya & Filip FischerSupervisor:Stig Sörling & Tomas KÀllqvistBackground: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 ?aktörssynsÀtt? and is influenced byhermeneutics.

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore which inner conceptions about the abused older women the professional social workers had and how they experienced the enconter of an abused old woman in an intimate partner relation. The theoretical background is social construction by Berger and Luckmann. This theory was uset to analyze the transcribed interviews. This study is based on nine interviews with five professionals in social services, three volunteers from the voluntary sector and one social worker who worked in a community based support group for abused older women. The result of this study shows that older women were often abused, by a relative they were dependent on, in their home.

?Facebook has become as natural as having a phone? The use of social media in three libraries in the UmeÄ region ? an evaluationSocial media has come to be an integral part of people?s everyday life, as well as the business world in terms of communication and marketing. More and more libraries also embark in the use of social media, and the purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of social media in three libraries in the UmeÄ region. The libraries all use Facebook as their current, primary social media. Thus this study focuses partly on the analysis of the content on each library?s Facebook page, and partly on the experiences of the responsible librarians. The evaluation is based on a mix of existing tools in evaluating social media that are relevant in a library context.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att ta reda pa? vilka typer av djuro?gon applicerade pa? en ma?nsklig karakta?r som kan uppfattas som mer eller mindre skra?mmande. Arbetet grundar sig pa? teorier om fiendedesign i skra?ckspel samt o?gonens anatomi. Sex konceptbilder skapades och anva?ndes till 15 semistrukturerade intervjuer.

Background: Patients with borderline personality disorder represent a large group in healthcare who are struggling with painful emotions in life. Caring should be based on strengthening health processes by focusing on the patients, but research made by the patient's perspective has shown that this population rather felt that their health processes was counteracted, than promoted. The patients felt that the nurses displayed a negative attitude towards them. Attitudes are defined as a system of values, emotions and actions towards others. Aim: the purpose of this study was to highlight the attitudes and experiences of nurses towards caring for people with borderline personality disorder  Methods: A study on the literature based on nine scientific papers was performed. The articles have been analyzed, systematically coded and compiled into a new unit. Results: This study shows that nurses have an overall negative attitude towards patients with borderline personality disorder.

Social media seem to offer a great possibility for environmental non-profit organizations to communicate with their members and audience, if the organization aims to build and maintain a relationship to the users of social media. This essay has examined how three environmental non-profil organizations are communicating in social media. To create an understanding of the organization?s communication strategies a netnographic approach was implemented..

The overall purpose of this essay was to provide a better understanding of the importance of discretion for social workers in direct social services. To answer the purpose three questions were formulated: (1) How do social workers define and describe their discretion and their ability to independently accomplish their work? (2) How do social workers experience that workplace organization, policies and economic conditions interact with their discretion and (3) How do social workers experience that the interaction with the client can affect how they use their discretion in the individual case? The method used was qualitative interviews. The theoretical framework was Michael Lipskys (1980) Street-level bureaucracy and the four themes organization, professional role, skills and interaction.The results showed that the respondents, although they did not consider themselves to be affected by the economy still adapted to budget restrictions when they said that they were cost conscious in their work. This adjustment to budget framework could possibly be what made them not feel limited in their work.

Syfte med detta arbete var att undersöka om och hur utomhuspedagogik kan frÀmja social kompetens och om utomhuspedagogik kan vara en möjlighet för att trÀna social kompetens i gymnasieskolan.Dagens ungdomar har fÀrre vuxenkontakter och blir influerade av det tekniska samhÀllet samtidigt som sociala fÀrdigheter trÀnas mindre. DÀrav blir ungdomars brister i social kompetens mer pÄtaglig för samhÀllet. Gymnasielever befinner sig i en kÀnslig utvecklingsfas dÀr social kompetens spelar en omedveten roll för sociala interaktioner. För nÀrvarande finns ingen aktuell forskning om sambandet mellan utomhuspedagogik och trÀning av social kompetens pÄ gymnasieskolan.Min empiriska studie har med hjÀlp av kvalitativa intervjuer av fyra verksamheter som arbetar med utomhuspedagogik tagit reda pÄ om och hur utomhuspedagogik kan anvÀndas för att frÀmja social kompetens. Respondenterna Àr verksamma i grundskolan, försvarsmakten, polisutbildningen och företagskonsulting.

Syftet med min studie Àr att problematisera förskollÀrares arbete med och uppfattning om barns emotionella intelligens samt vilka egenskaper som kan frÀmja utvecklingen av denna förmÄga hos förskolebarn. Studiens bakgrund belyser bland annat emotionell intelligens som begrepp, emotionell intelligens i förhÄllande och relevans till förskolans verksamhet samt kÀnslors uppkomst och utveckling ur bÄde ett relationellt och biologiskt perspektiv. Den teoretiska referensramen belyser Bordieu (1977) och Vygotskijs (1978) betydelsen av uppvÀxtvillkoren och den sociala praxis individen ingÄr i vid utveckling av den emotionella kapaciteten. Focaults (2003) maktperspektiv illustrerar hur vÀrden och normer i samhÀllet fungerar som en beteendedisciplinerande maktutövning dÄ individen rÀttar sig i ledet för normaliteten för att undvika utanförskap. Empirin bestÄr av en fokusgruppsintervju med tre förskollÀrare.

Syftet med denna studie Àr att skapa förstÄelse för förhÄllandet mellan skolkuratorns person och yrkesroll samt hur kÀnslor som uppkommer i elevsamtal hanteras. Utöver det undersöks ocksÄ de konsekvenser för vÀlbefinnande som kan följa av kÀnslohantering, för sÄvÀl kurator som elev. Detta undersöks genom Ätta kvalitativa intervjuer med skolkuratorer dÀr deras beskrivningar av kuratorsyrket stÄr i fokus. Intervjuerna utgör en systematiserad empiri som tolkas för att tillsammans med utvalda teorier besvara studiens frÄgestÀllning. De teorier som huvudsakligen anvÀnds för att förstÄ empirin Àr teorierna om emotionellt arbete och social responsivitet.

The aim of this study was to examine what knowledge social workers express about home visits in child welfare investigations and how they know what to do. Sixteen social workers who work with social investigations concerning children were asked to discuss the topic home visit in three focus group interviews in three different municipalities in southern Sweden. The social workers in our focus group interviews mainly discussed the purpose of the home visit, what social workers do during home visits and furthermore their opinions about guidelines and policy documents regarding the home visit.  To get an understanding of what type of knowledge is the basis for social workers use of the home visit, we used Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing' as well as the Aristotelian theory of knowledge containing three forms of knowledge, that is, episteme, techne and fronesis. We found that the displaying of ?tacit knowing? was a consistent feature in all groups, as they had difficulty expressing their knowledge use.

The thesis had its starting point in the first paragraph of the eleventh chapter in the Swedish social services act, which discusses the immediate risk assessments that has to be made when the social services receive a report about a child. The thesis highlights an area that has received a lot of attention in media since the spring of 2014, when an eight year old girl was fatally abused by her legal guardians. The social services had at the time received a report about the girl but it was left unread. This tragic case has brought attention to the routines used by the social services for dealing with reports and risk assessments. This thesis was conducted through individual interviews with social workers working with children and families in the social services, with the aim to acquire an enhanced understanding of how social workers perform immediate risk assessments and what these assessments are based on.

The problem with narcotics is one of Sweden?s biggest social problems. Statistics shows thatthe number of narcotic related deaths and the numbers of heavy drug users are increasing. Thepresent narcotic policy has been questioned due to this increase. As a social worker you meetdrug users on a daily basis.

AbstractTitle: Cooperation between social enterprisesLevel: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business AdministrationAuthor: Anna HammarbergSupervisor: Maria Fregidou-MalamaDate: 2012 - JanuaryAim: The aim of the study is to investigate social enterprises and the Glada Hudik-model to understand how social enterprises cooperate and how they can develop the cooperation through Social Enterprises in Co-operation (SAK). Method: I have done a qualitative research study. I have studied literature to get theoretical background. I visited a seminar to get information and inspiration. Interviews have been done with six persons to get empirical information.      Result and conclusions: Through this study I have seen that social enterprises can co-operate to strengthen their position in the community. Together they can run issues they have in common, undertake major assignments and purchase material to get better deals.

Bakgrund: Robot-assisterad kirurgi har blivit alltmer popul?rt och effektivt som en alternativ teknik till traditionell ?ppen kirurgi. Detta tillv?gag?ngss?tt som anv?nder ett avancerat system f?r att genomf?ra kirurgiska ingrepp har utvecklats ?ver tid och inneb?r flera f?rdelar som ?kad precision och kontroll samt minskad risk f?r komplikationer. Trots framstegen st?r kirurgiska team inf?r utmaningar med anpassning till den nya tekniken och behovet av att utveckla strategier f?r att uppn? optimalt resultat.