Motivation kan definieras som en energiskapande kraft som påverkar beteendet hos anställda i fråga om riktning, intensitet och varaktighet. Arbetsinlevelse handlar om vilka potential som finns i arbetet att uppfylla individens behov och förväntningar. Närvaron av specifika och höga mål kan öka en individs prestation, och verksamhetsområdet kan kompensera för bristen på yttre belöningar inom offentlig sektor. Studiens syfte var att undersöka vilka faktorer som predicerar arbetsmotivation och arbetsinlevelse inom privat och offentlig sektor. Enkäten besvarades av totalt 66 medarbetare, hälften från vardera av sektorerna.

This study is based on interviews with four youths that have been treated for problems such as drugabuse and criminality. The aim of this master´s thesis is to examine the youths experiences with the treatment they received, but also to examine how they look upon their own lifesituations. The study is presented in categories developed through the use of Grounded theory. The result points out that the treatment can be summarized mainly in two aspects- one concerning care and one concerning control. The first aspect includes supportive and friendly staff while control in this context stands for rules and supervision of different kinds.

Syftet med vårt arbete var att undersöka om elevers motivation till lärande ökar vid användande av olika inlärningsstilar. Undersökningen utfördes i en årskurs nio. Lektionerna planerades utifrån resultatet av en inlärningsstilenkät som vi lät eleverna besvara. Vi inriktade oss främst på fyra inlärningsstilar, och anpassade lektionerna efter dessa. De metoder vi använde oss av för att bestämma resultatet var: enkätundersökning för fastställande av inlärningsstilar, loggbok, observationer och intervju.

Abstract__________________________________________________Sara NilssonAnnette OlofssonMatematik ses som tråkigt och svårt? hur kan elevers motivation och självkänsla hanteras?Mathematics is viewed as boring and difficult? how can pupils? motivation and confidence be dealt with?Antal sidor: 42__________________________________________________This report delves into primary school pupils? difficulties in mathematics, with emphasis on their lack of confidence and motivation. By researching literature and Internet sources associated to this issue, an in-depth view of these problems has been illuminated. Two teachers at a Swedish primary school were interviewed, in order to get their perspective of the matter. Questionnaires were sent to two teachers at an English primary school and their responses were returned.

Motion är en nyckelfaktor för en god fysisk hälsa och det finns stora ekonomiska fördelar för arbetsgivaren med en personalstyrka som motionerar. För att en individ ska engagera sig i en motionsaktivitet krävs motivation. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur graden av självbestämmande motivation skiljer sig mellan de som motionerar i olika utsträckning. Vidare studerades hur graden av självbestämmande motivationen skiljer sig mellan de som använder organisationens friskvårdssubventioner i olika utsträckning. Organisationens friskvårdssubventioner består av friskvårdsbidrag och friskvårdstimme.

This study aims to investigate how value is constructed in horse business, in order to increase knowledge and contribute to development of theory in this field. This is important since the horse plays a significant role in the rural development in Sweden. The study assumes that value is something created through relationships in the social network. Therefore theories of sensemaking are combined with a discourse analytic method. By interviewing customers to two companies, one with orientation on trotting horses and one with orientation on showjumping horses, it was found that value is constructed through retrospective stories.

Syftet med denna systematiska litteraturstudie har varit att se hur forskare ser på läxan i allmänhet och i synnerhet matematikläxan. Med ett fokus på vilka olika typer av läxor det finns både i allmänhet men även inom matematikämnet. Fokus har även legat på hur läxor i matematik påverkar elevers motivation och prestation i matematikämnet.  Studien består av tolv artiklar och rapporter som använts för att besvara frågeställningarna. Vi har fokuserat på studier gjorda på elever i årskurs 4-6, men har använt artiklar och rapporter som diskuterar andra årskurser om resultaten kunnat generaliseras till andra årskurser.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer som är av betydelse för gymnasieelevers motivation till att studera i skolan. Forskning visar att motivation oftast undersöks via ett vuxenperspektiv och att eleverna sällan tillfrågas vad som motiverar dem att studera i skolan. man menar att eleverna själva bör tillfrågas om huruvida de anser sig motiveras eller vad som hindrar dem från att känna motivation i skolan. Tidigare forskning visar också att många elever motiveras och lär för andras skull och inte för sin egen. Studien har en fenomenologisk ansats där resultatet visar elevernas uppfattning av hur de motiveras i skolan.

AbstractBackground: Plantar fasciitis is the most common heel injury and is a long-term pain syndrom in the attachment of the plantar fascia to the calcaneus bone. The condition is treated mainly in primary care, but there is currently no treatment guideline for the treatment of plantar fasciitis in Sweden. The purpose of this study was to investigate which treatment that occurred in primary care in Dalarna, Gävleborg and Västmanland counties, which treatments that were most common alone and in combination with each other. The aim was also to investigate if the four most commonly used treatment methods as physical therapists said they had used were supported in the literature, and if there was any difference between county employees and private physical therapists in the choice of treatment method.Method: 100 physiotherapists in primary care in Dalarna, Gävleborg and Västmanland counties, received a questionnaire by mail. 80 of the 100 physiotherapists were county employees and 20 were private employees.

Pharmaceuticals that are found in marine ecosystems are a threatening environmental concern, which is known to harm both animal and plant life. One of the reasons for this problem is that the waste water treatment techniques are not optimized to clear waste water from its pharmaceuticals contain. In this master thesis four Swedish treatment wetlands were studied, and their ability to reduce numerous pharmaceuticals in waste water. The four treatment wetlands that were studied were those in Oxelösund, Trosa, Nynäshamn and Eskilstuna. Two ecotoxicological tests and chemical analysis were used.

The Swedish mental hospitals existed for about one hundred years, the period around 1880-1980. The research is intended to be from a local setting perspective to study the local approach used to meet requirements from Furunäsets mental hospital principals 1960 - 1972, the effect this had on the care and treatment of mentally ill patients and how Swedish society's changing approach to mental health influenced the process. The results of the research showed that Furunäset searched for ways to meet the principals' requirements which often went against the patients? personal best. Furunäsets mental hospital strove to fulfill its institutional goals in them selves rather than giving patients the care and treatment they needed.

Background: The patient meets nurses in the emergency department that provide both nursing and has medical skills. The care that the patients are receiving should be individually adjusted. The care is shaped by the individual meeting with the patient according to the nursing theorist Orlando. There are large variations between the number of patients in an emergency department and it sets high demands on the staff, both physically and mentally. When the emergency department is highly loaded there is a priority for medical care and psycho-social and aesthetic aspects will have to wait.

Treatment wetlands been showed efficient for reducing pollutant in waste water. In Lajeado ? RS, Brazil the landfill has poor leachate water treatment. It is necessary to supplement the treatment plant because they need to reduce BOD, COD and nitrate of the water going to recipient. A subsurface flow wetland (SSF) can be a good choice.  In order to be able to design an efficient SSF it is important to understand how the grain sizes of a substrate affect the reducing of pollutants in waste water.

Tidigare forskning har visat att det finns ett samband mellan personlighetsdraget neuroticism och yttre motivation, a-motivation, låg självkänsla samt negativ affekt. Syftet med studien var att öka förståelsen för neuroticism som personlighetsdrag utifrån individernas motivationstyp, självkänsla samt individernas affektiva tillstånd. Studien undersökte även reliabiliteten hos instrumentet Mini-IPIP som har undersökt personlighetsdrag inom Big-five-teorin. Syftet testades med hjälp av fyra självskattningstester. Dessa var Mini-IPIP, Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS), Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) samt Rosenbergs Self-esteem Scale (SES).

The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical developments on social entrepreneurship. Our purpose is to create a better understanding of the phenomenon leading to new insights. We have categorized the knowledge of the concept into social economy, social ownership, social innovation and social missions. Drawing from our theoretical review we have chosen four empirical illustrations, Grameen Bank, Wikipedia, Basta Arbetskooperativ, Jörn Hälsogemenskap, and we have shown how these fit into the general description of the social entrepreneur. With help of our illustrations we show that it is complicated to pin point the core of social entrepreneurship as they each have separate structures, innovations, social missions and operate close to different sectors.