The management at the City of Stockholm?s Sports Department have problems. During recent years several IT-projects have been launched but results are worse than could have been hoped for. The projects are generally perceived as being too expensive, too time consuming and not to have delivered the expected results. This thesis aims at giving the City of Stockholm?s Sports Department theoretically based advice on how to improve their management of IT-projects.

The care for the elderly in the municipalities has recently seen the need for a formalized system for quality assurance. Under increasing demands for monetary efficiency while bound by law to retain acceptable standards in health care, there is need for efficient and at the same time quality-assured management. The municipalities often solve this puzzle by introducing systems and standards influenced by theory-clusters such as NPM (New Public Management), TQM (Total Quality Management) or other quality management theories.This essay focuses on how the public administration in the municipalities defines quality and designs and implements system for formalized quality assurance. Our basic view of organizations is institutionalist and our theoretical framework includes theories about quality, NPM and TQM..

In order to investigate if the KRAV-regulations have any effects on the health and welfare of calves, KRAV-affiliated farms were compared to conventional farms with respect to calf management and outcome. The dairy calf has had a low economical impact during history. Even today the value of the calf is low and a lot of calves have a poor health status. The calf breeding is built on tradition and on the fact, that cheap antibiotics have made it possible to ignore, the recommendations about good hygiene in the calf?s environment.

Vårt syfte är att skapa en djupare förståelse och klargöra för användningen avbegreppen management och ledarskap i praktiken. Med hjälp av begreppens innebörd kan vi som forskare få möjligheten att framföra hur begreppen används praktiskt. På så vis kan vi se om teorin reproduceras i praktiken. Vår uppsats visar att intervjupersonerna tror att de utövar ledarskap, men att det inte kan utövas i praktiken. Detta har sin grund i den tvetydighet som omger begreppet ledarskap och företagets organisationskontext.

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In the field of maintenance management there are but a few models an organization can use. The one model that has risen to the status of being the de facto standard in Sweden is pm3(på maintenance management model). The aim of this study is to lay the groundwork for a new method of evaluate the use of pm3within organizations. Today there is no uniform way of performing such an evaluation, which is necessary in order to diagnose the performance of the systems maintenance organizations.In the process of creating our own method for performing this kind of pm3audit, we further developed the ideas from a study by Lagsten & Nordström (2013) that was performed at the county Region Skåne. The authors of that study had developed ideas about using method rationale as a basis of creating a method for pm3auditing.

Through this thesis I aimed to further investigate how we can adapt our western and modern views of masculinity and femininity in an ancient population, here on the Pitted Ware population from Ajvide on Gotland. A questionnaire survey was used to compile the modern view of masculinity and femininity. This modern view was then compared with patterns which had become visible through statistical processing of the burial gifts found on Ajvide. The thesis is mainly focused around the concept of gender, but age and status have also been discussed. Through several performed correspondence analysis, it became clear that the current view of male and female differed from the one that became visible in the archaeological record.

Syftet med vår undersökning är att få kunskap om hur elever förhåller sig till läxor och vilkafaktorer som bidrar till att de anser sig motiverade att arbeta med läxor. Vi valde enhalvstrukturerad intervju för ändamålet. Till grund för undersökningen har vi tidigareforskning kring läxor samt olika motivationsteorier. Vi använder oss även av olikalärandeteorier samt skolans läroplaner för att se hur dessa berör motivation och läxor. Dehuvudsakliga resultaten av vår undersökning visar att elever ville ha och tycker om läxor.Läxorna ger eleverna en positiv identitet och en status.

SammanfattningSyfte och frågeställningar: Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur förekomsten av friluftsaktiviteter på idrottslektionerna har förändrats från 2001 till 2012 i ett antal skolor i Stockholmsområdet som tidigare ingått i SIH-projektet. Ett ytterligare syfte var att undersöka hur ungdomars friluftsaktivitetsvanor på fritiden har förändrats från 2001 till 2012 och hur dessa vanor samvarierar med socioekonomisk status.-          Hur har förekomsten av friluftsaktiviteter under idrottsundervisningen förändrats?-          Hur har ungdomars utövande av friluftsaktiviteter på fritiden förändrats?-          Vilken socioekonomisk status har ungdomarna som utövar friluftsaktiviteter på fritiden?-          Hur har ungdomar med låg respektive hög socioekonomisk status utövande av friluftsaktiviteter på fritiden förändrats?  Metod: Den metod vi använde oss av var kvantitativ. Data samlades in med hjälp av enkäter som besvarades av elever i årskurs nio på fem skolor i Stockholmsområdet år 2012 (247 respondenter). Sedan tidigare fanns det insamlad data från SIH-projektet från 2001(63 respondenter) med elever i samma årskurs och skolor som vi vänt oss till.

Background: Knowledge management is a concept that is considered of increasing importance in the developing knowledge society. Previous research in the area has to a large extent been based on large multinational companies. Purpose: The thesis aims to clarify how middle-sized Swedish management consultancy companies work with knowledge management. The thesis intends to use existing theories about knowledge management to explain the effect of size and area of operation on management consultancy companies? knowledge management.

The aim of this paper is to examine how the design of management control in a retail trade company affects motivation among its employees. Our purpose is to identify what actions create motivation and how management can benefit by developing and promoting such activity from its high-performing employees. Motivated personnel have become increasingly important in companies today, and companies are increasingly reliant on individual employees? capabilities. The study covers all parts of the management control system, to see how these align to create goal congruence in an organizational context.

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The purchasing of management consulting services has traditionally been characterized by informal and relation based interaction. However, case studies have shown that there is a movement towards more formalized and structured purchasing procedures among buyers of management consulting services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence and the implications of this professionalization. To investigate to what extent certain mechanisms of professionalization have been implemented on the Swedish market, a survey directed to Sweden?s 500 largest companies was conducted.