The meaning of being someone and standing for something is getting more important today in the Swedish business market. Our thesis has a qualitative approach that aims to study the usage of personal branding in the upper-management of Swedish organizations. Theories collected from literature and articles include marketing branding, personal branding and leadership. Our main target is to identify components that obtain usage of personal branding which are, attributes and strengths, communication, values, and vision and mission. The empirical data is gathered from six personal interviews with managers.

Ireland had, by the year of 1998, been an island of war and conflict to some extent for almost 1000 years. The northeast part of the island, called Northern Ireland, had been under British domination for over 25 years when ?the Troubles? ended by the year of 1998. This essay aims towards explaining how the first generation after ?the Troubles? has been shaped in terms of political and religious beliefs and attitudes in the society of Belfast.

The Swedish industrial society has left several areas with contaminated soil and water which today is of danger for the environment and human health. One of these areas with contaminated soil and water is the region where the former Glava glassworks operated during 1859 to 1939. The main object in this study has been to study the responsibility for the contaminations according to the Environmental Code. The method used is a qualitative content analysis of relevant literature to answer the following questions:What types of contaminations can be found in the area of Glava glasswork and what health issues can these cause?What kind of activity has been conducted in the area that have caused the contaminations in soil and water?According to law, what are the responsibilities for the contaminations in soil and water at Glava glassworks?The contamination in the region has been confirmed to originate from the glasswork due to the environmental engineering survey made in the area in 2009.

This paper deals primarily with the developmental potential and use of court -based mediation in Swedish law, and its relation to court-based conciliation and the judicial procedure as means to end a conflict.  In Chapter 42, Section 17 of the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure, a judge, before the parties have their main hearing, can act as a mediator between the parties to settle the dispute. The judge should, according to the law, always try to make the parties come to an agreement before the main hearing. This obligation can be fulfilled either through the use of court-based conciliation, or court based mediation. Mediation as such is rarely used in Sweden, and one of the goals of this essay is to try to provide a tentative answer to why that might be the case.  The second goal is to try to find a consistent, yet flexible notion, of the concept of ?jurisdiction?, and to provide an explanation for the relation between mediation as an alternative method for dispute resolution and the judicial procedure.                                                                                                                                            .

The focus of this thesis is upon how conceptions of globalization is created by the labour-organizations Lands-organisationen (LO) and Svenskt Näringsliv. It is possible to discern two arguments for globalization in the texts, economy and democracy, and it is around these that the discourses of globalization are being constructed. Economy turns into a basic logic in the discourses of globalization. How to perceive the role of economy, as positive or negative, differs. Still, there is an agreement of the influence of economy.

This paper is a study how students at a high school in Falun, Sweden, estimates theirperformance in an upcoming math test which is then compared with the actual grade thestudent performed. The students who participated also answered questions related to ?risksituations? to examine whether there is a correlation between how students estimate theirperformance in the context and their risk behavior, and if the students act like economicmodels assume. In agreement with previous studies, the boys in the survey tended to beoverconfident in their performance. The girls in the study were neither over- norunderconfident in her performance and no significant difference in the estimation of one'sperformance between the sexes could be proven.

Uppsala universitet The aim of this master?s thesis is to investigate, through text analysis, the role of copyright in development, with particular interest of how the concepts knowledge and access to knowledge are used in Access to Knowledge Draft Treaty and WIPO Development Agenda. The definition of the concept knowledge, as it is used in copyright, is based in a Western historical and philosophical context and therefore excludes knowledge created in another type of society. The consequences of this exclusion have effects on development. Further it is stated that knowledge according to the global copyright scheme will be reduced to a commodity, which will have consequences not only in societies in the global South.

Our aim with this study is to explore socialworkers perception of what is a good treatment is and how to establish good relationship with their clients. We have decided to limit our study with social workers in Economic assistance and Abuse Units in social servises and explore if we can discern any differences between the units. We have chosen to use qualitative methods to achieve the aim of this study. We interviewed a total of seven social workers, of which three were from Abuse unit and four were from Economic assistance unit. One of the theoretical frame we have used is Goffmans (1970, 1974) theories about social interaction in which he explains the social encounter between social workers and clients.

The purpose of this master thesis is to describe and analyse the development of the library history in the municipality of Karlsborg. This is done with a comparison to the library development in Sweden as a whole and in particular to the cities of Lidköping and Halmstad. I have worked according to the following questions: 1. How did the libraries develop before the municipality took over? 2.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker, utifrån en beskrivande idéanalys, hur begreppet nivågruppering har använts över tid i läroplanerna Lgr-1962, Lgr-1969, Lgr-1980 och Lpo-1994 samt förarbetena SOU 1961:30, SÖ-1967, SÖ-1978, SOU 1992:94. Med hur avser vi att eftersöka argument som talar för/mot nivågruppering generellt men även specifikt för/mot organisatorisk nivågruppering (utanför den heterogena klassens ram) samt för/mot pedagogisk nivågruppering (inom klassens ram). I läroplanerna och förarbeten till dessa eftersöks även om nivågruppering förespråkas eller avstyrks, samt vem som anses dra nytta av nivågrupperingen det vill säga läraren eller eleverna.Undersökningen byggs på tidigare forskning kring nivågruppering och de vanligast förekommande argumenten för respektive mot som uppträder däri. Utifrån dessa argument görs ett analysschema men undersökningen omfattar även argument som inte uppträder i forskningsgenomgången.I analysen framkommer (bland annat) att samtliga argument som uppträder i tidigare forskning återfinns i en eller flera förarbeten respektive läroplaner och att det största antalet av argumenten vänder sig mot nivågruppering (även om det finns många för nivågruppering också och främst vad gäller pedagogisk nivågruppering). Trots detta har nivågruppering använts och används fortfarande.

The Vaxholm conflict was initiated when the Swedish Trade Union for Construction Workers shut down a construction site in order to prevent a Latvian construction company to build a school after the two parties had failed to agree upon a collective agreement in compliance with Swedish regulations. An emotional public debate followed that resulted in a discussion of the proposal for the Services Directive of the EU, based upon the country-of-origin principle. In this thesis we will analyze whether the country-of-origin principle or the country-of-destination principle is best suited to capture the gains-of-trade that the common market hoards and improve welfare within the EU. We conclude that the country-of-origin principle is the more apt of the two, though it leads to some short-run costs such as structural unemployment. But these will be more than outweighed by the gains in aggregate welfare for the EU in the long run..

The aim of the study was to describe what district nurses, who work with telephone- advice, document in patient record, to be able to develop their documentation. The Authors have examined 50 patient records. The examination tool is collected from ?Lokal anvisning för hälso- och sjukvården I Södra Älvsborg?. The audit areas was record keeping, review and planning, realization, individual nursing and the patients participation, information, education and agreement.

Ungdomsbrottsligheten har studerats och diskuterats i en uppsjö av olika sammanhang, medmer eller mindre lyckade resultat. Två teorier, som under de senaste halvseklet har försökthitta svar på detta komplexa problem, står Travis Hirschi och John Braithwaite bakom. Deutvecklade teorin om sociala band (1969) respektive återintegrerande skambeläggning (1989),där framförallt den förstnämnda fått en stor genomslagskraft inom den kriminologiskaforskningen, medan den senare är något mer okänd. Men kan dessa två teorier förklaraungdomsbrottslighet? Genom att formulera en enkätundersökning, som kom att besvaras av82 gymnasietreor, skapades ett kvantitativt material att granska.

Abstract The main purpose of this study was to investigate if and how the employees in elderly care experience stress and which underlying causes they understand to be important in their work situation. The purpose was also to investigate whether Karaseks and Theorells demands and control models could be used to explain the employees feelings of stress and to see in which categories the participants are in. Furthermore, the purpose was also to understand the participants work situation and to describe the factors and remedies the employees perceive to contribute to the stress levels at their workplace. 81 questionnaires were distributed at three different locations, two of which were in Ronneby and one in Örebro. 56 people answered the questionnaires.

Bakgrunden till detta arbete vilar i skolverkets formulering av skolans demokratiuppdrag. Här finns en tanke om att alla verksamma i skolan, vuxna och elever, ska få känna ett direkt inflytande över sin verksamhet. Man menar att detta direktinflytande ska finnas med i alla delar av skolans verksamhet, även den traditionella. Detta visar att alla delar av skolan inte arbetar åt samma håll och inte heller följer sina föreskrifter.Syftet med detta arbeta är att identifiera och kartlägga de kunskaps- och demokratisyner som existerar i skolans olika läroplaner. De läroplaner som är av intresse för detta arbete är Lgr69, Lgr80, Lpo94 samt Lpfö98.