SammanfattningDatum: 18 januari 2013Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 hpInstitution: Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutvecklingFörfattare: Simon Brodahl Pontus Eliasson David WahlbergTitel: Jag är organisationenHandledare: Johan GrinbergsNyckelord:Delaktighet, engagemang, delaktighet i beslutsfattande frågor, psykologiskt ägandeskap, anställdas välbefinnande och kunskapsspridning.Frågeställning:- Finns det ett gemensamt synsätt på delaktighet och engagemang inom ABB Motors & Generators?- Vad kan göras för att öka delaktigheten och engagemanget inom produktionsdelen och vad kommer detta leda till?- Vad bör ABB: Motors & Generators ha i åtanke vid applicerandet av delaktighet inom produktionsdelen i framtiden?Syfte: Syftet är att utifrån teoretiska referenspunkter analysera ABB:s verksamhet ur ett engagemangs- och delaktighetsperspektiv som ligger till grund för en analytisk diskussion vilken utmynnar i förbättringsförslag.Metod: Den teoretiska referensramen är konstruerad med hjälp av vetenskapliga artiklar och litteratur som behandlar ämnet engagemang och delaktighet. Det empiriska materialet består av en kvalitativ studie bestående av tre djupintervjuer.Slutsats: ABB Motors & Generators innehar ett tankesätt som behövs för att främja ökad delaktighet och engagemang hos de anställda. För att öka medarbetarnas engagemang till organisationen, krävs det att kommunikationen är bra mellan de olika funktionerna. Det är även viktigt att produktionsdelen känner förtroende för ledningen samtidigt som ledningen ger medarbetarna bekräftelse.

Företag måste på ett eller annat sätt tillfredställa sina intressenter. Intressenter kan vara i form av aktieägare som valt investera i företaget. Ett sätt att tillfredställa aktieägare på kan vara genom att göra utdelningar. Det finns en rad olika uppfattningar om hur utdelningar skall gö-ras, vad som är bäst och när man skall göra detta. Företag kan tillämpa en utdelningspolicy för att använda sig av en viss utdelningspolitik till aktieägarna.

Studien behandlar EU- Turkiet relationen och här framhävs den turkiska rösten. EU har satt upp krav som Turkiet måste uppfylla för att kunna ansluta sig till Unionen. Oftast talas det om det europeiska perspektivet i frågan och därför har syftet varit att belysa Turkiets uppfattning i processen. Det har gjorts genom intervjumetoden och tre turkiska experter kontaktades. Experterna har lång erfarenhet och djup kunskap om relationen EU- Turkiet.

Bakgrund: När patienter med lungcancer befinner sig i den sena fasen med palliativ vård i livets slutskede är det inte ovanligt att de på grund av outhärdlig smärta och/eller ångest och oro har ett behov av att få sedering som behandlingsform. Det kan dock finnas en risk att patienterna inte alltid får tillräcklig lindring i samband med detta lidande. För att lindra lidandet hos dessa patienter är det viktigt att sjuksköterskan är väl förtrogen med denna behandlingsform. Därtill krävs en uppmärksamhet gällande patientens behov av behandlingsformen.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser kring sedering som behandlingsform vid vård i livets slutskede hos patienter med lungcancer.Metod: Studien utgick från en hermeneutisk vetenskapsteoretisk grund och utgjordes av åtta intervjuer. Analysen genomfördes med hjälp av en kvalitativ manifest och latent innehållsanalys.Resultat: Temat "Att få känna tillit och stöd i situationen" baseras på följande kategorier: lidandets betydelse, jobbiga situationers betydelse, arbetsklimatets betydelse, vårdplaneringens betydelse och den upplevda erfarenhetens betydelse.Slutsats: Det måste finnas ett kollegialt stöd och möjlighet till reflektionsstunder för att sjuksköterskor ska orka arbeta med palliativ sedering för patienter med lungcancer i livets slutskede.

This thesis is about how the front-staff in two service companies experience empowerment. Competition for business in today's society is becoming increasingly fierce, which means that they must find a way to differentiate themselves from competitors. Service has become a way to compete. Front-staff competence and ability to offer a good service is a crucial factor when the company's success is being measured.Empowerment in business is used as a tool to create motivation and satisfaction of individuals at work. Companies using empowerment can create the freedom and opportunities for employees to act at their own intelligence and discretion.

This paper is based on a study seeking answers to questions about how the judges at district courts look at mediation as a way to deal with custody and visitation disputes between parents who do not live together. The questions posed in this study are: When is a mediator appointed? What result do judges expect to mediation? What do the judges say about how a mediator should work? What are the judge?s opinions about the lawyer?s role in these cases? Finally, how do the judges define the children?s needs and how do the judges check that the solution is best for the child? The study also aims to compile theories of mediation, to create new knowledge and to possibly develop new research questions related to mediation. The study is a qualitative case study with law sociological and abductive approach. The interviewed judges all have a lot of experience in family law cases.

The social network services (SNS) on the Internet are becoming more common, and are starting to have a higher range of users, which is affecting Internet marketing. We (the authors) have a feelingthat a growing online marketing within social networks could interrupt the order of social standards. That is why we in this paper have tried to figure out what position marketing has ? and might have ? within SNS, and what impact it will have on social relations.During qualitative interviews along with both representatives of public relation offices as well as with SNS users, we became aware of the occurring strategies of online marketing, and the usersunderstanding of it. In the information from the interviews, we found some interesting contradictions on which this paper underlies.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the different aspects of motivational work with active heroin-using clients from a social workers point of view. The further purpose of this essay is to also examine what the advancements and discouraging factors in such a motivational work might be. To attain this purpose we focused on these following questions:What might motivational work with active heroin-using clients look like?According to the social worker, what factors constitutes for a beneficial progress in the engagement of motivational work with active heroin-using clients?According to the social worker, what constitutes for discouraging factors in the engagement of motivational work with active heroin-using clients?We chose to do a qualitative study by conducting separate interviews with six social workers working in a social services agency, all of whom are working with drug-addicted adults. We then analyzed the answers by using an abductive research strategy, testing the collected empirical data against our chosen theoretical perspectives.

The following essay is named The canonization of Joan of Arc, a Church political strategy or the creation of a national symbol? Joan of Arc, the French heroine of the Hundred Years War, was canonized as late as 1920, in a process that began already in 1869. In the following essay I am trying to work out if this canonization is a work of the Vatican in order to gain popularity in France after the breakup with the state in 1905. The Catholic Church had, since the French Revolution, faced difficulties withstanding its position of power in the presence of the upcoming Secularism and Liberalism and their growing public support. The Catholic Church had been fighting for its members and at the same time fighting the new ideas of Socialism, Communism and Liberalism.

I dagsläget har alla människor en sorts relation till sin bank. Relationen kan vara alltifrån sparande, lån, aktier och med mera. Produkter och tjänster mellan de olika bankerna har blivit likartade efter avregleringen år 1986. Detta har medfört att det har blivit alltmer viktigare för banker att vara konkurrenskraftiga i sina produkter och tjänster till sina kunder. I detta fall har fler banker investerat mycket på sina resurser för att få lojala kunder.

Problem: Small companies dominate the skin care industry, and they also face moredifficulties, constraints and resistance in strategy implementation and sustainabilitywork than other operators. Still, the trend of sustainability strategies increasesignificantly precisely in this industry.Purpose: The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge to the field ofsustainability strategies and motives for the implementation of them in smallercompanies who engage with skin care, in Sweden.Framing of a question: Why do some smaller Swedish companies in the skin careindustry choose to implement sustainability strategies in their business?Literature: The literature functions as a framework for the study and is considered toidentify the possible reasons why small companies choose to implement sustainabilitystrategies or not. The literature is collected before the empirical data.Method: This paper is constructed by a qualitative method approach. The empiricaldata were collected through interviews, by telephone, personal meetings and email,which were then transcribed and the interpreted by a model, which the authors havecreated.Conclusion: Smaller companies are often met by larger resistance and an until up tothe present slowly emerging industry with vague rules and controls as well as ancomparative knowledge of what is good and what is not.

Title: What shall we play? -A study of the importance of genre spread in music education. The aim of this study is to examine music teachers' and music students' reflections on the importance of genre spread in music education. The study covers music education in municipal primary schools and municipal music schools/schools of arts and music. I have used both quantitative and qualitative methods in my study.

This master of science thesis intends to examine how the established innovation theoriesinteracts with the social and cultural phenomena arising from the reduction in communicationcosts as a result of the development of the internet.The aim is to present a knowledge inventory of attitudes to and experiences of an openapproach, with emphasis on collaborative innovation, in product and service developmentdriven companies in different fields. The studied theories and the empirical results forms thebasis for an analysis of how companies can benefit from the diversified knowledge that existsoutside their borders as well as an exploration of the potential for this kind of knowledgeexchange to act as a catalyst for innovation.The theoretical part of the study is based essentially on two tracks: (1) innovation theories witha focus onopen innovation and user innovation, and (2) a broad review of how theories ofdiversified knowledgeand collective intelligence has become possible to apply in an innovationcontext. The empirical part of the study is based on material obtained from semi-structuredinterviews with respondents from six companies.The results show that companies have implemented unstructured innovation initiatives withoutany formal links to the structured product development processes, which are part of thecompanies core activities. The main conclusions include the following insights: There is a needfor structured links between the unstructured initiatives and the core activities, which makes itpossible to take promising ideas to market. The companies also have to lose some control of theunstructured initiatives; consequently it is impossible to pinpoint what the outcome will be.

Under det senaste decenniet har massmedia i olika sammanhang rapporterat om revisorers inblandning i olika företags oegentligheter. Vi har intresserat oss för området, vilket vi benämner redovisningsskandaler. Vi har valt att granska tre finansbolag där revisorerna varit inblandade i redovisningsskandaler. Dessa tre är Carnegie, Habo Finans och HQ Bank. I samband med avslöjandet av grova redovisningsfelaktigheter i dessa tre bolag har en debatt blommat upp i massmedia.

In 1983 Sweden passed a law stating that all limited liability companies are to be included into a mandatory auditing system. According to the EEC, courts fourth amendment, each country has the right to decide whether to exclude a mandatory auditing system for smaller companies. Audit reports in Sweden are considered to be very important for the bank crediting system. Should this be eliminated, it would be more difficult for banks to trust an audit. The significance of calculated audits is questioned in regards to the banks accrediting system.