This rapport is result of a project. The purpose of which was to design a circuit that is used in a heat glove. The heat glove is the technical aid which provides heat inside a glove.It is specially suited for old people who have problems with cold hands because of decreased blood circulation.There already was an old circuit in the glove that gives a constant current which develops heat from battery to glove through a circuit. The temperature is between 32 and 34 degrees.The problem with the existing circuit was to regulate the temperature. There is only on/off switch and there is no way to adjust desirable value of the temperature.In order to solve the problem the old circuit was investigated.

The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the work with line extensions by companies in the media industry. To obtain this purpose a case study was performed to learn about Norrbottens Media?s actions regarding their new launch of the magazine Extra. Information was gathered through an interview and media observations and was analyzed and compared to previous studies on the subject. Results of this case study show that the main reasons for the company?s line extension were new trends on the market and that the company had unexploited recourses to make use of.

Denna uppsats undersöker problemet med att få kvinnor blir delägare på advokatbyråer. Herzbergs tvåfaktorteori används för att undersöka om skillnader i personalmotivation mellan män och kvinnor är en bidragande faktor till detta problem. Efter genomförda intervjuer med ledningen och besvarade enkäter av anställda på advokatbyråer kan det konstateras att det finns avgörande skillnader i faktorer som motiverar män respektive kvinnor i arbetet. Hackmans och Oldhams implementeringsplan för arbetsberikning utgör grunden för de lösningsförslag som presenteras. Sammantaget innehåller lösningsförslagen utökat arbetande i team, tidigare klientkontakt, ökad transparens, tidigare ledarskapsutbildning, mer feedback samt alternativa karriärvägar..

Business incubation is an important force of economic development but relatively unheard of in organization theory. This is partly due to the fact that in organization theory, meta-organization or the organization of organizations has been neglected or left lagging as much theorization has been focused on organizing individuals. With the growing number of business incubators, and meta-organizations in general, the need for understanding a relatively new type of organization is prevalent.This case study of the business incubator Global Business Labs Botswana (GBL) aims to clarify the organizational differences among meta-organizations and traditional organizations on a case level, as well as explain the underlying factors for these dissimilarities. With respect to the nature of this case study no general conclusions are drawn from the results. The inference, however, is that the organization of GBL and its incubated companies differs from the traditional organization in five elementary aspects: the weak hierarchical structure, the operational autonomy of its members, the strong focus on recruitment processes, the member identity and the lack of formal sanctions.

Organisations tend to focus more and more on product and process development to increase their competitiveness. Several major organisations, among them ABB, have developed models aimed to more effectively control and manage product development processes. ABB is using its standardised model ABB Gate Model for this. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the introduction of ABB Gate Model has affected the outcome of decisions and also the decision-making in the product development process. The study is limited to elucidate the version of ABB Gate Model handling product development projects.

This paper analyzes the auditor choices for a sample of 300 predominantly small Swedish firms, all located in Umeå. Our hypothesis was based on the complexity of a firm, the need of external financing, leverage, and the need of extra consultance from the auditfirm. Our definition of auditor quality is based on prior studies, and is frequently used by authors in this area. The assumption is based on that the auditor quality increases with the size of the auditfirm and the degree of the auditor. The auditor quality is therefor depending on the choice between an auditor from the group ?Big 5? or not, and the choice of an auditor with an higher degree.

Socialt stöd i rollen som enhetschef inom Socialförvaltningen är intressant med anledning av att deras arbete är självständigt och ensamt. Enhetschefernas mellanposition i organisationen innebär att förväntningar finns från flera nivåer inom organisationen. Syftet med studien är att öka kunskapsbilden och förståelsen för enhetschefers sociala stöd. Jag är intresserad av vad de upplever att de får för socialt stöd i chefsrollen samt vilka stödpersoner de anser är viktigast. Syftet är också att ta reda på vilken betydelse socialt stöd har för enhetscheferna i deras roll som chef.

The purpose of this bachelor degree thesis is to analyze technical issues associated with an implementation of a low sloping trash rack with narrow spacing. A hydropower plant in Umea?lven was used as a case study. The basis for the study was a model where trash racks were dimensioned for inclinations between 25 and 45 degrees. Corresponding head loss, durability and water speed through the rack were then determined for each inclination.

Background: Palliative care is something that all people should have the right to be allowed to, to be able to enjoy the qualities of life, even when someone has been afflicted with illness that cannot be cured. How do the nurses in municipal home-care deal with and prepare themselves to perform a righteous task? Aim: The aim of this study is to illuminate nurses, comprehensions of palliative care within municipal home-care. Method: The method is a questionnaire to nurses. Results: The results did comply to law and regulations.

I den svenska försvarsmakten har på senare år, bland annat i samband med attSverige börjat nyttja NATO:s ?Guidelines for Operational Planning?, intresset för spel ökat bådepå Försvarshögskolan och inom Försvarsmakten. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hurkrigsspel kan bedrivas för att stödja framtagandet av en stridsplan samt sedan att pröva planeninnan den sätts i verket. Uppsatsen har också som målsättning att ta fram några grundläggandeprinciper för krigsspelens genomförande.Inledningsvis genomfördes övergripande litteraturstudie som ledde fram till tre hypoteser. Dessaprövades sedan mot två olika fallstudier.De sammanfattande slutsatserna är att två olika typer av spel behövs, en kreativ modell somhjälper till i själva planeringsprocessen och ett prövande modell som hjälper till med beslutsstödetinför verkställandet av planen.

Background: In the eighties the debate concerning the declining relevance of the traditional calculation started. The reason was that the method of calculating not had been changed despite that the costs and manufacturing had changed in many companies. This led to the development of activity-based costing. Management by means of activity information is called activity-based management, but there is no general accepted definition of what the term com- prises. Neither are there any studies which describe within which areas activity information is used as a base for decisions.

Idag  används  datorer,  surfplattor  och  mobiler  i  allt  större  utsträckning.  Ett  sätt  att försöka  minska utvecklingskostnader  för  mjukvaruföretag  är  att  bygga  ett  generellt gränssnitt  som  fungerar  på  alla dessa  plattformar.  Det  finns  stora  skillnader  mellan de  olika  plattformarna,  till  exempel  skärmstorlek, vilken inmatningsmetod som används och i vilka sammanhang plattformarna används. Denna studie har undersökt  om  det  är möjligt  att  bygga  ett  generellt  gränssnitt  för  ett  affärssystem.  Ett  par  viktiga faktorer som  bör  iakttas  vid  ett  generellt  system  lyfts  fram,  exempelvis  knappstorlek, feedback  och komplexitet.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur skyddsombuden inom Luleå kommuns grundskolor upplevde Arbetsmiljöverkets tillsyn, med fokus på kommunikationen utifrån ett processperspektiv. Studien baseras på halvstrukturerade intervjuer med åtta skyddsombud. Resultaten visade att skyddsombuden, i överlag upplevde en tillsyn som något positivt. Däremot visade vår studie på upplevda svårigheter i kommunikationen vid delar av tillsynen. Utifrån kommunikationsprocessens faser upplevdes avsaknad av feedback som det mest framträdande hindret i processen.

Through a case study at an IT company we have attempted to ascertain how a company's organizational culture affects its designers' way of working. By examining what ?type? of designers the employees are and how this is reflected in their work, we hope to have correctly determined what their organizational culture looks like and thereby have achieved a plausible result in our study.Aside from two interviews with the company's CEO, we also performed eight observations at the company, where we tried to blend in with the employees, to better determine their way of working together.We have found that the designers' trust in their own instincts has led them to rarely act on feedback from clients ? they only pick out the proposals which have a ?mainstream? potential. We have also discovered that their design approach is something they don't feel inclined to discuss amongst themselves. As it is often ?indescribable?, they go with their intuition and unspoken design conventions..

This paper aims to give an insight into how venture capital work with their investments in the school sector. The purpose of the paper is to examine their work, regarding to goals of the company and the process of controlling the goals.  The study also aims to determine the way the companies work with value growth.This study uses a qualitative research method, where the theories license to operate, the relationship value management framework, agency-principal and new public management theory is tested in relation to the collected data. Eleven persons were interviewed in this paper. This paper also aims to give an overview to venture capital in the school sector, where it will examine whether financial goals could collide with social goals.What the study can tell is that venture capital does not have a license to operate in this sector, according to the theory.