Background: Brand strategy tends to become an important management issue. It is therefore interesting to reach a greater understanding about how companies work to make their existing brands stronger. The purpose of a brand is to influence the customers? view of the brand image. The literature is insufficient concerning how leaders handle the process of repositioning a brand, in order to change the brand image.

This study aims to compare two ethnographies of organizational culture ? one from the discipline of Social Anthropology and one from the discipline of Organizational Studies ? considering their purpose, their method, and their concept of culture. Despite big similarities, or perhaps thanks to the similarities, some fundamental differences are made visible. The discipline of Organizational Studies has, compared to that of Social Anthropology, regarding the research method being used, less focus on, and less participation in, the informal social life of the organizational culture of the study. Regarding the concept of culture the Organizational Studies consider culture containing more of unity, stability and clear boundaries, compared to Social Anthropology.

This master thesis concerns the occupational safetyenvironment at Outokompu Stainless, Avesta Work.The study is of a sociotechnical approach wherehumans are involved and interconnected in the samesystem with technology and organisation. In order toreach the corporation?s goal of zero accidents with losttime injury, the work of improving and maintainoccupational safety and health has to regard behaviourand cultural aspects. The aim of this study is todescribe the safety culture at a specific production unitand research what work which has to be done in orderto change and improve the safety culture at AvestaWork.There are several opportunities for improvementpointed out in this paper and here are some mainresults presented. First and foremost, the concern ofsafety among blue-collar is often secondary due toproduction.

Detta arbete har haft som målsättning att belysa och behandla möjligheter och problem vid utformande av informationsstrukturer i intranätsammanhang. Arbetet har genomförts i samarbete med Volvo Lastvagnar Komponenter i Skövde. En fallstudie har gjorts där Volvos intranät utvärderats. Dessutom har ett experiment genomförts där samband mellan katalog- och länkstruktur klargjorts. Undersökningens syfte är att uppnå en länkstruktur som tillåter användarna att utföra sitt arbete effektivt och att uppnå en katalogstruktur som inte är förändringsbenägen.

Background: Research results show that the potential of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increased. That means there is a growing pressure on Swedish companies to act with responsibility: general public has a positive attitude towards companies that communicate their CSR. Advertising agencies have been criticized by their way to manage the question of social responsibility. One of the characteristics of an advertising agency is their anonymity; even though their products are extremely visible, it is rarely clear who gave rise to an advertising production. If this is put in relation to CSR in general, we find ourselves in a contradictory situation when CSR in many cases is about exposure of the responsible corporation.

The intention of this study was to examine the interaction between authorities. More specifically it had a purpose to look at the ongoing cooperation between social workers and staff of special homes of closed institutional youth care. The sanction system for young offenders? reform of 1999 where young people between the ages of 15-17 who have committed serious crimes, can be sentenced to secure institutional treatment instead of prison, aims to counteract the harm which can result from a stay in prison. The social welfare board in the young person´s local authority and the national board of institutional care shall cooperate during the youth?s placement at the special home of closed institutional youth care.

Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration,Mid Sweden University in ÖstersundSpring term 2008Title: Abolishment of statutory audit ? a qualitative research on banks attitude when credit rating small businessesAuthor: Rima Harouki, Carina HoffmannSupervisor: Anna-Maria JanssonBackground & problem: In Sweden the statutory audit has been mandatory for every corporation since 1983. With the membership in European Union it became possible to allow exception from statutory audit for small businesses, according to the fourth commission of EG. Today, in the European Union, there are few countries that still have statutory audit for smaller businesses, Sweden is one of them. There are discussions about whether Sweden should follow the trend of abolishment and an analysis management by the justice of the Supreme Court Bo Svensson was recently presented, which ended in the conclusion that statutory audit ought to be abolished.

Background: Sweden has, since 1983, had a statutory audit for all joint-stock companies. However, according to EG?s fourth corporation directive, member countries can decide on their own if this applies for small joint-stock companies. An investigation was launched in the fall of 2006 to form an opinion on the importance of the audit reporting by law and what an abolishment of this rule would mean for small joint-stock companies. Critics are claiming that the cost of audit for small companies is exceeding the cause in these micro companies.Audit is regulated by Swedish translation (RS) of International Standards on Auditing (ISA) and is to be applied in all companies comprised by the statutory audit.

The regime theory is the dominant paradigm in the studies of urban politics in USA. It provides a set of concepts to analyse the change from government to governance in the American local politics. The regime theory postulates that governing power in local government tends to be highly fragmented. The private sector has with its control of economic resources a major influence in shaping governing decisions. In this essay I study the regime theory in a Swedish context to investigate if the theory is pertinent when studying of Swedish local governance.

Företag kan använda sig av olika strategier för underhåll. Det kan vara avhjälpande underhåll som utförs först när ett fel uppkommer eller förebyggande underhåll. Ofta används en kombination av båda. Det förebyggande underhållet kan vara förutbestämt eller tillståndsbaserat. Fördelar med att använda sig av tillståndsbaserat underhåll är exempelvis att utbyte av enheter inte behöver ske i onödan utan först när en observation visar att ett fel är på väg att ske.

I detta arbete undersöks utifrån olika aspekter, barn med koncentrationssvårigheter i förskola. Mitt teoretiska perspektiv är motivationsteorin. Min hypotes är att miljöns utformning har betydelse för barn med koncentrationssvårigheter. Mina forskningsfrågor är föjande; Vad är viktigt för att ett barn skall bibehålla sin koncentration? Vad har förskollärarna för ansvar för att bibehålla barnens koncentration? Vad har förskollärarna för strategier så att barnen skall kunna bibehålla koncentrationen? Och Har miljös utformning betydelse för barn koncentrationsförmåga? För att undersöka syftet har kvalitativaintervjuer utförts med tre förskollärare med olika erfarenheter och år inom yrket.

Denhär rapporten är en fristående del inom ett samproduktionsprojekt mellan flerafristående parter. Studien är genomförd som en experimentell fallstudie med ettmetodiskt angreppssätt på en projektgrupp. Syftet med rapporten har varit attutröna och belysa problemen och möjligheterna vid införandet av ettdokumenthanteringssystem. Systemet i fråga är SharePoint som är ensamarbetsplattform för företag. Målgruppen är i första hand beslutsfattare ibegrepp att välja teknikstöd, men även forskare och studenter.

Background and discussion of the problem: In the staffing company business a unique situation exists because of the three part relation between the staffing company, the users of the staffing companies? services, and the consultants employed by the staffing company. To over bridge the conflicting objectives of the staffing company and the consultant incentive systems are designed. Research question: What effects on the consultants? effort direction do the staffing managers expect of the formal or informal incentive system? Method: The authors have found that a suitable method for the thesis is a survey study.

Detta examensarbete behandlar och föreslår förbättringar på kort och på lång sikt vad gäller layouten av Volvo Construction Equipment Components AB:s produktionsanläggning i Eskilstuna för transmissions- och axelkomponenter. Utgångspunkten är att skapa bättre och tydligare materialflöden. Examensarbetet föreslår för underavdelningen kugghjul och axlar en blocklayout, vilket innebär att layouten är bestämd till var maskingrupper ska placeras men ingen detaljplanering är utförd, och riktlinjer för kommande layoutförändring. Den förslagna blocklayouten tar hänsyn till en kommande inflytt av härdning och härdverk till transmissionskomponenternas förädlingsflöde. Examensarbetet använder sig i stor utsträckning av B Andreasson tillvägagångssätt i Handledning i verkstadslayout: råd och tips när layouten skall förändras (Bengt Andreasson, IVF, 1997).

We have chosen to write our essay in collaboration with Varbergs kommun, where our starting point is to improve energy efficiency by management control. Their occupation separates from a pure profit driven corporation and therefore the management controls have to be adapted accordingly.  The reason why we have chosen to write an essay about the management control opportunities to improve the energy efficiency depends on two different reasons. The first reason is that we find it very interesting, how with support from the management control it is possible to improve different parts of the operation. And the second reason is that Varbergs kommun expressed a wish that they wanted to improve their energy efficiency process.The purpose of the essay is to describe and analyze the opportunities with support from the management control to help improving the process of energy efficiency in a municipal operation.