It exists today a widespread interest for employee satisfaction, much effort are used in companies to achieve job satisfaction within their employees. One theory that has received a great deal of publicity is Hackman & Oldhams Job characteristics model which addresses the question of how companies can provide job satisfaction through organizational change. The foundation of the theory is that five core job characteristics are responsible for creating job satisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to study these characteristics through the employees and their boss and to determine how they believe these characteristics to affect employee satisfaction. The paper focuses on a company located in a branch widely known for low employee satisfaction.

Undersökningen behandlar slavleken samt boss och flygareföreteelsen och undersöker endast pojkar på högstadiet. Det är två olika fenomen som verkar på skolor, där den första betraktas vara en lek och den andra som en allvarligt strukturerad brottslig verksamhet. Undersökningen redogör för vad slavleken är och vad det medför för de inblandade samt vad boss och flygareföreteelsen innebär och vilka faror det kan leda till för de inblandade. Sedan redogörs en möjlig koppling mellan de nämnda företeelserna och en inkörsport till kriminalitet. Avslutningsvis presenteras polisens och en högstadieskolas åtgärder mot de två nämnda företeelserna.Slavleken inleds med ett kortspel för att avgöra rollerna kung och slav, där sedan kungen får befalla slaven att utföra uppdrag åt honom.

Title: Digital christmas greetings - the viral communicators, public sphere and democracy(Digitala julhälsningar - de virala kommuniktörerna, offentligheten och demokratin)Number of pages: 41Author : Anna-Sara TorgnysdotterTutor: Ylva EkströmCourse : Media and Communication Studies DPeriod: Spring, semester 2010University: Devision of Media and Communications, Department of Information Science,Uppsala UniversityPurpose: The purpose of this study is to see if social media could be an arena for the usersto increase democracy and the public sphere. Studying the role and possibilitys of the individual.Is there a space for any one to act and debate?Method: A qualitative analysis based on interviews with ten users of social media - viralcommunicators. They were discussing public and private sphere, democracy, norms andbehavior in social media.Theoretical platform: The theoretical basis has its roots in sociology: Ervin Goffman´sidea on self-presentation and social interaction, Manuel Castels´ theories of the networksociety and Jürgen Habermas idea of the public spehere.Main result: The viral communicators are ambivalent in their use of socialmedia. They are users because they want to be but also because they feel forced to - professionalor private.

Denna studie presenterar en ny synvinkel inom ämnet att göra hasardspel online mer realistiska. Fjorton personer spelade i tjugo minuter två versioner av ett välkänt franskt roulettespel där utvalda variabler loggades. Den ena versionen fungerade precis som i ett skarpt läge medan den andra innehöll en implementation av kontextfaktorbaserade ljudeffekter. Utifrån loggningen av variabler, samt en kompletterande enkätundersökning, räknades det sedan ut om det förekom någon skillnad mellan versionerna och, i förlängning, spellupplevelsen.Resultatet jag fick fram redovisade förändringar i några av de variabler som hade valts ut och enkätundersökningen indikerade på att det kan ha varit ljudeffekterna som skapat denna förändring..

The study is based on a human science perspective in which we are interested in the school as a workplace for adults and work with personnel issues. The aim is to contribute with new knowledge about what conditions an employee considers important to carry out their work, and employees' experiences of working in large personnel groups.We have made a case study in a Swedish local primary school for students in lower ages, with between 60-70 employees. We conducted nine semi- structured interviews with a hand-picked selection of employees from different occupational groups in the school. The study is empirical data -driven qualitative with abductive approach. To analyze the collected datamaterial, we have used the empirical data -driven thematic analysis.From the results of the study some aspects appear clearly; employees need to be seen by his/her boss, importance of employee autonomy and employee experience of stress.

ABSTRACTPurpose/aim: Are there any differences between how ?old? and ?young? groups within social movements in Sweden view (value) and use alternative and mainstream media?Material/method: The answer to the research problem is sought by conducting qualitative research interviews with representatives of four different groups: Alternativ Stad, Folkkampanjen mot Kärnkraft-Kärnvapen, Attac Sverige and Ingen Människa är Illegal. The theoretical framework consists of research on social movements, especially on their relation to media, and on alternative media.Main results: There exist some, but not great, differences between how ?old? and ?young? groups view and use mainstream and alternative media. The differences are relatively small when it comes to views on media and somewhat larger concerning media use.

This paper describes how teachers of media view and construct their subjects. Eight teachers have been interviewed about their views and opinions about the media environment, their goals for media education as well as their opinions about the different course plans used in media education. The term Media Literacy works as a theoretical starting point for the study, since Media Literacy is the goal for most media education. The teachers? answers have been analyzed by using three different approaches to media education: protection, promotion and empowerment.

This is a qualitative study of how some journalists on the Swedish national media are using social media in news work. The study, carried out by using interviews, also covers how these journalists' work is influenced by social media. For the journalists in the study social media has become a tool to do research, get news ideas and find interviewees. At the same time social media affects the work of the journalists, as the social media increases the speed of news and flow of information. Even though they involve some challenges, social media facilitates news work and the journalists in this study have a positive attitude towards the phenomenon.Keywords: Social media, news journalism, the national media..

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka, analysera, diskutera och dra slutsatser för att komma fram till vad det beror på att det uppstår skillnader mellan våra framräknade företagsvärden och det noterade börsvärdet.De företag vi valt att granska är Boss media, Cherryföretagen och Unibet. Företagen bedriver liknande verksamhet med fokus på spel över internet. Denna tillväxtbransch har vuxit lavinar-tat de senaste åren eftersom efterfrågan bland spelarna ökat.De värderingsmodeller vi arbetat med är, den diskonterande kassaflödesmodellen, P/E-talsvärderingen och substansvärderingen. De två förstnämnda är så kallade avkastnings-modeller, som fokuserar på framtida värden, medan substansvärderingsmodellen pekar på vad företaget historiskt sett presterat.Empirin i uppsatsen har hämtats ur företagens årsredovisningar för år 2005. Informationen har sedan applicerats i de berörda modellerna för att på så sätt komma fram till ett företagsvärde.Varför det uppstår skillnader mellan företagsvärdet och börsvärdet, samt i vilken grad upp-satsens syfte har uppnåtts, presenteras i kapitlet Diskussion och slutsats..

The current research examined whether motives, traditional mass media consumption and individual differences (social activity and political interest) predicted the use of social media among a group of university students in China. In coherence with Uses and Gratifications assumptions the study found that the factors differentially predicted the extent of media use. Information seeking, social interaction and affinity were the main reasons for using social media. There was a negative correlation between television viewing and use of social media, in addition to a negative correlation between information seeking and use of the media. Results further suggest that social media are used to enhance social capital, since student?s being socially active offline, tend to use the media to a greater extent than those less active..

The purpose of this study was to examine the usage and occurrence of media literacy in relation to literature studies in the senior level of the nine-year compulsory school. The questions at issue were;How do teachers and students look upon media literacy and how is this attitude reflected in their education?How do teachers incorporate media literacy with literature studies?What attitudes do students have towards their teachers? education of media literacy and literature studies?The study took place in two cities in Sweden. It consists of eighteen qualitative interviews with six teachers and twelve students. The study shows that teachers have different attitudes towards media education in relation to literature studies.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka, analysera, diskutera och dra slutsatser för att komma fram till vad det beror på att det uppstår skillnader mellan våra framräknade företagsvärden och det noterade börsvärdet.De företag vi valt att granska är Boss media, Cherryföretagen och Unibet. Företagen bedriver liknande verksamhet med fokus på spel över internet. Denna tillväxtbransch har vuxit lavinar-tat de senaste åren eftersom efterfrågan bland spelarna ökat.De värderingsmodeller vi arbetat med är, den diskonterande kassaflödesmodellen, P/E-talsvärderingen och substansvärderingen. De två förstnämnda är så kallade avkastnings-modeller, som fokuserar på framtida värden, medan substansvärderingsmodellen pekar på vad företaget historiskt sett presterat.Empirin i uppsatsen har hämtats ur företagens årsredovisningar för år 2005. Informationen har sedan applicerats i de berörda modellerna för att på så sätt komma fram till ett företagsvärde.Varför det uppstår skillnader mellan företagsvärdet och börsvärdet, samt i vilken grad upp-satsens syfte har uppnåtts, presenteras i kapitlet Diskussion och slutsats..

Today, social media is used mostly by people in their private life. However, companies are more and more tapping into the area of social media. To this date, mostly B2C companies have been successful in their social media strategies. This qualitative thesis aims to investigate how B2B companies can benefit from using social media as a means to communicate and build relations with their customers. The medtech industry has been chosen as the object of study.Through depth interviews with people in the medtech industry and social media experts, data has been collected in order to answer the questions of (1) how ready customers in the medtech industry are to receive information through social media and (2) how companies can build the best possible social media strategy.

The communication and mediation of information and news has, under the latest decades, increased into an incalculable amount. In the newsflow that has come up it has become more and more urgent to sort and select the relevant and correct news. Simultaneously as the information has become one of the most important goods for the western world, the criticism against media has become more loudvoiced and especially the criticism aims at the fact that publicness has become less public and the public conversation is nowadays filtrated through media. The American Joey Skaggs can be reckoned among with the group of media critics, but his course of action and methods to reach out with his critical view, stand out strikingly from the traditional media critics. Instead of, as most, aiming the criticism against media, from an outside perspective, Skaggs chooses to attack the media from the inside.

Media has power and impact. It is therefore important for managers to be able to handle media storms when they arise. If not, the brand can be affected negatively. It is managers who should learn to handle media storms because the managers constitute an important part of the external face of the company. Because it is managers who should learn to handle media storms it is interesting to study how media storms should be handled from a theoretical management-perspective.