Studien syftar till att undersöka mellanchefers upplevelse av utvecklingsarbete i en Kunskapsorganisation, såväl i själva organisationen som för de enskilda medarbetarna och egen del.Datainsamlingen består av kvalitativa intervjuer med sex mellanchefer i ett svenskt mediaföretag. För att analysera svaren används teorier om ledarskap och chefsidentiteter. Analysen bygger på en tolkning av hur de intervjuade mellancheferna upplever sin situation.Analysen visar att mellancheferna upplever att deras arbete är fritt inom uppställda organisatoriska ramar, men att de ibland upplever att de hamnar ?i kläm?, genom att motstridiga krav ställs från olika intressenter.Analysen visar också att mellancheferna upplever att de i hög grad får agera informationshanterare, vilket upplevs som ett problem. I studien kommer vi även fram till att ledningens krav på mellanchefen kan vara hinder för utvecklingsarbete men att arbetet i en Kunskapsorganisation.

The aim of this study is to establish whether there are any specific trends in master theses concerning knowledge organization. To identify the past and current trends a method of content analysis has been applied to 110 theses over a time period of ten years. The results of this study show that there is an increasing interest in subjects concerning for example the evaluation of retrieval effectiveness in search engines on the Internet. A subject which was popular in the late 1990:s was information technology and its different applications. This subject has since that time decreased in popularity.

Bakgrund Vi har studerat kompetensförsörjningsperspektivet i Läkemedelsverkets (LVs) nyligen införda styrkort.Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka kunskapen för hur en Kunskapsorganisation utarbetar ett balanserat styrkort samt vilka faktorer som påverkar vid val av mätmetoder så att den viktigaste resursen kompetens fångas av lämpliga framgångsfaktorer och styrmått.Genomförande: Vi har gjort en litteratursammanställning av de framgångsfaktorer och styrmått som är lämpliga att använda sig av i styrkortets medarbetarperspektiv samt gjort tre besöksintervjuer på LV.Resultat: För att tillförsäkra att kompetensen upprätthålls har ett behov av icke finansiella styrmått uppmärksammats. Det balanserade styrkortet har kommit som ett svar för detta behov. Vår litteratursammanställning talar dock för att det fortfarande finns luckor i form av brist på nyckeltal för att mäta medarbetarnas kompetens i tidigare litteratur. Vilken typ av styrmått som är lämpliga för att mäta kompetens i ett styrkort beror till stor del av vad motivet till mätningen är. LV betonar vikten av ett behov av daglig mätning för att kunna läsa av dagliga förändringar.

SammanfattningSyftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för rektorers ansträngningar för att höjaskolresultaten. Såväl internationell som inhemsk forskning styrker ett starkt samband mellanskolledarskap och skolresultat. En bra skolledning skapar effektiv Kunskapsorganisation medgoda elevresultat. Därför läggs ett särskilt fokus i studien på att öka förståelsen för de kraftigavariationerna i skolresultaten mellan olika skolor i Stockholm utifrån ett ledarskapsperspektiv.Undersökningen består av fyra högstadieskolor i Stockholm och bygger på intervjuer medrektorer samt dokumentanalys från skolorna. Intervjuerna bygger på frågor om skolstrategioch Kunskapsorganisationens struktur och kultur.

The aim of this master's thesis is to investigate and to explain the concept of folksonomy in the perspective of knowledge organisation. By creating a conceptual explanation and defining what folksonomy as a concept consists of, the intent is to establish a basis for evaluating folksonomy and to discuss what relevance folksonomy may have in the field of knowledge organisation. By applying a qualitative content analysis a review is performed on how folksonomy is perceived and discussed in a selection of articles written on the subject. Employing the theory of classification, subject indexing and bibliographic retrieval, folksonomy as a method for knowledge organisation is analysed. The practice of tagging in existing systems is also studied.

This thesis analyses the problem of how to organise a multidisciplinary domain of knowledge like architecture. The study is both theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part include discussions of theories of knowledge organisation. Two different principles of classification were examined in relation to the domain itself, as well as in relation to the educational programme at the School of Architecture at Lund University and comparable schools in Sweden. The empirical part is a case study carried out at the School of Architecture at Lund University.

An ongoing discussion concerning the possibilities of universal classification based on phenomena rather than on research disciplines has been noticed. In order to discover if this was a limited discussion or the beginning of a major new field of research a study of citations was made using the database Web of Science. In addition, references of the works concerned were studied to find out where the ideas originated. The study of references shows that the ideas originate in a limited number of older published works, some of them well established in Information Science, some of them less generally known. The main ideas commonly used in Information Science are Ranganathan?s facet theories and the work of the Classification Research Group.

Knowledge organization is perceived as a central, constituting activity defining the notion of libraries. Critique calling for a new theoretical foundation voiced by active researchers within library and information science concerning the current knowledge organization has been utilized as a point of departure. Specifications concerning a new theoretical foundation implied by these critiques are considered within this thesis and theory found in The Order of Things by Michel Foucault proposed as an alternative theory for understanding knowledge organization as a human science where meaning, value and representation, by which the ordering of things is possible, is acknowledged as a result of human activity and history. Thus meaning, value and representation must be perceived as dynamic. An example of implementation of the proposed theory has been achieved by the use of bibliometrics.

Minnets tematiska och berättartekniska funktion i Eyvind Johnsons roman Strändernas svall (Fredrik Smeds, C-uppsats i Litteraturvetenskap, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, vt 2003). Författaren redogör först för romanens handling och jämför kompositionen med den i Odysséen. Vidare studeras berättare och synvinkel. Därefter följer en genomgång av minnena och berättelserna, främst Odyssevs?, men även Nestors och Menelaos?.

The main object of this master thesis is to examine whether domain-analysis could be used toorganize the collections in a library serving interdisciplinary studies, and in that case - howthat could be done. The thesis is based on a case study of a library for Asian studies, which alsoserves as a library specialized in that subject in the Nordic countries. The author has used, i.e.interviews and observations examining who the users of the library are and how these seekinformation. A theory part deals with some earlier studies of information users within arts andsocial sciences, and these are compared to the users of the examined library.The thesis states that one has to look at the different disciplines in which research is done (andcould be done) at the institute to which the library belongs, and that subject terms could beadded to the various documents from the view of those domains..

(Tiden, minnet, kriget och dess följder. Studier i Eyvind Johnsons verk, särskilt noveller. Fredrik Smeds, D-uppsats i Litteraturvetenskap, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, vt 2004.) Författaren undersöker berättartekniken i fyra av Eyvind Johnsons noveller om nutida krig och deras följder. Det indirekta skrivsättet om kriget studeras särskilt. Minnet och tiden uppmärksammas.

Writing has been the most important tool in knowledge organization KO. In our modern society we can use our speech as a technical tool to seek information. Can we apply speech as a tool to organize information? The aim of this masters thesis is to problemize speech aspects in the field of knowledge organization KO. The investigation has two main parts and I use a hermeneutic approach.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the subject indexing in the bibliographic databaseKVINNSAM at Kvinnohistoriska samlingarna. the documentation and information centre·of Women's studies in Sweden.The focus of the study is the list of index terms produced at this centre. The paper tries to answer the following questions: a) How has the indexing developed? b) How can it be improved? c) Is there a need for feminist indexing? The method of the study is primarily observations and interviews. Texts and ideas by Birger Hj¢rland, D.

This Masters thesis concerns epistemology in Knowledge Organization KO, as a field of study in Library and Information Science LIS. Using a theoretical model by Birger Hjørland and foucauldian discourse analysis as springboards, this study analyses three epistemological discourses in the practice of KO. The aim of the study is to show how these discourses are constituted and demarcated in relation to KO, as well as to examine how they fit into Hjørlands model. A brief historical outline of some epistemological trends in LIS is sketched, as well as examples of how different epistemological schools influence different parts of KO, e.g. information retrieval, indexing- and classification theory.

The purpose of this thesis is to present a review of research themes and practice in the field of art image registration. The objectives of the review are twofold. The primary task is to distinguish which problems, in regard to theory and practice, that have been dealt with in the field of art image registration and the secondary task is to investigate which discursive, institutional and tool-related factors have had an impact on theoretical discussions and practice in the art image domain. The empirical content in the review is structured according to four epistemological viewpoints and is analyzed with a domain analytical approach. The result of the study is that two major problems are frequently discussed in the art image domain, namely lack of standardization and which discourse is the best suited for registration of art images.