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IKEA is currently in the progress of integrating Business Process Management (BPM) into the current functional organization. In order to investigate how to increase the accuracy of the capacity planning, IKEA saw a need of examining the processes connected to Plan & Secure Capacity, a sub process to the main process Supplying. The purpose of this master thesis is to by using Network Planning m
Abstract Author: Ylva Nilsson Title: A study of a psychosis unit within open psychiatric care from a holistic-view perspective. Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Anna Angelin The purpose of this study is to examine a new method of working with patients with a mental disability according to a holistic-view perspective. The aim is to find out how the employees at one psychosis unit at a Swedish h
Purpose The master thesis highlights improvements potentials that exist in the Psychiatric ER in Stockholm County and the resource-saving measures that can be realized in the medical logistics through by producing a simulation model of the system. Methodology In order to fulfill the purpose of the master thesis qualitative methods such as interviews has been used successfully. To make the simulati
As an international actor it is preferable to make an effort to understand how your performance affects the long-term sustainability, both in local and global terms. Sustainability includes subjects such as integration between economical, social and environmental spheres. It can be achieved by reorganizing living conditions, reappraising economic sectors and work practices, develop technologies in
Bakgrund: Relationsanarki är en relationspraktik som går ut på att inte definiera och kategorisera relationer. På senare år har relationsanarkin etablerats i Sverige och syns ibland i stora mediesammanhang. Samtida teoretiker som Zygmunt Bauman (2003), Anthony Giddens (1995), Ulrich Beck (2002) och Sasha Roseneil (2000) har diskuterat de sociala förändringar som ligger till grund för ny relationsp
Abstract The purpose of this study was dual. First, I aimed to examine primary care counsellors’ attitudes towards Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Socialstyrelsen’s recommendation that CBT should be the main treatment option for depression and anxiety disorders. Second, I aimed to explore the counsellors’ discretion in their daily work and whether these recommendations limit their discreti
In times of globalization, cultural contact is a phenomenon that occurs on a daily basis. Immigration is a big contributor to the cultural contact. The phenomenon of immigration brings about many essential questions that can be hard to adjust to. The acculturation process itself is dependent of factors such as the contemporary societal climate as well as the active role of the immigrant. Questions
Genom att följa ett vardagsföremål vill jag i undersökningen få tillgång till sammanhang och föreställningar som annars blir osynliga i sin vardaglighet. Syftet med undersökningen är att förstå hur plastkassar omger människor genom att följa deras rörelser med och utan människor med utgångspunkt i Malmö. Syftet är även att undersöka på vilket sätt plastkassar inverkar och får betydelse i människo
The aim of this study was to find an understanding of elderly care staff´s views on documentation requirement and documentation as a task and also to examine managers views on implementation of new tasks. We wanted to enter more deeply into the tension between the managers´ expectations, based on the set of goals made from politicians, and the response of this from the elderly care staff and what
Research about delegating or controlling purchasing with 2nd tier suppliers does not seem to be convergent; it discusses benefits and disadvantages of both purchasing tactics in various situations. There is no single tool today that we have found, that helps manufacturing companies decide when to control and when to delegate purchasing in the supply chain. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. F
The purpose of this study was to examine how the result of what the Supreme Administrative Court’s recent judgment has affected the three organisations called Youth and Adolescent Care (BUP), social service (socialtjänst), and The National Board of Institutional Care (SiS). Qualitative semi-structured interviews were made with at least two workers from each of three organizations. Several very dif
Twelve years ago, eleven European countries voluntarily abandoned their home currencies and joined the Euro. The founding fathers of the Euro believed that creation of the common currency would strengthen integration among the members and catalyze economic convergence progress within the common currency area. This study examines this issue in detail. I focus on labor productivity convergence and s
Apples vd Steve Jobs popularitet verkar bara öka och hans presentationer av företagets produkter hyllas av många. Den här uppsatsen analyserar presentationen den 7 juni 2010 då Jobs presenterade telefonen Iphone 4 på WWDC konferensen i San Fransisco. Frågeställningen som besvaras är om vi med hjälp av retorikens glasögon kan få en ökad förståelse varför Jobs presentationer är så framgångsrika. Ana
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ideological forces working in the sphere of quality assurance in higher education. Through discourse analysis on two seminal policy documents, the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA 2005) and OECD Work on Education (OECD 2010), the ideologically underbuilt discourses of Europe and Cost
En studie av Mia Törnblom - Självkänsla nu (2006) , Elizabeth Gummesson – Good enough: bli fri från din perfektionism (2009) samt Marta Cullberg Weston - Självkänsla på djupet: en terapi för att reparera negativa självbilder (2007) där författarnas metoder sätts i jämförelse med den franska existentialismen för att se om det finns några likheter mellan författarnas metoder och den franska existent
Efter ett antal uppseendeväckande händelser inom näringslivet, där bolagen tagit skada ekonomiskt, tycks ett av problemen vara att avgöra vem som skall bära skadeståndsansvaret. Skadan verkar ha uppkommit efter vad som förefaller vara ett felaktigt beslut. Ett beslut tagit av bolagsledningen, där det framförallt är oklart hur styrelseledamöterna ska bedömas i ansvarsfrågan. Bedömningen av ansvaret
This paper will analyze the construction of an optimal currency area using mean variance portfolio analysis, in order to determine what would have been the most stable monetary union for the European Union prior to the complete transition to the Euro currency on January 1, 2002. The analysis calculates the minimum variance portfolio of the potential European Union members by using there sovereign
Teachers’ experiences of school leadership behaviour and the social contexts in which these have taken place interest me. I aim to identify and understand what Swedish secondary school language teachers’ reflections are on what they require in terms of leadership from their principals in different contexts in order to gain personal job satisfaction. The objective is that this research can then fun
Situationen på dagens arbetsmarknad förändras ständigt och med det kommer även nya organisationsformer med nya och förändrade yrken och branscher. Kunskapsföretag är en relativt ny typ av organisationsform där man använder sig av högt kvalificerade individer och kunskapsarbete står i centrum. Organisationer inom bemanningsbranschen kan anses vara kunskapsföretag, och vårt syfte med denna uppsats ä
Primary education of good quality is necessitous to development, democracy and social inclusion. India has subscribed to the goals of education for all by 2015 and has embarked on immense priorities in education to reach the goals. Goals are often measured in terms of outcomes of literacy or school attendance. The main objective of this thesis is to take one step further and explore whether these
