Some markets represent companies that offer similar products in terms of design, quality and price. In this reality competitive advantages have to be created and developed in other ways. Many companies have therefore chosen a market oriented strategy that focuses on the client and their needs. According to studies within the field of Service management the interaction between the company and the c

I denna studie undersöktes om ett systematiskt tillvägagångssätt, i jämförelse med ett osystematiskt, ökar benägenheten att välja ut kvalificerade sökande till tjänsten som möbelförsäljare. Studien genomfördes som ett experiment. Inga signifikanta skillnader påvisades mellan grupperna. Vidare studerades om de diskriminerande variablerna ’sökandens attraktivitet’, ’sökandens kön’ och ’sökandens åld

Abstract Author: Anna Sjögren Supervisor: Helena Hansson The intent of The Swedish social law from 1970 was to contrive an integrated and generalised form of social work. Despite this, specialisation has become the most common form of organising social work. The aim of this study is to examine the consequences that specialisation has on an organisation, the social work managers and on the client

There is an ongoing debate in Sweden about the Communicable Disease Act and if it should be modified because of the negative impact it has on HIV-infected people. The law is said to be counterproductive and does not protect the general public against the infection. The Swedish Communicable Diseases Act is unique because it places all the responsibility on the infected person and they must give the

I denna uppsats genomförs en undersökning av vilka motiv som driver resebolag att erbjuda resor med all inclusive. För att försöka förklara fenomenet testas en teoretisk modell av marknaden för semesterresor empiriskt. Empirin syftar till att bringa klarhet i vilka förhållanden som råder på marknaden för all inclusive-hotell jämfört med för övriga hotell. De parametrar som inkluderas i modell och

This paper explores and compares the effects of two financial crises (the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2007-2010 Subprime Financial Crisis) on short-run and long-run linkages between equity markets in China (mainland and Hong Kong) and US. In particular, we not only investigate the return causality relationships by applying vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis, but we also examine the volat

This essay had tested for the significant influence of USD index and Euro index on Gold market traded in Dollar and Euro. The results show that the mean return of Gold in both markets is affected by the USD index as well as Euro index. However the variance in each market is only significantly affected by the currency that the market is being traded. Applying APGARCH shows that Gold market variance

Jag har valt att göra en studie om hur högt uppsatta HR-chefer ser på sin egen utveckling som ledare, i förhållande till att det arbetar med att utveckla andra ledare. Ämnet bottnar i en vilja att få en inblick i det yrke som jag snart ska ge mig in i och få en djupare insyn i vad det kan finnas för svårigheter i yrket som HR-chef. Jag har inte haft några avsikter att dra generella slutsatser, uta

Skatteverkets Helsingborgskontor genomgick för ungefär ett år sedan en organisationsförändring i form av ett byte från arbete i cellkontor till arbete i öppna kontorslandskap i en annan byggnad. Detta gjordes på grund av att det uppstod problem i den tidigare byggnaden. Denna utvärdering syftade till att undersöka hur medarbetare och sektionschefer upplever sig ha påverkats av förändringen i konto

Att börja bli vuxen är inte alltid enkelt och det gör att en del problem uppstår. Genom media får ungdomar en bild av samhället om hur de förväntas vara, en bild som inte alltid är korrekt. Syftet med denna analys var därför att få fram hur vuxenvärlden som en motpol till övriga medier vill förmedla en mer korrekt bild till unga mellan 8-14 år. För att analysera hur denna motpol förmedlar olika bu

This thesis is a fenomenological approach to percieved pros and cons of a mature ISO14001-certificate. I've also investigated if my interviewees have expeerienced an influence from their environmental management work to their personal environmental awareness. I also sought to see if these Environmental Management Officers thought that their having the certificate influences the general environ

This thesis deals with the vital issue of empowerment in development work and development projects, a multimillion dollar enterprise which engages donors,governmental agencies and governments. More specifically the thesis deals with a development intervention in education as social policy in Uruguay, investigated as a case study. The methodological intention is to present the voices of the subject

This thesis aims to explore the impact of population policy on women’s reproductive rights. I use one child policy, which has far-reaching repercussions on all Chinese women at childbearing age, as the case for this research. The following questions are asked: What is one child policy? What kinds of measures are used to lower fertility rate? What is the impact on women’s reproductive rights? I emp

With around 3 million affected people, Colombia has the second highest number of internal displaced persons (IDPs) in the world after Sudan (ACNUR 2007). They are basically refugees inside their own country. One of the main problems of IDPs living in the cities is the difficulty to generate income that allows them to satisfy their basic needs. Looking to solve this problem, the government of Colom

Huruvida det existerar en prisbubbla eller inte på den svenska bostadsmarknaden är ett flitigt diskuterat ämne, inte minst i medierna. Syftet med vår uppsats är att besvara frågan med hjälp av en metod som är kallad imputed rent eller imputerad hyra. I den imputerade hyran vägs årskostnaden av att äga ett hus mot årskostnaden av att hyra en likvärdig bostad och om det finns en prisbubbla på markna

This paper examines the impacts of short-term changes in individual socioeconomic status on marital formation and dissolution by using data from Current Population Survey (CPS). Empirical results suggest that employment stability plays the most important role in conditioning the marriage entry and dramatic increase in relative earning power within family may impose greatest threat to marital stabi

The aim of the current study was to examine the relation between self-efficacy, sense of coherence and general mental health in unemployed individuals. The study was based on Antonovsky’s concept sense of coherence and Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy. A questionnaire was constructed based on the SOC scale, the general self-efficacy scale and the general health questionnaire. The sample consiste

I dagens samhälle som präglas av ständig förändring och utveckling i arbetslivet har mycket kommit att handla om konkurrens, personlig utveckling och hållbarhet. För att företag ska kunna konkurrera på en alltmer dynamisk marknad har organisationer fått en större insikt om medarbetarnas betydelse och insats för verksamhetens utveckling. Performance Management är ett system organisationer använder

For well over two decades, the European Union (EU) has been an important actor in climate change policy. It has developed a wide range of tools for its external and internal climate policy. This thesis examines the EU’s view on international climate agreements. The EU promotes a relatively stable approach to deal with the problem of climate change which is characterised by efforts to conclude lega

This thesis examines the external energy policy of the European Union in a two-step approach. First, an analysis of the degree of actorness that the EU has achieved in this new policy field is carried out on the basis of the theoretical concept introduced by Bretherton and Vogler. It is argued that the EU only possesses fragmented actorness in all three dimensions examined. Second, this is followe