The purpose of this study was to investigate what facts that matters in relation to where drug abusers get their care and treatment, after a decision of voluntary treatment has been taken, by the social welfare. Another question I wanted to answer, was if there was any deviation between social secretaries with or without the authority to make those decisions in their opinion of what underlying mat

Our aim with this research was to investigate the reasons behind child labour in India and what you could do to prevent it. Interrogative sentences to answer the aim were: What does the child labour situation look like in India? Why does child labour exist in India? Is there any legislation in India about child labour, and if so, how does it actually work? How do they work in Trichy to prevent chi

The aim of this study was to get a picture of what it's like to work as a university teacher. By emphazising some factors in the psychosocial work environment I tried to reach a deeper understanding of which of these factors that could lead to a feeling of stress for a teacher at a university. The factors emphazised was demand and control, according to the stress researchers Karasek and Theore

The purpose of this paper was to explain the project PROVE and the treatment given as well as to examine and clarify the manner in which the staff discuss and motivate their treatment methods within the various projects. The purpose was also to examine whether the staff's use of language is similar to that of government drug-addiction policy objectives and the discourse on addiction in society

The main purposes of this essay was to identify motives for, and to study a project called "contractors in social welfare" introduced in the municipality of Stockholm in 2001. The aim of the project was to introduce quasi-markets in social welfare. We also intended to investi-gate whether there is a tendency towards vouchers within this project. The essay also contains a comparison betwe

The purpose of this essay was partly to study research of drug-addicted women from a social constructive perspective, partly to describe and analyse the social construction of the drug-addicted woman in the scientists' studies of Sofia treatment institute. § What did the woman look like from a social construction perspective? § How did the scientists describe the woman's close relations du

Syftet med studien är att beskriva och söka kunskap om vad som händer i familjer när ett barn insjuknar i cancer. Familjernas egna upplevelser utgör utgångspunkten i våra försök att förstå deras situation vid tidpunkten för diagnosbeskedet under behandlingstiden och efter att den har avslutats. Vårt intresse är främst fokuserat på hur behandlingen påverkar familjer med barn som har överlevt en can

During the last 10 years Sweden's municipalities have changed their eldercare organisation. From a traditional organisation with an executive official of aid who even had the staff responsibility in the execution to a separate or specialized organization where the official only have the exercise of public authority. The evaluators of aid (biståndsbedömare) have the title executive officials (b

The purpose with our essay was to study how comprehensive school work against bullying. The essay is written out of the perspective of the headmasters and the staff of the four schools. Our question at issue was: how defines the headmaster and the staff of the school bullying? What characterises the pupils who are exposed to bullying and the ones who expose others for it? What is detrimental with

This study was performed to investigate the psychosocial work environment for priests in Malmö and Lund. The purpose of the study was to identify differences in psychosocial work environment for men and women, and to identify most important areas of problem within the psychosocial work environment. To measure the work environment Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, COPSOQ, was distributed to 78

This experiment was conducted to determine whether affect and substantive information processing moderate implicit and explicit attitude correspondence. 78 participants completed two implicit attitude measures, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Stereotype Explanation Bias (SEB) and three explicit attitude measures, a temperature scale, a self-report measure and one explicit question. Aff

The purpose of this study was to evaluate what the employees of Luftfartsverket (Swedish Civil Aviation Administration) think is important for a socially and economically sustainable development. A qualitative questionnaire was designed and handed out to a random sample of the employees by email. The results showed that all the questionnaire's statements within the social dimension of sustaina

Office designs are at present mostly designed for employees rather than with them. Companies that move into open-plan offices have intentions of increasing communication and exchange of knowledge between different departments. An open-plan office is also cost beneficial for companies with respect to space and a need for supervision. The purpose of this study was to find out if there is a relation

Sammanfattning och Syfte: Uppsatsen tar utgångspunkt i ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv på organisationsförändring och betonar vikten av individens förståelse av verkligheten som socialt konstruerad och att denna konstruktion måste medvetandegöras för att uppnå organisatorisk förändring. Avsikten är att ge en djupare dimension av det organisatoriska lärandet som kollektiv verksamhet. Mot b

Bakgrund: Hur utvecklar företagsledare kompetens inom sitt yrke? Ett antagande i uppsatsen är att det ledarskap som lärs ut vid universitet och högskolor och den ledarskapsutveckling som organisationer erbjuder sina ledare inte nödvändigtvis behöver resultera i kompetenta företagsledare. Ytterligare ett antagande är att de situationer vilka av ledarna upplevs som berikande vad gäller innehållet av

Aim: To investigate the problem of IT-users and IT-developers and their different abilities to use IT and communicate by means of IT, caused by differences in the background of the two categories, their knowledge and experience. Also to investigate what this problem may lead to when developing IT-related services and products. Method/material: Ten semi-structured interviews of about ten hours all

Problem: Jag har alltid haft ett stort intresse för språk och kommunikation. Framförallt tycker jag det är spännande med nya kommunikationsformer som hela tiden dyker upp genom samhällets tekniska framsteg. Två av dessa kommunikationsformer som är utspridda i dagens kommunikativa samhälle är chattning och ICQ. Därför tyckte jag det kunde vara intressant att undersöka dessa samtal lite närmare, hur

Sedan monopolets fall har mediesituationen i Sverige förändrats mycket. SVT är inte längre ensamma aktörer på marknaden. Många frågor har uppstått efter monopolet föll. Bland annat hur SVT ska anpassa sig för att kunna behålla publiken i framtiden när utbudet och konkurrensen från andra kanaler ständigt växer. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att granska debatten kring SVT i Dagens Nyheter (DN) och

Uppsatsens syfte är att bidra till en förståelse för hur Internets interaktiva karaktär kan utnyttjas för att främja meningsskapande kommunikation där mottagaren, i minst lika stor utsträckning som sändaren, har möjlighet att påverka kommunikationens innehåll. Jag hoppas därmed att kunna inspirera museer och andra kulturförmedlande institutioner till att utveckla mer interaktiva och meningsskapand