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Hög personalomsättning har varit och är fortfarande ett stort problem inom ett flertal branscher. Tidigare forskning har visat på negativa konsekvenser såsom ekonomiska kostnader och ojämn kvalité i arbetet som utförts. Intressant var därför att undersöka ett företag inom en av branscherna med hög personalomsättning för att se vad konsekvensen innebar för företaget, samt vilka faktorer som påverka
This thesis analyzes how the Swedish organization Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning (in English, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) constructs sexuality through the introduction of the word slidkrans. The word slidkrans (vaginal corona in English), was formally introduced by RFSU in 2009 as a replacement for the word for the hymen, mödomshinna, which literally means “virginity membran
This study was served to unfold partly students in upper (senior) level of compulsory school and policeofficers attitudes and point of views on the upcomming gowernment bill on young offenders in the age of 15 and younger that commits crimes. We chose to mainly focus on the procedure where policeofficers have the rights to drugtest children under the age of 15 years without their parents approval.
The focus of this research is to examine the basic factors affecting the West Sahrawi young refugees’ lives and survival strategies in their situation of exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. The purpose is to answer the following questions: First, which are the main problems as perceived by the youth born in the refugee camps? Second, which are their coping strategies? And finally, whic
Studiens syfte är att undersöka om vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar det visuella minnet allena eller om den även påverkar det auditiva minnet. Ett teoretiskt resonemang förs även huruvida vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar arbetsminnets system selektivt. Efter bekvämlighetsurval utfördes experiment där den ena gruppen (30 personer) fick se en film på ett rån (experimentgruppen) och den andra grupp
The aim of our study is to examine how fathers with experience of addiction perceive paternity and community support systems for addiction fathers. To answer our question formulations we performed eleven qualitative interviews with fathers who have experience of addiction. The study shows that there is an ambivalence concerning the perception of paternity. This due to the fact that many fathers be
The purpose of this study was to examine how Romanian social workers, working with LGBT-people, experience their work situation and the conditions for their work. The questions at issue were; How do the social workers describe their work and the conditions for conducting this work? What kind of attitudes do they meet, regarding their work, from the surrounding society? What kinds of strategies are
Genuine forms of participation of the local people are integral to the success of government development projects implemented to curtail escalating insurgency against the State in the restive southern borders provinces of Thailand. This thesis aims to determine the form of participation that has manifested itself and the mechanisms of power that shape its parameters, given the centralized and hier
Idag är Grön IT ett hett debattämne, definitionerna är många och vi vill därför belysa ämnet bland IT-verksamma företag som har ett miljöarbete aktivt inom organisationen. Idag är intresset stort, både ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv men också ett miljöperspektiv. I vår uppsats tar vi fram teorier och metoder kring olika definitioner av Grön IT, hur organisationer anammar nya ämnen, likt Grön IT, sam
This thesis is about the swedish suppliers to the car industry. During the last 20 years the car industry have changed dramatically because of globalisation and product fragmentation. It has created new markets, brands and productions systems. This paper discuss what the swedish suppliers have to change to be able to survive in a different and more demanding car industry. By comparing OECD´s numbe
Corruption is indisputably an immense obstacle for many developing countries in their endeavor to prosper economically. Zambia, a peaceful, politically stable democracy is still facing many of the problems connected with corruption. Corruption has so far mostly been measured on a state-level, but in our thesis we narrow the field of investigation down to the ministry-level. We use questionnaires t
The Swedish National Laboratory MAX-lab contains a facility for production of bremsstrahlung photons for photonuclear experiments. A so called "tagging technique" allows for a determination of the energy of the individual photons via a spectrometric measurement of the energy of the corresponding electron. Some of these photons are lost in a collimation process. The fraction of photons in
This paper presents the outcomes of an applied cultural study carried out during spring semester 2010 with more than 10 Chinese female postgraduate students in Swedish universities. The aims of this research were to investigate Chinese female postgraduates’ decision-making process, to understand university lives in Sweden with the main focus on their learning experiences and social activities, and
Studien vände sig till personal, olika yrkesgrupper, som arbetar med krigsskadade och torterade i Sverige. Syftet var att beskriva personalgruppens mående och tillväxt i relation till arbetet, inställning till död, ondska och förlåtelse samt bakgrundsvariabler (t.ex eget trauma och arbetssituation) och undersöka samband mellan dessa. 69 traumaarbetare svarade på ett frågeformulär som mätte dessa fThe 69 participants of this study were Swedish personnel of various occupations, working at centers for war and torture survivors. The aim was to describe the personnel’s reactions from their work, their background (e.g. trauma prevalence, work situation), their attitude towards death, evil, and forgiveness and the relationships between these. The results of this study show that the participants h
The purpose of this study was to examine the way of communication and sense of community on an online extreme virtual community called pro-ana. The pro-ana community consists of like-minded people who see Anorexia Nervosa as a choice of lifestyle and not a disease. Through qualitative observations of threads of dis-cussion the communication on a Swedish pro-ana forum has been the focus of the stud
Throughout the Turkish Republic’s history and today, women’s bodies and sexualities are sites of control and regulation by family, society and the state. My focus in this study will be the regulation and control applied by the state and its institutions from the perspectives of feminists in Turkey. By applying feminist critical discourse analysis of the feminist journal, Amargi, I will analyze how
The purpose of this study was to examine voluntary organizations’ lobbying around hiv and aids in Sweden and to compare how organizational conditions influence this work. To do so I have analyzed two different Swedish organizations, RFSU and Noaks Ark Stockholm. They are both working with lobbying around hiv and aids but have at the same time different organizational conditions for this work. More
This study aims at examining changes in the conservative attitudes of immigrants. By examining the conservative attitudes of immigrants, the study intends to explore in what ways they change when immigrants start a new life in different social and cultural contexts. In order to provide an answer to this question, previous research on immigrants and conservatism in Turkey are analyzed and a group o
In today's world the protection gap in the 1951 Refugee Convention regarding the environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) has been discussed, claiming that EDPs international protection and assistance should be considered too. This thesis addresses the issue of displaced people due to environmental factors and the options that are suggested for their protection and assistance. With a starting
