Godbiten Konditori AB is a company within the provision industry that has embarked upon a great organizational change. Organizational changes usually face great resistance. We have reviewed literature on this subject. The organizational development team at Godbiten AB has used an action-research approach, to minimize the problem of resistance and to improve the quality of the process. Our research

The experiment in this study was conducted to see whether counter stereotypic mental imagery effects individuals stereotyping, concerning their partners. The Sex-Role Inventory, constructed by Sandra Bem, was used. All together, 120 students at Lund University and Campus Helsingborg participated. The students answered the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) measuring themselves. 30 male participants wer

Studied the impact of accountability and mental load on judgments of morally wrong, disgusting, harmful events. 85 participants (32 male, 53 female) were randomly assigned into four groups in a 2 (accountability: y/n) x 2 (load: y/n) design. Participants read stories with vivid but morally irrelevant disgusting features and judged how morally wrong the actions were. It was predicted that participa

The aim of the study was to examine the importance of different sources of social support and self efficacy for work demands, concern for changes in the workplace and concern of loss of employment. A further aim was to investigate the meaning of information for self efficacy and job insecurity, and the relationship between social support and self efficacy. Questionnaires were collected from 70 emp

This study examine if students at upper secondary schools perceive politicians as an out-group. It also examined if there were any differences in these perceptions related to group factors such as social groups, sex or own political engagement. The testing was based on a method designed to measure how positive and negative behaviour was explained for. Behaviour descriptions were created with varia

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived popularity, sociometric popularity and prosocial behaviour. To examine popularity 154 children were presented with a roster of their classmates and asked to nominate whom they liked, whom they disliked, whom they believed to be popular and whom they believed to be unpopular. To examine prosocial behaviour children were aske

Fiske and Operario (2001) found that high scores in Gough's (1987) dominance scale indicate behavior in situations of power. We studied it together with Empathy, Social Desirability, Social Dominance and Prejudice scales. Our sample were 270 women and 186 men aged 16-20. The Prejudice scales correlated positively and with social dominance. Social Desirability and Empathy were negatively relate

The increasing numbers of people who have been put on the sick list during the last years, have in several studies been related to organizational stress. The purpose of this study was to study stress, health, demands and control in relation to self-esteem and coping strategies. 71 women and six men (medical staff) completed a questionnaire with items from Brief Cope,Perceived stress scale, Rosenbe

The aviation branch use regulated procedures to control daily activities. Due to a mobile work environment with little room for mistakes a Swedish airline company has decided to create a computer aided incident reporting system to detect possible accidents before they occur. The goal is to create the necessary conditions for such a system by looking into the company's communication culture, in

The focus of this report is flexible work forms defined as; broad and variating work, with a high degree off autonomy, participation, responsibility and freedom to organize the work process, and the opportunity to obtain personal and professional development. The aim of the report is to obtain a greater understanding of what impact flexible work forms has on the well being of the individual partic

Doctors' health experiences are of importance in the daily debate on sick-leaves and health in general. The way in which doctors constitute meaning about health may give some explanation as to why the percentage of people on sick-leave rises while the employers are trying to improve the well-being in the workplaces. The purpose of this phenomenological and explorative study is therefore to fin

Dyslexi är officiellt klassificerat som ett funktionshinder i Sverige sedan 1991. Många menar att självförtroendet starkt påverkas av handikappet och att omgivningens reaktioner är avgörande för hur barnet ser på sig självt. Det är vanligt att problemen uppstår i samband med skolstarten då svårigheterna med att ta till sig läs- och skrivprocessen tydliggörs. Tillsammans med en kaotisk hemmiljö som

A questionnaire and a paper-and-pen Implicit Association Test were used to study attitudes to single life among native Swedish persons and Middle-East immigrants. There were 60 participants, balanced as regards culture, sex and age. All were singles. The main results were that Swedish/individualistic persons showed a more positive attitude to single life and higher psychological well-being as sing

The aim of this study was to examine a computersystem with many users from a usability perspective. The computersystem that was examined was AIS-95, which are being used of the Swedish Employment Service. A former study had been conducted with the same perspective as this study, concerning the Swedish Employment Service´s former computersystem, and it was found interesting to also compare this stu

There comes a time in every persons life when it is time to leave childhood and step into the adult world by way of reaching puberty. Dramatic biological, social and emotional changes, typical of this period in life, may put the individual at greater risk for negative influences from internal as well as external sources. Weight and body image seems to be predominant issues in the adolescent years,

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

Gender categorization is something we are confronted with in our daily lives. The main purpose of this study is to see how children and pre school teachers "do gender" in interaction with each other. We did an observation in a Pre School in Southern Sweden. Our requirement was that there must be at least one male pre school teacher working there. We decided to study "doing gender&qu

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 qualitative study was to investigate the origin of peoples view on ideal leadership. This was at first to be conducted by interviewing eight teachers at an elementary school who where split into four groups divided by gender and age. The intention of the separation was to attain differences of opinions to bring clarity to our main question. The aim with the interviews was to ob

The purpose of this study was to explore stereotypes of various races with four different measures. We used Greenwald's Implicit Association Test, a racism questionnaire and a picture test as well as a measure of willingness to show prejudice. An instruction was given prior to the test indicating that this research involved attitudes towards people with different ethnic origin. Our participant