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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the practical understanding of distributed leadership in knowledge intensive firms, and what characteristics within the organization that affect this process. During the last two decades the society has undergone a range of economic and social changes where companies have gradually shifted towards a more decentralized and horizontal organization, which
Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att ur ett konsumentperspektiv undersöka hur tillit uppfattas på internet. Metod och Empiri: Genom en kvalitativ studie med ett iterativt förhållningssätt har vi genomfört 13 intervjuer. De semistrukturerade intervjuerna är det empiriska material som ligger till grund för analysen med hjälp av litteratur och akademiska artiklar. Teoretiska perspektiv: Teori som behandlar
The construction industry is working to reduce costs and increase the quality of construction. A solution could be to use a building information model (BIM). In theory has BIM been around since the 1980’s and is an approach concerning information management in a project. BIM is a database for a project where all the information is collected to be used in the building’s lifecycle. The purpose of th
Syftet med detta examensarbete var att i samarbete med betongföretaget Swerock och tillsatsföretaget SIKA studera och ta fram betongrecept med flygaska för olika varianter av självkompakterande betong, så kallad SKB. SKB framhålls som en produkt med långsiktig ekonomisk vinning, bättre gjutresultat men framför allt som ett skonsammare sätt att gjuta betong jämfört med den traditionella metoden. SK
Problem Reality tv-programmet Det Okända har blivit kritiserat för att ha en tvivelaktig etik då de skapar underhållning av andras olycka, vi menar dock att ett program som Det Okända kan fylla en viktig funktion för sin publik. Vi anser att det är märkligt att tron på det ockulta och övernaturliga, ett hopp om liv efter döden, kan få människor att liknas vid enfaldiga individer utan verklighetsfö
Uppsatsen undersöker den skönlitterära läsupplevelsen i applikationen Iceberg Reader för Iphone. Vid uppsatsens tillkomst var läsapplikationer för Iphone och Ipad något nylanserat i Sverige, och få läsare hade erfarenhet av läsning via denna plattform. Med hjälp av två kvalitativa undersökningar – en enkät, där nio personer deltog, och en fokusgruppsundersökning, där fem av de nio var med – har vi
In 2003, partly due to intense protests from the All Indian Democratic Women’s Association, the Indian state prohibited a commercial for skin lightening cream from continuing being aired on Indian television. The commercial indirectly suggests that a girl can neither get a well paid job, nor a husband to provide for her, due to her dark skin tone. Ashok Venkatramani, spokesman for the company prod
Syfte och frågeställning: Uppsatsen syftar till att problematisera bilden som ges i medierna av manliga ätstörningar samt att öka förståelsen för mediernas betydelse när det gäller att erbjuda medborgarna information om en specifik hälsoproblematik. De två huvudfrågorna för uppsatsen är följande: Hur stor andel av artiklarna om ätstörningar handlar om män respektive kvinnor? Hur gestaltas mäns äts
I studien undersöktes hur upplevelsen av faktorerna arbetstillfredsställelse, engagemang, prestationsbaserad självkänsla -PBS samt interaktionen mellan arbete och privatliv skiljer sig mellan flextid- respektive dagtidsanställning. Sambandet mellan flextidsuttag och ovannämnda faktorer undersöktes också. Deltagarna i enkäten (N = 82, 31 flextid, 46 dagtid och 5 skiftanställda), besvarade en enkät
A particular concern of this paper is to observe the evolvement of such huge economy in transition as Russia. Russia’s aspiration to catch-up with economic development of Western countries makes her to apply similar strategies copying best practices. With help of cluster building Russian authorities aim at creation of innovation economy and distancing from dependency on natural resources. By looki
This thesis uses a Just war theory framework to do an argument analysis of the Obama administrations official legal justification of targeted killings and the use of drones as lawful state practise. The conduct of targeted killings using drones has increased since Barack Obama became president and has become a tool that is argued to effectively diminish the strength of AL-Qaida and other alleged t
The number of Muslim people has increased a lot since the 90s in Europe. In a continent were the majority of the population are Christians can problems and dissonances between the people begin. New challenges arise when people with different religion, tradition and culture take up residence in the same society. One debate that has been discussed recently is the wearing of burqa and niqab in public
The purpose of this thesis is to identify values and motive of ethnic diversity. By interwieving people responsible for employment on TeliaSoneras service department the thesis concludes that values and motives of ethnic diversity is motivated by human rights and profits. The thesis shows that when employers value ethnic diversity by a lucrative rationality the practice of diversity management ten
Användandet av sociala medier ökar, allt fler använder sociala nätverktyg såsom facebook, Twitter och bloggar. Det har för många blivit en del av vardagen. Det har således blivit något vi gör dagligen - en del av vår vardagskultur. Ämnet klagomålshantering i sociala medier är av stort intresse eftersom det är ett relativt nytt fenomen. Företag har nyligen börjat bemöta klagomål som sker via social
Human Rights and Islam is a subject which has been of great interest in many circles. The debate on whether Islam and the UN definition on Human Rights are compatible has raised many voices and concerns, the debate has mainly focused on the unsuitability of Sharia and it’s undermining of minorities. The purpose of this essay is to look at the relationship between Islam and Human Rights, mainly thr
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are discriminated against all over the world on a regular basis today. To love or be sexually attracted to someone of the same sex and act upon it is a legal offence in several countries and in a few countries it is considered to be such an offense that it is punishable by death. The standards on how to treat sexual minorities differ greatly bet
Based on a Minor Field Study conducted in Kenya 2009, this thesis discusses the relationship between identity and recognition regarding indigenous peoples, focusing on the Endorois community located in the Rift Valley province in Kenya. Viewed from a social and legal perspective, elements of the Endorois community’s identity and their relationship to the Kenyan state and society are analyzed. The
The contemporary labour practices within the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh represent sweatshop-related working conditions. The garment workers suffer from appalling working conditions that have not existed in the global North for a couple of hundred years. The export of garments is Bangladesh’s main source of income. In order to ensure that the country remains competitive in the global
The purpose of this essay is to examine how many men and young boys that live under honor influenced circumstances in Sweden has the opportunity to enjoy their basic human rights. The analysis focus on the different factors that influence these boys lives, these are honor related norms and values, the Swedish society and the Swedish government. These factors are viewed at from a theory of masculin
