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The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers in social service at child welfare experience and describe their work situation regarding workload and how they handle it when the workload is perceived as high. Individual qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight social workers who work with child welfare services. The empirical material that was obtained from the

This paper aspire to deepen the knowledge and understanding of how Afghan unaccompanied refugees experience their integration process depending on the decision from the Migration agency. The paper is based on four semistructured interviews. In 2015 a large number of Afghan unaccompanied refugees arrived to Sweden to seek asylum in order to protect themselves from the occurrences of their origin co

Previous research in information security research has pointed out the importance of aware employees, while practitioners have focused on technical safety measures, this while the geopolitical situation has rapidly changed. In this paper the public Swedish institutions of higher education are investigated to gain a more complete picture of the potential pitfalls that exist in Swedish government ag

Bakgrund: Att ha aktiviteter är viktigt för att uppleva hälsa. Vissa symtom kan reducera möjligheten att vara aktiv, ett sådant är fatigue. Fatigue är vanligt vid multipel skleros (MS). Arbetsterapeuter hjälper personer med fatigue i vardagen. Kursen Fatigue Management riktar sig till personer med MS-relaterad fatigue och lär ut strategier för att hantera fatigue. Forskning har visat att kursen ärBackground: Having occupations is important to experience health. Certain symptoms can reduce the ability to be active, one such is fatigue. Fatigue is common in multiple sclerosis (MS). Occupational therapists help people with fatigue in their everyday life. The course - Fatigue Management - is aimed at people with MS-related fatigue and teaches strategies to manage fatigue. Research has shown th

Organizations and societies are turning to Information Technology to help safeguard the future, yet most IT projects reportedly fail due to increasing complexity. Resilience research offers promising insights into how teams can influence their capacity to positively adapt to challenges and achieve greater project success. Definitional debate has extensively focused on individual-level abilities an

En individs rätt till personlig integritet är grundlagsskyddad i ”Regeringsformen” (RF) 2:6 och konventionsskyddad i artikel 8 i Europakonventionen. Svensk lag reglerar däremot inte alkohol- och drogtestning. Denna uppsats syftar till att fastställa huruvida arbetsgivarens rätt att kravställa alkohol- och drogtester och den anställdes rätt till personlig integritet samverkar juridiskt. Vidare diskAn individual's right to personal integrity is constitutionally protected in chapter 2 section 6 ‘’The instrument of government’’ (RF) and by convention in article 8 of the ECHR. The law in Sweden does not, however, control drug and alcohol testing. This essay aims to determine how the employer's right to administer alcohol and drug testing and the employee's right to personal integrit

Den digitala sektorn av EU:s inre marknad har en allt mer betydande roll i ekonomin, och en ny typ av resurs som spelar en allt större roll i det är big data. Ett fåtal företag som tillhandahåller centrala plattformstjänster befinner sig ofta i kontroll av big data, som i sin tur kan utgöra en oumbärlig ingångsresurs för andra företag verksamma inom den digitala sektorn. Ett företags vägran att tiThe digital sector of the EU's single market is playing an increasingly significant role in the economy, and a new type of resource that is becoming more important within it is known as big data. Companies providing core platform services are often in control of big data, which in turn can be an indispensable input resource for other companies operating in the digital sector. A company's r

For many years, high staff turnover and difficulties in recruiting social workers have been reported in social services in general but particularly in child welfare. Previous studies have shown that giving social workers adequate social support is important in getting them to maintain their job commitment and remain at the workplace. The purpose of our study has been to investigate in what way int

Användningen av Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale möjliggör undersökning av mening i livet i form av ett tredelat konstrukt. Syftet med föreliggande examensarbete var att undersöka huruvida mening i livet respektive personlighetsfaktorer har samband till livstillfredsställelse. Vidare undersöktes om personlighet har betydelse för relationen mellan mening i livet och livstillfredsställelseThe application of the Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale enables the assessment of meaning in life as a tripartite construct. The aim of this study was to examine how meaning in life and personality factors relate to life satisfaction. A second objective was to investigate whether personality had a significant impact on the relation between meaning in life and life satisfaction. A cross-s

This thesis is aiming to analyze the discourses of maternity leave policy amongst female elite athletes, which can be identified by using an interview of the New York Times of Alysia Montaño. This thesis is focused on aiming to understanding how power structures are entangled within the identity of ‘the mother’ and of the ‘elite athlete’. After analyzing these power structures, it will be analyzed

Bakgrund: Aktivitetsidentiteten byggs upp av aktiviteter och roller som ingår i människor liv, den formas över tid av både negativa och positiva händelser. Vid ett fängelsestraff påverkas aktivitetsidentiteten eftersom aktiviteter och dagliga rutiner förändras. En förståelse för personers utveckling av aktivitetsidentitet går att studera genom tre underkategorier “uppbyggnad av aktivitetsidentitetBackground: Occupational identity is constructed of activities and roles that is a part of human life, it is formed over time of both negative and positive experiences. When a person is imprisoned, their occupational identity is impacted because of the change in their everyday life activities and daily routines. The knowledge of a person's occupational identity progress could be studied throug

Syftet med uppsatsen är att med hjälp av begreppet sublimitet utveckla förståelsen för hur Sojourner Truths tal vid ett kvinnorättskonvent i Ohio 1851 fungerade argumentativt i sin kontext. För att nå en sådan förståelse gör vi en neo-aristotelisk analys och kompletterar den med en syn på talet utifrån begreppet "det sublima". Vi ser på sublimitet som ett sätt att förstå talets effekt på

I Sverige är befolkningen mån om att köpa second hand, återvinna, sortera sopor, äta vegetariskt och så vidare. När det däremot gäller den politiska sfären finns det ett Miljöparti som kämpar för att hålla sig ovan riksdagens 4% spärr. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka varför Miljöpartiet har svårt att driva miljöfrågan i den politiska sfären trots goda förutsättningar. Med utgångspunkt i Nikl

I takt med samhällsutvecklingen och som en följd av att Europeiska unionens utfärdade visselblåsardirektivet har begreppet visselblåsning etablerats som en del av arbetsrätten, såväl internationellt som nationellt, och genomförandet av direktivet resulterade i att en ny visselblåsarlag utformades i den svenska rätten. För privatanställda som inte, inom anställningen, åtnjuter skydd av den grundlagAs society develops and as a result of the European Union issuing the whistleblower directive the concept of whistleblowing has been established as a part of labour law and the implementation of the directive led to a new whistleblowing law in Sweden. For employees in the private sector who do not, within their employment, enjoy the protection of the constitutional freedom of expression, this new

Temporary use is a growing phenomenon within strategic planning (Bishop & Williams, 2012) and temporary use is common both in Sweden and internationally (Haugen, 2021). There are many indications that temporary use is being established as an integral part of the contemporary urban planning methodology (Ferreri, 2015). However, the field of temporary urbanism and temporary use is relatively new

Arbete inom den offentliga sektorn ställer särskilda krav på arbetstagare för att upprätthålla allmänhetens förtroende för staten. Därmed får inte arbetstagare inom den offentliga sektorn inneha bisysslor som kan anses förtroendeskadliga, konkurrerande, arbetshindrande. De förtroendeskadliga bisysslorna regleras främst i lagen (1994:260) om offentlig anställning (LOA), och de konkurrerande och arbWorkers in the public domain have to live up to certain demands in order to maintain institutional trust of the state. Because of this, public employees can not pose secondary employment which risks damage public trust, compete, or obstructing work. The secondary employments that undermine public trust are primarily regulated in the law of public employment, competing and obstructing secondary emp

The discussion about weather one should pay expensive management fees to let professionals manage your money or if one should simply invest in an almost costless index fund has been going on for decades. This study’s objective is to investigate if the most popular actively managed mutual funds in Sweden can outperform the most popular Swedish passive broad market index fund. The study analyzes 62

The aim of this study is to investigate how technocratic water management is affecting the possibilities of the public to participate in decision-making and care for their local waters. This was investigated during the consultation process regarding the draft River Basin Management Plan and Program of Measures for the years 2021-2027 in the Bothnian Sea Water District in Sweden. The analytical fra

This thesis examines how the Riksbank’s monetary policy has affected the Swedish CPI inflation rate from 2000 to 2019. This thesis aims to determine if monetary policy is effective at controlling inflation. There is an emphasis on exploring the differences between conventional and unconventional monetary policy. A multiple linear regression model is used to test the relationship between inflation