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The Covid-19 pandemic has had an abysmal impact on professional lives. The relentless strains of Covid have kept the world at large on tenterhooks. This has led to a new way of life and remote work environment. Work from home culture, while has seeped into the DNA of employees and organizations, has also brought about abundant experiences, expectations and criticisms. This thesis aims to delve int

Already in 1979 the alarming trends of climate change were addressed at the first World Climate Conference (Rippel et al. 2020, s. 8). Now 40 years later, Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency (Ibid). Depending on one’s definition of security, climate change can be seen as one of the biggest security threats of our time. Although several climate change agreements, like the Paris agreement and

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers, working with financial aid, creates participation for children and if their work has been affected by the legal enforcement of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its children rights perspective. We used a qualitative method when interviewing in order to examine and find an answer to our purpose and question at issue. The r

I Europaparlamentets och rådets förordning 2018/844, sätter EU krav på sina medlemsländer att skapa strategier för att uppnå energieffektivisering i byggnads-sektorn för att nå de mål som satts upp av FN i Parisavtalet. En stor del av byggnadsbeståndet utgörs av äldre byggnader och dessa byggnader har ofta allt för höga energibehov. För att arbeta mot FN:s mål, finns det ett stort behov av energi-

Studien syftar till att undersöka medarbetares uppfattningar om intern kriskommunikation. I fallstudien studeras den svenska Försvarsmakten under de två första månaderna av kriget i Ukraina. Då tidigare forskning främst har fokuserat på det externa perspektivet av Försvarsmaktens kommunikation, avser denna studie att fylla det identifierade gapet gällande det interna perspektivet inom forskningsfä

Problem: Problem som uppstår vid tillämpningen av internationella standarder, såsom EU taxonomin, är av vikt för standardsättare att förstå då ett mer utvecklat forskningsområde förbättrar förutsättningarna för nya internationella standarder att uppnå sitt syfte. Syfte: Syftet med flerfallsstudien är att bidra med ett nytt perspektiv till forskningsområdet implementering av internationella standaProblem: Problems that arise with the application of international standards, such as the EU taxonomy, are important for standard-setters to understand as a more developed research field will improve the qualifications for new international standards to attain their purpose. Purpose: The purpose of this multiple case is to contribute with another perspective within the research field implementing

Navigera och rekrytera i främmande kulturer: En resa genom tvärkulturell employer branding I takt med att globala företag expanderar till nya länder och kulturer blir mänskligt kapital deras viktigaste resurs för organisatorisk framgång. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur organisationer strategiskt anpassar sin employer branding strategi på sociala medieplattformar för att attrahera ochNavigating and recruiting in foreign cultures: A journey through cross-cultural employer branding As global companies expand and navigate in diverse cultural landscapes across national borders, human resources become the most vital asset of organizational prosperity. Consequently, this study aims to explore how companies strategically and culturally tailor their employer branding on social media

Uppsatsen fokuserar på de tidigare aspekterna av kvalificeringen av kontrakt inom EU-rätten, särskilt beträffande tjänstekontrakt och byggentreprenadkontrakt som tidigare reglerades i separata direktiv. Dessa kvalificeringar var väsentliga för att fastställa vilket specifikt direktiv som skulle tillämpas på ett givet kontrakt. I den svenska praxisen har fokus inte enbart legat på att avgöra om ett

Ett grustag vid Fiskarheden, som ligger i nordvästra Dalarna, uppvisar tjocka avlagringar av grovkorniga sediment; en sanduravlagring av så kallad Scott-typ som deponerats i en is-proximal proglacial miljö. Preliminära OSL-dateringar av sandursedimenten tyder på att de är av en pre-Saalian ålder (>200 000 år). Av särskilt intresse här är, förutom dess höga ålder pre-daterande det senaste istidsmax

In 2015, Europe faced one of the most extensive refugee flows since the Second World War. The situation forced European Governments to take actions on immigration issues to handle the increasing inflows of asylum seekers. We draw on Meguid’s theory on party strategies to examine whether mainstream parties policies of immigration affects the public support of right-wing populist parties. Simultaneo

The aim of this thesis is to study the flammability and fire spread for textile membranes for weather protection. This thesis includes literature studies to determine current standards and recommendations available. Main focus however have been on the European classification system EN 13501-1 and construction site safety. Two types of experimental tests have been done, cone calorimeter test and te

Media shapes the public´s perceptions of social problems and how we understand the people affected by them. This study investigates the shaping of dual diagnosis, a concept that refers to the co-occurrence of a mental illness and substance use, a phenomena that has gained increased prominence in the last decades. While those suffering from dual diagnosis rarely have their voices heard in research,

Coronaviruset sprids nu över hela världen, vilket skapar utmaningar för både individer och samhället i sin helhet. Pandemin påverkar personer på en psykologisk nivå, även om de kanske inte vet om det själva. Inspirerade av Tversky & Kahnemans (1981) Asian Disease Problem, så syftar den här uppsatsen till att undersöka hur effekten av framing påverkar människors beslutsfattande under en pandemiThe world is currently facing the coronavirus, which causes challenges to individuals, as well as society as a whole. The pandemic affects people on a psychological level, even if they might not know it. Inspired by Tversky & Kahneman’s (1981) Asian Disease Problem; this paper aims to investigate how framing effect in time of a pandemic affects decision making, how this could be linked to fear

Face-to-face fundraising is a method used for raising money by having fundraisers working on public spaces. Fundraisers either ask for one time donations, or sign up people to give on a monthly basis, in this thesis the focus is on the latter. For this method to be useful all fundraisers must meet their target goal, meaning that they must get a certain amount of sign ups when they work. By using d

Compassion fatigue is often used interchangeably with burnout and secondary traumatic stress in literature. There is, however, theoretical support for considering compassion fatigue as a separate condition. The aim of this pilot study was to create a compassion fatigue scale and examine its relation to burnout and secondary traumatic stress as well as to explore how descriptive variables affect le

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the social workers’ experiences of the organizational change in social service caused by the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. This has in turn created a stressful and a demanding environment for the social workers. Thus, it is of highly importance to examine the social workers’ reactions and experiences to this change. The study has done so by mainl