The purpose of this study was to investigate if witnessed incivility (from manager and co-workers) and factors in the working life of today (job insecurity, lack of influence and lack of social support) are related to instigated incivility. An additional purpose was to investigate if there are differences in instigated workplace incivility between men and women and managers and non-managers. An in

In the thesis I begin with trying to clarify how we have understood our working time until today and how we ended up like we did, by looking back at the history of working hours and how people have evaluated and looked upon their time use historically. In the next chapter I try to answer whether or not we could shorten our working hours with a maintained, or even increased, quality of life, turnin

The aim of this paper is to explore the psychosocial work environment at IKEA Trading Services AB in purpose to develop an equal opportunities plan. The paper deals with theories regarding psychosocial work environment, motivation, work satisfaction, demands and control, leadership, social support, sexual harassment and work-life-balance. The psychosocial work environment was measured with Copenha

Den här studien handlar om hur ungdomar upplever musikämnet i grundskolans år 8 och 9. Mitt eget intresse både för ungdomar och att musicera tillsammans i ensemble har lett mig till detta val av ämne. Studien bygger på kvalitativ metod, närmare bestämt gruppintervjuer med ungdomar. De viktigaste resultaten är att ungdomarna känner att undervisningen i musik är annorlunda än i t.ex. matematik och sTitle: Music education in primary school. A study of how primary school students experience music lessons and ensemble playing. This study is about how young people perceive the subject of music in the elementary school years 8 and 9. My own interest for both young people and playing music in ensembles led me to this choice of topic. The study is based on qualitative method, specifically group int

Competitive gaming, or the growing sport like scene around computer games, has not been studied much in the academic field of Games Studies. Drawing on ethnographic and interview work both inside and outside the game this thesis examines player-produced culture around raids in the Massive Multiplayer Online Game World of Warcraft. Competitive elements in WoW, such as races to be the “World First”

The different roles of a man and the role of a woman - a study of creating gender in social work with drug addicts The purpose of this study is to examine the social workers interpretation of gender among their clients, and more specifically how the social workers interpretation of gender affects the meeting with the client. This is a qualitative study based on interviews with six female social w

Social considerations in public procurement concerns the using of public procurement as a tool in order to achieve political goals of a social nature, such as to reduce unemployment, to ensure a safe and healthy work environment or to combat discrimination. This is potentially a controversial issue since it might come into conflict with public procurement legislation. But the laws concerning this

Problem: Ett nationellt vaccinationsregister där samtliga vaccinationer registreras finns inte i dagsläget. Ett sådant register är tekniskt möjligt men det saknas en specifik, rättslig reglering. Nu pågår en beslutsprocess där olika aktörer försöker påverka hur en sådan reglering bör se ut. Studiedesign: Kvalitativ, deskriptiv diskursanalys av sex dokument publicerade av aktörer med intressen i