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Losses of highly qualified employees pose a major threat to the survival of knowledge-intensive organizations in a highly competitive market. Despite this, not enough research has focused on psychological factors that can affect whether employees with expert knowledge choose to stay within their organizations or leave for other job opportunities. The current study investigated the associations bet

Though previously viewed as little more than entertainment, video games have gained much recognition as an art form within recent years, slowly taking their place amongst established media such as literature and films. However, such is not the case within the second language classroom, where video games are vastly ignored in favour of other media. This in spite of research showing the benefits of

The aim of the study was to highlight the counselor work and how professional counselors are experiencing the role of social workers in healthcare. The study addresses various factors that influence the counselor in their work, including factors such as expectations, work environment, participation and the status of the profession role to name a few. The analysis was based on a qualitative approac

Denna litteraturstudie syftar till att sammanfatta den prekambriska berggrunden och dess geologiska utveckling i norra Skåne. Studien bygger på tidigare publicerat material, primärt tre av SGU:s berggrundskartor: Af 127, 155 och 181. Dessa visar berggrunden i området nordost, sydväst och nordväst om Kristianstad. För att kunna sätta in denna berggrund i ett större sammanhang har även andra publikaThis literature study aims to summarize the Precambrian bedrock and its geological development in northern Scania. The study is based on previously published material, primarily three of SGU’s bedrock maps: Af 127, 155 and 181. These show the bedrock in the area northeast, southwest and northwest of Kristianstad. In order to place this bedrock in a broader context, other publications dealing with

This thesis examines the various roles of school playgrounds in the Lund municipality in relation to their ability to foster nature relationships in children. In the same vein, the thesis also explores the reasons behind why certain humans care more for the environment than others, especially in regard to taking pro-environmental action. Nature is explored as a positive experience which furthermor

This master thesis contributes to the field of innovation research by developing a further understanding and elaboration of innovation barriers from an individual perspective. In this study, we aim to explore what the inhibiting factors in radical innovation processes in mature industries and what their implications for employee actions are. These contributions to the field are made possible throu

Den här undersökningen fokuserar på transnationella aktiviteter bland individer inom den afghanska diasporan i Sverige. Undersökningens kvalitativa data är framtagen genom sju semi-strukturerade intervjuer och analyseras utifrån en tolkningsram om transnationella aktiviteter (ekonomiska, sociala och politiska) och Van Hears kategoriram över tre olika sociala sfärer i Afghanistan som aktiviteter ri

Under de senaste åren har en ökning skett av populistisk kommunikation, vilket kan ses som en konsekvens av den övergripande medialiseringen av samhället och politiken. Tidigare forskning har främst fokuserat på populismens ideologiska positionering och den politiska eller populistiska aktören i sig och inte på populism som kommunikationsstrategi. Med bakgrund av detta syftar denna stu-die till atAs a consequence of the overall mediatization of society and politics, there has been a rise of populist communication during recent years. Earlier research has mostly fo-cused on populism's ideological positioning and the political or populist actor itself instead of populism as a communication strategy. Against this background, this study aims at identifying and increasing knowledge about ho

Världens första höghastighetsbana byggdes mellan Tokyo och Osaka år 1964. Sedan dess har länder i framförallt Asien och Europa också infört höghastighetståg och just nu pågår arbetet med höghastighetsjärnväg i Sverige. Den kommer att trafikeras av höghastighetståg med en hastighet upp till 320 km/h. Det är beslutat att järnvägen ska utformas med fixerade spår vilket är den vanligaste lösningen för

The aim of this study is to investigate human behavior during the pre-movement phase of building evacuation and determine how pre-movement time varies between different building types and types of alarms. Unannounced videorecorded evacuation experiments from earlier studies were examined, which resulted in 2 486 individual pre-movement times divided amongst six different building types. The parts

The study sets out the objective to investigate how a firm’s customer-base diversification affects its stock return idiosyncratic volatility. The research paper primarily focuses on the way that the distribution of sales impacts the firm specific risk that is unrelated to the risk of the market, and it does so through the use of both a geographical and an operating customer-base concentration meas

Physical education could play an important role in promoting future physical activity, but do students perceive the physical education content to be relevant for their personal and future goals? And does this affect their in-class motivation? The aim of this study was to investigate the role of perceived relevance of physical education course content in relation to students‘ contextual self-determ

This bachelor thesis is written within the field of strategic communication, focusing on marketing communication and the concept of sensemaking. Instead of seeing a high involvement purchase according to the traditional and linear buyer decision process, this thesis suggests the purchase instead to be seen as a customer journey, which addresses the complexity of the purchase. The aim of the study

Välgörenhetsorganisationer använder sig ofta av marknadsföringsstrategier som spelar på mottagarens känslor för att samla in donationer. Fungerar denna strategi, och skiljer det sig åt när det handlar om engångsdonationer eller månadsdonationer? Det antogs vara en skillnad mellan rationella och intuitiva människor där de intuitiva skulle uppleva en psykologisk avtrubbning när de utsattes för en koNon-profit organisations often use marketing strategies that play on people’s emotions to encourage donations. Does this strategy work, and does it differ between single and monthly donations? It was hypothesized that there is a difference between rational and intuitive people where the latter would experience a psychological numbing when facing a continuous negative framing. It was therefore hypo

Detta examensarbete behandlar en energieffektivisering av Örebrogatan 2A-C i Kv. Hallonet som Helsingborgshem äger och förvaltar. Genom att ge förslag på olika åtgärder för att få en sänkt energianvändning på den idag energislukande byggnaden är förhoppningen att arbetet ska kunna användas som underlag i en framtida renovering av byggnaden. Byggnaden från 1954 består idag av 20 lägenheter fördelad