Browsing Masteruppsatser (Department of Sociology and Work Science / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap) by Title
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Temporary Agency Workers’ Perceptions on Organizational Supports and Affective Organizational Commitment
(2013-08-09)Temporary agency workers have become a global trend in the contemporary work forces, under the pressure of cost effectiveness through employment flexiblility. Temporary agency workers keep unique dual ralationships ... -
TEMPUS FUGIT - Om effektivitet i förundersökningar av brott mot barn
(2018-09-17)Aims and objectives: The aim of the present study is to identify and analyze the factors that may stand in the way of the efficiency of investigations of crimes against children in the context of Barnahus Gothenburg’s ... -
THE ART OF CRUNCH - A quantitative study on the effects of a high-pressured period during video game production on organizational commitment
(2018-11-07)The video gaming industry is one of the most lucrative markets in the world, yet surprisingly, little research is devoted to the industry. Most of the research that can be found about the video gaming industry is primarily ... -
The balancing act - The emotion work produced by attorneys in their everyday work life
(2015-11-17)Based on observations and in-depth interviews, this article explores the emotion work produces by attorneys in their everyday work life, particularly in connection to client interactions. The attorney profession is ... -
The Burden of Being the ‘Token’ - The Exploration of Ethnicity, Professional Identity, and Career Navigation amongst Ethnic Minority Managers in Sweden
(2015-09-17)The theoretical framework for this study is based on the following understandings. Firstly, that navigation is seen and described as a career practice. Secondly, that this form of career practice is influenced by ethnicity, ... -
The complexity of Labour Market Programmes - A case study in the retail sector
(2016-10-25)Problematization: Previous studies have mainly focused on the long-term effects of youth unemployment and the effects of labour market programmes (hereby referred to as LMP) as well as comparisons between different types ... -
The construction of America’s crisis and the fear of loss: - A study of Donald Trump’s second presidential campaign in 2020
(2022-01-18)This study identifies the structure of populist rhetoric in Trump’s second presidential election campaign in 2020. This is done through the combination of three key theoretical concepts: col-lective action frames; populist ... -
The costs of childcare for single parents: Structural or political?
(2021-08-18)Early Childhood Care and Education (ECEC) has expanded rapidly in Europe the last decades. Yet, huge cross-national variation exists in terms of availability, affordability and quality. Previous studies have emphasised the ... -
The Desocialization Effect – exploring identity and emotional exchange in the regressive stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
(2016-04-04)In applying a conceptual framework derived from social psychology, the article at hand explores the degenerative stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a process of desocial-ization, in order to shed a new light on an already ... -
The effect of Chinese culture on equal opportunities in the Chinese labour market - A case study about gender equality in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
(2020-10-27)Gender stereotypes still exist in the current society, Chinese career women suffer from gender descrimination in their career life in various walks of life. Therefore, this thesis aims to use gender and organizational ... -
THE EFFECT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON LABOUR MARKET SUCCESS
(2015-11-16)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between personality factors and labour market success. Methodology: The empirical data used for this study was collected from the SOM (Society, ... -
The Empowerment Loop - Identity and Confidence among Youth Politicians in Eastern Africa
(2014-01-17)This paper will develop a theoretical model of empowerment, based on the sociology of emotions and a field study on a Swedish development program for young politicians in Eastern-Africa. Conceptualizing the process ... -
The human/wearable technology engagement and its embodied effects on self-trackers
(2017-07-07)People have for a long time engaged in activities to observe and monitor their physical functions. However, with the modern technological advancements, these practices have turned into a social phenomenon. In Sweden, ... -
The Journey Towards the Goal is Irrelevant as long as the Goal is Fulfilled Two coexisting and competing logics in healthcare work
(2015-01-14)The background to the study presented in this thesis is an organisation that is established within the private healthcare sector and acquired one part of another healthcare organisation and reduplicated the volume of ... -
The myth of HR strategizing Analyzing Strategic Human Resource Management as global practice and local praxis
(2013-08-09)The idea of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM), to combine HR strategizing with business strategizing in order to increase organizational performance, is today generally accepted and many organizations have ... -
THE NEED TO MEET THE NEED - On the HRM-Performance Linkage
(2015-11-16)Problematization Reacting to a demand for greater accountability in organizations across all functional areas of business, HR has been facing fundamental reorganization over the past decades, resulting in significant ... -
The new spirit of volunteering in the age of internet - Exploring Swedish nonprofits online volunteer affiliation
(2019-08-19)This study links together the question of how nonprofit organizations use their internet websites to affiliate potential volunteers, with the question of how volunteering has transformed over the past decades. Previous ... -
THE PARALLEL SYSTEM OF LEARNING - An exploration of white-collar workers practices for developing new skills in a fast-changing business environment
(2021-04-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how white-collar engineers within high tech firms navigate and respond to the demands for competence development under external pressures brought by advanced technologies. ... -
The Production and Reproduction of Layoffs - Discourse in Swedish Newspapers
(2013-08-09)Aim: This is a scientific report that aims at examining how the discourse of layoffs is constituted and depicted in news texts, and specifically how they reflect on and represent the layoff phenomenon ... -
The Riots Explained - Research and Media Explanations of the Riots in Paris 2005, London 2011 and Stockholm 2013
(2015-11-27)The riots of Paris 2005, London 2011 and Stockholm 2013 all share a number of similarities. They started from similar triggering points, in poor areas and spread to the rest of the capitals and then to other cities of ...