Search for dissertations about: "work performance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 3699 swedish dissertations containing the words work performance.

  2. 1. Turning Work Inside Out : Exploring Outdoor Office Work

    Author : Charlotte Petersson Troije; Lena Wiklund; David Redmalm; Ebba Lisberg Jensen; Andreas Wallo; Mälardalens universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Outdoor office work; Interactive Research; Human-nature relation; Sustainable work life; Work norms; Urban greenspace; Working Life Studies; arbetslivsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Why don't we usually work outdoors? While some professions require it, most white-collar workers remain indoors, sedentary, and screen-bound. Yet, the potential benefits of outdoor work on health, well-being, learning, and creativity are significant and underexplored, especially given the demands of today's knowledge-intensive work life. READ MORE

  4. 2. Performance-based costing as decision support for development of discrete part production : Linking performance, production costs and sustainability

    Author : Christina Windmark; Industriell Produktion; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Production cost; PERFORMANCE; decision support; manufacturing; production development; performance-based costing; sustainability; organizational learning; Production cost; Performance; Decision support; Manufacturing; Production development; performance-based costing; Sustainability; Organizational learning;

    Abstract : In today’s global market, the industry is struggling every day to make the “correct decisions”. Decisions concerning production can range from smaller improvements to choice tool or equipment investments to relocation of entire production facilities. READ MORE

  5. 3. Unpacking Online Retailing : The Organization of Warehouse Work and Inequality

    Author : Klara Rydström; Lena Abrahamsson; Kristina Johansson; Fredrik Sjögren; Kristina Boréus; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Work organization; gender; race ethnicity; warehousing; e-commerce; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Sciences;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the organization of warehouse work and inequality in Swedish online retailing. Online retailing relocates the work of providing service to individual customers, usually performed by frontline workers in retail stores, to warehouses backstage. READ MORE

  6. 4. Swedish as multiparty work : Tailoring talk in a second language classroom

    Author : Anna Åhlund; Karin Aronsson; Rickard Jonsson; Numa Markee; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SSL education; language socialization; conversation analysis; identity work; participation; participation frameworks; classroom community; performance; verbal improvisations; alignment; repair work; multiparty talk; peer corrections; tailoring talk; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines classroom conversations involving refugee and immigrant youth in a second language (L2) introduction program, exploring how L2 Swedish emerges as a multiparty accomplishment by both the teacher and the students. Drawing on forty hours of video-recorded Swedish L2 classroom conversations, as well as on observations and informal interviews, it focuses on talk as a form of social action. READ MORE

  7. 5. Auditors’ Constitution of Performance : a study on the duality of performance in the auditing profession

    Author : Cristoffer Lokatt; Matti Skoog; Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Crawford Spence; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Auditing; auditors; performance; performance management; control; structure; agency; institutional logics; profession; accountability; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : For decades, the auditing profession has been under scrutiny, due in part to its close association with a business rationale. This has led to some to call for de-professionalization, where accountability, control, and commerce would threaten auditing’s autonomy. READ MORE