Search for dissertations about: "bureaucracy"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 76 swedish dissertations containing the word bureaucracy.
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6. The importance of organizational characteristics for psychosocial working conditions and health
Abstract : The importance of organizations for understanding differences in the working conditions and health of employees is often emphasized but rarely explored empirically. The general aim of this thesis is to describe organizational characteristics of workplaces, and to assess their impact on the psychosocial working conditions and health of employees. READ MORE
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7. From Good Work to Sustainable Development - Human Resources Consumption and Regeneration in the Post-Bureaucratic Working Life
Abstract : The thesis concentrates on the psychological consequences ofthe contemporary work. Two focal question of the thesis are,first, why do employeespsychological resources becomeconsumed in the contemporary working life? Second, how tocreate regenerative work enabling employeesdevelopmentin the present situation? The latter question aims todistinguish the conditions for sustainable individual andcollective development at work. READ MORE
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8. Deep Roots and Tangled Branches : Bureaucracy and Collaboration in Natural Resource Governance in South India
Abstract : This is a study about collaboration within bureaucracies tasked with natural resource management in the contemporary Global South. It seeks to fill a considerable knowledge gap in the extant literature by exploring how individual public officials perceive the policy environment they work in. READ MORE
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9. Gender, Power and Post-Bureaucracy : Work Ideals in IT Consulting
Abstract : This thesis deals with work environments defined as post-bureaucratic, and which are characterised by individualisation and a decrease in the employer's formal control. The study shows how the employees in such work contexts are both empowered and disciplined. READ MORE
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10. The State as Investment Market : An Analytical Framework for Interpreting Politics and Bureaucracy in Kyrgyzstan
Abstract : What type of state has emerged in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, and what kind of theoretical framework must we develop to understand its behavior and performance? This study argues that the logic of political and bureaucratic organization follows that of an investment market in which public offices are purchased with the expectation of yielding a favorable return. This theory represents a novel perspective on the post-communist state which has hitherto either been premised on modernization theory or emphasized a robustly personalistic logic of political organization. READ MORE
