Search for dissertations about: "leadership and management"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 160 swedish dissertations containing the words leadership and management.
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1. Creating a Quality Management Culture : Focusing on Values and Leadership
Abstract : When applied successfully, the QM initiatives TQM and Lean enhance an organization´s ability to meet and exceed the expectations of the customers as well as co-workers and other stakeholders. There are however also QM initiatives that fail and one reason for this is the organization’s inability to create a supportive culture, a culture that rests on a number of values which aim at improving the quality and thereby customer satisfaction. READ MORE
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2. On the Relationship between Sustainable Health and Quality Management : Leadership and organizational behaviours from Swedish organizations
Abstract : Sickness absence not only causes significant costs for organizations but also leads to other negative consequences for individuals and societies. Previous research has shown that working with organizational values within Quality Management affects job satisfaction and results in increased profitability and customer satisfaction. READ MORE
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3. Women and men in management : Stereotypes, evaluation and discourse
Abstract : Very few women hold top corporate positions in Sweden, and women are underrepresented as managers in all work sectors. The present thesis examined stereotypes, perceptions and presuppositions about women, men and management with a combination of perspectives from social and organizational psychology, discourse analysis and gender in organization research. READ MORE
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4. Project Management - Multidimensional Leadership
Abstract : Project management is increasingly becoming a complex role that more and more people within industry need to master. Today, project organising is used to perform tasks and solve problems of almost any magnitude, complexity, and direction. In many organisations, a significant part of the daily work is conducted by means of projects. READ MORE
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5. Operationalizing Industrial Ecology in the Waste Sector : Roles and tactics for circular value innovation
Abstract : The take-make-waste approach to resource management in human production and consumption systems is contributing to a variety of environmental and social problems worldwide. Additionally, as the world’s population and affluence increase, so do the negative impacts of poor resource management. READ MORE