Search for dissertations about: "organisational values"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 59 swedish dissertations containing the words organisational values.

2. 1. Insights in Lean values: Exploring links to sustainable development

   Author : Anna Mårtensson; Kristen Snyder; Pernilla Ingelsson; Yvonne Lagrosen; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Lean; sustainable development; organisational development; organisational culture; values; Lean; hållbar utveckling; värderingar; organisationsutveckling; organisationskultur;

   Abstract : The Quality Management initiative Lean is a popular method used by organisations to engage in organisational development. The Lean philosophy is grounded in numerous values. The organisations must implement and apply these values to achieve the desired results. READ MORE

4. 2. Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh

   Author : Malin Arvidson; Sociologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; organisational control; altruism; staff motivation; organisational values; Bangladesh; NGOs; participation; empowerment; Sociologi;

   Abstract : The concepts participation and empowerment are frequently used in development projects in the third world. The meaning given to the concepts today signal a normative orientation, marking an alternative, people-centred approach to development. When used in development projects, the concepts demand detailed descriptions. READ MORE

5. 3. Values and Practices of Quality Management - Health implications and organisational differences

   Author : Yvonne Lagrosen; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; health; participation of everybody; health care; contingency; trust; leadership commitment; values; Quality Management;

   Abstract : This thesis has two main aims which are developed in seven papers. The first aim is to explore the knowledge and use of actual values and practices of quality management in different organisational settings. A mail survey covering 500 Swedish quality professionals was carried out. READ MORE

6. 4. Digitalisering i den offentliga förvaltningen : IT, värden och legitimitet

   Author : Ester Andréasson; Elin Wihlborg; Ulf Melin; Gun Hedlund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; e-government; public administration; digitalisation; legitimacy; values; IT; public reform; e-förvaltning; offentlig förvaltning; digitalisering; legitimitet; värden; IT; reform;

   Abstract : Vi lever i ett samhälle där elektronisk information och kommunikation får en allt större betydelse både i vardags- och arbetslivet. I föreliggande avhandling studeras den utveckling som innebär att offentliga organisationer digitaliseras, det som kan kallas för e-förvaltning. READ MORE

7. 5. Nationalising Culture : The Reorganisation of National Culture in Swedish Cultural Policy 1970–2002

   Author : Tobias Harding; Erling Bjurström; Svante Beckman; Per Mangset; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cultural policy; Sweden; nation-state; imagined communities; neo-institutionalism; path dependency; separation of church and state; universal values; particular values; ethnic nations; state-framed nations; kulturpolitik; Sverige; nationalstat; föreställd gemenskap; nyinstitutionalism; stigberoende; kyrka-stat-frågan; universella värden; partikulära värden; etnisk nationsuppfattning; statsinramad nationsuppfattning; Cultural heritage and cultural production; Kulturarv och kulturproduktion;

   Abstract : By comparative analysis of Swedish cultural policy (including art policy, heritage policy and Church policy) during the Riksdag periods of 1970-73, 1991-94, 1994-98 and 1998-2002 the relationship between cultural policy and the concept of the nation as a homogenous cultural community (defined by either an ethnic or a state-framed concept) is explored. Neoinstitutional analysis of cultural policy as an organisational field is combined with analysis of how the nation is conceived as an imagined community, and what values it strives to uphold to show how these values and concepts are institutionalised in its cultural policy and how this supports the legitimacy of the State as a nation-state. READ MORE