Search for dissertations about: "work meetings"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 143 swedish dissertations containing the words work meetings.

2. 1. Legitimacy Work : Managing Sick Leave Legitimacy in Interaction

   Author : Marie Flinkfeldt; Maria Eriksson; Elisabet Näsman; Ann Weatherall; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; legitimacy; legitimation; legitimacy-in-action; sick leave; sickness absence; sick role; Sweden; social insurance; sickness benefit; conversation analysis; discursive psychology; ethnomethodology; membership categorization analysis; institutional talk; categories; moral work; social interaction; talk-in-interaction; text-in-interaction; meetings; online forums; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This thesis studies how sick leave legitimacy is managed in interaction and develops an empirically driven conceptualization of ‘legitimacy work’. The thesis applies an ethnomethodological framework that draws on conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis. READ MORE

4. 2. "You are on mute..." : Enabling coming together in digitally mediated meetings

   Author : Anna Uhlin; Lucia Crevani; Anette Hallin; Brigid Carroll; Mälardalens universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; work meetings; coming together; digital technology; praxiography; sociomateriality; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

   Abstract : Planned work meetings are commonly used for gathering people to accomplish things together. The assumption that in organized meetings people come together is challenged once digital technologies become part of the performance of meetings. READ MORE

5. 3. The Art of Communication : Investigating the Dynamics of Work Group Meetings in a Natural Environment

   Author : Fredrik Molin; Birgitta Södergren; Carin Eriksson Lindvall; Tomas Backström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interaction; communication; leadership; work groups; meetings; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Meetings in work groups are important organisational arenas to form ideas, share knowledge, and co-ordinate and develop work. Therefore, meetings are a potential source to innovation and efficiency in organisations, as well as to a means to improve interpersonal relationships in the workplace. READ MORE

6. 4. A potential for democratic emancipation? : Policy and discretionary practices in probation service

   Author : Asbjørn Storgaard; Professioner och organisering; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; probation service; offender supervision; emancipation; social work; managerial turn; kriminalforsorg; tilsyn med dømte klienter; emancipation; socialt arbejde; managerial turn;

   Abstract : How can offender supervision in the execution of state-sanctioned punishment integrate instances of democratic emancipation and thereby inspire participatory citizenship for disenfranchised clients?This project balances an interest in social work and its prospects for delivering emancipation through motivational agency, on the one hand, with an attentiveness to recent developments in Scandinavian criminal policy, on the other. In an attempt to “bridge” these interests, the research focuses on offender rehabilitation. READ MORE

7. 5. Setting the Marketing Scene: Reality Production in Everyday Marketing Work

   Author : Peter Svensson; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Consultancy work; Advertising work; Discourse; Marketing work; Social constructionism; Market study; Marknadsanalys;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to offer a contribution to the understanding of marketing work. In orthodox, mainstream marketing management literature, the work of marketing is commonly depicted as a fairly straightforward practice, technical in character, neutral in terms of social values and ideologies, operating within an objective and pre-given world. READ MORE