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331	Sharing IT knowledge within a Swedish bank : A survey based case study of IT related training, help functions and communication / Delning av it-kunskap inom en svensk bank : En enkätbaserad fallstudie av it-relaterad utbildning, hjälpfunktioner och kommunikation Riese, Emma January 2016 (has links) An efficient, functioning IT environment is vital to many companies, even to those not calling themselves IT companies. How to assimilate the IT skills needed and get the IT department to share their knowledge with the rest of the organization can, however, be difficult. The aim of this thesis is to find differences between how a company’s IT department employees and other employees experience and use IT training and IT help functions. The aim is also to identify and make suggestions on what artifacts and help functions can be further developed in order to enhance learning and sharing of IT knowledge. A case study was conducted at the Swedish bank Handelsbanken. The employees’ experiences and use of IT related training, artifacts and help functions were studied through a survey that was complemented by interviews and observations. A Mann-Whitney U test was conducted on the survey answers. The result shows differences between the IT department employees and other employees in three areas: IT introduction, wish for more IT training and frequency in calling the IT help desk. Further, the result indicates that the new employee orientation, the internal handbook, e-support and IT help desk all have room for improvements. / En effektiv, fungerade it-miljö är nödvändig för i stort sett alla företag, även för dem som inte benämner sig själva som it-företag. Hur företagen kan ta till sig de it-kunskaper som behövs och få it-avdelningen att dela med sig av sin kunskap till resten av organisationen, kan dock vara svårt. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att hitta skillnader mellan hur ett företags medarbetare på it-avdelninen och andra medarbetare i organisationen upplever och använder it-utbildning och it-hjälpfunktioner. Syftet är också att identifiera och ge förslag på vilka tjänster och hjälpfunktioner som kan vidareutvecklas för att främja lärande och delning av it-kunskap. En fallstudie genomfördes på Svenska Handelsbanken. Medarbetarnas upplevelser och användning av it-relaterad utbildning, tjänster och hjälpfunktioner studerades genom en enkätundersökning, som kompletterades med intervjuer och observationer. Ett så kallat Mann-Whitney U-test genomfördes på enkätsvaren. Resultatet visar på skillnader mellan it-avdelningens medarbetare och andra medarbetare i organisationen inom tre områden: it-introduktion, önskan att få mer it-utbildning samt frekvensen i hur ofta de ringer till it-supporten. Resultatet visar också att introduktionen för nyanställda, den interna handboken, e-supporten och it-supporten alla har förbättringsområden. Artifacts for sharing IT knowledge Sharing IT knowledge IT training IT help functions IT problems IT department employees Non IT department employees E-learning E-support Written instructions Video tutorials tjänster för delning av it-kunskap delning av it-kunskap it-utbildning it-hjälpfunktioner it-problem it-avdelningsmedarbetare icke it-avdelningsmedarbetare e-learning e-support skrivna instruktioner video instruktioner Human Computer Interaction
332	Företagskulturens egenskaper och lärande : En studie om medarbetares uppfattning med en jämförelse i tvärkulturell miljö / Corporate culture traits and learning : A study on employee perception with a comparison in a cross-cultural environment Ohlsson, Nicklas, Tevell, Viktoria, Borslöv, Alice January 2023 (has links) Företagskultur har en betydande roll i hur ett företag ska bli framgångsrikt visar aktuell forskning. I föreliggande studie undersöks hur företagskulturen uppfattas av anställda och vilka olika lärande som används för att kommunicera och förmedla kulturen till medarbetare. Undersökningen innefattar en jämförelse mellan svenska och spanska medarbetare, där den senare arbetar i en tvärkulturell miljö. Frågeställningarna i studien behandlar vilka egenskaper som kännetecknar kulturen i ett framgångsrikt företag och hur medarbetare kan integrera sig i företagskulturen genom olika lärandemetoder samt om det råder någon skillnad i uppfattningen av kulturen mellan de svenska och spanska medarbetare. Studien inkluderar Hofstedes kulturella dimensioner som hjälp för att förstå medarbetarnas tolkning av företagskulturen utifrån sin nationella kultur. Dessutom användes Nygrens teori om det livslånga lärandet och Scheins tre kulturella nivåer inom företagskultur. Studien har använt sig av en kvalitativ ansats med semistrukturerade intervjuer för att undersöka företagskulturen på ett fallföretag. Studiens resultat visar att kulturen i ett framgångsrikt företag har en stark gemenskap utöver en likvärdig och enhetlig uppfattning om företagskulturen. Den mest framträdande uppfattningen är att kulturen förmedlas via vardagliga situationer där det visas genom handlingar. Undersökningen visar ingen större skillnad i uppfattningen om kulturen mellan svenska och spanska medarbetarna, därmed finns inget behov av att anpassa inlärningen av företagskulturen för medarbetare. En förutsättning som studiens resultat visar är att kulturen måste kommuniceras tydligt och mottagits likvärdigt för medarbetare i en tvärkulturell miljö. Detta inkluderar dock inte det eventuella behovet av att anpassa hur kulturen förmedlas för samtliga medarbetare på en individuell nivå. / Current research shows that corporate culture has a significant role in how a company will be successful. The present study investigates how the company culture is perceived by employees, and which different learning methods are used to communicate and convey the culture to employees. The research includes a comparison between Swedish and Spanish employees, where the latter works in a cross-cultural environment. The questions in the study deal with the characteristic traits in the culture of a successful company and how employees can integrate into the company culture through different learning methods and whether there is any difference in the perception of the culture between the Swedish and Spanish employees. The study includes Hofstede's cultural dimensions to help understand the employee’s interpretation of the company culture based on their national culture. In addition, Nygren's theory of lifelong learning and Schein's three cultural levels within corporate culture were used. The study has used a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews to examine the corporate culture in a case study design in a single organization. The result of the study reveals that the culture of a successful company has a strong feeling of community in addition to an equal and uniform perception of the company culture. The most prominent view is that culture is conveyed via everyday situations where it is shown through actions. The research identifies no major difference in the perception of the culture between the Swedish and Spanish employees, thus there is no need to adapt the learning of the company culture for employees in a cross-cultural environment. A prerequisite that the study results show is that the culture must be communicated clearly and received equally for employees in a cross-cultural environment. However, this does not include the possible need to adapt how the culture is conveyed to all employees on an individual level. Corporate culture Cross-cultural Formal learning Non-formal learning Informal learning Cultural levels Artifacts Espoused Values Cultural dimensions Sweden Spain Organizational culture Organizational structure Företagskultur Tvärkulturell Formellt lärande Icke formellt lärande Informellt lärande Kulturella nivåer Beteende Värdering Kulturella dimensioner Sverige Spanien Organisationskultur Organisationsstruktur Business Administration Företagsekonomi
333	Nestandardní úlohy v odstranění rozmazání obrazu / Image Deblurring in Demanding Conditions Kotera, Jan January 2020 (has links) Title: Image Deblurring in Demanding Conditions Author: Jan Kotera Department: Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences Supervisor: Doc. Ing. Filip Šroubek, Ph.D., DSc., Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: Image deblurring is a computer vision task consisting of removing blur from image, the objective is to recover the sharp image corresponding to the blurred input. If the nature and shape of the blur is unknown and must be estimated from the input image, image deblurring is called blind and naturally presents a more difficult problem. This thesis focuses on two primary topics related to blind image deblurring. In the first part we work with the standard image deblurring based on the common convolution blur model and present a method of increasing robustness of the deblur- ring to phenomena violating the linear acquisition model, such as for example inten- sity clipping caused by sensor saturation in overexposed pixels. If not properly taken care of, these effects significantly decrease accuracy of the blur estimation and visual quality of the restored image. Rather than tailoring the deblurring method explicitly for each particular type of acquisition model violation we present a general approach based on flexible automatic...
334	”By the iron hand of oppression" : The performance of the parliamentary election contest in Nottingham and Middlesex 1802-1803 Blomgren, Alvar January 2017 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to investigate how politics was done at the level of the parliamentary constituencies at the time of the treaty of Amiens 1802-1803. This is achieved through two case studies of the elections in Middlesex and Nottingham, which are investigated as social practices. This thesis argues that understandings of masculinity and national identity, as well as questions about the nature of the constitution and citizen rights were central to participants in the extraparliamentary political process. Collective emotions were also highly important in the process of mobilising political support, and this thesis emphasises that participation in these elections was a collective effort; men and women from all levels of society were significant political actors. Moreover, this thesis demonstrates the importance of competences such as knowledge about the organisation of crowds and political violence in the performance of the election. Georgian elections political history history of democracy Georgian politics Parlamentary reform reform movement radicals radicalism Pittite repression Gagging acts two acts seditious meetings act treason act habeas corpus suspension act habeas corpus Nottingham Middlesex 1802 general election parlamentary elections controverted elections 19th century nineteenth century treaty of Amiens Joseph Birch Daniel Coke William Mainwaring Francis Burdett Mary Rich Cold Bath prison newspapers citizenship nationality British national identity English national identity gender masculinity independence working-class lower-class crowds women female political propaganda political artifacts vestiary affronts space place power emotions collective emotions solidarity doing politics social practice practice theory practice-as-entity practice-as-performance Elizabeth Shove Ducking spencering Hanoverian History Historia
335	Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada Wang, Lurong 13 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy. situated learning and literacy practice multimodal uses of language and literacy social domains and discursive discourses language and literacy in the workplace discourse analysis consequences of literacy literacy, positioning, power relations social reproduction and categorization language and literacy in the job market reading and writing literacy and orality literacy artifacts home, school, job market, workplace gatekeeping process, social selection 0516 0282 0275 0727 0535 0340 0747 0628 0326 0745
336	Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada Wang, Lurong 13 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy. situated learning and literacy practice multimodal uses of language and literacy social domains and discursive discourses language and literacy in the workplace discourse analysis consequences of literacy literacy, positioning, power relations social reproduction and categorization language and literacy in the job market reading and writing literacy and orality literacy artifacts home, school, job market, workplace gatekeeping process, social selection 0516 0282 0275 0727 0535 0340 0747 0628 0326 0745

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