An individual’s bad news reporting behavior has been studied from a number of perspectives and has resulted in a variety of research streams including the MUM effect (or reluctance to transmit bad news), whistle-blowing, and organizational silence. While many scholars in different areas have studied reporting behavior, it has not been widely discussed in the information systems literature. This dissertation research addresses an individual’s bad news reporting behavior (and its antecedents) in the troubled IT project context. Many social phenomena are multi-causal (Hollander 1971). The silence phenomenon involved in an individual’s bad news reporting behavior is multi-causal too. While prior research has identified many antecedents to the bad news reporting behavior, it has not provided any systematic approach for categorizing them. In this dissertation, the antecedents are categorized into three different levels: personal factors (i.e., individual-level factors), situational factors (i.e., project-level factors), and organizational factors. This research empirically investigates how the antecedents at different levels affect (i.e., encourage or discourage) an individual’s decision to report or not report bad news in the IT project context. The dissertation follows a multi-paper model, and includes three independent, empirical studies, each with its own research model focusing on personal, situational, and organizational factors.

I Sverige genomförs kontinuerliga befolkningsundersökningar i syfte att ge information om indikatorer på ohälsa samt risk- och skyddsfaktorer. Resultaten av dessa presenteras i olika nationella redogörelser samt landstingsrapporter. Det finns idag ingen aktuell sammanställning av ohälsans utveckling med värden för enbart Uppsala län, denna uppsats avsåg därför att bidra med detta. Resultaten visade på en minskning i den självskattade dåliga hälsan över tid, då materialet delades upp på kön och ålder. En relativ ökning av skillnaderna i ohälsa mellan förvärvsarbetande, arbetslösa och förtidspensionerade kunde också observeras. Den relativa ökningen syntes tydligast mellan förvärvsarbetande och förtidspensionerade. Riskfaktorer som visade sig särskilt effektfulla till att skatta sin hälsa som dålig eller mycket dålig var mycket dålig trivsel med sina arbetsuppgifter, svåra besvär med trötthet och svåra besvär med ängslan oro eller ångest. Vidare upplevde sig arbetslösa i högre utsträckning vara utsatta för riskfaktorn nedlåtande behandling, vilket är i linje med tidigare presenterade resultat. Resultaten i uppsatsen kan vara till hjälp vid planering för folkhälsoarbete mot skillnader i hälsa och för en god och jämlik hälsa i Uppsala län. Ifall insatserna på området behöver prioriteras kan denna uppsats vara till hjälp då den lyfter fram de förtidspensionerades utsatta situation. Eftersom den självskattade dåliga hälsan bland övriga sysselsättningsgrupper inte har förbättras under de senaste åren, kan det vara en fingervisning om att pågående insatser bör ses över. Då denna studie bekräftade tidigare resultat avseende arbetslösas upplevelse av nedlåtande behandling och dess effekt på hälsan, tyder det på att folkhälsoarbetet i länet kan lägga visst fokus på detta problem. / In Sweden continuous population surveys operates to provide information on indicators of poor health and risk and protective factors. There is currently no current compilation of ill health development of values for only Uppsala County; this paper therefore intended to contribute to this. When the material was divided by gender and age, the results showed a decrease in self-rated bad health. Also the results showed a relative increase of differences in health between occupational groups. The relative increase was shown most distinct between the employed and the early retired. Risk factors that proved particularly effective at estimating their health as poor or very poor were very poor satisfaction with your work, severe problems with fatigue, and severe problems with anxiet, worry or anxiety. Furthermore unemployed perceived themselves being exposed to the risk factor condescending treatment, which is in line with previously announced results. Therefore this paper can be helpful in planning for public health efforts to combat health disparities and for a good and equitable health in the county. If the efforts in this area need to be prioritized, then this essay can be helpful when it highlights the early-retired vulnerable situation. Since the self-rated poor healths among other employment groups haven’t improved in recent years, it may be a hint that the ongoing efforts should be reviewed. As this study confirmed previous findings regarding the unemployed experience of condescending treatment and its effect on health, it indicates that public health efforts may put some focus on this problem.

Background: Health care is a strange place for the patient. To make this enviroment as good as possible, would the patient be well informed. The patient has right to know if it is a bad mews and often he/she needs caring after the information. Nurse´s basic responsibility is caring, for her/him it´s important to prevent the shock for the patient that can appear.  Aim: Describe the nursing staff responses to the patient, using the patient´s perspective in relation to bad news.  Method: A litterture review has been made with nine articles. Current research materials that meet the study´s purpose has been applied in databases and analyzed. Four themes and nine subthemes was emerged.  Results: Nurse should allow patient to talk, when bad news had been given. Conversation is important for the patient, because they want information to be able to participate in care. Good communication skills are important for the nurse in connection with bad news. Patient wants information in an honest, peaceful and transparent manner. Time is often in short supply in this conversation. To have the family in care is a good support for the patient, but not all patients want the family to participate.  Conclusion: Patients desire individually aids at handover of bad news. It gives them a safety. The most common mould of aids according to patients where that the nurse shows that she/he has time for them.

<p>When cylinders for motor saws are manufactured there are high demands on the cylinders strength and wearing qualities. Aluminum is a material with low density and is used by Husqvarna AB for their motor saw cylinders. The aluminum is strengthening with nickel that is attached to the cylinders through electrolysis. When aluminum is in contact with oxygen a film of oxide is formed. To eliminate the oxide and to prevent formation of new oxide zinc is used. The cylinders are dipped into a bath of zinc before they pass on to a pre-nickel process, which purpose is to remove the excess of zinc so the “real” nickel process won’t be contaminated. In the process there is a selective bath where zinc is precipitated on sheet-metals through electrolysis. The problem is that while zinc is precipitated so is nickel and in a much greater extend, about 1 % zinc and 99 % nickel.</p><p>Husqvarna AB needs a technique to increase precipitation of zinc and reduce the precipitation of nickel. A small copy of the selective bath was constructed where adjustments of different parameters were possible. In the bath there was an anode of nickel, a cathode, process liquid, a pump for stirring and a plant installation from an aquarium for the temperature. In the bath different voltages, distance between anode – cathode and different sheets of metal were tested. Every test were in progress for about three days and then pieces of sheet-metals were cut and sent for analysis of zinc/nickel percentage.</p><p>A couple of the tested sheet-metals didn’t work and the ones that did work showed no special difference in zinc/nickel percentage. An increase in distance between the anode and cathode showed a small difference but not much. The alteration that showed to be most effective was to decrease the voltage. The normal voltage is 2, 8 V but when it was decreased to 2, 0 V it gave a much better result. The layer on the sheet-metal showed to contain 12 % zinc and 88 % nickel. A couple of other tests were performed with decreased voltage but no one gave as good result as 2, 0 V. If Husqvarna AB shall be able to use a lower voltage they need a greater cathode surface then they have today. That is because of the lower reaction rate. The lower reaction rate conducts an increasing amount of zinc in the bath and an electrolysis that doesn’t work completely.</p><p>Other methods for precipitation could have been tested e.g. change of anode, precipitation of zinc as a salt or a powder that could have been filtrated or a process that reduces the excess of zinc. To test any of these methods big changes in the process structure would be needed which costs both time and money. The authors therefore concluded that the best thing for Husqvarna AB to do is to increase the cathode surface by connecting another bath next to the existent.</p> / <p>Vid tillverkning av motorsågscylindrar ställs det höga krav på att de är tåliga och slitstarka. På Husqvarna AB tillverkas motorsågscylindrar av aluminium som är ett material med låg densitet. Aluminiumet förstärks med nickel som genom elektrolys fästs på cylindrarna. På aluminium bildas ett oxidskikt i kontakt med syre och för att eliminera skiktet samt undvika bildning av ny oxid så doppas cylindrarna i zink innan elektrolysen. Cylindrarna doppas hela i ett zinkatbad innan de går vidare till en förförnicklingsprocess som bland annat är till för att bli av med överflödigt zink så att det inte förorenar det ”riktiga” nickelbadet. I processen finns ett selektivt bad där zink fälls ut genom elektrolys på plåtar. Problemet är att samtidigt som zink fälls ut så fälls också nickel ut och i större mängd, ca 1 % zink respektive 99 % nickel.</p><p>Husqvarna AB behöver en teknik som ökar utfällning av zink samtidigt som nickelutfällning reduceras. En liten kopia konstruerades av det selektiva badet där justering av olika parametrar kunde utföras. I badet användes en plåtkatod och en nickelanod, vätska från processen, en pump för omrörning och ett akvarieaggregat för värme. I testbaljan provades ändringar av spänning, avstånd anod – katod och olika material som katod. Varje bad kördes ca tre dagar och sedan klipptes bitar av plåtarna bort och skickades iväg för analys av zink/nickelhalt.</p><p>Det visade sig att ett par av de testade plåtarna inte fungerade och de som fungerade visade ingen större skillnad i zink/nickelhalt. En ökning av avstånd mellan katod och anod gav en liten procentskillnad men inte tillräcklig. Den parameterändring som visade sig vara mest effektiv var att sänka spänningen. Normalt ligger spänningen på 2,8 V men när den sänktes till 2,0 V gav det bättre resultat. Skiktet på plåten visade sig nu innehålla ca 12 % zink och 88 % nickel. Ytterligare försök gjordes med lägre spänning men ingen gav lika bra resultat som 2,0 V. För att Husqvarna AB ska kunna använda lägre spänning kräver det en ökad katodyta än vad som finns i dagsläget, på grund av en lägre reaktionshastighet. Lägre reaktionshastighet leder till en för snabb ökning av zink i badet och en dåligt fungerande elektrolys.</p><p>Andra metoder för utfällning hade kunnat provats t ex byte av anod, fälla ut zink som ett salt eller pulver som sedan filtrerats bort eller en process för att minska överflödet av zink. Alla dessa metoder kräver att Husqvarna AB gör en omfattande omstrukturering av processen vilket kräver både tid och pengar. Därför kom författarna fram till att en ökad katodyta i form av ett nytt bad anslutet till det gamla vore den bästa lösningen för Husqvarna AB.</p>

Good Girl/Bad Girl asks women to define the good girls and bad girls in respect to their clothing. Participants are women who live in either New Mexico or Texas and identify as one or more of the following groups: New Mexican, Mexican, Native American, Sorority women, and Cowgirls. Participants with interviewed and photographed in their homes and places of work. Good Girl/Bad Girl was exhibited during the 2013 The Co-op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival. A selection of twenty-one images were displayed in addition to audio from the interviews. / text

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