HOFMANNOVÁ, Romana. Autistic child starts a school attendance at a current elementary school. Čerské Budějovicee: University of South Bohemia, Pedagogical Faculty, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, 2012, pp., Supervisor of the diploma thesis PhDr. Marta Franclová. My diploma thesis is focused on autism particularly on connection of autism and educational possibilities for persons with ASDs (Autistic Spectrum Disorders). My work consists of two parts. Theoretical part deals with theoretical informations about especially about expressions and qualification. Theoretical part contain autistic persons in CZ an about consultant services. Very important role plays Individual education plan. Second practical part is in a form of personal study.

This graduation thesis is concerned with the role of a psychologist in the work team building. The organisation where I did the qualitative research work was Police of the Czech Republic. I wanted to confirm or rebut the assertion that the role of psychologist in police teams buliding is irreplaceable. I used methods of questioning, interview and observation. Police teams are created to solve some issues (e.g. drug-traffic) or a concrete crime (e.g. a murder). I found out that police teams are built by supervisors. They are choosing team members in accordance with their specialization, skills and experience. The police psychologists have no dealing with the team building. Police psychologists pick new policemen {--} they test their memory, reactions (this test examines functions of celebral cortex) and intelligence. New policemen also have to pass a test of personality. All these tests are necessary, because police work is extremely exacting. Next police psychologist´s task is policemen training. Psychologists teach them the assertivity, how to cope with stress and how to deal with a suicide. Very important part of police psychologists´ job is a consulting service, which can involve policemen, their wives and kids. Police psychologists offer the post-traumatic care as well. This care is established for policemen who used a gun, who are investigating death of a child or some grave murder. Police psychologists are working as investigation´s consultants, especially by investigation of self-murders, rapes, maltreatment with children. They help to ease the situation, to calm down the sufferer, they also help by the questioning and they instruct policemen how to behave to the sufferer.

Sedan IT-bubblan sprack 2002 har marknaden nu börjat återhämta sig. Allt fler mindre organisationer investerar i IT igen. Detta gör att IT-konsulterna blir mer eftertraktade på marknaden. I takt med att IT-konsulternas ökade arbete och ökningen av de mindre företagens investeringar, ökar vikten av IT-konsulternas råd angående kommunikation, ansvarsfördelning och samordning som förmedlas till de små och medelstora företagen under investerings processen. Samtidigt presenterar dagens litteratur en mix av olika rekommendationer för hur organisationer bör hantera olika roller och dess ansvarsfördelning. Dessa teoretiska rekommendationer är både tydligt –och otydligt uttryckta av diverse författare. På grund av denna teoretiska kunskap, de små –och medelstora företagens (SME) ökade entreprenad av IT och vikten av en klar ansvarsfördelning vid IT-investeringar, har syftet med denna studie varit att undersöka vilka råd dagens IT-konsulter ger till SME i relation till de teoretiska riktlinjerna. Studien har sedan genomförts ur ett konsultperspektiv. Genom detta syfte har metoden för att samla in data varit personliga semistandardiserade intervjuer med 12 olika IT-konsulter i Jönköpings län riktade mot SME. För att vi skulle kunna utvinna en djup förståelse för dessa konsulters syn på roller och ansvarsfördelning har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ metod. Dessutom har vi haft en utforskande och jämförande ansats genom vår granskning av studie området och vår jämförelse av roller och ansvarsfördelning som först mellan alla IT-konsulter och sedan mellan IT-konsulternas kategoriserade synsätt och de identifierare teoretiska synsätten. En faktor som påverkar studiens tillvägagångssätt är den teoretiska studie som gjorts kring ämnet roller och ansvar vid IT-investeringar av Granehäll et al. (2005). Dessa författare presenterar tre olika teoretiska synsätt av roller och ansvarsfördelning vid applikationsinvesteringar. Vi fann dessa synsätt vara i behov av att kompletteras för att bli fullständiga och anpassade för små –och medelstora företag. Detta utgav grunden för den teoretiska del i denna studie och påverkat strukturen och presentationen av de teoretiska data som här presenteras. Efter en presentation av ytterligare teori om roller och ansvar och en utökning av de tidigare fastställda teoretiska synsätten, kunde vi i denna studie identifiera tre nya teoretiska synsätt fokuserade på roller och ansvar vid applikationsinvesteringar Den empirisk data som vi fått fram under studien av de olika medverkade IT-konsulterna presenteras var för sig. Detta har gjorts för att ökad förståelse och underlättad läsning. Under studien av roller och ansvar i applikationsinvesteringar och IT-konsulternas synsätt på roller och ansvar i SME applikationsinvesteringar har vi kommit fram till att teorins rekommendationer riktar sig mot företag i allmänhet, då oftast mot större företag, vilket gör att teorins rekommendationer till viss del skiljer sig från IT-konsulternas syn på roller och ansvarsfördelning. Vi såg även att IT-konsulterna presenterar olika råd angående roller och ansvar. Vi har därför haft möjlighet att kategorisera dessa olika råd till tre synsätt med olika fokus. / As the market now has begun to recover from the IT-crash in 2002, many smaller organisations are now starting to invest in IT again. This makes the IT-consultants more wanted on the market. In proportion to the increasing work of the IT-consultants and the increasing SME investments, the IT-consultants advices becomes more important regarding communication, responsibilities and collaboration, given to the Small and Medium sized Enter-prises (SME) in the time of their investment process. At the same time the theory presents a mix of recommendations for how roles and responsibility should be managed within the general organisation. These recommendations are clearly and vague expressed by different authors. Given this theoretical knowledge, the SME’s increasing outsourcing of IT-management and the importance of a clear structure of responsibilities in IT-investments, has the purpose of this study been to investigate in the advices the IT-consultants are communicating to SME in relation to the theoretical rec-ommendations. The study has then been accomplished through a consultant’s perspective. Due to the purpose this study has been accomplished by face-to-face semi-standardised interviews with 12 IT-consultants within the County of Jönköping directed towards SME in application investments. Given that we wanted to gain a deep understanding of these IT-consultants recommendations on roles and responsibilities we therefore used a qualitative method. Furthermore, we also used an explorative effort due to our purpose to scrutinise the research area and a comparative effort when comparing the IT-consultants views with each other and then comparing the categorised IT-consultants views to the theoretical views identified in this study. One factor influencing the mode of procedure is the theoretical study of roles and responsibilities made by Granehäll, Karlström and Uyanik (2005). These authors present three different views of roles and responsibilities in application investments. We found these views necessary to be further developed. This became the foundation of the theoretical data of roles and responsibilities in this study, setting the structure of the presentation of theoreti-cal data. After presenting the additional theory and adding it to the all ready known views, we were in this study able to identify three new theoretical views on roles and responsibilities fo-cused on different roles. The empirical data, established during this study, expressed by each participative IT-consultant is presented separately. This has been done to increase understanding and to facilitate the reading. During this study on roles and responsibilities in application investments and the IT-consultants view on roles and responsibilities in SME application investments we found that the theory is directed to organisations in general, with an undertone that specifies the direction towards larger organisations, causing the theory to recommend different roles of responsibilities than the IT-consultants actually are practising. The IT-consultants we found to present different advice regarding roles and responsibilities. We have therefore been able to categorise these different advices into three different views with different focus.

The thesis Safety line workers mental hygiene deals about psychohygiene of consultants, who provide crisis intervention to children and adolescents over the phone. Topics such as mental hygiene and phone crisis intervention are elaborated in the first part of the thesis and the Safety line organization is discussed in detail as well. An empirical part of the thesis deals about types of psychohygiene which are used by the Safety line consultants. It has been discovered, that the Safety line workers use forms of psychohygiene, which the organization has to offer. A chance to discuss specific problems with shift team lead is mostly appreciated by them as well as the fact, that there are teams at the Safety line therefore consultants are not alone for solving issues. Hypotheses used for discovering the connection between socio-demografic entries and psychohygiene haven't been rejected except one. The only hypothesis, which could be rejected, was related to the lengths of practice at the Safety line and level of mental balance. The goal of this thesis was to chart methods of mental hygiene of the Safety line workers and thus to show them ways, how to nurture themselves and how to reach mental equilibrium while working for the Safety line.

Den här vetenskapliga essän har som syfte att undersöka fenomenet medarbetarundersökningar. Startpunkt tas i en egenupplevd erfarenhet från ett mötesrum på en förlossningsavdelning och skildras utifrån mitt förstapersonsperspektiv som utomstående konsult. Situationen berättar om relationella konflikter och organisatoriska problem på sjukhuset, en olustig atmosfär i mötesrummet, samt min upplevelse av att vara förställd och malplacerad såväl som mitt agerande. Essän prövar att belysa denna situation med hjälp av Martin Heideggers tankevärld och då specifikt områdena tal och stämning. Ett fenomenologiskt förhållningssätt till situationen intas, där essän genom Heideggers begrepp söker fånga den praktiska kunskap som låg till grund för att den blev som den blev. / This scientific essay aims at investigating the phenomenon of employee surveys. The starting point is a personally experienced event from a meeting room in a maternity ward, depicted from my first˗person perspective as an external consultant. The event tells about relational conflicts and organizational problems at the hospital, an uneasy mood in the meeting room, and my feelings of falsity and being inept as well as my actions. The essay tries to illuminate this event with help from the ideas and reasoning of Martin Heidegger, and specifically his discussions in the areas of talk and mood. A phenomenological approach to the event is taken, where the essay through Heidegger's concepts seeks to capture the practical knowledge that formed the basis for the event turning out as it did.

This paper aims to contribute to knowledge of stereotypization mechanisms, bringing in the case of PR consultants. Using lenses of the key cultural form - film and television series - the project analyses a way of representing PR profession, as depicted on TV screen both in Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, during 2000-2017 time period. Theoretical frame is drawing on key ideas on stereotype, narrowed by film usage, as seen in the work of Walter Lippmann and others. Main hypothesis is based on assumption that negative media portrayal might interfere with professional reputation. Analytical part employs qualitative, thematical analysis that focuses on interpretation of personal features, behavioral characteristics and depiction of reocurring key themes. The final outcome then presents a professional portrayal of Public Relations on Czech and British television scene, builded up on prominent steretypes, accompanied by relevant quotes to illustrate the point. Key findings show undestanding communication as means of persuasion, leading to egoism, a lack of ethical values and dominant attitude in relation to clients and journalists. To prove the contribution argument that these negative attributes will further affect the future professional status of PR, the final insight illustrates such impact by...

ICTs have enabled increased mobility and created a new era of workplace connectivity. Due to changes in work organization, global operations, increased mobility, and the new opportunities they are creating; work requires more coordination, more travel and a higher frequency of boundary spanning. ICTs have infiltrated into the personal life of individuals, while similarly, having an increasing impact on how organizations manage their workers‘ work-life balance. This research investigates the work boundary negotiation process in ICT-enabled work.Using an in-depth case study supplemented with visual data, this thesis studies the case of Sigma, an international consulting firm, that serves clients located in a large geographical area. It explores how consultants exhibiting mobile work practices, use ICTs to negotiate work boundaries. It draws on the structurational model of technology and complements it with the boundary object construct. The utilisation of this combined approach allows further understanding of work boundary negotiation.The research reveals that some ICTs as technological artefacts are boundary objects bridging between different groups of actors, crossing work boundaries, and allowing actors to negotiate their work boundaries while challenging traditional boundaries. Thus, allowing consultants to use their ICTs (specifically their smartphone) to negotiate their work boundaries on a need to basis. The boundary negotiation process (as revealed by the structuration process) is the means by which consultants try to make the most out of existing social structures – in this case specifically domination – in their organizational context. The ICT becomes a source of power and is mainly used to manifest domination over available resources. Consultants use them to maintain control over their life, increase their legitimacy and convey that they are professional experts. ICTs allow consultants to continuously redefine their work boundaries which become dynamic, fluid and contextual; the research reaffirms the sociotechnical nature of work boundaries.The thesis also develops a conceptual model of work boundary negotiation that conceptually illustrates how boundary negotiation is the outcome of the structuration process and the negotiation of existing structures of domination, legitimation and signification.

The Master's Thesis is focused on the process of recruitment and selection of applicants for business consultant positions in an unnamed insurance company. The position is characterized by frequently repeated demand for recruitment of new workers. Therefore the requirements for effectiveness of the process of recruitment and selections of suitable applicants increase. The goal of the Master's Thesis is to evaluate current effectiveness of partial steps of the process and uncover ineffective parts of the process. Based on uncovered ineffective sub-processes a set of recommendations which would help increase the overall effectiveness of the process will be given.

Bemanningsbranschen är en växande bransch som präglas av en speciell trepartsrelation mellan konsultchef, kund och konsult. Inom denna trepartsrelation formas ett samledarskap mellan konsultchef och kund som tillsammans har ett delat ansvar över en eller flera konsulter. Syftet med denna studie är att förklara samledarskapet inom bemanningsbranschen i Jönköping. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka samledarskapets konsekvenser i förhållande till relationen mellan kund och konsult. Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ fallstudie som utgår från en induktiv ansats. Studiens datainsamling grundas i semistrukturerade intervjuer med konsultchefer som arbetar på bemanningsföretag i Jönköping. Bidraget är således intressant eftersom den skildrar konsultchefers personliga erfarenheter. Genom studien har det identifierats teman och förhållningssätt som är nödvändiga för ett fungerande samledarskap. Identifierade teman har genererats genom tematisering i form av kodningsarbete där återkommande begrepp och uppfattningar har kategoriserats för att slutligen presentera ett sammanfattat resultat. De teman som diskuteras är samledarskapet mellan konsultchef och kund, anpassad stöttning, anpassning till kund, situationsanpassat ledarskap, situationsanpassad kommunikation samt kommunicerade förväntningar. Även konsekvenserna av samledarskapet i förhållande till relationen mellan kund och konsult diskuteras genom situationsanpassad ansvarsfördelning, förtroende i förhållande till relationen med kund samt engagemang i förhållande till relationen med konsult. Sammanfattningsvis mynnar det ut i att konsultchefers samledarskap präglas av situationsanpassning och kundens dikterande villkor i relationen. Konsekvenserna av samledarskapet i förhållande till relationen mellan kund och konsult blir förtroende i förhållande till kund och engagemang i förhållande till konsult. / The staffing industry is a growing line of business characterized by a special trilateral relationship between the consultant manager, the client and consultant. Within this trilateral relationship a co-leadership is formed between the consultant manager and the client whom exercise a shared responsibility for one or several consultants. The purpose of this study is to explain the co-leadership in the staffing industry in Jönköping. Furthermore, this study aims to examine the consequences of co-leadership in terms of the relationship to the client and consultant. The thesis is based on a qualitative case study based on an inductive approach. The data collection of the study is built on the form of semi-structured interviews with consultant managers working in the staffing industry in Jönköping. Thus, the contribution is interesting since it portrays consultant managers personal experiences. The study has identified themes that are necessary for a functioning co-leadership. Themes have been generated through thematization in form of coding work where recurrent concepts and perceptions have been categorized to finally present a summarized result. Topics discussed include co-leadership between the consultant manager and the client, customized support, customization for the client, situation-based leadership, situational communication as well as communicated expectations. The consequences of co-leadership in terms of the relationship between the customer and consultant are also discussed through situation-based division of responsibilities, trust in the relationship with the client as well as commitment in relationship with the consultant. In summary, consultant managers co-leadership is characterized by situation adaptation and the client's dictating conditions in the relationship. The consequences of co-leadership are trust in relation to the client and commitment in relation to the consultant.

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