The role as a middle-manager is complex. They often tend to be squeezed between the management and the staff.  For this reason, it is very important that there is a good balance between demand, control, support and stress at work. Studies show that such balance is of great importance in facilitating the middle management's complex work situation. The aim of the study was to analyse middle manager’s experiences of demand, control, support and stress in their daily work. Semi-structured interviews with six middle managers on a private company were performed, and the result was analysed with deductive thematic analysis. All middle managers felt that they constantly experienced stress at work, and that the right proportions of demand, control and support could help them handle the stress at work.

I en värld där teknologi möjliggör förflyttning av pengar skyndsamt till varje hörn, blir arbete mot penningtvätt allt viktigare. På en global nivå tvättas stora belopp årligen och i Sverige uppmärksammas penningtvättsskandaler inom banksektorn. Denna studie är utformad för att försöka förstå varför penningtvätt kan förekomma trots intern kontroll i banker. Detta genom att använda Internal Control Maturity Model för att mäta nivån på den befintliga interna kontrollen i storbanker. För att motarbeta penningtvätt har finansinspektionen skapat interna riktlinjer för att svenska banker ska kunna verka lagligt. Dessa riktlinjer har använts som underlag för en kvalitativ undersökning som har gjorts med hjälp av fem respondenter. Studiens resultat visade på att uppfyllelse av finansinspektionens riktlinjer innebär att bankerna håller sig inom lagen men att ändamålet som innebär motverkan av penningtvätt, inte alltid uppnås. Detta på grund av att nivån på bankernas interna kontroll inte alltid är fullt effektiv. Resultatet går dock inte att generalisera på grund av ett för litet urval av banker samt respondenter. Studien kan därför inte användas som underlag för bedömning av hur den interna kontrollen ser ut på andra banker.

The theme of this diploma thesis is design of walking excavator. Specifially, the thesis is focused on inovative possibility of remote controll and describe structural, technological and ergonomic aspects of this solution in respect of current trends.

Author: Kadenic, Sanita. Stressed social secretaries in financial assistance. A qualitative study on how social secretaries experience their working situation linked to stress at a social office in Malmo. Degree project in social work, 15/30 högskolepoäng. Malmö University: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Social Work, 2022.   The purpose of this study is to investigate how social secretaries who work in financial assistance experience their work situation in relation to stress. The empirical data was collected through nine semi-structured interviews with social secretaries working in financial assistance. Furthermore, coping and Karasek and Theorell’s demand-control model have been used as theoretical starting points. The Collected empirical evidence has been analyzed based on the selected theories and the state of knowledge. One of the central points of departure in this study was that social secretaries explained which factors contributed to stress in the workplace and which measures exist in the workplace to prevent stress, among other things. / Författare: Kadenic, Sanita. Stressade socialsekreterare i ekonomiskt bistånd. En kvalitativ studie om hur socialsekreterare upplever sin arbetssituation kopplad till stress på ett socialkontor i Malmö. Examensarbete i socialt arbete, 15/30 högskolepoäng. Malmö högskola: Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2022.   Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur socialsekreterare som arbetar inom ekonomiskt bistånd upplever sin arbetssituation i relation till stress. Empirin samlades in genom nio semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialsekreterare som arbetar inom ekonomiskt bistånd. Vidare har coping och Karasek och Theorells efterfrågestyrningsmodell använts som teoretiska utgångspunkter. Den insamlade empirin har analyserats utifrån de utvalda teorierna och kunskapsläget. En av de centrala utgångspunkterna i denna studie var att socialsekreterare förklarade vilka faktorer som bidrog till stress på arbetsplatsen och vilka åtgärder som finns på arbetsplatsen för att bland annat förebygga stress.

<p>In 2005 a public housing company in Uppsala, Sweden introduced the service quarter host. The focus on comfort (life quality in American programmes) is similar to the non-tolerance programmes. The idea of non-tolerance derived from the theory of Broken windows. The purpose is to examine how the service works according to the theories of Broken windows and social control. The aim is also to examine if the manifest and the latent functions are the same in different areas. Hosts from four different areas have been interviewed in a comparative case study. The result tells that the hosts practice according to the Broken windows model when they prevent damage to, or around the buildings by checking them. And to the non-tolerance when they are taking care of minor problems, defined by them. The manifest functions of the service are the same in all four areas. The latent functions are different related to the host’s apprehension of the people in the areas. How the manifest services are carried out influences the latent function. Social control cannot be excluded as a latent function. The resemblances with the more social administration in Gothenburg points out public housing in the direction of being social housing.</p>

In 2005 a public housing company in Uppsala, Sweden introduced the service quarter host. The focus on comfort (life quality in American programmes) is similar to the non-tolerance programmes. The idea of non-tolerance derived from the theory of Broken windows. The purpose is to examine how the service works according to the theories of Broken windows and social control. The aim is also to examine if the manifest and the latent functions are the same in different areas. Hosts from four different areas have been interviewed in a comparative case study. The result tells that the hosts practice according to the Broken windows model when they prevent damage to, or around the buildings by checking them. And to the non-tolerance when they are taking care of minor problems, defined by them. The manifest functions of the service are the same in all four areas. The latent functions are different related to the host’s apprehension of the people in the areas. How the manifest services are carried out influences the latent function. Social control cannot be excluded as a latent function. The resemblances with the more social administration in Gothenburg points out public housing in the direction of being social housing.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:08:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JulioCOF.pdf: 983441 bytes, checksum: df3a42267608b9d7ed2fd356c7ba1094 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-16 / Chemical admixtures, when properly selected and quantified, play an important role in obtaining adequate slurry systems for quality primary cementing operations. They assure the proper operation of a well and reduce costs attributed to corrective cementing jobs. Controlling the amount lost by filtering through the slurry to permeable areas is one of the most important requirements in an operation, commonly controlled by chemical admixtures, such as carboxymethylcellulose (CMC). However, problems related to temperature, salttolerance and the secundary retarding effect are commonly reported in the literature. According to the scenario described above, the use of an aqueous dispersion of non-ionic poliurethane was proposed to control the filter loss, given its low ionic interaction with the free ions present in the slurries in humid state. Therefore, this study aims at assessing the efficiency of poliurethane to reduce filter loss in different temperature and pressure conditions as well as the synergistic effect with other admixtures. The temperatures and pressures used in laboratory tests simulate the same conditions of oil wells with depths of 500 to 1200 m. The poliurethane showed resistance to thermal degradation and stability in the presence of salts. With the increase in the concentration of the polymer there was a considerable decrease in the volume lost by filtration, and this has been effective even with the increase in temperature / Os aditivos qu?micos, quando devidamente selecionados e quantificados, s?o importantes aliados na obten??o de sistemas adequados de pastas para cimenta??es prim?rias de qualidade, fundamentais para o ciclo de vida ?til de um po?o, visto que opera??es de cimenta??o corretiva geram custos adicionais. Controlar a quantidade perdida por filtra??o pela pasta de cimento para as zonas perme?veis ? um dos requisitos mais importantes em uma opera??o, comumente controlado por aditivos qu?micos, como a carboximetilcelulose (CMC). Entretanto, problemas associados ? temperatura, toler?ncia a sais e o efeito secund?rio como retardador de pega, s?o comumente reportados na literatura. De acordo com o cen?rio descrito acima foi proposta a utiliza??o de uma dispers?o aquosa n?o i?nica de poliuretana para controle de filtrado, dada sua baixa intera??o i?nica com os ?ons livres presentes na pasta no estado fresco. Assim, este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a efici?ncia da poliuretana como redutor de filtrado em diferentes condi??es de temperatura e press?o, bem como o efeito sin?rgico com outros aditivos. As temperaturas e press?es utilizadas nos ensaios em laborat?rio simulam as mesmas condi??es de po?os de petr?leo com profundidades de 500 a 1200 m. A poliuretana apresentou resist?ncia ? degrada??o t?rmica e estabilidade na presen?a de sais. Com o aumento da concentra??o do pol?mero observou-se uma consider?vel diminui??o do volume perdido por filtra??o, mantendo-se eficiente mesmo com o incremento da temperatura

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JaimeBF_capa_ate_pag_19.pdf: 7962172 bytes, checksum: 45237e67ab4c644a9513e54fd4865fb5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-12-10 / The present work presents an algorithm proposal, which aims for controlling and improving idle time to be applied in oil production wells equipped with beam pump. The algorithm was totally designed based on existing papers and data acquired from two Potiguar Basin pilot wells. Oil engineering concepts such as submergence, pump off, Basic Sediments and Water (BSW), Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR), reservo ir pressure, inflow pressure, among others, were included into the algorithm through a mathematical treatment developed from a typical well and then extended to the general cases. The optimization will increase the well production potential maximum utilization having the smallest number of pumping unit cycles directly reflecting on operational cost and electricity consumption reduction / O presente trabalho apresenta proposta de um algoritmo que objetiva o controle e a otimiza??o do tempo de espera a ser aplicado em po?os de produ??o de petr?leo equipados com bombeio mec?nico. O algoritmo foi totalmente elaborado atrav?s de subs?dios da literatura existente e de dados coletados de dois po?os pilotos de campos de petr?leo da ?rea terrestre da Bacia Potiguar. Conceitos de engenharia de petr?leo tais como submerg?ncia, pancada de fluido, Basic Sediments and Water (BSW), lnflow Performance Relationship (IPR), press?o do reservat?rio, press?o em fluxo, entre outros, foram incorporados ao algoritmo por um tratamento matem?tico desenvolvido a partir de um po?o t?pico, para da? ser estendido aos casos gerais. A otimiza??o favorecer? o aproveitamento m?ximo do potencial de produ??o do po?o com o menor n?mero de ciclos da unidade de bombeio, refletindo diretamente na redu??o de custos operacionais e do consumo de energia el?trica

The aim of this study has been to contribute to the knowledge about food and eating as a social phenomenon, by examining how individuals who diverge from the food norm construct their social reality. This qualitative study were carried out in Umeå 2017. Individuals who identified as vegans and ate an strict vegan diet were interviewed on the base of a semi structured interview guide. Since the theoretical framework on which the study lies is Kathy Charmaz´s social constructionism, the object of the study is not the vegans themself, but the social situations where they encounter food normativity. The results showed that three different processes were in motion when the deviants navigated through the landscape of food normativity; att konfrontera eller inte konfrontera (to confront or not to confront), tidens inverkan på mängden upplevda konflikter (effect of time on the degree of experienced conflicts) and normföljarnas känslor och dess konsekvenser för normavvikarna (the normfollowers feelings and their consequenses for the deviants). The study showed that the effects of social food norms hade a great impact on the deviants social reality.

Processorientering är en organisationsform som fokuserar på processer istället för hierarkier. Inom organisationsformen processorientering styrs organisationen med processtyrning som innefattar ett antal komponenter som ska ge styreffekter och driva företagets resultat. Tidigare undersökningar inom ämnet granskar organisationsformen i sin helhet och effekterna för organisationen. Det som dock inte tidigare har undersökts är vad denna organisationsform ger för effekter på en grupp medarbetare eller en enskild medarbetare.  Genom att studera detta vill vi erhålla en nyanserad bild och inblick i hur implementeringen av processer påverkar medarbetare i en organisation och hur processtyrning kan bidra till att realisera ett företags mål. Med utgångspunkt från befintlig teori gällande processorientering och dess komponenter har det identifierats tre centrala delar. Dessa centrala delar är prestationen både på medarbetares individuella nivå och företagsnivå, medarbetarnas synsätt och icke-finansiella nyckeltalsindikatorer. En webbaserad enkätundersökning genomfördes där medarbetares upplevelser om processtyrning samlades in. Enkäten delades upp i kategorierna medvetenhet, frekvens, samarbete, påverkan på medarbetare och effekter. Kategoriseringen gjordes med stöd av tidigare studier av processorientering.  Med grund i den teoretiska referensramen har vi analyserat vår data och kunde konstatera att effekterna i vissa fall stämmer väl överens med det från teorin förväntade resultatet och i vissa fall avviker resultatet från teorin. Vår studie bidrar till att utveckla och nyansera modellen för processorientering. Vi vill visa hur medarbetare upplever och hanterar de effekter som olika grader av processorientering kan få samt hur medarbetarnas upplevelser kan påverka företaget i sin helhet vad gäller möjligheten att uppnå sina mål. / Process orientation is a type of organisation that focuses on processes instead of hierarchies. Within the organisational form, the organisation is managed by process management which include several components providing control effects and driving the company's results. A web-based survey was conducted in which employees' experiences about process management were collected. The survey included the categories of awareness, frequency, collaboration, impact on employees and effects. The categorization was developed in line with previous studies of process orientation. Based on the theoretical frame of reference, we have analysed our data and found that in some cases the effects are well in line with the expected effects from the theory and in some cases, these differ from the theory. Our study is a contribution to the work of developing and nuancing the model of process orientation. Our study shows how employees are experiencing and managing the effects of different degrees of process orientation and how employees' experiences can affect the companies’ ability to achieve their goals. As a result, the role of process management is to increase the employee's degree of process orientation.