This work serves as a way of communicating the dark side of fashion to provoke change. Consumers is placed in the loop that consists of consumerism, fast fashion and advertising, and this work will try to expose that loop. This work aims to critique how fashion is consumed and sold through printing images from the dark side of fashion in combination with texts from advertisements to open up a conversation. The method to do this is by digital printing and transfer printing images from the dark side of the fashion industry on sustainable materials, combining the images with advertising texts. Through this the viewer is invited into conversation about the problems with subtle provocation by making the viewer emotionally involved.

Background:The society of the 21st century is shaped by a highly competitive environment and a vast amount of uncertainties. To stay competitive and up to date, people must manage other people and their emotions with excellence. Emotional intelligence (EI) has been described as a key function in managing people successfully within companies of today's society. Existing research within the field of the phenomenon has mostly been focusing on the fruitfulness as follows by EI taking place within a company context. However, some researchers argue for the other side of the coin, where the usage of EI may harm people. This area is introduced as the dark side of EI which takes form through emotional manipulation. As emotional manipulation is argued to be present within a company context, it becomes important to investigate how the dark side of EI manifests and affects people within a company context. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how the dark side of EI manifests and affects people within a company context. Method: To fulfil the purpose of this study being of exploratory nature, a qualitative research methodology was employed. The empirical data was collected through semi- structured interviews held with people of various positions within four large Swedish companies. The data has been analysed and interpreted using a general inductive research approach incorporating thematic analysis. Conclusion:This study shows that the dark side of EI exists within a company context. Findings imply the manifestation to start within the top management followed by a hierarchical domino effect throughout the hierarchical levels within the company and is highly dependent on leadership influence. The dark side of EI does not solely manifests in the non-prosocial side of EI, it also appears to manifest within an intermediate zone between prosocial and non-prosocial. The manifestation takes form through gamification techniques being identified as social-, tactic-, and run one over games. People got affected by the manifestation in terms of emotional distance and decreased motivation. Importantly, the degree in which people got affected varied depending on individual concentrations of EI competencies, self- confidence, assertiveness, and familiarity with the individual or the group as explained in the Spectrum Framework from EI to the Dark side of EI created within this research.

Purpose: The purpose with this study is to find out and understand whether athlete's performance can be affected by destructive leadership in sports organizations, then weigh this together with theory. This is a try to contribute to the discourse on destructive leadership.   Method: This study is performed using a qualitative approach in the form of semi-structured interviews in which the interviewees are selected through a convenience sampling.   Theoretical framework: This investigation’s theoretical framework consists of theories dealing with leadership, leadership in sports organizations, power, destructive leadership, how destructive leadership can be positive and how it can be negative.    Empiricism: This investigation’s empiricism consists of 17 interviews with athletes who have experienced a destructive leader in sports organizations.  Conclusion: All athletes could express a negative influence on performance from destructive leadership, but the majority who expressed a positive influence expressed that it was a kind of fear, pressure or anger among the athletes that made the athletes perform better as the motivation and the desire to disprove the leader increased. How the destructive leader influence the athlete may depend on the athlete's personality and attitude. It is possible to discern in this study that athletes look, feel and respond differently to a destructive leadership, which can determine the positive and/or negative effects.

L’engagement organisationnel a un effet réducteur sur les comportements déviants au travail. Cette recherche se propose de relever et de chiffrer les conséquences du déficit d’engagement puis d’identifier et d’analyser ses causes pour pouvoir, grâce au management et à la gestion stratégique des ressources humaines, élaborer et tester des propositions susceptibles d’améliorer durablement l’engagement dans un souci de performances socio-économiques.Notre terrain de recherche est le service nettoiement d’une collectivité territoriale en Tunisie où nous avons mené une recherche-intervention qui montre que l’estime et la valorisation du travail et du statut de l’employé, aussi bas dans l’échelle soit-il, est nécessaire pour augmenter l’engagement et le sentiment d’appartenance à l’organisation et par là l’amélioration des performances. Mots clés : engagement organisationnel, comportements déviants, management, performance socio-économique. / Organizational commitment has a reductive effect on deviant behaviors at work.This research intend to show up and calculate the cost of a lack of commitment and then identify and analyse its causes to be able, by the mean of the strategic management of human resources, to work up and test proposals that enhance durably commitment and socio-economic performance.Our research terrain is a local authority cleaning service in Tunisia where we conducted a research-intervention that shows that respect and valuation of employee labor and status, especially when he’s in the bottom end of the scale, is necessary to enhance commitment and strengthen the sense of belonging to the organisation and thereby performance.Keywords : commitment, dark side behaviors, socio-economic performance, management.

<p>This research investigates the interplay between self-worth and consumption, and explores the substantive phenomenon of trading up. Laboratory experiments were conducted in which participants were led to fail (or not) on an intelligence test, which threatened their feelings of self-worth (or not). Following the failure, participants made consumer choices. Of key interest was whether threatened self-worth would result in more "trading up" - that is, selecting more expensive products or retail stores. Results revealed that compared to consumers whose self-worth was not threatened, threatened consumers demonstrated more self-expressive consumption: trading up when a product portrayed "me" (high on self-relevance), or not trading up when a product portrayed "not me" (low on self-relevance). Self-relevance was operationalized in terms of choice sets (i.e., the choice between two Duke t-shirts vs. two white t-shirts) and individual differences in the tendency to consider material objects part of the self (this was measured via a questionnaire).</p><p>This research also examined two hypotheses regarding how consumption could, in turn, affect feelings of self-worth. The first hypothesis stated that negative feelings of self-worth can be immediately repaired via consumer decisions (here, the decision to trade up or not). Indeed, results revealed that among consumers whose feelings of self-worth were threatened, self-expressive consumption repaired negative feelings of self-worth. The second hypothesis stated that positive attachments between possessions and consumers' feelings of self-worth enable consumers to rely on possessions to protect self-worth. To test this, participants wrote about a possession that was important for who they are and how they feel about themselves (participants in a control condition wrote about a possession important to other people for this reason). Results showed that writing about a self-relevant possession before failing a test buffered the impact on feelings of self-worth. This finding was particularly robust for possessions important to consumers' social relationships.</p><p>These findings highlight the bright side of the relationship between consumption and self-worth: consumers respond to threats adaptively - sometimes spending more and sometimes spending less - and functionally - by making consumption decisions that repair self-worth and by relying on possessions to protect self-worth.</p> / Dissertation

This thesis is about the making of a power plant. It sheds light on how neoliberal ideas shape large public investments in sustainable energy infrastructure. It tells the story of how the City of Copenhagen decided to build what was claimed to be the greenest waste-fired power plant in the world: Copenhill. The plant was to have a ski slope at the rooftop and a chimney puffing smoke-rings. However, conflicting urban visions and rationalities led to a year-long crisis in the project’s planning phase. In the end, Copenhill was built over capacity, which today makes it difficult to match budget and costs. I combined information from internal municipal documents, interviews with decision makers and informal corridor talk to identify the driving forces behind the outcome of the crisis, and the contradictions and complexities of the case. I found that the crisis had roots in the way the public energy company ARC began to act like a private firm, with an entrepreneurial vision. ARC adopted an expansionist growth plan to build a large power plant with iconic architecture. The Copenhill project attracted local politicians wishing to brand Copenhagen as a green world city. However, the city’s Technical and Environmental Administration (TEA) was guided by a managerial vision with a strong sustainability focus. TEA’s analysis showed that there would not be enough garbage in the city to power the over-sized plant. Consequences for economy and environment were seen as potentially disastrous. Supported by city council and government, TEA tried to stop Copenhill. The clash between the two different urban visions led to the formation of two opposing coalitions with each their own rationality. The contradictions between growth rationality and green rationality caused the Copenhill Crisis. The direct intervention of the power élite in support of a growth solution short-circuited the norms of transparent public decision-making. Bowing to political pressure, TEA produced new documents saying that Copenhill would be great for economy and climate. Dark planning practices led to an outcome that was falsely presented as a compromise between green and growth strategies. It was in fact a growth solution, wrapped in green arguments that were not rational. The case study supports a key proposition in theory on the dark side of planning: that rationality is context-dependent and that the context of rationality is power. The case study adds insights to theory by showing the ways neoliberal thought merges with existing socio-economic conditions in space and time, specifically within a Nordic welfare-state context. It shows how public energy companies can face challenges, not only from neoliberal-driven privatization attempts, but also from ideas of iconicity and city marketing. The case study reaffirms the strength of a Flyvbjergian approach to understand the effects of hidden power mechanisms on planning of public energy infrastructure.

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In this thesis, we launched our eye on the dark side of corporations, exploring two corporate crimes committed in Brazil for two transnational corporations in the chemical industry, an industry predominated by large corporations operating in the form of oligopolies, within an industry to produce highly strategic inputs to production of most consumer goods. Our goal is to understand the corporate crimes beyond the functionalist perspective prevalent in the literature on the subject. To this end, we conducted a qualitative research based on critical perspective, focusing on two cases that occurred for over four decades in Brazil. To gather empirical data, interviewed former workers and employees of corporations protagonists of crimes, former residents of the community affected by the crime and experts, such as lawyers and health professionals who were involved in the cases. The interviews were kind of narrative, having been recorded and later transcribed for analysis. Besides the interviews, we gathered several documents on cases such as press, technical reports, judgments and sentences. We analyze the empirical material seeking to recognize that corporate crime occurred as an extension of the organizations and their way to organize, and not as unfortunate or unintended side effects. As main results, we develop the concepts of ‘necrocorporation’ and corporate crimes against life. Our analysis was extended on the joints engendered by corporations, the production of death, and the power, consent and resistance. In both cases examined, the crimes were committed in the pursuit of corporate objectives, causing the deaths and illnesses, as well as other irreversible damage to the environment and the community. Our results point to the need for a shift in thinking about the relationships between governments, corporations and society, starting with the dissolution of this model of business organization. / As corporações estão presentes em todos os lugares e em quase todos os aspectos de nossas vidas, porém, elas podem ser perigosas para a sociedade, protagonizando ações com impactos negativos para consumidores, trabalhadores, meio ambiente e comunidades. Nesta tese, lançamos nosso olhar sobre o lado sombrio das corporações, explorando dois crimes corporativos cometidos no Brasil por duas corporações transnacionais da indústria química, uma indústria predominada por grandes corporações operando em forma de oligopólios, dentro de um setor altamente estratégico por produzir insumos para a produção da maioria dos bens de consumo. Nosso objetivo é compreender os crimes corporativos para além da perspectiva funcionalista predominante na literatura sobre o tema. Para tanto, realizamos uma pesquisa qualitativa, com base na perspectiva crítica, focalizando dois casos ocorridos há mais de quatro décadas, no Brasil. Para reunir material empírico, entrevistamos ex-trabalhadores e trabalhadores das corporações protagonistas dos crimes, ex-moradores da comunidade atingida pelos crimes e especialistas, como advogados e profissionais da saúde, que se envolveram nos casos. As entrevistas foram do tipo narrativa, tendo sido gravadas e, posteriormente, transcritas para análise. Além das entrevistas, reunimos diversos documentos sobre os casos, como a cobertura jornalística, relatórios técnicos, sentenças e acórdãos. Analisamos o material empírico buscando reconhecer que os crimes corporativos ocorreram como uma extensão das organizações e de seu modo de organizar, e não como infortúnio ou efeitos colaterais não intencionais. Como principais resultados, desenvolvemos os conceitos de necrocorporação e crimes corporativos contra a vida. Nossa análise estendeu-se sobre as articulações engendradas pelas corporações; a produção da morte; e o poder, o consentimento e a resistência. Em ambos os casos analisados, os crimes foram cometidos na busca pelos objetivos corporativos, provocando a morte e doenças, bem como outros danos irreversíveis ao meio ambiente e à comunidade. Nossos resultados apontam para a necessidade de uma mudança no modo de pensar quanto às relações entre governos, sociedade e corporações, iniciando-se pela dissolução desse modelo de organização de negócios.