Environmental testing industry is a kind of knowledge industry, also a kind of technical service industry. People who engaged in environmental testing services are all knowledge workers. A knowledge worker¡¦s benefit to a company could be in the form of developing business intelligence or variety of other important gains in knowledge that aid the business. It is necessary for a company to build up its human resource management system(HRMS) in such competitive market nowadays. Peter Drucker(1989) pointed that the quality, performance, and achievement of management people is the critical issue for deciding the fate of a company. Management people is the key to success, so how to strengthen and develop the competence of management people is very important. Human resource is the intellectual capital of knowledge industry. It also could be the capital of technical service industry. Purpose of the study is to realize what should be the competence of management people and how will it be of help to the HRMS within the case environmental laboratory. It could maximize the effectiveness of human resource investment and enhance the selecting, cultivating, retaining, and positioning people in an innovation way. People who take the advantage of their management competence will positively bring in sustainable growth in profitability. Through reviewing of the essays and theses, induction of the interview information, the writer found that the conceptual difference is existence in reality of training and promotion sub-system between management people and its existing HRMS. Management people need an integrated training sub-system for developing their management competence. And, they need a clear, definite, and quantitative sub-system for promotion appraisal. Most of the interviewee were sure these two sub-system could encourage and retain good people for the company. If the case company could improve these two sub-system of the whole HRMS, it will acquire the consistency of both people and company as well as the synergistic effects. The results and suggestions of the study is wishing to benefit environmental testing industry by enhancing the management competence. Furthermore, it is wishing to benefit all other testing related industries as well.

It takes several acute and planned transfers between children's intensive care and children's cardiology ward of the week, of children with heartdiseses. At the acute movements it can be difficult for the nurse to take time for the parents. When the nurses talk about how they communicate and take care of the parents, at the movements of the children, it may increase nurses' awareness regarding how parents are treated. The purpose of the study was to describe how nurses feel that parental perspective into account the movement of children with heart disease between the child intensive care and ward. The study was conducted with six nurses in two focus group interviews, and analyzed as a content analysis. The categories that emerged from the study were: information, availability and security. Nurses experienced parental perspective into account, through information on the movement. Accessibility to the nurses affected by the lack of time and that the movement was take at short notice. Time was an area that was identified as a problem, increased accessibility for the nurse to be there for the parents, would give them greater security. To lodge security, it was important for parents to get information about where they would be moved. Further research may lead to attention of the parental perspective and that nurses can influence and improve the way information is given to the parents and a better reporting of what information is given and what they need for further information. / Det sker flera akuta och planerade förflyttningar mellan barnintensiven (BIVA) och barnkardiologavdelningen varje vecka, av hjärtsjuka barn. Vid de akuta förflyttningarna kan det vara svårt för sjuksköterskan att ta sig tid till föräldrarna.Genom att sjuksköterskorna samtalar om hur de informerar och tar om hand föräldrarna, vid förflyttningar av barnen, kan det öka sjuksköterskors medvetenhet gällande hur föräldrar bemöts. Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur sjuksköterskorna upplever att föräldraperspektivet beaktas vid förflyttning av hjärtsjuka barn mellan BIVA och vårdavdelningen. Studien utfördes med sex sjuksköterskor i två fokusgruppsintervjuer, och analyserades enligt en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Kategorierna som framkom i studien var information, tillgänglighet och trygghet. Sjuksköterskorna upplevde att föräldraperspektivet beaktades, genom information om förflyttning. Tillgänglighet till sjuksköterskan påverkas av tidsbrist även att beslut om förflyttning tas med kort varsel. För att inge trygghet var det viktigt för föräldrarna att få information om dit de skulle flyttas. Vidare forskning kan leda till att föräldraperspektivet uppmärksammas ytterligare och att sjuksköterskor kan påverka och förbättra sättet information ges till föräldrarna och en bättre över rapportering vad för information som är given och vad de behöver för fortsatt information

Föreliggande studie har som syfte att undersöka hur musiklärare samtalar om skolans genusuppdrag i relation till undervisning i musik. Studiens teoretiska ram utgörs av genusteorier och ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv. Datamaterialet har insamlats genom två fokusgruppsintervjuer där kvinnliga och manliga musiklärare från olika utbildningsnivåer och inriktningar diskuterat genus och musikundervisning. Den data som har genererats ur gruppintervjuerna har bearbetats och analyserats med hjälp av diskursanalytiska redskap med fokus på lärarnas syn på genus och musikundervisning. I resultatet presenteras flera små diskurser som belyser de förhållningssätt som lärarna har på sig själva, sitt uppdrag och sina elever. Resultatet visar att lärarna strävar efter genusmedvetenhet och individfokus, men upplever sig tillbakahållna av fasta biologiska faktorer samt känner en uppgivenhet kring historiska strukturer som lever kvar, en rädsla över maktförhållanden och en uppfattning om genus som ett svårt och komplicerat ämne. Sammanfattningsvis förstås genus som någonting abstrakt och paradoxalt. I praktiska sammanhang brottas lärarna med uppfattningar och idéer kring genus som är svåra att konkretisera. I diskussionen lyfts två sammanfattande och kontrasterande diskurser fram som det eftersträvansvärda och det biologiskt fastställda samt kampen mellan diskurserna / This study explores how music teachers converse about the school´s gender mission in relation to music education. The theoretical frame of the study is gender theories and a social constructionism. The data for the study has been collected through two focus group interviews where female and male music teachers from different educational levels and specializations discuss gender and music education. The data generated from the focus group interviews has been processed and analysed with discourse analytical tools with a focus on the teachers’ views on gender and music education. The result show several smaller discourses that show the views the teachers have on themselves, their mission and their students. The result shows that the teachers strive for gender awareness and a focus on individuals, but that they also feel held back by fixed biological elements and that they feel resigned towards historical structures that remain strong, a fear of power relations and a perception of gender as a difficult and complicated subject. In conclusion gender is understood as something abstract and contradictory. In practical arrangements the teachers struggle with perceptions and ideas about gender that are difficult to concretize. In the discussion two contradicting discourses are highlighted as the aspirational and the biologically fixed, and the struggle between the discourses.

This study explored public library provision to the Tamil Community in Singapore using a focus group methodology. Results of the study were analysed and implications for the library services for the Tamil community in Singapore outlined. Improvement is needed in collections, facilities, programming and services, particularly in the area of provision to young people. Among other suggestions, the participants proposed an Internet portal in Tamil. Many indicated that the library could help in promoting the usage of Tamil language in Singapore through facilitating the reading and use of the Tamil language. Participants perceived this as vital to preserve the Tamil culture in Singapore and ensure its survival as part of the country’s unique cultural heritage in the future. The Tamil language among the other Indian languages has been given official status in Singapore, and this recognition of Tamil as a national language has given the Tamils intrinsic satisfaction. The language provides them with a living link to their ethnic culture. They believe the library can help them regain their cultural identities and also assist them in repositioning themselves well in Singaporean society. The contribution of this study to the professional literature is the idea of cultural identity being central in public library services to special user groups.

Inom intensivvård bedrivs omvårdnad i en högteknologisk miljö. Flera av patienterna är i behov av andningshjälp i form av ventilatorbehandling vilket medför att patienten är sederad och har en endotrachealtub i trachea. Patienten kan inte själv utföra sin munvård och blir därför beroende av intensivvårdsjuksköterskans hjälp. Syftet med studien var att belysa intensivvårdssjuksköterskans erfarenhet av munvård av intuberade intensivvårdspatienter. Studien utfördes med en fokusgruppsintervju och analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Kategorierna som framkom i studien var att munvård handlar om prioritering, risker, teamarbete och kommunikation, utförande, patientperspektiv och ansvar. Förslag på fortsatt forskning skulle kunna leda till ett validerat bedömningsinstrument för munvård av intuberad patient samt evidensbaserade riktlinjer för munvård. / Intensive care is conducted in a high technological environment. Many of the patients are in need of breathing assistance with the help of a ventilator, which means that the patient is sedated and intubated. The patients can´t perform their oral care by themselves and therefore dependent on the help of intensive care nurses. The purpose of this study was to elucidate critical care nurses' experiences of oral care in intubated ICU patients. The study was performed with a focus group interview and analyzed by a content analysis. The categories that emerged from the study were that oral care is about priorities, risks, teamwork and communication, performance, patient perspective and responsibility. Suggestions for further research could lead to a validated assessment tool for oral care of intubated patients and evidensbased guidelines for oral care.

This bachelor thesis had the aim to investigate how young female students experience their safety situation in their own neighbourhood, around the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Previous research shows that women tend to feel more fear of crime in public spaces than men, and this feeling is restricting their mobility in time and space. This gender structure is a worldwide phenomenon and is by feminist geographers explained as an expression of the patriarchy. A phenomenological approach was used in this research to gain an understanding of how this gender structure is affecting individual female’s lives. The used method was focus group interviews and two groups were interviewed, with totally seven respondents. The sessions were analysed by using constructivist grounded theory and partly narrative analysis. The interviewees explained that there were certain spaces that they experience as dangerous, foremost dark places without visibility and few people passing. They also stated that places where people had been robbed, raped or kidnapped earlier were more threating. The potential criminal was portrayed as a non-student male, and the male students were described as their potential protectors. The fear was always present in their lives, they felt more or less unsafe in all parts of the campus and even in their homes. This threat restricted their daily mobility in both time and space, and they used different strategies to avoid different types of crimes.

Due to the limited studies related to healthcare services future expanding demand, required resources and utilities, and related environmental and economic challenges; this research is carried out to complement other researchers in other economic sectors to identify the gaps, highlight good potentials of sustainability achievements and recommend necessary actions. This research investigates the future expanding demand of healthcare services; the environmental and economic challenges related to this expand and its environmental and economic impacts and the opportunities to overcome these impacts in order to improve healthcare services sustainability and performance. The research follows a SLR to discover earlier works related to environmental sustainability in buildings and healthcare facilities. The environmental challenges related to expanding in healthcare facilities found in the literature are increase in energy consumption and waste generation. The environmental impacts related to these challenges are excessive CO2 and GHG emissions. The economic impacts are escalations of project expenditures, operating expenditures and utilities expenditures. The research uses SD Analysis, as a methodological approach, to framework and understands different healthcare system elements and to develop models that are representing the dynamic relations between these elements. Bahrain healthcare system is selected as a research context due to the availability of good quality healthcare secondary data, the small size of the country that makes it a good model to implement and test new concepts, the limited country resources, and the country keenness to implement sustainability plans to meet sustainability objectives. This research numerically tests and subsequently, supports the implication of stated environmental and economic challenges. It also develops a number of important technical parameters and indicators such as energy and water benchmarks for different healthcare facilities. The research also determines another two sources of environmental challenges related to expanding in healthcare facilities. The first challenge is excessive water consumption. Availability of enough treated water for healthcare applications, especially in countries with limited fresh water resources and depending on 90% of its water need on desalination like Bahrain, a tangible environmental challenge needs to be addressed. The second one is a group of environmental challenges related to the practicing of healthcare services that can expose personnel and environment to high risks. These challenges need to be efficiently managed to improve the environmental sustainability and the social sustainability of healthcare facilities. The research also investigates the effectiveness of a number of mitigation measures used to overcome the environmental and economic negative impacts, such as using energy efficiency technologies, renewable-based energy resources and waste energy recovery. In this regard, the research numerically tests and subsequently supports the implication of stated environmental and economic impacts and the effectiveness of tested measures in mitigating the undesirable results on healthcare facilities. The developed SD Model, as one of the main contributions of this research, is considered as a strategic planning and decision-making administrative tools to forecast future healthcare facilities demand and required resources. It is also considered as a risk assessment tool to assess environmental challenges related to utilities and its environmental and economic impacts in order to improve healthcare facilities sustainability and performance. The potential of utilities saving and utilities expenditures saving in healthcare buildings are high and it is recommended to work toward energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment to achieve sustainable healthcare buildings. Recovery of energy from Medical Waste incineration to be kept under consideration as it is offsetting double the quantity of CO2e emissions resulting from the incineration process. Safe recycling of wastewater of some healthcare processes is highly recommended as it can reduce water consumption and contributes to the reduction of healthcare facilities CO2e emissions. Sources of gray water and gray water applications must be carefully selected to avoid any contradiction with Infection Control regulations or other healthcare regulations. It is recommended to conduct utilities assessment studies on wide sample of healthcare facilities to avoid low peaks and odd operation periods.

<p> </p><p>Den ökade psykiska ohälsan bland tonårstjejer ses som ett problem och tanken om denna utveckling kunde förebyggas med fysisk aktivitet uppstod. Detta eftersom den fysiska aktiviteten har visat sig ha positiva effekter på den psykiska hälsan. Den minskade fysiska aktiviteten hos unga tjejer väckte intresset för hur tjejernas uppfattningar påverkar deras fysiska aktivitet. Hypotesen om att uppfattningar påverkar handlandet formades och tre teman som tros påverka tjejernas uppfattningar om fysisk aktivitet, genus, kultur och media inkluderades. <strong>Syftet </strong>med studien var att undersöka vilka uppfattningar 15-åriga tjejer har om fysisk aktivitet och hur dessa skiljer sig utifrån deras grad av fysisk aktivitet. Som <strong>metod </strong>användes fokusgruppintervjuer där deltagarna delades in i tre grupper utifrån deras fysiska aktivitet. Två till fem tjejer ingick i varje grupp. I <strong>resultatet </strong>framkom att uppfattningarna skiljde sig mellan grupperna. Tjejerna med högst fysisk aktivitet, grupp 1, uppfattade den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar med fokus på prestation. Grupp 2, medelaktiva tjejer, uppfattade också den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar men med fokus på hälsa. De minst aktiva tjejerna, grupp 3, uppfattade inte den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar och uttryckte inte heller något intresse för den fysiska aktiviteten. <strong>Slutsatsen </strong>blev att tjejernas uppfattningar skiljer sig utifrån deras fysiska aktivitet. För att öka tjejernas fysiska aktivitet bör arbetet därför inriktas på tjejernas uppfattningar om fysisk aktivitet. Genom att förändra tjejernas uppfattningar skulle således den fysiska aktiviteten kunna öka och den psykiska ohälsan troligtvis minska.</p><p><p> </p></p>

Introduction: In Western countries, about one pregnant woman in five experiences a considerable fear of childbirth (FOC). Consequently FOC is an important topic for midwives, being pregnant women’s main care givers. Also, although many aspects of FOC have been studied, almost no studies have into detail applied a theoretical frame of reference for studying pregnant women’s expectations for their upcoming labour and delivery. Therefore, the theory of self-efficacy, here regarding pregnant women’s belief in own capability to cope with labour and delivery, has been applied with the aim to better understand the phenomenon of FOC. Aim: The overall aims of the thesis were to describe midwives´ perceptions and views on FOC and to expand the current knowledge about expectations for the forthcoming birth in nulliparous women in the context of FOC. Method: Study I had a descriptive design. In total 21 midwives, distributed over four focus-groups, participated. Data were analysed by the phenomenographic approach. Studies II and III had cross sectional designs. Study II comprised 726 midwives, randomly selected from a national sample that completed a questionnaire that addressed the findings from Study I. Study III included 423 pregnant nulliparous women. FOC was measured using the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ), self-efficacy by the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory (CBSEI). Study IV had a descriptive interpretative design. Seventeen women with severe FOC were conveniently selected from the sample of Study III and individually interviewed. Content analyses, both deductive and inductive, were performed. Method: Study I had a descriptive design. In total 21 midwives, distributed over four focus-groups, participated. Data were analysed by the phenomenographic approach. Studies II and III had cross sectional designs. Study II comprised 726 midwives, randomly selected from a national sample that completed a questionnaire that addressed the findings from Study I. Study III included 423 pregnant nulliparous women. FOC was measured using the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ), self-efficacy by the Childbirth Self-Efficacy Inventory (CBSEI). Study IV had a descriptive interpretative design. Seventeen women with severe FOC were conveniently selected from the sample of Study III and individually interviewed. Content analyses, both deductive and inductive, were performed. Conclusions: Swedish midwives regard severe FOC as a serious problem that influences pregnant women’s view on the forthcoming labour and delivery. Midwives at antenatal care clinics, compared to colleagues working at labour wards, experience a greater need for training in care of pregnant women with severe FOC. Self-efficacy is a useful construct and the self-efficacy theory an applicable way of thinking in analysing fear of childbirth. The self-efficacy concept might be appropriate in midwives’ care for women with severe FOC.

Den ökade psykiska ohälsan bland tonårstjejer ses som ett problem och tanken om denna utveckling kunde förebyggas med fysisk aktivitet uppstod. Detta eftersom den fysiska aktiviteten har visat sig ha positiva effekter på den psykiska hälsan. Den minskade fysiska aktiviteten hos unga tjejer väckte intresset för hur tjejernas uppfattningar påverkar deras fysiska aktivitet. Hypotesen om att uppfattningar påverkar handlandet formades och tre teman som tros påverka tjejernas uppfattningar om fysisk aktivitet, genus, kultur och media inkluderades. Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka uppfattningar 15-åriga tjejer har om fysisk aktivitet och hur dessa skiljer sig utifrån deras grad av fysisk aktivitet. Som metod användes fokusgruppintervjuer där deltagarna delades in i tre grupper utifrån deras fysiska aktivitet. Två till fem tjejer ingick i varje grupp. I resultatet framkom att uppfattningarna skiljde sig mellan grupperna. Tjejerna med högst fysisk aktivitet, grupp 1, uppfattade den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar med fokus på prestation. Grupp 2, medelaktiva tjejer, uppfattade också den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar men med fokus på hälsa. De minst aktiva tjejerna, grupp 3, uppfattade inte den fysiska aktiviteten som självklar och uttryckte inte heller något intresse för den fysiska aktiviteten. Slutsatsen blev att tjejernas uppfattningar skiljer sig utifrån deras fysiska aktivitet. För att öka tjejernas fysiska aktivitet bör arbetet därför inriktas på tjejernas uppfattningar om fysisk aktivitet. Genom att förändra tjejernas uppfattningar skulle således den fysiska aktiviteten kunna öka och den psykiska ohälsan troligtvis minska.