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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Vilka attityder har nästa generations arbetskraft till etnisk mångfald? : En kvalitativ studie av högskolestudenter / Which is the attitude of the next generation of professionals towards ethnic diversity? : A qualitative study of university students

Artman, Josefine, Rentorp, Evelina January 2019 (has links)
Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka attityder högskolestudenter har till etnisk mångfald. Studien var kvalitativ och underlaget utgjordes av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Ett bekvämlighetsurval tillämpades och totalt deltog 17 respondenter (n=17). Det insamlade materialet analyserades genom en tematisk analys som resulterade i tre huvudteman: rädsla, samhörighet och den etniska mångfaldens inverkan för organisationer. Studiens resultat visade att samtliga respondenter hade en positiv attityd till etnisk mångfald. Samtliga respondenter ansåg att mångfald bör främjas inom svenska organisationer för att organisationerna ska kunna bli innovationsrika, konkurrenskraftiga och tillfredsställa en bredare marknad samt tillvarata den kompetens som mångfalden innebär.
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Upplevelser av delegerat HR-arbete : En kvalitativ studie av svenska mellanchefer / The experience of delegated HR-work : A qualitative study of Swedish middle management

Göransson, Edith, Ryan, Madeleine January 2019 (has links)
Personalarbetet har på senare år genomgått förändringar som innebär att personalansvaret inte längre enbart anses tillhöra en organisations HR-avdelning, utan även mellanchefer eftersom deras centrala position anses vara av stor betydelse för HR-arbetets effektivitet. Syftet med studien var således att undersöka hur svenska mellanchefer upplever sin utökade yrkesroll och om upplevelserna av att också behöva ta sig an vissa delegerade HR-uppgifter stämmer överens med vad tidigare internationella studier har visat. Studien var av kvalitativ design och baserades på semistrukturerade intervjuer. Ett målinriktat urval tillämpades, vilket resulterade i att 14 mellanchefer intervjuades. Intervjuerna tolkades genom tematisk analys och det framkom fyra huvudteman som speglade mellanchefernas upplevelse av sin utökade yrkesroll: upplevelse av arbetsbeskrivning, involvering i HR-arbetet, stöd och problematik. I enlighet med internationell litteratur upplevde respondenterna att faktorer som tidsbrist, bristande verktyg och otydlig ansvarsfördelning i HR-processer kunde försvåra möjligheten att på ett adekvat sätt utföra vissa delegerade HR-uppgifter, men trots det såg respondenterna ändå sin involvering i HR-arbetet som en naturlig del av yrkesrollen som mellanchef och upplevde den utökade yrkesrollen positivt. Denna svenska studie stämmer således överens internationell forskning.
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”Det är ju trevligare att vara på en fest med både killar och tjejer” : En studie om HR-avdelningens könsfördelning.

Fager, John, Hagman, Anna January 2019 (has links)
Syftet med den här studien är att studera hur strategisk HR-personal resonerar kring den ojämlika könsfördelningen inom HR-branschen i allmänhet, samt könsfördelningen på deras egna HR-avdelningar. Vi har använt kvalitativ metod och utfört enskilda semistrukturerade intervjuer. Våra resultat visar hur respondenterna hänvisar den ojämna könsfördelningen till felaktiga föreställningar om att HR-yrket enbart betraktas som ett omvårdande yrke vilket de antar attraherar kvinnor i större utsträckning än män. Respondenterna påvisar att yrket idag innefattar betydligt mer business-orienterade och resultatfokuserade arbetsuppgifter, och hävdar att ökad medvetenhet kring denna verklighet hade lett till att fler män söker sig till HR-branschen. Intervjupersonerna förklarar också sin ojämna könsfördelning genom att peka på rekryteringsunderlaget och hänvisar till den rådande kvinnodominansen på personalvetarutbildningarna. Flera av intervjupersonerna menar att utbildningarnas innehåll kretsar för mycket kring beteendevetenskapliga ämnen och argumenterar för att en ökning av business-orienterade kurser både hade lett till en jämnare könsfördelning, men också en mer verklighetsförankrad bild av det faktiska HR-yrket. Samtliga intervjupersoner betonar värdet av könsblandade arbetsgrupper och uttrycker en unison önskan om att fler män ska söka sig till HR-yrket. Flera av intervjupersonerna ser dock inte deras egen avdelnings ojämna könsfördelning som ett problem. Vid rekryteringar framhåller de personlighet och kompetens som faktorer som väger tyngre än kön, och en jämn könsfördelning på avdelningen blir sedermera sekundärt. Följaktligen framstår respondenternas svar som en paradox, och kön tycks vara viktigt och oviktigt parallellt.
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Factors Affecting Historically Black College/University Employee Engagement

Alqahtani, Hadi 20 May 2019 (has links)
Employee engagement in the mission of the organization is a critical component of success. In fact, it strongly contributes to the workers’ satisfaction levels and motivation. Moreover, it forms the atmosphere in the organizations. Therefore, employee engagement is a critical concept met not only in management but also in sociology and psychology. Focusing on the human factor, the current research is aimed at examining the factors affecting historically black colleges and universities’ (HBCU) staff engagement. The research question for the study is, are employees who have favorable views of their career development opportunities more likely to be engaged than other employees? Three research hypotheses were defined accordingly to answer the research question. The quantitative approach was helpful in determining the areas that were interrelated. The interviews with 20 members of an HBCU staff were conducted online. With the chosen methods and statistical analysis, the evidence proved that career development opportunities increased the level of employee engagement at HBCUs. The results did not show any significant correlation between the employees’ engagement and communications. The perception of the organizational change was not an essential contribution to employees’ devotion. Thus, it is evident that the improvements in career management and planning could become effective to increase the satisfaction of employees with their work organization. The study was limited, as it relied on the results from only one university. It did not reveal the meaningful correlation between engagement and communications. However, the answers of the participants showed that the process of information distribution, planning, explaining, and executing organizational changes at HBCU are important. Therefore, it is highly recommended to investigate the same variables in different contexts and expand the research to be able to generalize the data. Paying attention to different positions and experience of the workers can also influence the results relying on the interviews conducted with more people.
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HR-performance linkages through the lens of social exchange

Popaitoon, Patchara January 2011 (has links)
This research explores the linkages between HR practices and business sales performance in a retail bank branch network. Whilst previous research in the last two decades has generally supported the notion that when appropriately designed HR practices can help enhance organizational outcomes, there is still ongoing debate regarding how such practices can actually influence business results. In particular, academics have highlighted the importance of the quality of HR implementation, because this can affect employee day-to-day experiences of and reactions to the HR practices which can impact on variance in the business results. In effect, it is crucial for research to take up the employee lens of the implemented practices and their reactions to these, if the HR-performance relationship is to be clearly understood. This thesis contributes to this research agenda by adopting the social exchange lens to shed light on the nature of the aforementioned relationship. A multidisciplinary and multilevel HR-performance model was employed for conducting empirical tests. Specifically, the empirical model was constructed from the literature in three different fields: strategic human resources management, social exchange theory and psychological contract, with the aim of eliciting the nature of employer-employee exchange relationships in the HR process. Subsequently, the model was tested using the data obtained from 1,286 employees in 149 bank branches and analysed so as to assess the multilevel process through which HR practices can influence business sales performance. The empirical results indicate that an organization can improve branch sales performance by paying careful attention to several processes pertaining to the implementation of HR practices. That is, through the psychological contract process, employees, based on their perceptions of the quality of the received practices (i.e. HR level and breach), reciprocate the organization with their discretionary performance, i.e. commitment attitudes and organizational citizenship behaviours and these outcomes have an impact on business results. Moreover, the findings also point to a boundary condition, whereby the HR-performance relationship can be enhanced by stressing the role of the key constituencies responsible for delivering these practices, namely: senior management and the line manager. That is, respectively, through the affective and relational processes, these agents can have an impact on employee perceptions of HR level and whether there has been a breach of the psychological contract, which in turn influence employee reactions in the causal chain. In summary, having applied the social exchange perspective to elicit the employee interaction with the different quality of HR implementation across bank branches, this study has contributed to the literature by identifying the key processes including psychological contract, relational and affective processes through which HR practices can impact on business sales performance, thereby illustrating how an organization’s human resources can serve as the source of sustained business competitive advantage.
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The muscle-bone in children and adolescents with and without cystic fibrosis

Riddell, Amy January 2016 (has links)
Introduction: Puberty is a crucial period for rapid changes in bone mineral, size, geometry, and microarchitecture. The mechanostat theory postulates that increased mechanical loading will affect bone phenotype and strength during development and in later life. Individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis and fragility fractures in young adulthood, which may be caused by poor growth. The aim was to investigate whether sex and disease status modified the relationship between: 1) puberty and bone, and 2) muscle and bone. This would contribute to the understanding of how sex (males vs. females) and disease group (CF vs.controls) alters the relationship between bone and muscle in children and adolescents as they transition through puberty and who, on a population level, differ in the prevalence of osteoporosis and risk of fracture in later life. Methods and Analyses: This observational study used novel imaging and muscle assessment techniques to measure bone and muscle parameters in White Caucasian children and adolescents, aged 8 to 16 years, living in the UK, with children with CF (n=65) and controls (n=151). Anthropometry and pubertal status were assessed. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT), high-resolution pQCT, and jumping mechanography were used to measure bone and muscle outcomes. ANCOVA with Scheffé post hoc and multiple linear regression tests were performed. Data were adjusted according to the research aims and included covariates; sex, disease group, pubertal stage, age, quadratic age, height, weight, maximum force (Fmax), and maximum power (Pmax). Data are presented as beta-coefficient (%) and p-value, with the significance level set to p < 0.05. Results: In height adjusted analyses, among healthy participants, females had smaller bones and lower bone density compared to males. With pubertal maturation, females had lower apparent gains in the distal and proximal total area (Tt.Ar and CSA), distal cortical porosity (Ct.Po) and proximal bone strength (SSI) but higher apparent gains in distal and proximal cortical bone density(Ct.BMD, Ct.TMD, vBMD). Females had consistently lower distal total area (total CSA) and density (total vBMD), distal trabecular density(BV/TV) and number(Tb.N), and proximal cortical area(CSA) compared to males, across all stages of puberty. With increasing muscle force (Fmax), females had higher apparent gains in total body less head bone mineral (TBLH BMC) and bone area(BA), distal total and trabecular density (total and trab vBMD) compared to males. In contrast, with increasing muscle power (Pmax), females had higher apparent gains in distal total and cortical densities (D100, Ct.BMD and Ct.TMD), and distal trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), and proximal cortical density (cortical vBMD) but lower apparent gains in distal cortical porosity (Ct.Po) and trabecular number (Tb.N) compared to males. In height adjusted analyses, participants with CF had smaller bones and lower bone density compared to controls. With increasing pubertal maturation, participants with CF had lower apparent gains in total body less head bone mineral and bone area, and in distal trabecular density, cortical porosity, and trabecular thickness compared to controls. Participants with CF had consistently lower distal total and cortical area, distal total and trabecular densities and proximal bone strength compared to controls, across all stages of puberty. With increasing muscle force, participants with CF had lower apparent gains in total body less head bone mineral and bone area, distal total density, trabecular density, and trabecular number. In contrast, with increasing muscle power (Pmax), participants with CF had higher apparent gains in distal trabecular density (BV/TV) and trabecular number (Tb.N) compared to controls. Conclusion: These findings suggests that sex and disease status do modify the relationships between puberty and bone, and between muscle function and bone. Skeletal adaptation to muscle differs between sexes and in populations with chronic disease, which may explain sex and disease group differences in risks of osteoporosis and fracture. Bone adaptation to muscle in children with CF is altered, which may lead to narrow, under-mineralised bones, with lower bone strength in later life. Understanding better impairments in muscle functions may provide targets for intervention to improve skeletal health in later life.
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Um estudo sobre estratégias de recursos humanos de uma empresa terceirizada do setor de telecomunicações

Araujo, Jucelia Laurindo de 11 March 2016 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jucelia Laurindo de Araujo.pdf: 1109603 bytes, checksum: 358d2916f0850e6292c4f76cb269a32e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of the research conducted for this dissertation was to analyze the human resources (HR) strategies and policies adopted in an outsourced telecom company, considering its strategic importance in the economic and globalized scenario. Specific objectives were analyzing the telecom industry in Brazil and the service relations between outsourced and contracting companies. In order to make carrying out the research possible, an investigation was conducted of aspects related to HR strategies and policies, and of outsourcing from a strategic and critical viewpoint; also carried out were analyses of the telecom industry and its strategies of action, and, finally, of the case of an outsourced telecom company. The methodology adopted consisted of a case study involving an exploratory approach, which was qualitative by nature, by means of three sources of evidence: documentation, files on record and participant observation. The subject of the investigation selected was an outsourced company named Alfa, which is engaged in providing services for major telecom operators here in Brazil. The results obtained indicated that it is possible to obtain good human resources practices by improving the outsourcing strategies and also reducing the negative effects, viewed as a precarious factor in terms of working arrangements / Apresentou-se como objetivo na pesquisa desta dissertação, analisar as estratégias e políticas de recursos humanos adotadas numa empresa terceirizada do setor de telecomunicações, considerando sua importância estratégica no cenário econômico e globalizado. E como objetivos específicos, analisar o setor de telecomunicações no Brasil e as relações de serviços entre empresas terceirizadas e contratantes. Para que a realização da pesquisa fosse possível, foram investigados aspectos relacionados a estratégias e políticas de recursos humanos; a terceirização sob uma ótica estratégica e crítica; a análise do setor de telecomunicações e suas estratégias de atuação, e por fim, a análise do caso de uma empresa terceirizada do setor de telecomunicações. A metodologia adotada consistiu-se de um estudo de caso, de abordagem exploratória, de natureza qualitativa por meio de três fontes de evidências: documentação, registro em arquivos e observação participante. Selecionou-se como sujeito da investigação uma empresa terceirizada, denominada empresa Alfa, atuante como prestadora de serviços para grandes operadoras do setor de telecomunicações. Os resultados obtidos apontaram que é possível obter boas práticas de recursos humanos, aperfeiçoando as estratégias de terceirização e também reduzir os efeitos negativos, vista como uma precarização do trabalho
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”Jag kan tänka mig att det kan bli lite mer diskussion här” : En explorativ fallstudie om förändringsarbete och HR på tre svenska lärosäten. / "I can imagine that there will be some more discussion here” : An exploratory case study of change management and HR in three Swedish universities.

Falk, Liisa January 2013 (has links)
I samband med att globaliseringen ökar ställs också ökade krav på organisationer. Konkurrenterna finns över hela världen vilket medför att organisationer ständigt måste utvecklas för att stå sig i den hårda konkurrensen; för att överleva. En organisationsförändring är en utmaning och det krävs en tydlig målbild och vision i arbetet för att kunna få med medarbetarna ”på tåget”. Enligt Ulrich (1998) kan HR ha kompetens att agera förändringsagent och därmed bistå organisationens ledning i förändringsarbetet med att hantera de utmaningar som kan uppstå och skapa förutsättningar för en effektiv förändringsprocess.Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur HR kan arbeta för att skapa förutsättningar för organisationsförändring inom universitets-/högskolesektorn och däri identifiera framgångsfaktorer och utmaningar. Uppsatsen bygger på kvalitativ metod med en hermeneutisk ansats där teman delvis har satts upp på förhand och en abduktiv strategi valts för arbetet.Resultaten visar att HR inte har den funktion och position internt i de studerade organisationerna som krävs för att aktivt kunna bidra i förändringsarbete som en förändringsagent. Däremot visar resultatet att HR i de undersökta fallen bidrar i förändringsarbete genom att de arbetar för att stödja organisationens chefer i deras ledarskap samt att de har kunskap kring viktiga aspekter i förändringsprocesser. Respondenterna framhåller att för att skapa förutsättningar för att lyckas i förändringsarbete krävs det ett tydligt syfte och en klar målbild för arbetet, vilken också måste förankras internt. Vidare är information och kommunikation viktigt och detsamma gäller även vikten av att skapa möjligheter för delaktighet och struktur för arbetet. De största utmaningarna som HR möter relaterar till ledarskapet och den organisationskultur som finns inom de studerade lärosätena. Organisationskulturen i sig kan också vara förklaringen till varför HR inte har funktionen och positionen som strategisk partner i de undersökta fallen. / Program: Magisterutbildning med inriktning arbetsvetenskap
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Gestão de human resources analytics: eficácia, criação de conhecimento e alinhamento com tecnologia da informação. / Human resources analytics management: effectiveness, knowledge creation and alignment with information technology.

Peres, Alexandre Ricardo 28 August 2018 (has links)
A atividade de Human Resources Analytics (HR Analytics) não é recente, mas vem ganhando importância na literatura de Recursos Humanos (RH) e no meio profissional. Contribuem para isso as pressões originadas pelos avanços de capacidade de processamento e análise que Tecnologia da Informação (TI) oferece atualmente e pela crescente exigência para que a estratégia de RH esteja mais conectada à da linha de negócios. A literatura sobre o tema aponta fatores que ainda precisam ser melhor explorados para que o desenvolvimento do tema \"HR Analytics\" possa ser melhor compreendido nos meios acadêmico e profissional, como o aporte de capacitação e conhecimento analíticos no RH, a eficiência na aplicação dos recursos de TI e a conexão da formulação estratégica de RH com as estratégias da linha de negócios e da TI. Esses fatores parecem ligados a como se desenvolve a inteligência de RH através de HR Analytics, cenário em que a criação de conhecimento e o alinhamento com TI ocupam papel central. Dado esse panorama, esta pesquisa busca identificar como é o processo de criação de conhecimento e o contexto de alinhamento entre TI e RH em empresas brasileiras que praticam o HR Analytics. Para isso, foram conduzidos estudos de caso com cinco empresas através de formulários de avaliação e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os dados foram fornecidos por lideranças de RH e integrantes do processo de HR Analytics das empresas. Os resultados direcionam para diferenças entre como lideranças de RH e Business Partners buscam criar valor através de HR Analytics. Essa observação parece apontar para a necessidade de atenção à sinergia dos esforços para que cada campo de interações atinja seus objetivos; como as importâncias da unificação de conceitos e do direcionamento estratégico no RH. Assim, a maturidade de desenvolvimento do HR Analytics parece se encontrar ligada a esses fatores e também à influência do caminho de desenvolvimento tecnológico optado pelo RH. / Human Resources Analytics (HR Analytics) is not a recent activity, but it is getting relevance in Human Resources (HR) literature and in the professional environment. Compound this scenario pressures brought by the advances in processing and analysis capacity that Information Technology (IT) currently offers and by the increasing requirement over the HR strategy to be more connected to that of the line of business. The literature points out factors that still need to be better explored so that the development of the theme \"HR Analytics\" can be better understood in academic and professional environments, such as the contribution of analytical knowledge in HR, efficiency in the application of IT resources and the connection of strategic HR formulation with line-of-business and IT strategies. These factors seem to be related to how HR intelligence is developed through HR Analytics, a scenario in which knowledge creation and alignment with IT play a central role. Presented this scenario, this research aims to identify how the process of knowledge creation and the context of alignment between IT and HR take place in Brazilian companies that practice HR Analytics. For this, case studies were conducted with five companies through assessment forms and semi-structured interviews. The data were provided by HR leaders and members of the HR Analytics business process. The results point to differences between how HR leaders and Business Partners seek to create value through HR Analytics. This observation seems to highlight attention to the synergy of efforts, so each field of interactions could reach its objectives; such as the importance of unifying concepts and strategic direction in HR. Thus, the development of the maturity of HR Analytics seems to be connected to these factors, as well as the influence of the ways of technological development chosen by HR.
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Personalbrist eller brist på kompetensförsörjning? : En studie kring HR-praktikers arbete med att utveckla och behålla kompetens inom organisationer

Lindqvist, Cecilia January 2018 (has links)
I dagens arbetsliv poängteras hur personalen är organisationernas viktigaste resurser, trots det är personalbrist ett vanligt problem inom flera organisationer. Denna studie syftar till att skapa kunskap om HR-praktikers arbete med att utveckla och behålla befintlig kompetens inom organisationen, med en personalbrist i grunden. Specifikt undersöks hur HR-praktiker på ett svenskt sjukhus arbetar med att behålla och utveckla sina sjuksköterskor. Undersökningen lutar sig mot frågeställningarna: vad för typ av problembakgrund föranleder HR-praktikers arbete med behållning och utveckling av sjuksköterskor i organisationen? vilka förutsättningar och strategier utvecklas för att skapa gynnsamma förutsättningar för HR-praktikers arbete med behållning och utveckling av sjuksköterskor? samt vad upplever HR-praktiker att de har för möjligheter och begränsningar i sitt arbete? Med stöd i tankar kring bland annat organisationspedagogik och Human Resource Development undersöker studien hur ett utvecklat arbete med kompetensförsörjning kan skapa möjligheter för HR-praktiker att arbeta med behållning och utveckling av befintlig personal. Med hjälp av dokumentanalys av skrifter från Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting beskrivs den problembakgrund som finns i dagens organisationer och därifrån möjliga lösningar. Personalbrist förväntas öka med åren på grund av demografiska förändringar och kompetensförsörjning kommer tillskrivas än större vikt än idag. Speciellt tre problemlösningar hamnar i fokus: att förändra de rådande arbetssätten, att utnyttja digitaliseringen samt att satsa starkare på kompetensutveckling och bildning. Med hjälp av vidare dokumentanalys går dessa tre problemlösningar att finna i de lokala handlingsplaner och arbetsmaterial som studiens sjukhus arbetar utifrån. På landstingsnivå har material skapats för att mer effektivt arbeta med behållning och utveckling, till exempel kompetensstege för sjuksköterskor och utvecklade roller på sjukhusens avdelningar som ska se till att rätt kompetens finns på rätt plats. Utifrån studiens intervjuer med sjukhusets HR-praktiker blir det än tydligare att sjukhuset anammat de problemlösningar och riktlinjer Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting utvecklat, men att det även finns begränsningar inom arbetet som kan utvecklas. Studien ser att ett utvecklat och genomtänkt arbete med kompetensförsörjning finns levande och att studiens sjukhus både medvetet och omedvetet följer givna lösningsförslag samt forskningens tankar kring ämnet. Bland de medvetna arbetssätten finns specialist-utbildningsprogram för sjuksköterskor och bland de omedvetna kan olika motivationsformer utläsas, utan att organisationen har en tydlig motivationsmodell aktiv.

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