Studiens syfte var att undersöka vilka erfarenheter kuratorer inom somatisk hälso- och sjukvård har av sympatistress samt undersöka hur kuratorerna upplever arbetssituationen utifrån KASAM. Syftet var också att förstå kuratorernas erfarenheter av sympatistress i relation till kuratorernas arbetssituation utifrån KASAM. Metoden som använts i studien var en kvalitativ intervju där sex kuratorer inom somatisk hälso- och sjukvård har intervjuats enskilt. Studien visade att kuratorerna har erfarenheter av sympatistress. Studien visade också flera indikationer på att det fanns arbetssituationer där kuratorerna hade vissa svårigheter att känna hanterbarhet, begriplighet och meningsfullhet. Det framkom även flera indikationer på att det fanns arbetssituationer där kuratorerna kände hanterbarhet, begriplighet och meningsfullhet. Studiens slutsats var att kuratorerna är utsatta för situationer i arbetet som kan leda till att de utvecklar symptom för sympatistress. / The purpose of this study was to investigate hospital social workers experiences of compassion fatigue as well as examine how they feel and think about their work situation based on KASAM. The purpose was also to understand the hospital social workers experiences of compassion fatigue in relation to the hospital social workers feelings and thoughts about their work situation based on KASAM. The method that was used is a qualitative interview in which six hospital social workers were separately interviewed. The study showed that several hospital social workers have experiences of compassion fatigue. The study also showed several indications that there were work situations where hospital social workers had some difficulties in feeling manageability, comprehensibility and meaningfulness. It also showed several indications that there were work situations where hospital social workers felt manageability, comprehensibility and meaningfulness. The study concluded that the hospital social workers are exposed to situations in their work that can lead to the development of symptoms for compassion fatigue.

Purpose: From an anthropological angle, the purpose of this paper is to shed light into how young innovative fashion companies can exercise creative leadership and reflect the creativity of their external image in their internal environment, towards their path to prosperity and success.Design/methodology/approach: The research analyses the case of MUUSE, a paradigmatic fashion company based in Copenhagen, Denmark in order to examine its creativity inside-out (external image and internal environment/operations). The entrepreneurs and employees were interviewed during two workdays, as well as observations were held over a period of eight months. For the analysis of the case and its operations, the 4P’s creativity framework (person, product, process and press/situation) was used.Findings: The research shows that creative leadership in fashion business today can be linked with innovation, meaningfulness and transparency in all levels of infrastructure. Further it declares the significance of creative leadership traits, which can include: having a creative and purposeful vision, developing an effective global mindset, evolving a creative work environment and increasing intrinsic motivators. / Program: Magisterutbildning i Fashion Management med inriktning modemarknadsföring

Despite research connecting the meaningfulness of work with positive organizational outcomes, such as increased employee well-being, job satisfaction, engagement, and retention, there remains a lack of adequate, inclusive research explaining differences in women's perceptions of the meaningfulness of work. The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory study was to address this gap in the literature by developing a theory about the formation of perceptions of the meaningfulness of work and about the impact of those perceptions. Research questions explored perceptions that women from diverse social classes have of the meaningfulness of work, what influenced those perceptions, the impact of those perceptions on their career choices, and the influence of those perceptions on workplace experiences and behaviors. Data for this study were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 25 women from different social classes. Transcribed interviews, results from a demographic screening survey, and researcher memos were analyzed using constant comparison in open, axial, and selective coding phases. Results indicated that perceptions of the meaningfulness of work are primarily defined by the potential impact of meaningful work and that the type, scope, and target of that impact are influenced by contextual and experiential factors, filtered through personal identity. The analogy of a stream was used to demonstrate the theory that blockages caused by negative workplace experiences and behaviors may prevent work from having a meaningful impact, but that channels can be created to bypass these blockages. Positive social change occurs when these channels allow employees' goals for impact to be realized, leading them to experience their work as meaningful and to engage in organizational citizenship behavior.

Employee engagement is a significant problem for leaders in most organizations today. Though many reasons are given for the growing number of disengaged employees, little is understood about what role spirituality in the workplace may play into employee engagement. Humanocracy theory guided the study on three aspects of workplace spirituality, employee engagement, and meaningfulness of work. An online survey combining elements of a Spiritual Well-being Scale, the Work and Meaning Inventory, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale was administered to 325 human resource managers. Linear multiple regression results showed a strong negative correlation between spiritual well-being and job engagement, and no significant correlation between spiritual well-being and workplace meaningfulness, which contradicted findings in the literature. Results indicated the need for future research and to further refine a working definition of spirituality as it applies to the workplace and to identify or redefine traditional variables to better assess engagement and meaningfulness within a new workplace landscape. The findings may also be indicative of how the landscape of traditional workplace culture is shifting with the values and motivations of a workforce of newer generations. The findings of this study make apparent the urgency to rethink the definition of spirituality and its application to the workplace and employee engagement. The workplace today is often a barometer of societal norms and values. Understanding the need for new ways to view engagement, spirituality, and meaning has the potential to extend beyond the organization to the communities and society the organizations exist within and serve.

På hösten 2011 beslutade regeringen att göra en satsning på matematik i skolan på grund av elevers sjunkande resultat. Detta sett i ett internationellt perspektiv. Satsningen gick bland annat ut på fler undervisningstimmar samt kompetensutveckling till lärare. Med bakgrund av denna matematiksatsning valde vi i denna studie att ta elevernas perspektiv på frågan varför elevernas resultat blivit sämre. Anser de till exempel att undervisningen i matematik är meningsfull? Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilket förhållningssätt eleven i årskurs 4 har till matematikundervisningen samt dess betydelse för elevens vardag och jämföra det med det uppdrag som läroplanen uttrycker avseende matematikämnet och matematikundervisningen. Då en ny läroplan införts, har vi också valt att jämföra syftet för matematikundervisningen med elevernas svar. Datainsamlingen har skett genom gruppintervjuer och analysen har gjorts med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Som stöd i vårt analysarbete har vi använt begreppen; uppfattningar, erfarenhet och meningsfullhet. Resultatet visar att eleverna uppfattar matematiken som något väldigt positivt. De kan också se en meningsfullhet i att kunna matematik, men framförallt som en kunskap som ska användas i framtiden. Eleverna får framförallt erfarenheter i matematik genom eget arbete i matematikboken, eller genom pararbete. Resultatet visar också att elevernas uppfattningar i hög grad stämmer överens med syftet i för matematikundervisningen i läroplanen. Slutligen diskuterar vi resultatet med våra teoretiska utgångspunkter som stöd. Bland annat diskuterar vi varför elevernas positiva syn på matematik förändras under tiden de går i skolan. Vi diskuterar också hur eleverna kommit fram till att matematik är viktig i framtiden. / In the autumn of 2011 the Swedish Government decided to make an investment in mathematics in schools, due to declining student performance, as seen from an international perspective. The investment focused on, for example, more hours of instruction in class, and competence development for teachers. With this investment in mind, we have chosen to study the question of why pupil performance becomes worse, from the pupils' perspective. For example, do they find the teaching of mathematics meaningful? The study aims to explore the attitudes of pupils in fourth grade towards mathematics teaching and its relevance in their daily lives. Furthermore, the study aims to compare these attitudes with the mission expressed regarding the subject of mathematics and mathematics teaching in the curriculum. Because of the new curriculum, we have chosen to compare the aim of mathematics teaching with the pupils’ responses. The data collection was done through group interviews and the analysis was done using qualitative content analysis. To support our analysis we have used three concepts: perceptions, experience and meaningfulness. The result shows that pupils perceive mathematics as something very positive. They can also see meaningfulness in mathematics, but mostly as a knowledge that will be used in the future. The pupils get experience in mathematics through their own work in a book, or through work in pairs. The result also shows that pupils' perceptions highly correspond with the aims of the mathematics teaching in the curriculum. Finally, we discuss the result supported by our theoretical concepts. For example, we discuss why the pupils' positive view of mathematics changes during the time they go to school. We also discuss how students come to the conclusion that mathematics is important in the future.

Bakgrund: Digitaliseringen har medfört betydande förändringar de senaste decennierna för hur kommunikation sker inom organisationer. Digitala kommunikationsmedier medför att organisationens medlemmar inte längre begränsas av att fysiskt närvara på arbetsplatsen. En central komponent till organisationers och arbetslags framgång är chefens ledarskap som nu kan genomföras på distans, något som benämns distansledarskap. Distansledarskap är präglat av teoretisk negativitet i form av exempelvis lägre prestationer och mindre berikande kommunikation samtidigt som otaliga svenska chefer bedriver distansledarskap. Likväl påvisar medarbetarskap att chefens roll är oumbärlig för medarbetarnas engagemang och meningsfullhet vilket ytterligare är en komponent att bevaka i relationen mellan medarbetaren och distansledaren. Chefer måste därför möjliggöra engagemang och meningsfullhet trots de hinder som distansen medför.   Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva och analysera hur chefens distansledarskap kan främja medarbetarnas engagemang och meningsfullhet?   Metod: Syftet med studien är att beskriva och analysera individers upplevelser och därför har kvalitativ undersökningsmetod använts. I relation till vår teoretiska referensram har åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts. Majoriteten av studiens respondenter innehar en chefsposition men har sin primära ledarskapsstimulans på distans.   Slutsatser: Engagemang och meningsfullhet hos medarbetare påverkas i synnerhet av bemyndigande och kontroll från chefen. Om chefen kontrollerar och inte bemyndigar medarbetaren att genomföra arbetsuppgifterna påverkas engagemang och meningsfullhet negativt. För att ytterligare kompensera för hindren som distansledarskap medför bör chefer lära känna medarbetarna, ge mer feedback, stöttning och uppmärksamhet. Chefen bör genom fysisk interaktion lära känna medarbetarna för att påskynda förtroendeingivande processen mellan medarbetare och chef. Efter initial fysisk interaktion kan chefen distansera sig och därav inte fysiskt närvara på arbetsplatsen, om så inte är nödvändigt, istället bör chefen vara tillgänglig via digitala medier. / Background: Digitization has led to significant changes over the past few decades for communication in organizations. Digital communication resources mean that organizational members are no longer restricted by being physically present at the workplace. A key component of the success of organizations and work teams is the leadership that can now be implemented at a distance, called remote leadership. Remote leadership is characterized by theoretical negativity while countless Swedish managers conduct remote leadership. Nevertheless, followership show that the role of the manager is indispensable for the employees' commitment and meaningfulness, which is another component to consider in the relationship between the employee and the remote leader. Managers therefore need to enable commitment and meaning despite the obstacles that the distance causes.   Purpose: The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze how the manager's remote leadership can promote employee involvement and meaningfulness?   Method: Since the purpose of the study is to describe and analyze individual experiences, a qualitative survey methodology has been used. In relation to our theoretical reference framework eight semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The majority of the respondents hold a senior position but have their primary leadership stimulus at a distance.   Conclusion: Commitment and meaningfulness among employees are particularly affected by the authorization and control of the manager. If the manager controls the employees and gives little authorization, commitment and meaningfulness are negatively affected. In order to further compensate for the obstacles caused by remote leadership, managers should get to know the employees, provide feedback, support and attention. The manager should, through physical interaction, get to know the employees to accelerate the thrust-inducing process between the employee and the manager. After initial physical interaction, the manager should distance themselves and therefore not physically attend the workplace, unless necessary, instead, the manager should be constantly available through digital media.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to create a deeper understanding of how meeting points can contribute to meaningfulness, good health and possess a preventive function of good ageing. Questions: In what ways does meeting coordinators believe that meeting points favors the well-being of elderly people, and do it satisfy their expectations? What function do the elderly who attend the meeting points feel that it fills in their lives and what do they find valuable with the participation? Theories: The sense of cohesion, the strength of weak ties, activity theory, continuity theory and the theoretical concept of loneliness. Method: The study used a qualitative method consisting of focus groups and semi structured interviews. Results and Analysis: Results and analysis were themed by the following themes: introduction to the meeting points, counteracting loneliness, meaningful existence and participation, the significance of a meeting coordinator, health-promoting activities and the importance of the meeting points for the elderly. The study showed it was largely elderly who experienced loneliness that visited the municipality-controlled meeting points. The results also indicate that meeting points are good places to counter loneliness and helps expand social networks and social ties. Results also showed that social ties to the meeting-coordinators are significant for the elderly to feel safe and, to a broader extent, participate in the meeting points. Elderly themselves felt that the most essential aspect of the meeting points were the prospect of social contacts and context. The study indicates that municipality-controlled meeting points contribute to meaningfulness in life and promote good health for the elderly through the social and physical activities offered there.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-25T14:50:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4262288 bytes, checksum: 004f2ab09f17b098bf4a65c9f1032fc9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-25T14:50:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4262288 bytes, checksum: 004f2ab09f17b098bf4a65c9f1032fc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-16 / This study has as its central object of inquiry the construction of meaningfulness in Dilma Rousseff e José Serra’s electoral discourse from the 2010 political campaign for the nation presidency. Starting with the principles that mind determines the way of understanding reality providing imaginative thinking and that the meaningfulness has consequences for the experience we have proposed to investigate how electoral discourse conceptualization is oriented to the achievement of their persuasion goals and how it can influence an electoral campaign outcome. To elucidate our assumptions we have used data from the televised electoral publicity of each candidate conveyed by internet and recorded in cds for interpretative analysis. This development has been endorsed by the Cognitive Linguistics theoretical principles mainly those from Experiencialism taking in account the sociocognitive aspects of used language, the embodiment and imagination notions as well as by Turner and Fauconnier’s theory on mental spaces in discourse commonly accepted as a tool for analysis of discourse interpretations or as a cognition and conceptualization theory. According to the results the ability for conceptual integrations turns language into an advanced human activity, that is, a manifestation of the hidden cognitive construction highly abstract and imaginative; the underlying mental processes are the basis for the political-electoral discourse building the political discourse meaningfulness due to the persuasion therefore due to their consequences for the experience. / Este estudo se concentra na investigação dos processos de construção da significatividade do discurso político-eleitoral dos candidatos Dilma Rousseff e José Serra, concorrentes ao segundo turno da campanha de 2010 para a presidência da República. Partindo dos princípios de que a mente determina a maneira de compreensão da realidade, facultando o raciocínio imaginativo, e que a significatividade tem consequências para a experiência, procuramos demonstrar que a conceptualização do discurso político-eleitoral pode ser direcionada para o alcance dos seus objetivos de persuasão e influenciar o resultado de uma campanha. Utilizamos dados da propaganda eleitoral televisiva de cada candidato, veiculados pela internet e gravados em cds, levando em conta os gêneros estabelecidos metodologicamente para a análise interpretativa dos discursos observados. Procuramos fundamentar esta análise nos pressupostos teóricos da Linguística cognitiva, principalmente do Experiencialismo, levando em conta os aspectos sociocognitivos da linguagem, nos estudos da corporificação, do compartilhamento e da imaginação mental, como também, na teoria da integração conceitual dos espaços mentais, atinente à demonstração analítica dos dados. Os resultados demonstram que a habilidade para a integração conceitual faz da linguagem uma atividade humana avançada, ou seja, uma manifestação das construções cognitivas ocultas, altamente abstratas e imaginativas; que os processos mentais subjacentes são responsáveis pelo poder do discurso político-eleitoral, construindo a significatividade em função da persuasão, portanto, em função de suas consequências para a experiência.

Bakgrund: När patienter vårdas i sen palliativ fas är existentiellt lidande något som kan drabba patienterna oavsett om de vårdas på vårdavdelningar, genom hemsjukvård eller på specialiserad palliativ vårdavdelning. Detta kan innebära att de behöver få stöd och lindring i sitt existentiella lidande av vårdpersonalen då existentiella behov ska bli mötta för att dessa patienter ska erhålla en god livskvalitet. Syfte: Att beskriva vårdpersonals erfarenheter av att vårda patienter med existentiellt lidande i sen palliativ fas. Metod: Kvalitativ litteraturstudie med beskrivande syntes.Resultat: Efter analysen framkom två teman och sex subteman. Temat Meningsfullt vårdande inkluderar Att få patienterna att öppna upp genom förtroendefulla relationer och Att hitta sätt att stödja patienterna. Temat Utmaningar i vårdandet inkluderar Att finna en balans i sin professionella roll, Att identifiera existentiellt lidande, Att hantera svåra samtal och Att begränsas av yttre förutsättningar. Slutsats: Vårdpersonalen använder enkla medel i omvårdnaden såsom att enbart dela tystanden vilket ger ett meningsfullt vårdande men möjligheterna att identifiera och lindra patienternas existentiella lidande hämmas av tidsbrist och patienternas mentala och fysiska hälsa. Även vårdpersonalens egen dödsrädsla och tron att deras kunskaper brister eller att samtal om döden ökar lidandet minskar möjligheterna för att lindra existentiellt lidande. / Background: Existential suffering can afflict patients in late palliative phase, regardless whether they are cared for in a ward, receive home healthcare or in a specialized palliative care unite. This may mean that health professionals need to support the patients and provide relief in their existential suffering since meeting their existential needs is important in order for the patients to receive a good quality of life. Aim: To describe health professionals' experiences of caring for patients with existential suffering in late palliative phase. Method: A qualitative approach, through a literature study with a descriptive synthesis. Results: After the analysis two themes and six subthemes emerged. The theme Meaningful caring includes Getting the patients to open up through trustful relationships and Finding ways to support the patients. The theme Challenges in caring includes Finding a work-life balance, Identifying existential suffering, Managing difficult conversations and Being limited by external conditions. Conclusion: Nursing actions such as solely sharing the silence resulting in meaningful caring are often used but time restraints and the patients’ overall health conditions limits the possibilities to identify and ease their existential suffering. Additionally, health professionals' death anxiety and experienced knowledge gaps or beliefs that death conversations increase suffering limits the possibilities to ease existential suffering.

Bakgrund: Som en följd av Covid-19 behövde organisationer världen över ställa om från ett fysiskt kontorsarbete till ett ofrivilligt distansarbete. Tidigare forskning har framför allt konstaterat att medarbetare har både positiva och negativa upplevelser av det ofrivilliga distansarbetet. I dagsläget finns det däremot en avsaknad av forskning som belyser medarbetarnas ansvar, delaktighet och inflytande i arbetet, närmare bestämt medarbetarskapet, inom denna kontext. Eftersom medarbetarskap är kontextburet är en sådan kunskap kritisk att uppnå. Syfte: Att beskriva medarbetarskapet i kontexten av ett ofrivilligt distansarbete ur ett medarbetarperspektiv. Metod: Studien antar ett tolkande förhållningssätt och utgörs av en deduktiv teoriansats, kvalitativ forskningsdesign samt en kollektiv fallstudie där sju medarbetare utgör fallet. Forskningen har sin grund i fyra centrala teorier, vilket innefattar medarbetarskapets tre hörnstenar, medarbetarskapshjulet, det utvidgade medarbetarskapshjulet samt de fyra nivåerna av medarbetarskap. Insamling av empiri har genomförts med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet från datainsamlingen har analyserats genom en deduktiv tematisk analysmetod, där fyra huvudteman skapades: engagemang och meningsfullhet i arbetet, aktivt ansvarstagande, socialt samspel och relationer samt öppen och förtroendefull dialog. Slutsats: Studiens resultat beskriver att medarbetarskapet i kontexten av ofrivilligt distansarbete innefattar en god gemenskap, ett bra samarbete och öppen dialog. Resultatet visar dock att det krävs mer av medarbetaren själv för att upprätthålla detta vid distansarbete. Över lag har känslan av meningsfullhet varit stark och nivån av engagemang hög. Hängivenheten till arbetsgivaren har i grund och botten varit hög men det har periodvis varit svårt att upprätthålla denna känsla till följd av den fysiska distanseringen. Medarbetarskapet kan även beskrivas med en blandning av den följsamma, specialiserade och initiativrika nivån av medarbetarskap. / Background: Because of Covid-19, organizations had to switch from the traditional office setting to remote work. Previous research indicates that employees have had both positive and negative experiences of involuntarily remote work. However, there is a lack of research regarding the employee’s own responsibility, participation, and influence at work, more exactly the co-workership, in this context. Since co-workership is contextually bound, reaching such an understanding is critical. Purpose: To describe the co-workership in the context of involuntarily remote work from an employee perspective. Method: The study takes on an interpretative approach and consists of a deductive theory-approach, a qualitative research design, and a collective case study where the case consists of seven employees. Moreover, the study has its starting point in four central theories: the three cornerstones of co-workership, the co-workership wheel, the extended co-workership wheel, and the four levels of co-workership. Data has been collected through semi structured interviews. The results from the data collection have been analyzed with a deductive thematic analysis, where four main themes were produced: engagement and meaningfulness at work, social interactions and relationships, active responsibility-taking, and open and trustful dialogue. Conclusion: The result describes that co-workership in the context of involuntarily remote work is characterized by good fellowship, collaboration, and open dialogue. However, the result implies that more is required from the employees themselves to maintain this. Overall, there has been a strong sense of meaningfulness and a high level of engagement. The dedication toward the employer has been high but it has been periodically difficult to maintain this feeling because of the physical distancing. Finally, the co-workership can be described as a combination of the adaptable, specialized, and enterprising levels of co-workership.