<p>I vår studie har vi undersökt om svenska controllers utför arbetsuppgifter som är att betrakta som controlleruppgifter. Vi har även undersökt om yrket påminner om en profession eller om den är på väg mot att bli en sådan.</p><p>Studien är baserad på personliga intervjuer med två controllers verksamma på forsknings- och utvecklingsavdelningen i sina respektive företag samt med forsknings- och utvecklingschefen i det ena företaget.</p><p>Resultaten av studien visar att de controllers som studerats utför arbetsuppgifter som är att betrakta som controlleruppgifter men att det dessutom för en av dem förekom arbetsuppgifter vilka ligger utanför det som vår studerade teori betecknar som controlleruppgifter. Det föreligger tecken på att yrket har vissa likheter med en profession men att den har en lång väg att vandra innan denna status kan uppnås.</p>

<p>The psychosocial work environment in human service organizations is in many respects rewarding from the aspect of human interaction. However, it has also been described in several research reports as demanding and stressful both physically and mentally, resulting in a negative impact on employee health and a high degree of sickness absence. From a public health perspective it is important to focus on determinants of health in occupational groups that are characterized by caring and human relations. This thesis aims at identifying determinants of individual and organizational health in human service professions from a multifactorial perspective.</p><p>Based on both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, four studies of various aspects of psychosocial work exposures are carried out. Study I, an explorative and qualitative study, examines determinants of the psychosocial work environment in the Church of Sweden. Study II consists of a retrospective, randomized study assessing effects of goal clarity work on organizational well-being in the Church. Study III examines exposures resulting in stress-related sick leave among elderly care employees. Study IV is a longitudinal study that assesses effects of organizational change on health and sickness absence among elderly care employees. </p><p>The results show some positive experiences, despite overall demanding work conditions within both of the studied professions. In the Church (Paper I), experiences of freedom and influence at work and the Christian values tend be factors with modifying effect on health. Four patterns are identified for negative health impact; these include unclear organization, a sense of being different, stressful work and destructive communication style. Effects of goal clarity work (Paper II) indicate an overall positive impact on organizational well-being. In elderly care (Paper III), the results suggest, in general, a positive work climate and high effectiveness. Work related exhaustion was significantly higher among employees with stress related sickness absence. Factors of risk for being absent due to stress are approximately three times higher among employees dissatisfied with both their work and their social situations. Finally, measuring effects of organizational change (Paper IV), the results reveal evidence of unchanged self-rated health (SRH), work satisfaction and work exhaustion after reorganization. However, sickness absence increased across time and there is an indication of impaired levels of the anabolic hormone DHEA-S among those individuals affected by the reorganization. </p><p>The results point to a challenge for further research on the interplay between perceived stressors, resources available, biological stress markers and health in order to find adequate measures for improvements in psychosocial work environment in human service professions.</p>

<p>Nowadays companies have changed the way they do the business and have realized that they must explicitly manage their intellectual resources and capabilities in order to remain competitive. The consequence is a rise in demand for knowledge management professionals. Since knowledge management is an emerging discipline, presently there is no widely accepted competency framework for knowledge management professions available.</p><p>A quantitative content analysis was performed using 89 job advertisements from United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Ireland in order to identify competencies of knowledge management profession. The results of the study show that most of the job advertisements asked for skills in Knowledge Management Technologies which are important for knowledge management professionals to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge management processes. The study shows also that knowledge management is more than creation, capturing, sharing and using of knowledge. Moreover it proves that knowledge management does not have a set of clear job titles and that it does not provide clearly bounded set of activities and tasks. Generally much misunderstanding exists about who and what knowledge management professionals are and what kind of skills they have to possess.</p>

Såväl internationell som svensk forskning har visat att skolkuratorer i grundskolan upplever svårigheter med att förstå sitt uppdrag samt att definiera sin yrkesroll. Syftet med denna uppsats var att få fördjupade kunskaper om hur skolkuratorer i grundskolan uppfattar och skapar sin yrkesroll utifrån ett professionsperspektiv. Fokus i studien ligger utöver de professionellas upplevelser av autonomi, på hur skolkuratorer upplever det hälsofrämjande på skolorna, hur förväntningar och samverkan med andra professioner bidrar till förståelsen av yrkesrollen samt vilken kunskap de använder sig av i sitt arbete. Studien utgår ifrån ett kvalitativt forskningsperspektiv där fokus legat på att förstå de professionellas upplevelser. För att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar genomfördes sammanlagt sex semi-strukturerade intervjuer med skolkuratorer verksamma inom grundskola. Intervjuerna har analyserats med hjälp av innehållsanalys och meningskoncentrering. Resultatet från analysen tolkades sedan med hjälp av såväl professionsteoretiska begrepp som rollteoretiska. Studiens resultat visar att skolkuratorernas förståelse och definition av sin yrkesroll påverkas av samverkan med andra professioner, egna och omgivningens förväntningar, vilka arbetsuppgifter de har samt vilken kunskap de använder sig av. Resultatet visar även på att skolkuratorerna upplever sig själva som det sociala arbetets ensamma företrädare på skolans arena.

Det globala finansiella systemet har under de senaste åren genomgått flera kriser. Dessa kriser har haft en stark inverkan på stater, företag och medborgare. Bristfällig revision har förklarats vara en av de bidragande orsaker till dessa kriser. För att komma tillrätta med de negativa effekter som en bristfällig revision kan åstadkomma i samhället har det utarbetats nya regler för revisorer och revision. Syftet med de nya reglerna är att stärka förtroendet hos allmänheten för fenomenet revision och revisorns profession. På grund av förtroendeskador vill lagstiftaren återge revisionen den kvalitetsstämpel som den tidigare haft samt stärka oberoendet på olika sätt. Det av EU framtagna revisionspaketet, innehållande nya regler för revision, implementerades år 2016 i det svenska normsystemet. Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån allmänhetens perspektiv förstå hur revisionspaketets implementering i svensk lagstiftning kommer att påverka det förtroende som allmänheten har för revisorn och revisionen av företag i allmänhetens intresse. Utgångspunkten kommer tas i tre av de förändringar som de nya reglerna innebär för revisionsprocessen. Det första är revisorns oberoende granskning, det andra är revisionsberättelsens innehåll och det tredje är rådgivningsförbudet. Genom en rättsdogmatisk metod kommer reglerna att diskuteras utifrån samhällsvetenskapliga teorier som förtroendeteorin. I resultatet av diskussionen visar sig bland annat att det behöver förmedlas mer information om professionens betydelse och förutsättningar för att överbrygga det förväntansgap som uppstått mellan allmänheten och revisorerna själva. / The global financial system has in recent years undergone several crises. These crises have had a strong impact on the commonwealth. The audit has been declared one of the contributing causes of these crises. In order to overcome the negative effects in society caused by a deficient audit, new rules have been developed for auditors and audit. The purpose of the new rules is to strengthen the public trust in the phenomenon of auditing and auditor profession. Because of these injuries the legislature would reproduce the seal of approval for quality that audit previously had and strengthen the independence in different ways. The EU developed “The audit package”, containing new rules for auditing, which was implemented in 2016 in the Swedish normsystem.   The aim of this paper is based on the public's perspective to understand how implementation of the “audit package” into Swedish legislation will affect the trust that the public has for the auditor and the audit of companies in the public interest. The starting point will be taken in three of the changes in the new rules for the audit process. The first is the auditor's independent review, the second is the audit report content and the third is the counseling ban. Through a legal dogmatic approach, the rules will be discussed on the basis of social science theories such as trust theory. The result of the discussion shows among other things that there is a need of more information to be shared about the profession's importance and potential for bridging the divergence of expectations between the public and the audits themselves.

Welding is today seen as one of the most dangerous professions on earth, mostly because of the toxic fumes. These fumes can lead to a variety of diseases and in worst case death. Now imagine this problem when you are working at different places every day and you can not always bring the equipment needed to protect your health since they are either too big or does not have enough capacity. This is a problem which welders that work at temporary workplaces have to face every day. With this project I have looked into this problem and come up with a product that makes the temporary workplaces safer and at the same time keeps an efficient workflow.

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There were two main purposes of this quantitative study. The first purpose was to identify characteristics associated with the selected sample of academic advisors that comprise study. Secondly, the study sought to determine how well work related activities of a selected population of academic advisors correlate with professional characteristics constructs and professional standards constructs of academic advising as a profession. The study used Habley’s (1986) characteristics of a profession to derive the studies professional characteristic construct, education activities, research activities, and professional development activities as it relates to a selected group of academic advisors work related activities. The studies professional standards construct was derived from five Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) professional standards for academic as it relates to a selected group of academic advisors work related activities. The study of 78 out of 210 identified full-time academic advisors at two-and four-year public colleges and universities in the North Texas Region utilized a multidimensional researcher-developed Web survey instrument designed to measure professional standards and characteristic within the field of academic advising. Study results reinforced current criticism of research and education activities within the field of academic advising showing that the lack of scholarly research and education activities among academic advisors decreases significantly their efforts towards professionalization. Also, professional standards construct results suggest that the utilization of CAS standards for academic advising as an evaluation tool may enhance an academic advisor’s knowledge of professional standards within the field.

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Ce mémoire porte sur l’évolution de la profession de puéricultrice au Québec entre 1925 et 1985. Il cherche plus spécifiquement à éclairer les raisons de la disparition de cette profession. Celle-ci prend racine dans le contexte de la lutte contre la mortalité infantile et de la médicalisation croissante de la maternité, ce dernier phénomène connaissant de profondes modifications au cours du XXe siècle. En parallèle, les systèmes de santé et d’éducation québécois connaissent d’importants bouleversements. Comment la profession de puéricultrice évolue-t-elle devant ces changements ? Comment tentera-t-elle de faire sa place dans le monde des spécialistes des soins et de l’enfance ? Par ailleurs, quelle place la société, plus spécifiquement le monde médical et l’État, lui réservera-t-elle au fil du temps et pour quelles raisons ? Qu’est-ce qui explique sa disparition ? Voilà les questions auxquelles ce mémoire cherche à répondre. Afin de bien ancrer les origines de la profession, notre analyse s’est d’abord penchée sur les raisons de la création des premières formations en puériculture et des stratégies de professionnalisation des puéricultrices. Notre recherche s’est ensuite intéressée aux discours des acteurs s’étant prononcés sur le sort des puéricultrices à la suite des grandes réformes des années 1960-1970 ainsi qu’au discours des puéricultrices qui cherchent à s’inscrire dans ce nouveau système de santé étatisé. Nous émettons l’hypothèse que la profession de puéricultrice a été victime de plusieurs facteurs dont les multiples réorganisations du système de santé ainsi que de la compétition entre les professions de la santé, mais plus profondément d’une conception de la maternité qui se modifie considérablement au cours de la période étudiée. / This memoir examines the evolution of the occupation called “baby nurse” (puéricultrice in French), in Québec, between 1925 and 1985. It aims more specifically at shedding light on the reasons why this occupation disappeared. This occupation builds on the fight against child mortality and the growing medicalization of maternity, the latter phenomenon undergoing considerable modifications throughout the XXth century. Simultaneously, the health care and education systems in Québec experience significant upheavals. How does the baby nurse occupation evolve in light of these changes? How will it try to establish itself in this world of child care specialists? Furthermore, what place will society, more specifically the medical community and the government, leave for it throughout time, and for what reasons? How can we explain it disappearance? Those are the questions this memoir will try to answer. To ensure that the origins of this occupation are well anchored, our analysis examined the reasons why the first baby nurse programmes were created and strategies were developed for this occupation’s professionalization. Then, our research focused on the messages being conveyed by the actors involved following the major reforms that occurred in 1960-1970, and that of the baby nurse trying to get included this new government-owned health care system. We make the assumption that the baby nurse occupation was a victim of several factors, including the multiple reorganisations of the health care system, and the competition between health care occupations, but more deeply of a conception of maternity that will be greatly modified during the studied period.