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Organisationer bör förstå vikten av anställdas arbetskraft eftersom den anses vara en av de viktigaste komponenterna till att verksamheten fortgår. Mänskliga tillgångar är på så vis den viktigaste resursen eftersom deras arbetskraft hjälper företag att bli konkurrenskraftiga. Därför krävs det för organisationer att lyckas motivera sina medarbetare för att de ska kunna prestera goda resultat i arbetet. Av den anledningen är det betydelsefullt att studera hur en verksamhet med hjälp av en kompetensutveckling kan öka medarbetares inre arbetsmotivation och vad den har för betydelse för deras inre arbetsmotivation. Hos medarbetare som saknar motivation finns det en risk för att låg produktivitet förekommer och arbetsgivare måste på så vis hitta en förklaring på problemet. Därför är det viktigt att organisationer fokuserar på investeringar som kan öka medarbetares arbetsmotivation.Studien fokuserar på en kompetensutveckling eftersom detta har visat sig förbättra effektiviteten och arbetsprestandan hos medarbetare. För att kunna besvara undersökningens problemformuleringar valde författarna att använda sig utav en kvalitativ metod där fem semistrukturerade intervjuer utfördes tillsammans med medarbetare från den valda organisationen. Studiens syfte var att få en ökad förståelse för vad medarbetare upplever som viktigt inom kompetensutveckling och vilken betydelse den har för deras inre arbetsmotivation.Studiens valda organisation är ett revisionsföretag som befinner sig i Jönköpings kommun och tillhör en bransch där kunskap och kompetens hos den anställda är den viktigaste resursen. Den valda avdelningen har nyligen genomgått en kompetensutveckling vilket således gör det intressant att undersöka vilken betydelse kompetensutvecklingen har på medarbetares inre arbetsmotivation. Resultatet som presenteras i studien är att kompetensutvecklingar har stor betydelse för medarbetares inre arbetsmotivation samt att de psykologiska tillstånden kan förändras efter en genomförd utvecklingsinsats. Däremot är det av stor vikt som arbetsgivare att känna till att medarbetare motiveras av varierande faktorer och för att få kännedom om dessa kan ett verktyg vara utvecklingssamtal. De faktorer som medarbetare ansåg var av störst vikt inom en kompetensutveckling var främst personlig utveckling, att bibehålla och öka kompetensen samt få mer trygghet när de utför arbetsuppgifter / Organizations should understand the importance of employee labor as it is considered to be one of the most important components for the continued operation of the business. Human resources are the most important resource because their workforce helps companies to become competitive. It is therefore necessary for organizations to succeed in motivating their employees in order for them to be able to achieve good results at work. For this reason, it is important to study how an activity with the help of a skills development can increase employees’ internal work motivation and what it means for their internal work motivation. There is a risk that low productivity occurs when employees have a lack of motivation and employers must find an explanation for the problem. Therefore, it is important that organizations focus on investments that can increase employees’ work motivation.The study focuses on skills development as this has been shown to improve the efficiency and work performance of employees. In order to be able to answer the survey's problem formulations, the authors chose to use a qualitative method where five semi-structured interviews were conducted together with employees’ from the chosen organization. The purpose of the study was to gain an increased understanding of what employees perceive as important in a skills development and how important it is for their internal work motivation.The study’s chosen organization is an auditing company located in Jönköpings country and belongs to an industry where knowledge and competence of the employees is the most important resource. The selected department has recently undergone a competence development and therefore makes it interesting to investigate how important the competence development is for the employees’ internal work motivation. The results presented in this study shows that competence developments are of great importance for employees’ internal work motivation and that the state of psychology can change after a completed skills development effort. On the other hand, it is of great importance as an employer to know that employees are motivated by various factors and to find out this, employers can use a tool such as a development conversation. The employees considered that the factors that were most important in a skills development were mainly personal development, maintenance and increased competence and increased security when performing tasks.

Information-seeking behavior is a mixture of activities and attitudes, oftentimes motivated by an individual's need to make a decision. One underlying element of this mixture is cognitive authority - which sources (e.g., individuals, institutions, texts, etc.) can be trusted to fulfil the information needs? In order to gain insight into the dynamics of cognitive authority selection behavior which is an information seeking behavior, this study explored primary source text data (316 text records) that reflected selection in the mundaneness of life (advice column submissions and responses). Linguistic analysis was performed on the data using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC2015) software package. Pearson correlation and 1-sample T tests revealed the same 45 statistically significant relationships (SSRs) in the word usage behavior of all subgroups. As a result of the study, the gap in research formed from the lack of quantitative models of cognitive authority relationships was addressed via the development of the Wordprint Classification System which was used to generate a cognitive authority relationship model in the form of a cognitive authority intra-segment wordprint. The findings and implications of this study may provide a contribution to the body of work in the area of information literacy and information seeker behavior by revealing factors that information scientists can address to help meet information seekers' needs. Additionally, the Wordprint Classification System may be used in such disciplines as psychology, marketing, and forensic linguistics to create to create models of various relationships or individuals through the use of written or spoken word usage patterns.

There exists a broad inclination among those who theorize about mental representation to assume that the meanings of linguistic units, like words, are going to be identical to, and work exactly like, mental representations, such as concepts. This has the effect of many theorists applying facts that seem to have been discovered about the meanings of linguistic units to mental representations. This is especially so for causal theories of content, which will be the primary exemplars here. It is the contention of this essay that this approach is mistaken. The influence of thinking about language and mental representation in this way has resulted in the adoption of certain positions by a broad swathe of theorists to the effect that the content of a concept is identical to the property in the world that the concept represents, and that because of this a concept only applies to an object in the world or it does not. The consequences of such commitments are what appear to be insoluble problems that arise when trying to account for, or explain, misrepresentation in cognitive systems. This essay presents the position that in order to actually account for misrepresentation, conceptual content must be understood as being very much like measurements, in that the application of a content to an object in the world is akin to measuring said object, and that conceptual content ought be understood as being graded in the same way that measurements are. On this view, then, concepts are the kinds of things that can be applied more, or less, accurately to particular objects in the world, and so are not identical to whatever it is that they represent.

There exists a broad inclination among those who theorize about mental representation to assume that the meanings of linguistic units, like words, are going to be identical to, and work exactly like, mental representations, such as concepts. This has the effect of many theorists applying facts that seem to have been discovered about the meanings of linguistic units to mental representations. This is especially so for causal theories of content, which will be the primary exemplars here. It is the contention of this essay that this approach is mistaken. The influence of thinking about language and mental representation in this way has resulted in the adoption of certain positions by a broad swathe of theorists to the effect that the content of a concept is identical to the property in the world that the concept represents, and that because of this a concept only applies to an object in the world or it does not. The consequences of such commitments are what appear to be insoluble problems that arise when trying to account for, or explain, misrepresentation in cognitive systems. This essay presents the position that in order to actually account for misrepresentation, conceptual content must be understood as being very much like measurements, in that the application of a content to an object in the world is akin to measuring said object, and that conceptual content ought be understood as being graded in the same way that measurements are. On this view, then, concepts are the kinds of things that can be applied more, or less, accurately to particular objects in the world, and so are not identical to whatever it is that they represent.