This research deals with assessing and analysing the reasons behind the low productivity and profitability growth of the Eritrean Marine Products Company (EMPC) and the main goal of this research is to assist the company to improve its competitive position in the export and domestic markets. In order to address the low productivity and profitability of EMPC (the research problem), the following four main objectives are outline I valuating how and to what extent the company capitalises on its strengths and opportunities, and avoids weaknesses and the threats in the environment; testing how the company's strategy is suitable by determining how the company's capabilities are effective in adding value and improving its competitive position; testing the strategy acceptability by assessing the financial performance and outcomes of the company, and finally testing its feasibility by assessing whether the company has the resources and competencies that match to the strategy. To discuss the research objectives literature review is developed based on the strategy evaluation process using the evaluation criteria of suitability, acceptability and feasibility frame-work. Since this research is a case study and qualitative in nature, annual reports and other studies about EMPC are used to collect the secondary data. Interviews have been also conducted with the company's managers and other staff members to collect the primary data. According to the study findings, EMPC has a lot of opportunities such as growing demand of fish in international markets especially the EU market, and financial as well as technical support from the Eritrean Government. However, EMPC has some structural weaknesses such as lack of fishing skills and insufficient infrastructure which resulted in shortage of supply. The gap analysis showed that there is a big gap between the projected and actual quantities of fish production. The financial performance of Asmara Processing Plant (branch of EMPC) is quite satisfactory, while ERIFISH (branch of EMPC) was facing financial loss. The gross and net profit margins were negative through out the period of 1999-2002. Finally, it is recommended that EMPC has to revise its production plan, improve its internal operations, and upgrade the skills of the staff. To be competitive in the export market, EMPC should either invest in niche market by providing high-perceived value, through better quality, design, and branding or horizontally integrate with capable firms is a valuable option for the company to benefit from the fishing know-how and economies of scale. / Thesis MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.

En 2000, la loi Solidarité et Renouvellement Urbains entend relancer la planification supracommunale. Un nouveau dispositif -le schéma de cohérence territoriale- est créé, son objectif : mieux coordonner les initiatives publiques dans le champ de l'aménagement du territoire. Dès 2001 de nombreux groupements de communes s'en saisir. Le parti pris ici est de regarder cette réforme à travers l'activité des chefs de projets de SCOT qui organisent l'écriture de ces documents. De 2002 à 2006, des entretiens documentés ont été conduits auprès de plusieurs responsables administratifs. Cette analyse retrace leur mobilisation lors des grandes étapes de ces schémas : la mise en place des périmètres, la conception des cartes, la rédaction du corps de texte.Il en ressort que leur travail s'apparente à un travail de médiation pour gérer des différends qui amène les parties prenantes de cette procédure à consentir à se fixer des règles négociées. Cette approche met en évidence la forme singulière de cette activité qui pour faire avancer la démarche s'appuie très largement sur la convocation par anticipation des effets du droit. Loin de simplement dire le droit ou de le décliner, cette activité de production d'une norme intermédiaire entre la loi et plusieurs documents et actes administratifs vient convoquer le droit pour accompagner des transactions qui trouvent parfois leur prolongement hors de tout cadre juridique. La place importante accordée au droit en situation est mise en perspective par un bref retour historique sur quarante années de production législative et de schémas supracommunaux, une analyse du double mouvement de judiciarisation et de judicisation de la planification, et dans la période actuelle sur la manière dont cette mobilisation du droit dépasse le cadre de chaque dispositif localisé pour constituer un sujet de structuration de ce milieu professionnel. L'analyse du contenu des formations proposées aux chefs de projet SCOT, de leurs échanges en différents lieux, des initiatives conduites pour faire évoluer leur cadre légale d'intervention complètent et confortent les observations situées du travail / In 2000, the law Solidarity and Urban Renewal aims at refurbishing strategic spatial planning. Local authorities are pushed to group in order to lead the writing of new master plan (schéma de cohérence territoriale). In the following years, 400 SCOT are being studied. This implementation is analyzed through a focus on urban planner works. From 2002 to 2006, interviews with these planners enlighten the master plan creation main phases : create the perimeter, drawing the maps, writing the guidelines.This PHD shows how planners play negotiation and mediation roles through this normative production, how they succeed in raising an agreement on collective rules. This analysis shows that normative planning is not an end but a beginning : Law argument on possible effects of a to-be rule -such as litigation through courts, or master plan cancellation- is a way to organize public decisions and begin negotiation. An historic analysis on law production and master plan elaboration during the last 40 years, today's interests and involvement of the profession on legislative production and law arguments complete the situated-work observation

The aim of the study is to explore the experiences of international social work graduates when looking for employment in the field of social work in Sweden after graduation. Because the aim of the study is to study the experiences a graduate face when entering the labor market, we have deemed that a qualitative method with semi structured interviews to collect data would be best suited for our research. The selection will be chosen from international social work graduates who studied in Sweden. The intention is to focus on both graduates with 210 study points and graduates with 180 study points. 4 participants together. The empirical data was analyzed with the mind of using the theory of capital by Pierre Bourdieu. This theory; the theory of capital is seen as an empirically orientated concept, that has been one of the most widely used concepts in international sociology and on the intersection of sociology and educational studies. The authors have put the findings in three (3) categories: Background, labor market and further improvement. These themes were found to be a commonality with the graduates interviewed.  This study found that it can be hard to acquire employment nationally, with an international social work degree.

O cuidado ao trabalhador da saúde tende a ser realizado no cotidiano, nos encontros, na transformação do sofrimento em potência, entretanto, o afastamento do trabalho e a biomedicalização apresentam-se como alternativas uma vez que o sofrimento, ao invés de ser potencializado para produzir novos sentidos do viver, passa a ser transformado em adoecimento. Esse enlace é perpassado por essa pesquisa, que objetivou compreender como os trabalhadores da enfermagem constroem cuidados de si, mapear as intervenções dos modos de cuidar de si e compreender de que forma o trabalhador lida com os afetos provocados no cotidiano da saúde. Procedeu-se a uma pesquisa qualitativa de caráter descritivo, que seguiu os pressupostos metodológicos da exploração da multiplicidade de fontes, na qual quatro técnicas em enfermagem de um grande hospital do sul do Brasil participaram de um dispositivo denominado Tenda do Conto. Foi oportunizando que elas contassem suas “afecções” no encontro com o mundo, dialogando com os acontecimentos no cotidiano do trabalho e da vida, o que permitiu que a pesquisadora dialogasse com a micropolítica, com os contos de cada trabalhadora/pesquisadora e narrasse a sua Tenda. Os resultados surgiram através das aproximações nas contações e trouxeram algumas reflexões a respeito dos contrastes do trabalho em saúde e dos detalhes do processo relacional no plano do cuidado, onde cuidar de si esteve presente no cotidiano através de: autorreconhecimento, “engenhar” no ambiente de trabalho, cooperação intraequipe e prática de atividades fora do ambiente de trabalho Os resultados também aludem que as trabalhadoras cuidam de si através dos encontros, na micropolítica, na cooperação, no reconhecimento do outro, no autogoverno e na ressignificação do sofrimento. Para lidar com os afetos provocados produzem vínculos e realizam novas construções. Observou-se que os Serviços de Saúde do Trabalhador poderiam melhor contribuir para a saúde dos trabalhadores, caso a lógica de organização desses serviços fosse pautada por processos que tomam isso como central. Espera-se com essa pesquisa ter contribuído para uma nova visão do que seja o cuidado de si no cotidiano do trabalho em saúde. / The care by the health worker tends to be carried out in daily life, in meetings, in the transformation of suffering in potency. However, the distance from work and biomedicalization are presented as alternatives once suffering, instead to be potentiated to produce new senses of living, is transformed in sickness. This situation is permeated by this search, wich aimed to understand how nursing workers build care of themselves, map the interventions of the ways of caring for themselves and understand how the worker deals with the affects caused in the daily health. A qualitative search of descriptive character was carried out, which followed the methodological assumptions of the exploration of the multiplicity of sources, in which four nursing techniques from a large hospital in the south of Brazil participated in a device called Tent of the Tale. It was opportune that they tell their “affections” in the encounter with the world, dialoguing with the events in the daily work and life, this allowed the researcher to dialogue with the micropolitics, with the stories of each worker/researcher and to narrate their Tent. The results came from the approximations in the reports and brought some reflections about the contrasts of health work and the details of the relational process in the care plan, where caring for oneself was present in the daily life through: self knowledge, “to “engineer” in work environment, cooperation between the team and activities outside of the work environment. The results also mention that women workers take care of themselves through meetings, micropolitics, cooperation, recognition of the other, self-government and the resignification of suffering. To deal with the affects caused they producing links and realize new constructions. It was observed that the Workers 'Health Services could better contribute to workers' health, if the logic of organizing these services was based on processes that take this as central. It is hoped that this research would have contributed to a new vision of what is the care of oneself in the daily work of health.

O cuidado ao trabalhador da saúde tende a ser realizado no cotidiano, nos encontros, na transformação do sofrimento em potência, entretanto, o afastamento do trabalho e a biomedicalização apresentam-se como alternativas uma vez que o sofrimento, ao invés de ser potencializado para produzir novos sentidos do viver, passa a ser transformado em adoecimento. Esse enlace é perpassado por essa pesquisa, que objetivou compreender como os trabalhadores da enfermagem constroem cuidados de si, mapear as intervenções dos modos de cuidar de si e compreender de que forma o trabalhador lida com os afetos provocados no cotidiano da saúde. Procedeu-se a uma pesquisa qualitativa de caráter descritivo, que seguiu os pressupostos metodológicos da exploração da multiplicidade de fontes, na qual quatro técnicas em enfermagem de um grande hospital do sul do Brasil participaram de um dispositivo denominado Tenda do Conto. Foi oportunizando que elas contassem suas “afecções” no encontro com o mundo, dialogando com os acontecimentos no cotidiano do trabalho e da vida, o que permitiu que a pesquisadora dialogasse com a micropolítica, com os contos de cada trabalhadora/pesquisadora e narrasse a sua Tenda. Os resultados surgiram através das aproximações nas contações e trouxeram algumas reflexões a respeito dos contrastes do trabalho em saúde e dos detalhes do processo relacional no plano do cuidado, onde cuidar de si esteve presente no cotidiano através de: autorreconhecimento, “engenhar” no ambiente de trabalho, cooperação intraequipe e prática de atividades fora do ambiente de trabalho Os resultados também aludem que as trabalhadoras cuidam de si através dos encontros, na micropolítica, na cooperação, no reconhecimento do outro, no autogoverno e na ressignificação do sofrimento. Para lidar com os afetos provocados produzem vínculos e realizam novas construções. Observou-se que os Serviços de Saúde do Trabalhador poderiam melhor contribuir para a saúde dos trabalhadores, caso a lógica de organização desses serviços fosse pautada por processos que tomam isso como central. Espera-se com essa pesquisa ter contribuído para uma nova visão do que seja o cuidado de si no cotidiano do trabalho em saúde. / The care by the health worker tends to be carried out in daily life, in meetings, in the transformation of suffering in potency. However, the distance from work and biomedicalization are presented as alternatives once suffering, instead to be potentiated to produce new senses of living, is transformed in sickness. This situation is permeated by this search, wich aimed to understand how nursing workers build care of themselves, map the interventions of the ways of caring for themselves and understand how the worker deals with the affects caused in the daily health. A qualitative search of descriptive character was carried out, which followed the methodological assumptions of the exploration of the multiplicity of sources, in which four nursing techniques from a large hospital in the south of Brazil participated in a device called Tent of the Tale. It was opportune that they tell their “affections” in the encounter with the world, dialoguing with the events in the daily work and life, this allowed the researcher to dialogue with the micropolitics, with the stories of each worker/researcher and to narrate their Tent. The results came from the approximations in the reports and brought some reflections about the contrasts of health work and the details of the relational process in the care plan, where caring for oneself was present in the daily life through: self knowledge, “to “engineer” in work environment, cooperation between the team and activities outside of the work environment. The results also mention that women workers take care of themselves through meetings, micropolitics, cooperation, recognition of the other, self-government and the resignification of suffering. To deal with the affects caused they producing links and realize new constructions. It was observed that the Workers 'Health Services could better contribute to workers' health, if the logic of organizing these services was based on processes that take this as central. It is hoped that this research would have contributed to a new vision of what is the care of oneself in the daily work of health.

O cuidado ao trabalhador da saúde tende a ser realizado no cotidiano, nos encontros, na transformação do sofrimento em potência, entretanto, o afastamento do trabalho e a biomedicalização apresentam-se como alternativas uma vez que o sofrimento, ao invés de ser potencializado para produzir novos sentidos do viver, passa a ser transformado em adoecimento. Esse enlace é perpassado por essa pesquisa, que objetivou compreender como os trabalhadores da enfermagem constroem cuidados de si, mapear as intervenções dos modos de cuidar de si e compreender de que forma o trabalhador lida com os afetos provocados no cotidiano da saúde. Procedeu-se a uma pesquisa qualitativa de caráter descritivo, que seguiu os pressupostos metodológicos da exploração da multiplicidade de fontes, na qual quatro técnicas em enfermagem de um grande hospital do sul do Brasil participaram de um dispositivo denominado Tenda do Conto. Foi oportunizando que elas contassem suas “afecções” no encontro com o mundo, dialogando com os acontecimentos no cotidiano do trabalho e da vida, o que permitiu que a pesquisadora dialogasse com a micropolítica, com os contos de cada trabalhadora/pesquisadora e narrasse a sua Tenda. Os resultados surgiram através das aproximações nas contações e trouxeram algumas reflexões a respeito dos contrastes do trabalho em saúde e dos detalhes do processo relacional no plano do cuidado, onde cuidar de si esteve presente no cotidiano através de: autorreconhecimento, “engenhar” no ambiente de trabalho, cooperação intraequipe e prática de atividades fora do ambiente de trabalho Os resultados também aludem que as trabalhadoras cuidam de si através dos encontros, na micropolítica, na cooperação, no reconhecimento do outro, no autogoverno e na ressignificação do sofrimento. Para lidar com os afetos provocados produzem vínculos e realizam novas construções. Observou-se que os Serviços de Saúde do Trabalhador poderiam melhor contribuir para a saúde dos trabalhadores, caso a lógica de organização desses serviços fosse pautada por processos que tomam isso como central. Espera-se com essa pesquisa ter contribuído para uma nova visão do que seja o cuidado de si no cotidiano do trabalho em saúde. / The care by the health worker tends to be carried out in daily life, in meetings, in the transformation of suffering in potency. However, the distance from work and biomedicalization are presented as alternatives once suffering, instead to be potentiated to produce new senses of living, is transformed in sickness. This situation is permeated by this search, wich aimed to understand how nursing workers build care of themselves, map the interventions of the ways of caring for themselves and understand how the worker deals with the affects caused in the daily health. A qualitative search of descriptive character was carried out, which followed the methodological assumptions of the exploration of the multiplicity of sources, in which four nursing techniques from a large hospital in the south of Brazil participated in a device called Tent of the Tale. It was opportune that they tell their “affections” in the encounter with the world, dialoguing with the events in the daily work and life, this allowed the researcher to dialogue with the micropolitics, with the stories of each worker/researcher and to narrate their Tent. The results came from the approximations in the reports and brought some reflections about the contrasts of health work and the details of the relational process in the care plan, where caring for oneself was present in the daily life through: self knowledge, “to “engineer” in work environment, cooperation between the team and activities outside of the work environment. The results also mention that women workers take care of themselves through meetings, micropolitics, cooperation, recognition of the other, self-government and the resignification of suffering. To deal with the affects caused they producing links and realize new constructions. It was observed that the Workers 'Health Services could better contribute to workers' health, if the logic of organizing these services was based on processes that take this as central. It is hoped that this research would have contributed to a new vision of what is the care of oneself in the daily work of health.

In this paper I analyse the first use of work studies in Swedish hospitals, between 1944 and 1960. The overall purpose of the study is to increase the knowledge of how Taylorism was introduced in the Swedish welfare state. The operational purpose is to increase the knowledge of how tayloristicwork studies influenced the health service and its employees, and how the health service influenced the tayloristic methods and the engineers who conducted the work studies.In the early 1940s, the shortage of trained staff and raising costs became motivations for rationalising Swedish healthcare. The idea of using work studies as a method of rationalisation was driven by the state, in contrast both to early attempts in the US as well as when Taylorism was introduced in Swedish industry. This "push" from the state, rather than a "pull" from hospitals and the fact that only five engineers were working on work studies in the entire healthcare sector, are the reasons why work studies did not produce any measurable economic results. To be able to use work studies at the hospitals, the engineers made major changes to the original tayloristic methods. All movement studies were scrapped, and four out of ten rationalisation proposals were not based on traditional Taylorism. All groups, except doctors, were studied but a difference can be seen from 1955 when rationalisation proposals were directed only at the supportfunctions. The reason for this was that the engineers worked on behalf of the regional councils, which steered the engineers away from direct care and towards support functions such as laundry. The professional identity of Swedish engineers after the First World War focused on cooperation, neutrality, problem solving and fact-based decisions. The same professional identity can be seen for the engineers in the healthcare sector, who also actively used their professional identity as an argument why their work could contribute to the healthcare system and its rationalisation. After 1960, Taylorism gained more ground in Swedish healthcare and the work studies most likely played a role in this, but it was not until hospitals were more industrialised that Taylorism was widely disseminated in the healthcare sector. It is, therefore, hard to say that it was the work studies that led to the industrialisation of hospitals in Sweden.

The aim of this study is to analyze the different discourses linked to so called honor related violence in course literature from term 1 through 6 during the fall of 2018 at the department of social work at Stockholm university. This due to the extensive debates on the subject that implies varied opinions from both media and the research community. To analyze the different discourses, Fairclough's critical discourse analysis is used by looking for modality, transitivity and intertextuality in the different texts. The analysis circles around three different discourses. One is the “us and them” discourse, which differentiates the Swedish ideals from “others” which are portrayed as worse. The second discourse handles “critique against polarization”, which can be connected to post colonialism that criticizes the “us and them” discourse. The third discourse is the “precautionary” discourse that can be connected to social constructionism, whereas the texts leave room for interpretation as they rarely make any certain statements. Throughout all of these discourses we also found that the perpetrator and the victim rarely is spoken of when talking honor related violence, as compared to “normal violence”, and more often structural explanations rather than individual ones were used.