The purpose of this study was to find out how SISU reason about cohesion with respect to its own operations, as sports consultants. There is no previous research on how sports consultants using cohesion as a pedagogical tool. However, there is research on cohesion linked to sport. Earlier research sees cohesion as a multidimensional phenomenon. This means that multiple factors determine the experience of cohesion. Such factors include how how-knit the team or group are, individual and joint objectives and that the individuals share common experiences. Previous research also shows that cohesion can be understood only when one understands the context in which the team or group is in.  SISU is a sports educational organization, actively working with the development of sports clubs. Through them sports clubs learn the importance of cohesion in sport. SISU comprises 21 districts and is available in all municipalities from north to south. By its geographical coverage and the large number of sports they are in contact with, they are an influential factor that should not be underestimated. The socio-cultural perspective sees learning as an ongoing process and that people learn and absorb new knowledge both consciously and unconsciously. From a sociocultural perspective conveyed SISU's vision of cohesion directly and indirectly to the sport. The results of this study show that SISU uses several intellectual tools to increase understanding of the importance of cohesion. These tools are also used to create a greater cohesion in sports. The results also show that SISU puts greatest emphasis on the importance of cohesion in sports. For SISU is the cohesion everything. Our conclusion is that SISU talking about cohesion through a series of concepts. These concepts include team spirit, community, group cohesion, group dynamics, friend and family spirit. Our interpretation is that SISU's Sports Consultants talk about cohesion through these concepts and that cohesion is strongly linked to them. These concepts can be seen as dimensions of cohesion. But a specific definition of what the concept of cohesion is not found. / Syftet med studien är att belysa hur idrottskonsulenter på SISU använder begreppet sammanhållning som ett pedagogiskt verktyg i sina kontakter med idrottsföreningar. Det finns ingen tidigare forskning på hur idrottskonsulenter använder sammanhållning som pedagogiskt verktyg i sitt arbete. Däremot finns det forskning på sammanhållning kopplat till idrott. Av de studier vi tagit del av på området ses sammanhållning som ett multidimensionellt fenomen. Det innebär att flera faktorer avgör upplevelsen av sammanhållning. Till dessa faktorer hör hur sammansvetsad laget eller gruppen är, individuella och gemensamma målsättningar och att individerna delar gemensamma upplevelser. Tidigare forskning visar också att sammanhållning kan förstås först när man förstår den kontext som laget eller gruppen befinner sig i.SISU som är en idrottsutbildande organisation, arbetar aktivt med utveckling inom idrottsföreningar. Genom dem lär idrottsföreningarna om sammanhållningens betydelse för idrotten. SISU består av 21 distriktsförbund och finns i alla kommuner från norr till söder. Genom sin geografiska täckning och det stora antalet idrottsföreningar de står i förbindelse med, är de en påverkansfaktor som inte bör underskattas. Det sociokulturella perspektivet ser lärandet som en ständigt pågående process och att människan lär och tar till sig ny kunskap både medvetet och omedvetet. Sett ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv förmedlas SISU´s syn på sammanhållning direkt och indirekt till idrotten. Resultatet av studien visar att SISU använder flera intellektuella redskap för att öka förståelsen för sammanhållningens betydelse. Dessa redskap används också för skapa en bättre sammanhållning inom idrottsföreningar. Resultatet visar också att SISU lägger största vikt vid sammanhållningens betydelse för idrottsföreningar. För SISU är sammanhållningen allt! Vår slutsats är att SISU talar om sammanhållning genom en rad begrepp. Till dessa begrepp hör laganda, gemenskap, gruppsammanhållning, gruppdynamik, kompisanda och familjär. Vår tolkning är att SISU´s idrottskonsulenter pratar kring sammanhållning genom dessa begrepp och att sammanhållning är starkt kopplat till dem. Dessa begrepp kan ses som dimensioner av sammanhållning. Men en specifik definition om vad begreppet sammanhållning är finns inte.

Now Convenience Store Sector is most popular franchise chain in Taiwan industry. Especially in such high rate of franchise, it¡¦s more difficult to manage and control. But franchisee make a formal contract with franchiser, is it suitable to operate franchisee by only clear formal lease? In management control system(MCS) field, it has not any research to discuss about how to link different type of MCS which exclusive and simultaneous exist. Therefore, this research belongs to an exploratory study which choose President Chain Store Corp. as interviews in order to find chain convenience store¡¦s MCS. This study visit an important role: Operational Field Consultant(OFC) between franchise and franchisee. The interview target is 4 OFC in Kaohsiung Region of President Chain Store Corp. The research find are: the chain convenience store¡¦s MCS which is outcome control and behavior control exclusive and simultaneous. The outcome control comes from franchiser, and the behavior control comes from OFC. This research understands OFC position and role who plan a conflict solver and a moderator. This study also find the interface effect does not come from budget distribution. It should be the OFC role who negotiate between franchiser and franchisee and make them a profit successfully. The conclusion is as follows: 1. President Chain Store Corp have two different types of MCS. The outcome control comes from franchiser, and the behavior control comes from OFC. 2. The interface effect of MCS is actually exist. 3. The interface effect of CVS may link by OFC, especially OFC play an plan a conflict solver and a moderator.

The aims to set up Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is to increase enterprises' running efficiency and obtain the capability to respond to the whole supply chain so as to possess business competence and increase profits. There is no doubt that ERP plays an important role in enterprises. Besides, the assistance of consultant service would be beneficial for the successful introduction of ERP into enterprises. Moreover, the consultant teams assigned by consultant companies not only have to obtain professional competence of product techniques but have to offer service quality which is the vital element affecting customers' satisfaction and the success of cases. The present study is based on the theory of IMP interaction model and it attempts to conduct empirical research on the perceptive service qualtity of the consultants who introuduce ERP into enterprise cases. The main purpose of this research aims to find out the effects of consultant service quality on customers' satiscation and their behavioral intention to utilize this system. Additionly, the findings could also be suggestive resources to enterprisers, consultants, and future researchers. The results of this study show that the service quality of the consultants making intoduction of ERP into enterprises has obvious influences on customers' satisfaction and their behavioral intention to adopt ERP. In general, the key issues influencing customers' satiscation and their choices are classified into following three dimensions: (1) the outcomes brought about by the collaboration between consultants and project committees; (2) the professional and service competence presented by consultants; (3) the equality between consultant service and the implementation fee. In addition, this present study also presents different satisfaction degrees examined by reserach variables and population statistic variables. It is hoped that these difference analyses would be beneficial for managers to imrprove ERP consultant service quality.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / Includes abstract. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-149).

Syftet med studien var att undersöka skillnader i krav, kontroll och socialt stöd (JDC-S) utifrån QPS Nordic mellan teknikkonsulter i små och stora företag inom samma verksamhetsområde samt skillnader i upplevd stressnivå utifrån Statshälsans basundersökning. Ytterligare ett syfte var att undersöka i vilken grad JDC-S predicerar stress samt vilken faktor som predicerar stress i högst grad. Resultatet visade signifikanta skillnader i samtliga skalor i JDC-S som kunde lokaliseras i inlärningskrav och kontroll av arbetstakt. Resultatet påvisade inga skillnader i fråga om företagsstorlek och stress där teknikkonsulter upplever stress relativt sällan. Detta motsäger tidigare studier om konsulter och stress, som visat att konsulter upplever stress i hög grad. Resultatet visade slutligen att JDC-S kan förklara upplevd stressnivå till 36,8 % där krav och kontroll predicerar stress signifikant, dock kontroll i högst grad. Detta resultat överensstämmer med JDC-S modellen. / The purpose of the study was to examine the differences in demands, control and social support (JDC-S) from QPS Nordic between technology consultants at large and small companies within the same business. Differences in the perceived level of stress from Statshälsans basundersökning was also taken into consideration. Another purpose of the study was to investigate to what extent the JDC-S predicts stress, as well as the factor that predicts stress in the highest degree. The results indicated significant differences in all scales presented by the JDC-S, where the difference was located in the learning demands and in the control of the work pace. Moreover, the results indicated no differences in company size and stress where technology consultants experience stress relatively infrequently. This contradicts earlier studies considering consultants and stress, which established that consultants experience a high degree of stress. Finally, the results indicated that JDC-S can explain the perceived level of stress at 36,8 percent, where demands and control predict stress, but control in the highest degree. This result agrees with JDC-S-model.

Radiography has seen most development over the last 30 years with the evolution of new technologies, but perhaps more significantly changes in education models and radiographer roles. The development of advanced and consultant posts has facilitated the growth of the profession, although the evidence base is still evolving. Through a number of research projects this thesis will explore the growth in the radiography evidence base with specific reference to the extending role of the radiographer in image interpretation. Parallel clinical and academic developments have provided evidence of a scholarly profession which is slowly establishing its place through publication and a growing research base.

Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the market of pedagogic consulting and how the customers look upon these kinds of services and what the consultants think about the market. The following five questions were investigated: What is the situation of the market of pedagogic consulting? -          What needs and what demands are there of pedagogical consulting services? -          What are the economic possibilities for schools and municipalities to buy professional development and consulting services? What do schools and municipalities think about their needs and what do they think about buying professional development from consultants? -          How are the professional development offerings of the consultants recieved by schools and municipalities and is there a difference between the private and public sector of education? -          What impact could professional development have on schools? In what way is the marketing for pedagogic consulting done? Method In this study I have chosen to have a qualitative approach with an abductive perpective. I made these choices to get closer to what I wanted to investigate. Through the abductive methodology it was possible to go between theory and empirics. The empirics consits of seven face-face local interviews. The persons who were interviewed were consultants, principals and the head of the administration of upper secondary schools. They all helped me to investigate the pedagogical consultation market. Conclusions According to the sources in this paper have the Swedish school results decreased, therefore it is a need to do something about it and professional development for teachers could be one thing that could improve the situation. However, the pedagogical consulting businesses could face a problematic time, because of the economical crises which makes is difficult for schools and municipalities to afford their services. I interpret that schools seem to be unsure of what needs they have although they seem to understand that there is something they lack. It can be hard to see what the basic problem is and therefore difficult to know what changes are needed and what kind of professional development teachers need. Through the offering of professional development services by consultants, the teachers’ quality can become better and the schools competitiveness can improve. Finally, I found out that the municipality and schools I investigated don’t buy pedagogical consulting services very often. The reason for this could be the economic situation due to the economic crises. I also found that the marketing in pedagogical consulting businesses mostly is done through personal networks.

This essay concerns PR-consultants and their view on their work. The purpose was to find out which type of communication they use in contact with the target. By target, we mean the group of people the employer wants to reach with help of the PR-consultant. For example: Jägarförbundet wants to get help from a PR-consultant to influence someone in the government so that Swedish hunters can shoot more wolves, than the target group is the one in the government. We also wanted to find out if the PR-consultants are aware of the image the public have of them and if they are trying to change it into a more positive one, by using more ethics, openness and to have more focus on the relations aspect.  PR in the future with new social media (like Internet) was also a subject, where we wanted to know how much they involve social media in their work.    Our main questions were: How do PR-consultants relate to openness in communication, ethics and social media? Which one of Grunig’s PR-models is most occuring in the PR-consultants work?   We made a qualitative study where we carried out interviews with six PR-consultants. They had different alignments and titles but they had PR-work in common. The results showed that the PR-consultants are aware of their image in public and they are active in trying to make a better image of them. They do appreciate openness, truth and ethics and they are willing to inform people about their work and their methods. The study also showed that they use social media as much as the other, more traditional media, but  the choice of medium depends on the target. The general understanding by the PR-consultants is that the social media makes it easier having a dialogue with the target. Regarding Grunig and his PR-models, the result showed that there are several models that occur. These are the public information, the two-way asymmetrical and the mixed-motive-model. Together they fulfil the demands on truth, dialogue and the possibility in compromising. Althogh they all have elements of persuasion and influences. / Denna uppsats handlar om PR-konsulters syn på sin verksamhet där syftet var att undersöka vilken slags kommunikation de anser att de för med sin målgrupp. Med begreppet målgrupp menar vi den grupp som PR-konsultens uppdragsgivare vill nå med hjälp av denne. Exempel:  Jägarförbundet tar kontakt med en PR-byrå i syfte att påverka någon i riksdagen så att svenska jägare får skjuta fler vargar, då är den i riksdagen målgrupp. Vi ville även undersöka om PR-konsulterna anser att de aktivt försöker ändra på den bild som allmänheten har av deras bransch med hjälp av till exempel etik, öppenhet och fokus på relationer. Däri lades också vikt på framtidens PR-arbete där vi ville veta i hur hög grad sociala medier involveras i verksamheten.    Våra frågeställningar var: Hur förhåller sig PR-konsulterna till de förändrade villkor som råder inom branschen? Med förändrade villkor menar vi nya krav på öppenhet i kommunikationen, etik och användandet av sociala medier. Vilken av Grunigs PR-modeller förekommer mest i PR-konsulternas arbete?   För att få svar på våra frågor genomförde vi en kvalitativ undersökning där vi intervjuade sex PR-konsulter, alla med olika inriktningar och till viss del olika titlar. Det de hade gemensamt var PR-arbete i olika hög grad. Slutresultatet visade att PR-konsulterna är medvetna om den bild allmänheten har av dem och de försöker aktivt bidra till att ändra på den. De värdesätter öppenhet, sanning och etik och uttrycker en vilja att förklara vad det är de arbetar med och vilka deras arbetsmetoder är. Det framkom även att sociala medier används i lika stor utsträckning som de mer traditionella kanalerna, men mediekanal styrs av målgruppen. Uppfattningen hos PR-konsulterna är att de sociala medierna inbjuder till mer dialog med målgruppen. Vad gäller Grunigs PR-modeller visade resultatet att det var flera modeller som förekom. Dessa är informationsmodellen, asymmetriska tvåvägsmodellen samt mixed-motive-modellen. De uppfyller tillsammans kraven på sanning, dialog och att kunna kompromissa men har samtidigt inslag av övertalning och påverkan.

The necessity of managing the tacit knowledge sharing is becoming more significant because of the upcoming demographic changes facing companies all over the industrialized part of the world. The so called baby boomers born in the middle part of the 20th century will soon reach the retirement age and this is anticipated to create an extensive loss of knowledge. In light of that, companies face a dilemma when over bridging the knowledge gap between their more experienced senior employees who have accumulated plenty of knowledge and the novel ones. It opens the discussion concerning how to “capture” that knowledge since it is the competitive advantage in the contemporary world. This is particularly sensible for knowledge-based firms which are the main focus of this study. Scholars have developed different approaches of the knowledge sharing phenomenon, but still there is a lack of understanding regarding how this abstract process should be supported in a daily basis. This work investigates the factors that aid or hinder the knowledge process within consulting firms as a prerequisite to reach a greater awareness of the particular setting that will foster the sharing. Supported by a theoretical background, this was accomplished by following a systems approach, favoring qualitative methods. The empirical data was collected using semistructured qualitative interviews within the headquarter offices of Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Stockholm, Sweden. The exploratory results suggest that by converging specific aspects, consulting firms can overcome the most common barriers when sharing knowledge transfer. Furthermore, it is pointed out the positive conditions a firm has to develop as well as Theoretical and Managerial implications.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze functions and perspectives of vocational information consultant (VIC) institution in Lithuanian vocational orientation system. The research object of this thesis is activity of vocational information consultant. The objectives of the thesis are: 1. to analyze scientific sources and main educational documents, that regulate vocational orientation in Lithuania; 2. to discuss the international experience of vocational orientation development and on that ground to define the principles of VIC activity in Lithuanian vocational orientation system; 3. to explore the peculiarities of VIC activity and to prepare suggestions for VIC education and training program improvement. Research methods: •Quantitative research (questionnaire) •Statistical data analysis Conclusions: 1.Shortage of vocational information places and its uneven distribution influence insufficient accessibility of vocational information services for target groups. 2.One of the main financial and legal problems in this area is establishment and financing of VIC staff. 3.The most important skills of VIC are communication and computer literacy skills. It is necessary to include development of those skills to the VIC education and training program.