Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera hur IT-företaget JMB gått tillväga för att implementera sin strategi samt att undersöka vilka faktorer som har varit viktiga för JMB:s strategiimplementering. Avgränsningar: Vi har i studien avgränsat oss till ett fallföretag vilket innebär att strategiimplementering och faktorer i andra företag har inte beaktas. Vi har även avstått ifrån att fördjupa oss i utvärdering och uppföljning av strategin. Metod: En fallstudie har genomförts på ett IT-företag, där vi har genomfört intervjuer på tre olika nivåer i organisationen. Utifrån den konceptuella modellen har det empiriska och teoretiska materialet analyserats. Resultat, slutsatser: Svaret på frågeställningen är att JMB implementerar sin strategi genom att arbeta i en decentraliserad organisationsstruktur där företagets olika affärsområden får arbeta självständigt efter målstyrning samt ”empowerment”. Viktiga övergripande faktorer är organisationsstruktur och inflytande, ledarskap, organisationskultur, samt strategisk kontroll och förändring.

Nurturing talent inside organizations through the use of Emotional Intelligence could strength businesses competitive advantage. The use of Emotional Intelligence as a tool to create closer liaisons among staff members could provide the connection that employers need to breed their employees, particularly, their B players. Our objective is to study the processes that are built between top managers and B players within the virtual space inside organizations and the viability to elevate their performance through the use of Emotional Intelligence when creating work relationships among them. The study was performed by a cluster of interviews to top managers, practitioners and researchers involved with our object of study and by a series of surveys completed by employees. The main results were connected to verbal language and multicommunicative activities as management of meaning from a leader, intercultural differences, general prevention towards work relationship building, influence from physical space of offices, personal space and personal satisfaction, post modernity in the leadership style, advantages of using Emotional Intelligence, positive effects that interrelations have over businesses general activities and the viability to reinforce business competitive advantage by empowering their human resources. After the termination of this study, we could conclude that communication channels, culture context and local values and beliefs are the main aspects that influence and limit the creation of processes among our both actors and their subsequent success. Furthermore, to create work relationship inside organizations indirectly build the defensive strategy that firms need against competitors and this reinforces their business competitive advantage.

Bakgrund:Psykisk ohälsa är ett ökande folkhälsoproblem. Genom att stärka patienters självkänsla läggs en grund för möte och behandling. Syfte: var att ur patientperspektiv belysa hälso- och sjukvårdens bemötande av patienter med psykisk ohälsa. Metod: Artiklar söktes i PubMed och PsycInfo. En textnära kvalitativ innehållsanalys gjordes. Åtta subkategorier identifierades: information, osynlighet, ej öppen dialog, utanförskap, respektlöshet, bristande socialt nätverk, låg självkänsla och brist på autonomi. Dessa sorterades under tre kategorier: lågt människovärde, kommunikation och brist på empowerment. Resultat: Patienter upplevde brister i kommunikation och bemötande samt okunskap hos vårdspersonal. Ett bra bemötande möjliggjorde en öppen och ärlig kommunikation där tillit och förtroende skapades. Diskussion: En tydligare holistisk människosyn kan skapa förutsättningar för bättre kommunikation mellan patient och vårdspersonal vilket i sin tur kan leda till ömsesidig förståelse.

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare how patients with diabetes type 2 self-estimate their self-consciousness, problem identification, stress management and the willingness to change before and after a daycare week. The aim was also to compare if the value on HbA1c have changed after the daycare week compared to before. Method: A total of 60 patients who recived offer to participate in a daycare week at a clinic on a university hospital in Sweden. Patients replied a form (SWE-DES-SF-10) before (n=60) and three months after (n=35) the daycare week. They also left a blood sample for HbA1c before (n=60) and three months after (n=42) the daycare week. The forms and HbA1c-values were analyzed using wilcoxon´s signed-rank test and paired t-test.   Results: After the daycare week estimated the participating patiens their self-consciousness and problem identification higher than before the daycare week. The value on HbA1c had reduced after the daycare week compared to before.   Conclusions: A daycare week for patients with diabetes type 2 may affect patients´ self-consciousness and their ability to identify problems and therefore increase their ability to manage their disease.

Distriktssköterskans roll är av stor betydelse vid införandet av ett empowerment baserat förhållningssätt gentemot den äldre individen med diabetes typ 2. Empowerment är ett begrepp som uppkommit i samband den humanistiska människosynen och används i syfte att öka patienternas egenvårdsförmåga och självstyre i skötseln av sin diabetes. Livskvalitén ökar av individens delaktighet och självbestämmande, att själv kunna ansvara för sin sjukdom med stöd av distriktssköterskan. Empowerment baserad utbildning i grupp vid återkommande träffar för att få riklig kunskap om diabetes typ 2, med möjlighet till individuella träffar där individerna skapar sina egna mål är av största vikt för att bedriva egenvård. Lagar och författningar som styr distriktssköterskans arbete genomsyras av humanism. Distriktssköterskan behöver få utbildning i att använda sig av ett empowerment baserat arbetssätt och de behöver arbetsledningens stöd då det krävs ökade resurser vid införandet av ett nytt arbetssätt. Empowerment baserad grupputbildning ger en ökad förbättring av den glykemiska kontrollen för äldre individer. Diabetes typ 2 är en sjukdom som ökar i takt med att befolkningen blir äldre. Studien har genomförts som systematisk litteraturstudie.

Abstract In an enterprise, the purpose of any strategy or management activity is to enhance the business performance and corporate competitiveness. Therefore, the management of an enterprise employs different human resource management systems, utilizes a variety of specialists, materials, capitals, and information systems to lift up the human capital, and in turn, the business performance. Therefore, this research focuses on the influence of the team performance by utilizing variety of human capital and activities. It also discusses the effectiveness of different team leader empowerment in different enterprise. The software industry in this research is categorized based on the industry classification ¡¥Industrial, commerce, and service industries survey¡¦ by the Executive Yuan, including computer software industry (program design, system design, system analysis, packaged software design, system administration), computer system integrated service industry (system integration, turn-key system). A total of 420 questionnaires were distributed to 63 companies; 181 valid questionnaires were returned at the usable response rate was 43.10%. This research applied 12 human resource management activities as the basis for discussion over the effect of human resource management activity to the organizational performance, and generalized three factors, that are factor (1) human resource development, factor (2) teamwork design, and factor (3) member relation. In respect to these three categories, this research also defines the empowerment of team leader in enterprise into three aspects as (1) ¡§self-awareness of development¡¨, (2)¡¨team relationship discipline¡¨, (3) ¡§team relationship influence¡¨. The research findings showed that the human resource management activity (which is adopted by the software industry with high human resource capital) has three symptoms regarding to team performance. (1). Enhanced by team member relationship management system. (2). Team leader empowerment has no significant impact on team performance, as contrast to team empowerment has negative relationship with ¡§Quality Acceptance¡¨. (3). Different team leader empowerment resulting different team performance and it varies with different kind of business / industries.

Enterprises must have first-class core capabilities in order to survive from government¡¦s new enactments, new competitors and new products under the rapid changing environment globally, and through the empowerment, which is the major efficient instrument to maintain enterprises¡¦ competition ability, could improve organizational efficiency. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to understand if employee¡¦s cognition of empowerment influences their working attitude; the research objects are employees of hi-tech industry, and there are 313 valid questionnaires out of 486 issued questionnaires. First is to use constructive validity of factor analysis test scale and reliability of Cronbach alpha test scale to confirm reliability and validity, and apply regression analysis to discover as below: 1. Empowerment has significant influence on organizational commitment. That is, the higher the employees¡¦ cognition of empowerment is, the higher the organizational commitments are, especially for employees with higher education background, female employees and older employees. 2. Empowerment has significant influence on total working satisfaction. That is, the higher the employees¡¦ cognition of empowerment is, the higher their working satisfactions are, especially for employees with lower education background and non-business type employees. To sum up, empowerment could actually increase employees¡¦ organizational commitment and working satisfaction, therefore, managers shall undertake as following: 1. Respect individual difference to offer different empowerment mode. 2. Develop multi-organization to increase employees¡¦ knowledge. 3. Value employees¡¦ need and encourage their participation. 4. Establish learning organization and share information.

For foreign spouses faced with cultural differences, low autonomy, and low local language proficiency, the internet provides them with means to breaking insulation. Via the internet, foreign spouses can obtain help and increase autonomy. This research aims to discuss 4 perspectives: (1) foreign spouses¡¦ Chinese proficiency, (2) digital divide, (3) digital inequality, and (4) the processes of their digital empowerment. The research points out that many foreign spouses cannot write Chinese characters well. Neither can they understand Chinese phonetic symbols. Therefore, foreign spouses have difficulty keying in long Chinese paragraphs; they mostly read Chinese articles on the Internet. Besides, foreign spouses sacrifice their time, place, and functions of internet use because they put priority on becoming a ¡§good wife, good mother, and good daughter-in-law.¡¨ Due to that awareness, they sacrifice digital access for their family. Most important of all, the digital divide and inequality leads to digital downward spiral. Because they lack computer and internet equipment, they cannot develop the skills needed to use computer. Because digital inequality, their skills deteriorated so that they think they have no need to buy related equipment. Foreign spouses, however, know that if they can use computer and the internet, their autonomy can be increased so that they do not have to count on their husbands for everything. Besides, the importance of the internet for the foreign spouses also influences the decision whether they buy and use the internet. If they think the internet cannot benefit them in their daily life, they would not purchase the Internet.

<p>Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera hur IT-företaget JMB gått tillväga för att implementera sin strategi samt att undersöka vilka faktorer som har varit viktiga för JMB:s strategiimplementering.</p><p>Avgränsningar: Vi har i studien avgränsat oss till ett fallföretag vilket innebär att strategiimplementering och faktorer i andra företag har inte beaktas. Vi har även avstått ifrån att fördjupa oss i utvärdering och uppföljning av strategin.</p><p>Metod: En fallstudie har genomförts på ett IT-företag, där vi har genomfört intervjuer på tre olika nivåer i organisationen. Utifrån den konceptuella modellen har det empiriska och teoretiska materialet analyserats.</p><p>Resultat, slutsatser: Svaret på frågeställningen är att JMB implementerar sin strategi genom att arbeta i en decentraliserad organisationsstruktur där företagets olika affärsområden får arbeta självständigt efter målstyrning samt ”empowerment”. Viktiga övergripande faktorer är organisationsstruktur och inflytande, ledarskap, organisationskultur, samt strategisk kontroll och förändring.</p>

The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes of social workers in Tennessee towards people with physical disabilities. A non-probability, convenience sample of social workers who were members of the National Association of Social Workers Tennessee Chapter (NASW TN), and accept email communication, were sent the on-line survey. Two hundred sixty five social workers responded to the survey and one hundred sixty eight respondents (N=168) completed the survey in its entirety and were included in analysis. The respondents’ attitudes were assessed as either empowering or oppressive based on concepts and constructs of empowerment and oppression identified by disability scholars and social work researchers in the field of disability. The findings of the individual questions were analyzed. The survey questions worded toward an empowering attitude found that 80% of the subjects answered towards a possible empowering attitude regarding the self-determination of people with physical disabilities. The highest rate of no opinion responses was noticed with the questions related to sexual satisfaction, intimacy and depression. Due to the lack of validity and reliability of the survey tool it would be inappropriate to generalize the results to a broader social work population. The information gathered, however, may serve as a glimpse of the attitudes of social workers in Tennessee towards people with physical disabilities