Diss. Luleå : Högsk., 1995.

Diss. Lund : University. / LOM-programmet = Ledning, organisation, medbestämmande.

The thesis concerns how leadership and gender are constructed in organisations, through the management language, interactions and context. A particular focus is placed on the relations between men, masculinity and leadership. The theoretical starting point is a doing gender perspective, where the terms leadership and gender are understood as processes; that gender and leadership is done in an organisational situation. Through a processual perspective different levels are linked in the analysis of construction of gender and leadership; society, organisational and individual levels, expressed in terms of structure, symbols, interactions and individual sense making. Masculinity research is also a theoretical area of importance for the thesis, with analysis matrices for the understanding of construction of masculinity between men, as well relationships between masculinity and technology and masculinity and leadership respectively. The empirical data consists of interviews and observations of managers at three different organisational levels at the factory of an industrial engineering firm. Leadership stands out in the empirical data as an extended and male, dedicated as well as uniform story. In discussions of gender the differences between women and men are preferentially described, where above all opinions about women’s gender-typical characteristics are expressed. The opinions are to a greater extent gender-stereotypic. These dominating patterns are however challenged in different ways, through the managers different ways of positioning themselves towards respectively leadership and gender, expressed through their desire to limit the work and reasoning that distances itself from gender aspects being a deciding factor for leadership; through policies on fundamental values and equality as well as through a younger, female manager. From a starting point in the dominating pattern the term leadership masculinities is developed: locally confirmed discourses and practices where leadership and masculinity meet in reciprocal interactions. These leadership masculinities are represented in the empirical material by The Son of the District, The Father, The Dedicated and The Feminine. The last leadership masculinity captures something of the variation and contrast to the dominating pattern which is also found in the material, for example as family and relationship orientation at both a policy and practice level. In the thesis it is discussed in conclusion how reproduction and change, uniformity of pattern and variation appear in parallel in the data – there are gaps in the pattern that can be perceived as opportunities for change of gender relationships and leadership practice.

Diss. Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2005.

Diss. Luleå : Luleå tekniska univ., 2005.

Syftet med den här kvalitativa studien är att öka förståelsen för unga värmländska tjejers syn på industriarbete och jämföra den med befintligt industrianställda kvinnors upplevelser av sin arbetssituation. Genom jämförelsen vill vi påvisa vilka faktorer som kan öka industrins möjligheter att locka till sig den unga kvinnliga arbetskraften och vilka förutsättningar som krävs för att de ska trivas i arbetet. Vår teoretiska referensram som ligger till grund för studien behandlar områdena Genus, Generation Z, Employer Branding och Organisationskultur. Det empiriska materialet har insamlats genom nio intervjuer fördelade på fem unga tjejer och fyra industrianställda kvinnor. Efter analys av det insamlade materialet påvisar resultatet en svårighet i att jämföra de olika gruppernas syner på industriarbete med anledning av de ungas ringa erfarenheter av arbete överlag. Tydligt är däremot att samhörigheten med kollegor har stor betydelse för samtliga och därför är strävan efter en kvinnovänlig organisationskultur något som bör fokuseras eftersom kvinnor upplever sig begränsade av den industritypiska machokulturen. Intresset för industriarbete visar sig också växa i takt med att tjejernas kännedom om industrin ökar, varpå industrin har en chans att nå dem med en tydlig Employer Branding-strategi.

Jämställdhet är en grundläggande princip som strävar efter att skapa likvärdiga möjligheter och behandling för alla oavsett kön. I Sverige har steg tagits för att främja jämställdhet på samhällsnivå, men när vi fördjupar oss inom olika sektorer blir det tydligt att utmaningar kvarstår. Inom arbetslivet och speciellt inom industrin växer insikten om behovet av en mer jämställd företagskultur och arbetsmiljö.Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur jämställdhet implementeras och följs upp samt identifiera utmaningar och möjligheter inom industriföretags jämställdhetsarbete. Resultatet visade att industriföretagen var genomgående av åsikten att jämställdhet inte bara är en fråga om rättvisa utan även en faktor som bidrar till en mer inkluderande, effektiv och attraktiv arbetsplats. Det framkommer trots en ökad medvetenhet och enighet om jämställdhetens betydelse, att det finns utmaningar i att implementera konkreta jämställdhetsintiativ och att övervinna historiskt rotade hinder.

In the end of the1940's Occupational Medicine was institutionalised in Sweden. Health hazilards in the work place was not a new field for the Swedish physicians. They had been preocrcupied with these problems for a long time. The aim of this thesis is to analyse and describe how health hazards in the work placees, ecpecially in the factories, were perceived and described by Swedish physicians at the turn of the 20t century. The aim is also to clarify the physicians' role m shaping, developing and supervising the Occupational Safety and Health Acts. The city of Norrköping is used as anexample in discussing how physicians at a local level paid attention to health and safety issues in the work place. According to the physicians, there were a number of harmful factors in the factory work that could endanger health, but these were also seen to be dependent on the worker. Workers ldisplayed different kinds of vulnerability to the harmful factors. Sex, heredity, age, health, physique, habits and behaviour were understood as determining components. The preventive measures not only contained guidelines for the factories. They also included advises on how '!the workers should organise and live their lives outside work. The life style and behaviour the physicians would like to encourage were aligned with the !cultural values of the bourgeoisie at the tum of the 20th century. It is vital to recognise the cultural lens through which the physicians perceived and spoke of the workers' situation, their way of life and their behaviour inside as well as outside the factory.