This thesis deals with the factors that affect the job performance of the selected organization. In particular, the issues of motivation to work. The aim is to analyze the current level of motivation processes in Zepter International s.r.o., detect problem areas and propose possible solutions, which should help to improve the situation. The first part consists of a literature review, which describes the main tasks and objectives of human resources management. There is also specified term of job performance and the factors that affect the performance are described in detail. Finally this part describes the problems of motivation, motivation theories and motivation to work. The second part is based on the practical application of theoretical knowledge in the form of preparation and processing of the survey. Furthermore, all results of a questionnaire and analyzed on the basis of the identified problem areas in the process of motivating personnel department Warehouse and Service Center. In conclusion, there are recommended guidelines to improve problem areas, whose introduction is designed to positively influence the motivation of employees.

The subject of this thesis Motivation as a performance management tool analyzing possible motivation forms and methods, along with the evaluation and development of pracovníků.Teoretická part specifies the various concepts associated with motivation and factors that affect it and poporují development workers. It deals with problems of motivation associated with work principles, corporate kulutrou and selecting the appropriate manager. The practical part will represent the company Becon, Ltd., and working with its employees, with the help of a questionnaire which serves as a base.

In the 1990s the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) adopted the concept of outsourcing for the provision of certain services. With an increasing amount of services being outsourced to civilian companies, there is little research regarding which types of services are being outsourced by SAF, and how it´s motivated. One service being partially outsourced is the guarding of military bases throughout Sweden. With an on-going debate by researchers on the concept of military outsourcing in expeditionary forces, this study takes a domestic view of outsourcing. This thesis seeks to investigate the concept of military outsourcing, applied to the case of base guards in Sweden. The analysis proves that several reasons or justifications for outsourcing base guarding are presented by those responsible for security in Swedish military units. The analysis also concludes that guard services is viewed different between headquarter level and regimental level. Although considered not a core activity, due to high interdependence with core activities and the requirement for firm-specific competence regimental representatives show more reluctance towards outsourcing guard services.

The aim of this study is to examine the climate issue. More precisely climate demonstrations around the world with emphasis on the people who participates in them. The study also aims to understand why these people choose to take part in the demonstrations. Also, if there is a difference in motives between the people who participate in relation to when they are born. The material this study is examining is based on several demonstrations around the world in different countries and different cities. The material was collected between 2009 and 2013 at different demonstrations that concerned the subject of climate in some way. The result of the study shows some support for the theoretical frame that was used but it also shed some light on the fact that the result also perhaps is not strong enough to generalize to the rest of the population. The study shows that there is some difference between generations and their motives to participate in the demonstrations although they are not very big differences. The study did however have some problems with the theory and its ability to apply to the studies participants and shed light on possible studies in the future.

Världen befinner sig i en ständig förändring och teknologin utvecklas kontinuerligt. Dettahar medfört att redovisningsbyråer måste anpassa sig efter förändringarna för att interiskera att bli utkonkurrerade. Denna studie har som utgångspunkt att identifiera motiventill att genomföra en digitaliseringsprocess på redovisningsbyråer även fast tidigareforskning har visat att det finns nackdelar med det. Syftet med studien är att beskriva ochfå förståelse för små och medelstora redovisningsbyråers motiv att genomgå endigitaliseringsprocess av deras arbetsmetoder.För att kunna uppfylla studiens syfte och besvara studiens forskningsfrågor utförs enkvalitativ studie med en deduktiv ansats. Den framtagna teoretiska referensramen utgörstudiens utgångspunkt och den jämförs sedan mot den insamlade empirin. Det empiriskamaterialet samlas in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer på små och medelstoraredovisningsbyråer belägna i Norrbotten. Både chefer och medarbetare intervjuas vilketgör att studien kan belysa båda perspektiven.Studiens resultat och slutsatser framhåller att motivet till att redovisningsbyråer väljer attgenomgå en digitaliseringsprocess av deras arbetsmetoder är för att inte riskera att bliutkonkurrerade från marknaden, detta för att uppfylla samhällets förväntningar.Samhället efterfrågar digitala arbetsmetoder och digitala arbetsmetoder bidrar till etteffektivare arbete och tidsbesparingar. Denna studie visar att ökade tekniska kompetenserär relevant men anses inte utgöra ett hinder för att övergå till digitala arbetsmetoder.Redovisningsbyråernas arbetsmetoder har förändrats, det som tidigare var pappersbaseratfinns nu i digital form. Nyckelord: Motiv, kompetenser, digitaliseringsprocess och arbetsmetoder / The world is constantly changing, and technology is constantly evolving. This has meantthat accounting firms have to adapt to the changes in order not to risk being outcompeted.This study is based on identifying the motives for carrying out a digitalization process ataccounting firms, even though previous research has shown that there are disadvantagesto it. The purpose of this study is to describe and gain an understanding of small andmedium-sized accounting firms' motives for undergoing a digitalization process of theirworking methods.In order to fulfill the purpose of the study and answer the study's research questions, aqualitative study is performed with a deductive approach. The developed theoreticalframe of reference constitutes the starting point of the study, and it is then compared withthe collected empirical data. The empirical material is collected through semi-structuredinterviews at small and medium-sized accounting firms located in Norrbotten. Bothmanagers and employees are interviewed, which means that the study can shed light onboth perspectives.The results and conclusions of the study emphasize that the motive for accounting firmsto choose to undergo a digitalization process of their working methods is to not risk beingoutcompeted from the market, this to meet society's expectations. Society demands digitalworking methods and digital working methods contribute to more efficient work and timesavings. This study shows that increased technical skills are relevant but are notconsidered an obstacle to switching to digital working methods. The accounting firms'working methods have changed, what was previously paper based is now available indigital form. Key words: Motives, competencies, digitalization process and working methods

This bachelor thesis sets to find new ways of composing with a systematical use of musical motifs. The main purpose was to add a structured and systematical approach to the process of composition to reduce the necessity of inspiration and thereby be able to compose more consistently. The project started out by finding concrete ways to create and develop motific ideas by analyzing how motific development is done in existing music of different genres and by reading literature on the subject. I then used these ideas to compose short etudes, each with a different approach of the use of motifs and motific development. These methods subsequently resulted in a concert with seven original compositions. I reflected upon how the use of motifs affect the way I compose and in what way it affects the compositions as a whole and how I approach the compositions musically through the guitar. I concluded that it was substantially harder to compose longer compositions than short etudes by using solely these methods. And instead of seeing it as a way to reduce the necessity of inspiration maybe use it to spark inspiration. / <p>Medverkande musiker:</p><p>Victoria Sandström (sång), Linnea Jonsson (trumpet), Agnes Darelid (trombon), Gabriel Holmertz (gitarr), August Eriksson (kontrabas), Henrik Jäderberg (trummor)</p>

Studien utforskar ur ett pedagogperspektiv motiv till utomhusvistelser i förskolan. Detta är en kvalitativ studie som genomförts med en hermeneutisk ansats och tar stöd i verksamhetsteorin som Knutagård (2002) beskriver. Syftet med studien var att genom intervjuer utforska motiv till att pedagoger i förskolan använder utomhusvistelser och dess aktivering. I denna studie deltar tolv pedagoger från privata och kommunala förskolor. Resultatet visar att det finns många motiv till utomhusvistelser och att det bakomliggande behov som påverkar motivet styrs av pedagoger och barn men också verksamhetens styrdokument vilket styrs av en inre och yttre aktivering hos pedagogerna. Det visar även att pedagoger i förskolan ser många fördelar med en bra balans mellan att vara inomhus och utomhus under dagen i förskolan. / <p>19-12-20</p>

This dissertation focuses on selected novels written by contemporary indigenous authors from Aotearoa/New Zealand and examines the fictional imagination of the human body as a medium of cultural identity and memory. The novels discussed are Keri Hulme’s »The Bone People« (1984), »Nights in the Gardens of Spain« (1995) and »The Uncle’s Story« (2000) by Witi Ihimaera as well as James George’s »Hummingbird« (2003). In order to further decolonisation processes and to come to terms with the colonial past and the complexity of present realities, the fictional works position the human body as an active entity in the negotiation of specific cultural epistemologies. This project explores the narrative translation of corporeality that is used to locate alternative concepts of identity and cultural memory. Taking into account indigenous perspectives, this thesis makes use of the current theoretical approaches presented by pragmatism and affect theory in order to analyse the investment of the novels in feeling and the reciprocal relationship between text and corporeality depicted by the narratives. On the one hand, the novels aim to undermine oppressive and marginalising categories by placing particular emphasis on »sensuous gaps« in the text. On the other hand, the narratives intend to construct alternative identities and evoke specific aspects of indigenous histories and knowledge by imagining the human body in terms of »sensuous inscription«. The novels portray individuals who act from a place in-between different cultures, and articulate a desire to dissolve polarities and emphasise individual and cultural transformation as a formative element in the creation of complex identities and new perspectives. / Diese Dissertation stellt einige ausgewählte Romane, die von zeitgenössischen neuseeländischen Autoren mit Wurzeln in der Maori-Kultur stammen, im Hinblick auf deren Darstellung des menschlichen Körpers als Mittler kultureller Identität und Erinnerung in den Fokus. Betrachtet werden Keri Hulmes »The Bone People« (1984), die beiden Romane »Nights in the Gardens of Spain« (1995) und »The Uncle’s Story« (2000) von Witi Ihimaera sowie James Georges »Hummingbird« (2003). Im Zuge von Dekolonialisierungsprozessen, der Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Komplexität gegenwärtiger Realitäten positionieren die Fiktionstexte den menschlichen Körper als vermittelnde Instanz kulturspezifischer Epistemologien. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit richtet diese Arbeit auf die im fiktionalen Rahmen angestrebte Translation von Leiblichkeit, die zur Verortung alternativer Identitätskonzepte und kultureller Erinnerungsmuster sinnstiftend genutzt wird. Unter Berücksichtigung indigener Konzepte werden neuere Ansätze des Pragmatismus und der Affekttheorie für die literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse herangezogen, um die sinnlich-emotional gefasste Investition der Romane und die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Text und Körperlichkeit, die in den Fiktionstexten zum Tragen kommt, zu untersuchen. Dabei rücken die Narrationen zum einen eine Unterhöhlung einschränkender und marginalisierender Lebensmodelle durch eine Betonung »sinnlicher Risse« im Textfluss in den Vordergrund; zum anderen beabsichtigen sie durch eine »sinnliche Gravur« des imaginierten menschlichen Körpers eine Konstruktion alternativer Identitäten und kulturspezifischer indigener Erinnerungsstiftung. Die Romane zeichnen Individuen, die zwischen mehreren kulturellen Horizonten agieren, und artikulieren dabei ein Bestreben, Polaritäten aufzulösen und durch die Betonung individueller und kultureller Transformation komplexe Identitäten und neue Perspektiven zu verhandeln.

Th. doct.--Lyon, 1994. / Notes bibliogr.

Dissertation Ph. D.--Comparative literature--City university of New York, 2004. Titre de soutenance : Hortus inversus : domineering ladies and their medieval gardens. / Bibliogr. p. 163-171.