Om verbet blífa (bli) och dess historia i isländskan

As globalization influences today’s world markets, many organisations are becoming global. An important challenge facing multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the global market is to manage the performance appraisal of expatriates out on assignment. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the appraisal process of Swedish expatriates. There has been research on expatriate appraisals in the past; however, only few of them have focused on Scandinavian MNEs. Therefore, we will investigate the effect Scandinavian management style has on the appraisal process of Swedish expatriates.   The data in our thesis is collected through semi-structured interviews with listed Swedish MNEs. The empirical findings were then compared on our revised model that reflects the characteristics of Scandinavian management style.   The results of this thesis indicate that there are some relationships between characteristics of Scandinavian management style and the appraisal process of Swedish expatriates. A collaborative approach to Human Resource Management (HRM) practices is common in Scandinavian countries, as well as focus on creating a partnership culture between employer and employee and we found that such characteristics had a large impact on attributes in the appraisal process. Scandinavian MNEs can use the conclusions drawn from the study as guidelines for performing effective appraisals of their expatriates.   However, the findings are only a minor contribution to this poorly investigated field, which needs further investigation. Suggestion for future research could be to do a similar investigation on a larger scale, and with a bigger sample.

<p>Ungdomars attityder till småländska dialekter står i centrum i den här uppsatsen. Studiens syfte är att undersöka småländska gymnasieelevers attityder till dialekter i landskapet. Enkätundersökning har använts som undersökningsmetod, och enkätsvar från sammanlagt 115 gymnasieelever i Älmhult, Jönköping, Växjö, Västervik och Kalmar har samlats in. Ungdomarna har svarat på frågor angående den egna dialekten och inställningen till denna. De har även värderat andra dialekter i landskapet utifrån vilka de tycker är fina respektive mindre fina. Undersökningens resultat knyts i uppsatsen samman med gymnasieskolans kursplan för ämnet svenska.</p><p>Resultatet av enkätundersökningen visar att ungdomarna i Älmhult, Jönköping och Växjö har en neutral eller negativ inställning till den egna dialekten, men i förhållande till andra småländska dialekter värderar de ändå den egna dialekten mycket högt. Ungdomarna i Västervik och Kalmar har även de en neutral eller negativ inställning till den egna dialekten men i motsats till ungdomarna i Älmhult, Jönköping och Växjö värderar de den egna dialekten mycket lågt i förhållande till andra småländska dialekter. Totalt sett värderar gymnasieungdomarna dialekter i landskapets västra del högre än dialekter i landskapets östra del. Dialekten i jönköpingsområdet värderas högst av ungdomarna, och dialekterna i Västervik, Vetlanda och Kalmar värderas lägst.</p>

Thesis--Copenhagen. / At head of title: J. Brondsted.

Akademisk avhandling--Uppsala. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. [202]-223.

Egil Hovland is one of Scandavia’s most predominant living composers, having created a massive opus of works that encompasses nearly every genre and performing medium. Yet despite the many contributions he has made to the international community, his name and works remain virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia. For many years, the exposure to Hovland’s works in the United States has unfortunately been very limited. Most choral musicians have long had only one (if any) association with Hovland’s name, that being the 1971 motet, Saul. In recent years, however, a few select mature works by Hovland have been translated into English and performed by a growing number of American choral groups. The objective of this study is to move beyond Saul through the exploration of Hovland’s stylistic evolution, and via a survey of selected mature choral works and an analysis of the Credo, Op. 137, no. 1. While the few extant studies available in English have explored Egil Hovland’s choral music predating 1980, this study focuses on his mature choral works, dating from the late 1970s to the present. The significance of such a study is two-fold: first, Hovland’s later works represent a general departure from his earlier compositional techniques, shifting away from the experimentalism and extreme chromaticism that characterizes much of his earlier opus toward a simpler, generally neoromantic compositional idiom; and second, because of this general shift in character and style, much of his later music is accessible to a wider spectrum of both performers and listeners, and warrants the attention of choral musicians in the United States and internationally. / text

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004. / Title from title screen (viewed 7 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2004; thesis submitted 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis--University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. vii-ix.