Ledarutbildningar som marknadsförs på hemsidorna ha varit utgångspunkten för min undersökning. Det finns ett stort utbud och chefer från både privata företag och de offentliga organisationerna anlitar dessa utbildningsföretag för att deras ledare ska utveckla sin kompetens i ledarskap.  Hemsidorna förmedlar ett kursinnehåll eller ett erbjudande att skräddarsy kursen efter önskemål. Valet av ledarutbildningsföretag sker ofta genom rekommendationer. Min inriktning av uppsatsen har varit att genom textanalys undersöka 20 hemsidor där utbildningsföretagen presenterar sina kurser. Det var speciellt vilken människosyn som utbildarna förmedlade som var intressant. Metoden som jag valt är idéanalys och med hjälp av verktyget idealtyp har det varit möjligt att sortera texten. Resultatet visar att det var möjligt att med den valda metoden utläsa människosynen från utbildningsföretagens hemsidor. Nästan hälften av de undersökta företagen visar att motivation och delaktighet är viktigt. Några företag framhåller istället effektivitet och att vara högpresterande som egenskaper hos en medarbetare för att bidra till lönsamhet.

Antalet asylsökande i Sverige har blivit mer omfattande vilket gör att fler nyanlända försöker att etablera sig på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Individerna omfattas av en rad olika etableringsinsatser för att integreras i samhället och på arbetsmarknaden. Syftet med vår studie är att analysera nyanländas upplevelser av ett utbildningsföretags insatser utifrån de nyanländas enskilda upplevelser. Vi har valt att studera utbildningsföretagets betydelse för de nyanlända att etableras på arbetsmarknaden, samt vilka resurser och kapital de nyanlända upplever att de får av utbildningsföretaget. Vi har använt oss av kvalitativ metod i vår studie och utfört semistrukturerade intervjuer med våra respondenter. Totalt ingår sex nyanlända i vår studie. Resultatet analyseras utifrån Pierre Bourdieus begrepp om kapital, samt genom begreppen habitus och handlingshorisont från Phil Hodkinson och Andrew C. Sparkes Careershipteori. Nyanlända omfattas av utbildningsföretagets insatser och resurser för att ge individerna möjlighet till inträde på arbetsmarknaden. Varje enskild individ bär med sig olika uppsättningar av Pierre Bourdieus begrepp symboliskt, kulturellt och socialt kapital. Utbildningsföretaget förser nyanlända med kapital som svenska språkkunskaper, skriva ansökningshandlingar och utöka sina sociala kontakter.

There are numerous of ideas and theories around the present development in our global society, describing an ever changing era based and propelled by information and communication technology (ICT). How influential has this development been on political visions and intentions and on the business worlds views on important competencies? The purpose of this thesis is to describe the national and international visions of important competencies in the “information society”. Through a case study, focused on how the training and consultancy industry apprehends and answer to this change and development, as they often act as agents for new trends in the business world both as accommodators and originators. The growth and speed of the universally available information demands knowhow in seeking, analyzing and managing information, and this competence is crucial today. To place my study in an adequate theoretical context it is placed in the realms of Information Literacy (IL). I will describe and discuss connections between IL and workplace processes. All political visions in my research are unanimous and have an extremely positive, almost naïve approach to the future effects that the ICT development will have on our society. The case study shows that, even if the predecessors don’t speak or use the term information literacy they are well aware of the challenges and problems related to Information Literacy. / Omvärldsbevakning och Omvärldsanalys

<p>There are numerous of ideas and theories around the present development in our global society, describing an ever changing era based and propelled by information and communication technology (ICT). How influential has this development been on political visions and intentions and on the business worlds views on important competencies? The purpose of this thesis is to describe the national and international visions of important competencies in the “information society”. Through a case study, focused on how the training and consultancy industry apprehends and answer to this change and development, as they often act as agents for new trends in the business world both as accommodators and originators. The growth and speed of the universally available information demands knowhow in seeking, analyzing and managing information, and this competence is crucial today. To place my study in an adequate theoretical context it is placed in the realms of Information Literacy (IL). I will describe and discuss connections between IL and workplace processes. All political visions in my research are unanimous and have an extremely positive, almost naïve approach to the future effects that the ICT development will have on our society. The case study shows that, even if the predecessors don’t speak or use the term information literacy they are well aware of the challenges and problems related to Information Literacy.</p> / Omvärldsbevakning och Omvärldsanalys

In the beginning of the 1990s the responsibility for the schools shifted from the government to the local authorities. This started an era with a freedom of choice for students where they themselves could choose which school to go to. The new system also opened up the possibility for independent private schools to exist side by side with local authority held schools. The overall aim of this study is to determine the factors that affect the location of these independent schools and the geographical pattern these independent schools create. The study in this paper is based on materials from statistics and interviews. The statistics is from SCB (Statistics Sweden), Skolverket (a government agency that work for the Ministry of Education) and Skolinspektionen (a government agency that supervises that schools follow laws and regulations) and the interviews are with principals and owners of independent schools and representatives from Skolverket, Skolinspektionen and Friskolornas riksförbund (The national association for independent schools). Since the 1990s the independent schools have become nearly as many as the local authority held schools, but are concentrated to 41 percent of Sweden’s municipalities. When comparing this to the local authority held schools that are in 96 percent of Sweden’s municipalities means that the independent schools are in high numbers in a few municipalities. The study shows a geographical pattern of independent schools mainly in large cities. In this paper I examine if the concentration of independent schools in a small part of Sweden’s municipalities is due to political reasons or economical reasons. In conclusion the study indicates that economical factors is the main reasons for their geographical location. The main reasons for locating in urban areas are based on the number of students, diversity, opportunity, and the closeness to universities but also the closeness to entertainment as cafés.