Denna studie undersöker hur hybridarbetsmodellen påverkar anställdas arbetslivsbalans i Sverige efter Covid-19-pandemin. Det finns en brist på kvalitativa insikter i detta område, med särskilt fokus på deras personliga erfarenheter och upplevelser inom hybridarbetsmodellen. En kvalitativ studie genomfördes med hjälp av semi-strukturerade intervjuer med tio respondenter samt en tematisk analys med en induktiv ansats. Söktermer relaterade till COVID-19, hybridarbetsmodell, arbetslivsbalans, arbetar hemifrån, arbetar på kontoret, anställda och post-COVID-19 användes för att hitta relevanta studier. Resultaten visade att hybridarbetsmodellen förbättrar anställdas arbetslivsbalans genom att erbjuda flexibilitet, förbättrad arbetsmiljö, ekonomiska fördelar samt möjligheter för social interaktion och kommunikation. Hybridarbete minskar pendling och ger ökad flexibilitet, men introducerar även utmaningar som ergonomiska problem vid hemarbete och minskad social interaktion med kollegor. Utmaningar med att upprätthålla gränser mellan arbete och privatliv identifierades också. För att förklara förändringar i organisationer användes institutionell teori, medan resursbaserad teori användes för att förstå hur resurser kan bidra till en förbättrad arbetsmiljö. Studien bidrar genom att adressera hur arbetsgivare kan stödja anställdas balans mellan arbete och privatliv. Sammanfattningsvis visar studien att hybridarbetsmodellen, trots sina utmaningar, erbjuder betydande fördelar som kan bidra till förbättrad arbetslivsbalans och välbefinnande för anställda. / Purpose: This study aims to increase understanding of the impact of the hybridwork model on employees´ work-life balance in the post-COVID-19 era, while also identifying the advantages and disadvantages associated with this workmodel. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitative empirical study was conducted using semi-structured interviews analysed through thematic analysis with an inductive approach. The search terms included phrases related to the hybrid workmodel, work-life balance, work from home, work from the office, employees, and post COVID-19. Thorough screening of titles, abstracts, and full texts was performed to select studies that met the inclusion criteria.   Findings: The hybrid work model enhances employees´ work-life balance, encompassing various themes, including flexibility, the work environment, economic advantages, social interaction and communication, technological role, and challenges/boundaries between work and private life. Additionally, advantages and disadvantages were considered in this study. While these themes offer benefits such as flexible time and reduced absences from work and travel expenses, they also present disadvantages such as a lack of ergonomic furniture when working at home, weakened bonds between colleagues, concerns about maintaining a strong organizational culture, and potential decreases in collaboration and cohesiveness in team performance.   Research Limitations/Implications: This study is limited to ten (10) employees working in white-collar jobs in Sweden, and further research should include bluecollar workers and increase the number of respondents to gain deeper insights and understanding into the impact of the hybrid work model on employees´ work-life balance. Furthermore, the study solely focuses on the perspective and experiences of employees, and it could be beneficial to consider both the viewpoints of employers and employees in future research. Originality/Value: This study contributes to existing organizational policies and regulations by providing insights into how organizations can improve their support for employees to achieve a healthy balance between work and private life. By highlighting both the advantages and disadvantages associated with this workmodel in the post-COVID-19 era, organizations can better understand the importance of their role as employers in balancing employees' work life balance in the current hybrid work environment.

This dissertation conducts in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative future, the aim of this thesis is to outline an “epistemology” for post-industrial cultural work as well as to reflect upon the outlook for educational cultural work practices and their function as a catalyst for civic dialogue and cultural change. The main concerns are the signification, interests and aims embodied in cultural production touching on issues of cultural and scientific learning, alternative modes of democratic governance of science and technology (Felt, Wynne et al. 2007), industrial society’s logic of accumulation and market rationality, the primacy of contemporary instrumental and capitalist values, neoliberalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. With a view to addressing elementary questions regarding the future of cultural work, which are explored and theorised alongside future perspectives of a new form of knowledge work for the humanities and the arts, the actual challenges of cultural work are considered from within the wider context of the risk society (Beck 1986) and the threats which affect everybody today. In relying on Beck’s (2009) conceptualization of the world risk society as a “non-knowledge society” characterised by the global existence of incalculable risks/threats and non-knowing, the thesis addresses the problem of non-knowledge and unrecognised contingencies as a challenge for cultural work to design processes of (un)learning in civic dialogues. In exploring the social, cultural and political relevance of three empirical case studies, the thesis ventures into the prospects of a new socio-epistemological perspective for cultural work and workspaces for knowledge. The studies investigate three different (techno-)socio-cultural spaces of knowledge: a public exhibition about the new Gotthard Base Tunnel currently under construction in the Swiss Alps, Jennifer Baichwal’s film Manufactured Landscapes (2006) about the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and China’s industrial revolution, and the living intervention Fairytale at Documenta 12, 2007, which brought 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, Germany. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is employed as a tool for the analysis of the material-semiotic properties of differing knowledges, the heterogeneous relations of socio-economic networks, and the global and uncertain conditions of the post-industrial world in which cultural work is embedded. What is colloquially referred to as post-industrial cultural knowledge work in this thesis is elaborated in the context of a propositional socio-epistemological second-order framework (Von Foerster 1984; Pakman 2003) for cultural work and its entanglements with ethics, aesthetics, pragmatics, politics—and biopolitical production (Hardt and Negri 2000; 2009). In order to build “third spaces” of knowledge (Turnbull 2000) and to nurture uncertainty-oriented approaches and contingencies, the findings propose the development of more open, (self-)reflexive and anticipating forms of thinking and acting in cultural production fields with the aim to catalyse societal developments, to foster intrinsic values and to create cultural workplace identities with a moral-ecological-political awareness (cf. Banks 2006; 2007) invoking new interactions between viewers, audiences and the environment.

The thesis describes the community centres, their functioning, anchoring in the legislation of the Czech Republic, their founders and their history. Explains the method of community work. Shows who can work in the community centre. It characterizes children and youth aged 6-14 years. It describes pedagogical work with children and youth aged 6-14 in two selected community centres. More precisely in one community centre and one part of the community centre. It compares their teaching activity.

The thesis aims to analyse the content of the performance management of teachers at an elementary school. The theoretical part first defines basic terms of human resources and the latest concept of human resource management. Subsequently, the individual terms of the core area of performance management are introduced. A specification of the target organization concludes the theoretical part. The research section reveals the application of the individual components of performance management in a real environment of particular elementary schools. It was chosen the quantitative research for the research survey, particularly the technology questioning. It was used the method of semi-structured interviewing technique and the content analysis of school documents for consistency. The final section is devoted to a summary of results and the achievement of project objectives.

Syftet med denna studie var att bidra med fördjupad förståelse för vilka friskfaktorer som är avgörande för långtidsfriskhet ur ett medarbetarperspektiv. Detta genom att studera vad medarbetare inom sociala sektorn i Borlänge kommun upplever bidrar till välbefinnande och friskhet på arbetsplatsen. Vidare ämnade denna studie ge förslag på hur arbetet med friskfaktorer inom Borlänge kommun kan utvecklas. För att på bästa sätt kunna besvara syftet valdes en kvalitativ metod där tillvägagångssättet för insamling av empiri var semistrukturerade intervjuer med långtidsfriska medarbetare från verksamhetsområdet personlig assistans.  Resultatet visar att begreppen stödjande ledarskap, god kommunikation, delaktighet i beslutsfattande, balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv samt ett positivt arbetsklimat är faktorer som tenderar att ge positiva effekter för hälsa då de finns på arbetsplatsen. Ytterligare faktorer som kunde identifieras var trygghet till följd av lång erfarenhet samt arbetsmoral kopplat till lojalitet. Erfarenheten beskrivs som ett hjälpmedel att hantera olika situationer som kan tänkas uppstå i arbetssituationen samt som stressreducerande eftersom det skapar en tydlighet kring vilka förväntningar som finns i arbetet och mellan kollegorna. Hög arbetsmoral till följd av lojalitet verkar bottna i en vilja att bidra till en medmänniskas nytta genom att vara en viktig resurs i dennes liv.   Denna studie visar betydelsen av ett stödjande ledarskap för förtroendet och tilliten dels mellan chef och medarbetare, dels medarbetare emellan, vilket i förlängningen även påverkar möjligheten till delaktighet samt tryggheten i den egna arbetssituationen. Slutligen visar studiens resultat att friskfaktorer under vissa omständigheter kan bidra med nya möjligheter till främjande arbetsmiljöarbete. / The purpose of this study was to contribute to a deeper understanding of factors that are crucial for long-term well-being and health from an employee perspective. This by studying what employees in the social sector in Borlänge municipality experience contributes to well-being and health in the workplace. Furthermore, this study intended to give suggestions on how the work with health factors in Borlänge municipality can be developed. To best answer the purpose, a qualitative method was chosen in which the approach for collecting empirical data was semi-structured interviews with long-term healthy employees from the area of personal assistance. The results showed that factors such as supportive leadership, participation, autonomy, positive work climate and work-life balance were common in the respondents work situation, which are factors that has shown to have a positive effect on employees' health. Furthermore, the respondents' long-term well-being and health could also be explained by additional health factors that were identified in their work environment. The respondents described that security due to long work experience and work ethic linked to loyalty were factors that contributed to their well-being. The experience is described as a means of handling various situations that may arise in the work situation as well as stress reducing as it creates a clarity about what expectations are in the work and between colleagues. High work ethic due to loyalty seems to be rooted in a desire to contribute to the benefit of another human by being an important resource in his or her life. All in all, the results show that the foundation for successful environment work with health factors requires security and trust partly between the manager and employees and partly between the employees. Finally, the study's results show that, in certain circumstances, health factors may contribute to new opportunities for promoting work environment work.

The theoretical part of this work is based on current findings on social work and school social work. The aim is to discuss a possibility to establish school social work in Czech environment and also to highlight any possible obstacles. The first goal in practical part of this thesis aims to identify issues that schools are facing today and whether school social work could help to solve them. The second goal is to examine how members of pedagogical staff perceive the possibility of school social worker. The last goal is to identify the agenda of school social worker in Czech primary and secondary schools. The research was done in the form of semi structured in-depth interview and therefore provides profound insight and complex answers to questions related to school social work. Key words: School social work, social work, education, competencies, primary and secondary school, teacher, headmaster, school counsellor, legislation, funding

89 Abstract The theme focused on the work of social workers, who work with people whose loved one has died, is very topical. Focusing on working with this topic is not so common, but it is very important to show that even social workers can work with such clients. The theoretical part defines social work, a social worker and their specialization specificity using the concept of PIE, further it deals with the method of crisis intervention, defines the terms related to death and possible reactions to it. The aim of the thesis was to answer the main research question: "How do social workers of crisis centers in Prague, with regard to the field specificity of social work, use the method of crisis intervention in situations of acute reaction to death?" To find the answear to the research question the method of grounded theory was used, but not in full, only its partial sections. The research was carried out with social workers of crisis centers in Prague. The research revealed how social workers at first get to know a client with an acute reaction to death and, subsequently, how they proceed. Within working with this type of client, they choose the method of crisis intervention, from which they use certain elements to stabilize the client from the emotional and physiological point of view. They use work with...

Detta examensarbete undersöker vilka konsekvenser som genereras av det flexibla arbetslivet. Det handlar framför allt om ett medarbetarperspektiv men inkluderar även ett chefsperspektiv. Studien utgörs av en fallstudie av en kommunal organisation isödra Sverige med ett fokus på yrkesrollen Human Resources (HR). Studien har en kvalitativ ansats där åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer ligger som grund för studiens resultatavsnitt. Valen av teoretiska ramverk bestod av en teoribildning om gränslöst arbete samt balans mellan arbete och privatliv. Resultatet visar att distansarbete och flexibla arbetstider resulterar i såväl negativa som positiva effekter på HRmedarbetaren. Studien synliggör att medarbetaren huvudsakligen upplever de flexibla arbetslivet som positivt. Detta delvis på grund av ökat handlingsutrymme i arbetet, mindre stress och att balansen mellan arbete och privatliv främjas. De negativa konsekvenserna visar sig emellertid i form av exempelvis risk för övertid, bristande arbetsmiljö vid hemarbete samt avsaknad av fysiska interaktioner med kollegor och chef.

Die steigende Dynamik sowie der steigende Konkurrenzdruck, dem deutsche und europäische Produktionsunternehmen aufgrund von Individualisierungs- und Globalisierungstendenzen ausgesetzt sind, erfordert neue Konzepte zur Gestaltung effizienter Prozesse und damit konkurrenzfähiger Produkte. Trotz oder gerade wegen eines vielfach hohen Automatisierungsniveaus und der damit verbundenen Komplexität sind viele Arbeitssysteme durch einen hohen Anteil an Personalkosten für technikerhaltende Arbeitsaufgaben geprägt. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen Ansatz vor, wie bestehende automatisierte Arbeitssysteme analysiert, bewertet und bzgl. des Personaleinsatzes optimiert werden können.

Syftet med studien är dels att få en ökad förståelse över hur generation Z upplever sin arbetsmiljö inom telefonrådgivande yrken, dels att få en ökad kunskap om vilka utmaningar i arbetsmiljön som kan leda till sjukfrånvaro. Studien genomfördes i samarbete med en stor privat organisation i Sverige. Utifrån ett Human Resources (HR) perspektiv ser vi ett behov av att få en ökad förståelse för medarbetarens perspektiv för att främja en hälsosam arbetsmiljö för generation Z inom telefonrådgivande yrken. Studiens syfte har en kvalitativ ansats och den forskningsdata som presenteras består av semistrukturerade intervjuer med respondenter från generation Z, individer födda mellan åren 1995 och 2010. Den tematiska analysen genererade fyra teman: Stödjande funktioner för att må bra på arbetsplatsen, upplevelser av telefonrådgivning som yrke, utmaningar på arbetsplatsen, och sjukfrånvarokultur. Resultatet i studien visar att upplevelsen av det kollegiala stödet är avgörande för att må bra på arbetsplatsen. Utmaningarna återfinns i svåra samtal och ökade känslomässiga krav inom telefonrådgivande yrken hos generation Z i vår studie. Resultatet bidrar med en bekräftelse på kunskap som redan fanns utifrån de utmaningar på arbetsplatsen som kan leda till sjukfrånvaro. Resultatet visar på att generation Z:s önskemål inte är unika, utan snarare framstår som en önskelista som alla medarbetare har. För att få en ökad kunskap om vad som främjar en god och hälsosam arbetsmiljö för generations Z behöver framtida studier dels innehålla flera respondenter, dels jämföra medarbetarnas upplevelser och chefernas erfarenheter. / The aim of the study is partly to gain an increased understanding of how generation Z experiences their work environment within telephone counseling professions, and partly to gain an increased knowledge of which challenges in the work environment can lead to sick leave. The study was carried out in collaboration with a large private organisation in Sweden. From a Human Resources (HR) perspective, we see the need to gain an increased understanding of the employee's perspective to promote a healthy work environment for generation Z within telephone counseling professions. The purpose of the study has a qualitative approach and the research data presented consists of semi-structured interviews with respondents from generation Z, individuals born between the years 1995 and 2010. The thematic analysis generated four themes: Supportive functions for well-being in the workplace, experiences of telephone counseling as a profession, challenges in the workplace, and sickness absence culture. The results of the study show that the experience of collegial support is crucial for feeling good at work. The challenges are found in difficult conversations and increased emotional demands in telephone counseling professions among generation Z in our study. The result contributes with a confirmation of knowledge that already existed based on the challenges in the workplace that can lead to sick leave. The results show that generation Z: s wishes are not unique, but rather appear as a wish list that all employees have. To gain an in-depth knowledge of what promotes a good and healthy work environment for generation Z, future studies need to include several respondents, and to compare the employees' and the managers' experiences.