The structure of employment is important for companies to keep their policies. This structure changes continuously due to new technologies. At the beginning of the 90 ’s, for example, the number of highly educated workers increased at the expense of workers with little education. But later studies have shown that this trend has received competition from two other trends, one is a polarized structure, i.e., more workers with little or high education at the expense of workers with medium education, who mostly do administration. The other trend, which only has been observed among academic workers, is the opposite: more workers with medium education at the expense of high and low education. The problem with the last trend is that companies will grow in an inefficient way: More resources will go to the administration department and leaving less money for the Core department, which generates growth in the organization. Here we show which industries in the Swedish economy that are at risk of this inefficient growth. Results make it clear that this problem not only exists in the academic world but in every state-owned organization. In the state-owned category, we find medical care that is criticized for its high administration costs. Our findings show that medical care is one of the more efficient state-owned industries, with respect to the proportion of administration. Overall, our results demonstrate that it is not always positive to grow large as an state-owned organisation. These results suggest that state-owned organisations should avoid merging to maintain their efficiency.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-153344 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Långström, Sebastian |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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