Browsing by Author "Lacatus, Olguta"

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“The interpretation and translation of business strategies to different levels of the organisation” Featuring Volvo Buses
(2014-08-13) Kivi, Elin; Lacatus, Olguta; University of Gothenburg/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen
This is a paper aimed partly at investigating how business strategies are formed, but mostly how they are used in the every-day context in an organisation. The main focus is the perception of strategies, and how it can vary throughout the organisation and depending on the leaders that are passing it on. Looking at previous research there is a lot written about strategy implementation, often either about the practical aspects; efficiency, time management, agendas, or about the more sociological aspects; leadership, communication, and cooperation. We conducted a study at Volvo Buses in Borås where we interviewed employees from top management, middle management, and operative levels. What we found was that there was great discrepancy between how the strategies where perceived different hierarchical levels of the organisation. There were also different views on to what extent different strategies affected the daily work. We also found that there is great pressure on middle managers both in delivering on budget and time targets, and on handling leadership issues toward their staff. Our conclusions are that there are issues related to translating strategies throughout the organisation and that a lot of them are related to human nature and human relationships. We also note that the outcome of a strategy implementation process to a large extent has to do with the efforts of the middle managers. Lastly, we give a few recommendations to Volvo Buses and propose subjects for further research.
Travel of Ideas - A story about Full-Time Labour
(2017-09-05) Lacatus, Olguta; Eghtesadi-Azar, Ashkan; University of Gothenburg/School of Public Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Förvaltningshögskolan
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the common identity and the conditions for the implementation of Full-time labour policies in three different municipalities (Hofors, Falu and Lerum) in Sweden. This issue is important since the increasing demands imposed by the right of employees to have Full-Time labour rates requires from the municipalities affected to undertake significant changes in order to make such labour rates available, affecting and even modifying the organization structure and culture. To carry out the goals set in this thesis we used data collected from policies, project plans, final reports, interviews and questionnaires. Afterwards the data are integrated within our theoretical framework, Trave! of Ideas, in order to apply to it our analytical tool: translation as a four phase process. Our conclusions were that the same idea adopted different translations. In Hofors the idea became the desired employment rate mode!. In Falu it became the full-time for everyone mode!. In Lerum, however, the translation attempted was not fully suited for the environment in which it should be implemented, resulting in present day delay.