Masteruppsatser (Department of Sociology and Work Science / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap): Recent submissions
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The effect of Chinese culture on equal opportunities in the Chinese labour market - A case study about gender equality in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
(2020-10-27)Gender stereotypes still exist in the current society, Chinese career women suffer from gender descrimination in their career life in various walks of life. Therefore, this thesis aims to use gender and organizational ... -
Emotional labour and racialised subordination in the service sector: A study of migrants’ server experiences in Sweden’s catering industry
(2020-09-25)This dissertation explores the implications of ethnic penalties and of emotional labour on the ethnic segmentation of Sweden’s labour market. Taking the catering industry as a critical case, this study examines foreign-born ... -
Vilka aspekter av ett arbete gör att människor vill stanna eller byta arbete? - En kvantitativ studie om viljan att byta arbete
(2020-09-23)The purpose of this study is to investigate what decides that people want to change job in Sweden. This study uses a previously conducted survey based on international social survey program ISSP 2015, and the methods of ... -
Institutional difference-making and negotiations of belonging: experiences of "Swedish as second language"
(2020-09-23)The focus of this paper is on the ambiguous selection-principles that constitute the foundation of Swedish as second language and how this ambiguity may lead to reproduction and consolidation of racist discourses and ... -
Att samla ägg från vilda fåglar – en kriminologisk orsaksanalys
(2020-09-16)Aims and objectives: Collecting eggs from wild birds used to be one of the most popular forms of natural history collecting in nineteenth century Europe, including Sweden, until its criminalization in the 1950s. Egg ... -
BARRIERS IN BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT - A case study of how certain organizational practices lead to non-inclusion from employees’ perspectives
(2020-09-09)Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to explore the specific organizational practices acting as barriers in promoting inclusion at the workplace from employees’ perspectives. The same is explored with a two-fold ... -
Organisational trust in HR - Exploring managers and employees demands and expectations of the HR function
(2020-09-09)Purpose: This study aims to explore how the Human Resource (HR) function tackle demands on trust in a multinational medical-technical company by identifying managers and employees’ expectations. Furthermore, the study ... -
PERCEPTION OF WORKPLACE LEADERSHIP BY FOREIGN EMPLOYEES IN AN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY An exploration of leadership styles and workplace leadership differences between Sweden and other countries
(2020-09-09)The purpose of this study is to explore the leadership styles used by managers in a Swedish automotive company, how employees with foreign backgrounds perceive the leadership styles of their respective managers and if ... -
HOW HUMAN RESOURCES MAINTAIN LEGITIMACY IN WORK ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT A qualitative research about how Human Resources navigate challenges in organisational and social work environment
(2020-09-09)Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate how Human Resources within the private sector in Sweden, maintain legitimacy in the work environment management and to what extent the legislation is supportive. ... -
ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT RESOURCES - A PRECONDITION FOR PRACTICING HEALTH PROMOTING LEADERSHIP? A questionnaire study
(2020-09-08)The purpose of this study was to investigate if health promoting leadership orientations (Participative leadership, Developmental leadership, Health oriented leadership) were associated with organisational support resources ... -
WANT TO KNOW WHAT I KNOW? An assessment of Knowledge Sharing in a Knowledge Intensive Firm
(2020-09-08)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to on an organisational level assess knowledge sharing in a Knowledge Intensive Firm. Theory: The main theories used are; Dreyfus’s (2004) model of expert knowledge, Human Capital ... -
IT TAKES TWO SIDES TO BUILD A BRIDGE A qualitative study of the interaction between HR- and IT-professionals in cross-functional teams
(2020-09-08)Purpose: This study aims to investigate cross-functional teams in a multinational setting. The purpose is to understand the perceptions among HR- and IT-professionals in cross-functional teams. Using sensemaking theory ... -
Between routine and moral obligation: Exploring family consumption, emotions and sustainable lifestyles
(2020-09-08)Consumption and production are crucial areas for reducing societies’ impact on the climate and environment and this is also one of the United Nations’ global goals for sustainable development. Despite that the risks of ... -
Impact of educational system on pupils’ well-being: Measurement construction of psychological, cognitive and social well-being
(2020-09-08)The aim of the study was to examine how the psychological, cognitive and social dimensions of well-being were constructed regarding Swedish Grade 6 pupils’ school experiences, and whether the three constructs differed ... -
Vad är tifo? En sociokulturell studie om tifons plats och mening inom den svenska supporterkulturen.
(2020-08-27)Tifo could shortly be described as the visual arrangement that fans are performing before the game starts. The purpose with tifo is to honour the team and to create an atmosphere to the game. Earlier research has mainly ... -
High time for change: counter-discourse and grassroot mobilization in Swedish Facebook groups for drug decriminalization
(2020-08-21)Future drug policy can benefit from understanding why the dominant Swedish discourse of drug prohibition as morally superior is being challenged by an online counterpublic, making use of Facebook groups to form ... -
PLIKTER SOM SKAPAR KONFLIKTER - En kriminologisk orsaksanalys om narkotika på Östra sjukhuset.
(2020-08-13)Aims and objectives: A hospital is a place where, stated in Swedish law, everyone has the right to high quality equal care. Östra Hospital is located in Gothenburg and hosts, besides ordinary care facilities, multiple ... -
BROTT MOT GRIFTEFRIDEN - Kartläggning och situationell brottsanalys.
(2020-08-13)Aims and objectives: The thesis has a two-folded aim, firstly to explore and describe the scope and characteristics of the crime “violating the peace of the dead” in a Swedish contemporary context. Secondly, to analyze ... -
“FÄLTASSISTENTER - BOMULLEN I SAMHÄLLETS SPRICKOR” Praktikers uppfattningar om det förebyggande och uppsökande arbetet riktat mot unga i Kungsbacka kommun.
(2020-08-13)Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate practitioners view on possible preventive work among youth in Kungsbacka, Sweden. An empirical study was conducted, and the results can hopefully provide guidance ... -
TO PREVENT OR NOT TO PREVENT CRIMES? A qualitative interview study about the insurance industry’s role as a crime preventive actor towards the construction sector.
(2020-08-13)Aims and objectives: The aim of the article is to examine if the insurance industry, as a third-party policing actor, generates crime prevention incentives towards the companies within the construction sector, through their ...