The theme of this essay is female genital mutilation. The essay pose the question: Can female mutilation be justified? The purpose is to identify the main values in the two argumentation lines for and against the phenomenon. By doing so analyse which of the values that are of highest priority and significance. Health, religion, freedom, justice, moral, culture, tradition, inherence, aesthetic, pol

The purpose of this thesis is to identify values and motive of ethnic diversity. By interwieving people responsible for employment on TeliaSoneras service department the thesis concludes that values and motives of ethnic diversity is motivated by human rights and profits. The thesis shows that when employers value ethnic diversity by a lucrative rationality the practice of diversity management ten

The cases of sexually transmitted diseases and abortions among teenagers in Sweden are increasing. Mainly among youth in the ages 15 to 24 years. Our purpose with this study was to look at the reason for this by answering the question; why do youth expose themselves to the risks associated with unprotected sex? To answer this question we chose to do a quantitative survey by letting students in Lun

This report is part of a Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Master Thesis was performed at SCA, a global paper company that operates within the segments personal care, tissue, packaging, publication papers and solid-wood products. SCA sells products in more than 100 countries. Tork is the global brand name for SCA prod

The purpose of this thesis has been to examine the condition under which Social Enterprises exist on the market. Also how it affects the that they are a part of the social economy and the third sector. The study is based on qualitative interview as method. Six Social Enterprises has been interviewed. Social Enterprises as seen as an arena is heterogenic. The enterprises have the same ground va

This is an explorative qualitative study of a cognitive-behavioural group treatment (CBT) with seven young women within the framework of a larger project. The project’s main objective was to get participants to start working or studying. The function of our particular treatment program was to help the participants reach this goal. Group CBT treatment included psychoeducational components as well a

Communication strategies for successful marketing through social media More and more organizations recognize that it is now time to explore new ways of marketing for a more co-creating and value-added communication with its stakeholders. Social media as a meeting place is an area where many people come, making it an ideal venue to communicate with organizations. But how should organizations behave

The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether restrictions to parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry, distorting the internal market, are treated differently by the Court of Justice compared to other sectors, on grounds of the specific characteristics of the pharmaceutical sector. For this purpose the focus is on restrictions deriving from dominant pharmaceutical companies’ refusal to su

Several widely acknowledged stylized statistical facts about the performance of volatility were observed during the analysis. First, the volatility exhibits mean-reversion towards its long-run mean. Second, certain skewness is present in the volatility response to changing market circumstances – falling markets raise volatility more substantially, than rising markets diminish the expected volatili

Exhaustion due to long term stress, commonly known as burnout, is becoming increasingly frequent in Swedish society. There are different theories regarding the cause of burnout. However, our point of departure was to consider burnout as a work related problem rather than a private life related problem. The purpose of this study is to investigate preventive methods against burnout in the social ser

Motivational work is a complex subject as well as being an extensive part of the modern addiction treatment. A national survey from 2001 report that motivational work is a necessity in a successful addiction treatment. On the other hand the same survey also identifies a lack of evidence-based methods. The purpose of this essay was to examine the motivational work within the social services and hea

Climate changes have had marked impacts on the natural systems. However its impact will be significant with the hydrological cycle. It is agreed that climate change have adverse impacts on socio-economic development of all nations. But, it is expected that its impact will hit developing countries the worst. The objective of this thesis is to assess the impact of climate change on Gilgel Abay River

Today can’t all citizens get job. Some people can’t get a job for their ethnic, homosexuality, handicapped background is wrong. Many municipalities want to increase the quantity of people with ethnic background, sexuality and handicapped in their organization so they can get a job. This essay contains eight interviews with people who work after documents from the politicians. The staff works wi

The idea of integration has varied during different periods of time. The purpose with this study was to examine the meaning of integration in a specific “integration project”. How are the ambitions put into practice in a specific project? How is “good” integration defined? How is the education for the participants of the project organized in order to lead to the goal: to earn one’s living. These q

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka HR och chefens roll vid uppsägningar i samband med nedskärningar. Mer specifikt låg intresset i att ta reda på hur ledaren hanterar samt påverkas av att ge besked om uppsägning vid nedskärning. I studien tillämpades kvalitativ metod i form av halvstrukturerade intervjuer med sex personer. Samtliga hade ledande positioner inom HR och arbetade på fyra oli

Motivet till uppsatsen är ett intresse för hur lärare kan utveckla sin lärarförmåga och bli mer medvetna om sina möjligheter att utnyttja interaktionens positiva effekter på mänsklig växt. I hermeneutisk anda, med den hermeneutiska cirkeln som inspiration, har lärarkommentarer i utvärderingar efter handledningsgrupper analyserats för att undersöka om lärare själva beskrivit deltagandet som interak

I denna uppsats genomförs en undersökning av vilka motiv som driver resebolag att erbjuda resor med all inclusive. För att försöka förklara fenomenet testas en teoretisk modell av marknaden för semesterresor empiriskt. Empirin syftar till att bringa klarhet i vilka förhållanden som råder på marknaden för all inclusive-hotell jämfört med för övriga hotell. De parametrar som inkluderas i modell och

Our purpose was to examine the view and perspectives of the residential staff about the disabled individual’s sexuality. Our study was executed in three different group homes. Three questions evolved in our process and quest for insight: How does the residential staff construct the disabled sexuality in a group home? What is the staff´s perception of the disabled responsibility concerning their s

Problem och syfte: Det blir allt svårare för företag att utmärka sig. För att bli mer effektiva i sitt varumärkesbyggande behöver företag förstå hur de kan utveckla en varumärkesidentitet. En trend att använda sig av fiktiva figurer har vuxit sig stark. Den framtida differentieringen kommer därför att fokusera mer på historier, symboler och känslor. Synlighet har också betydelse då konsumenter oft

Lebanese women cannot confer their citizenship to their children incase they marry a non-Lebanese man, nor can the man become a naturalized citizen through his Lebanese spouse. The purpose of this study is to describe the reasons to the policy of dependent citizenship in the Lebanese case, as well as its objectives. Lebanese women’s dependent citizenship in conjunction with the 15 different confes