Teorier om kön och ledarskap framhåller att könsordningen, sociala och kulturella uppfattningar om kön samt stereotyper om manligt och kvinnligt försvårar för kvinnor att nå högre ledande befattningar. Genom samtalsintervjuer med fem personer vilka är involverade i rekryteringen av förvaltningschefer i Helsingborgs, Lunds och Malmö kommun har vi undersökt vilka uppfattningar och föreställning

Den här uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka vilken iransk identitet som skapas av landets ledning och på så sätt bidra till förståelsen av den iranska politiken. Frågeställningen är: "Hur ser den identitet ut som konstrueras av det iranska ledarskapet genom deras offentliga tal gällande kärnkraftsfrågan?". Frågan besvaras utifrån ett konstruktivistiskt perspektiv och med Laclaus och Mouffe

This thesis seeks to investigate the structural circumstances regarding the poor refugee protection for Burmese refugees in Thailand. Acknowledging that existing laws are politically motivated, the first part of this thesis examines the political context that determines the structure of the legal framework. The second part of the thesis scrutinizes the juridical framework concerning refugees, name

Den övergripande avsikten med denna uppsats är att försöka ge en nyanserad bild av organisationsreceptet Lean Production. Vidare försöker jag utröna vilka potentiella vinster och risker som kan tänkas uppträda i samband med implementeringen av Lean Healthcare på Universitetssjukhuset i Lund. Utgångspunkten för denna analys är Region Skånes verksamhetsmål gällande personal, patienter och ekonomi. A

In 2008 USA was the one country that had the most people behind bars, both in numbers and percentage, 2,3 million people. Of all the male convicts that were being held in custody around the country's different detention facilities, thousands of them were being exposed to sexual abuse, such as rape. This essay will try to understand why there hasn?t been a bigger public outcry in the Americ

Syftet med denna studie har varit att analysera i vilken utsträckning och på vilket sätt som de nationella genusmålen i den verksamma läroplanen Lpo94 har implementerats i två enskilda skolor i Malmö stad. I och med detta har vi genomfört intervjuer med en utvecklingssekreterare på Barn- och Ungdomsavdelningen och två biträdande rektorer i två valda skolorna. Våra teori har bestått av begreppet ?

This study investigates what impact Fairtrade has on labour and human rights development in the Kenyan cut flower industry, by discerning developments and comparing conditions between Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade farms. The developments sustainability and Fairtrade in relation to previous research is also brought up and discussed. The study is mainly based on interviews with people knowledgeable ab

Vattendistributionsproblem är ett allvarligt hinder för utveckling i fattiga länder. Världsbankens strategi för utvecklingsländer har sedan 80-talet styrts av neoklassisk teori, vilket i praktiken har haft stor betydelse för privatiseringar av statligt ägda företag. Påtryckningar från Världsbanken ledde till att Vattenverket SEMAPA i staden Cochabamba, Bolivia, år 1999 lades ut till försäljning. F

In this thesis I investigate the recent changes in abortion legislation in Colombia (liberalization) and Nicaragua (criminalization). By making a comparative case study I intend to find the factor(s) that could explain the different directions in legislation, given that both countries are of great similarity (location, religion, history, and political culture). The analysis made is based on John K

This thesis examines political consumerism as a political tool for change. Consumers' attitudes and behaviour towards political consumerism is of special interest. The method used is a questionnaire with 59 participating students. Their answers are analysed both quantitatively and, to a lesser degree, qualitatively. The theoretical framework consists of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reaso

Det som idag är Bosnien och Hercegovinas konstitution är en del av Daytonavtalet, fredsavtalet för kriget 1992-1995. I den här uppsatsen granskar vi konstitutionen utifrån hur den påverkar de etniska gruppernas interaktion. Bosnien och Hercegovinas politiska uppbyggnad har många likheter med consociational democracy. Därför kommer vi använda Donald L Horowitzs kritik av consociational democracy i

Between the years 1998 and 2008 four contenders battled for the home video game industry's 6th generation. First out were SEGA with their Dreamcast, followed by Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Pretty soon the PlayStation 2 executed their first opponent from SEGA and after that it was practically a solo race. What did Sony do to control two thirds of

The purpose of this paper was to increase understanding of how foreign professionals within the diplomatic sector, working with foreign relations to Japan, feel, perceive and relate to Japanese nationalism. The concept of banal nationalism and semiology was used as a theoretical base for the study, as well as theories of Japanese cultural or racial uniqueness (Nihonjinron). A phenomenological meth

This thesis examines organisations as mediators and how different kinds of organisations have different prerequisites to act as mediators. Global, regional and subregional organisations are often asked to mediate in conflicts, but considering the circumstances, who should mediate? In a mediating process the mediator should be considered as important an actor as the disputing parties and should he

The Swedish society woke up Boxing Day 2004 to the greatest disaster in modern times. As a result of a strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean tsunamis occurred that devastated resorts where thousands of Swedes were. In the disasters tracks were uncovered government paralysis and shortcomings of the systems control. The purpose of this study is to examine the capacity and means to demand accountabil

Colombia är ett land med en över 40 årig lång internkonflikt vilket har bidragit till att en avsevärd del av landets befolkning tvingats fly och lämna sina hem. De allra flesta flyr inte över Colombias gränser till andra länder, utan stannar i landet och blir internflyktingar. Tanken bakom denna uppsats är att undersöka problematiken kring dessa internflyktingar och om de omfattas av principerna o

The aim of this study is to examine Turkish nationalism in order to find what factors that play a part in Turkey's inability to confess and discuss such events as the Armenian Genocide, which took place between the years of 1915.-1923, by the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The factors found and examined closely are collective memory and the use of history. The paper is a case study of Turkey with

The success of a company increasingly depends on the efficiency and effectiveness on its activities along the product life cycle. In the effort of optimizing its activities, companies must integrate themselves. Due to the significance packaging has within many of these activities, it is of utmost importance to integrate product and packaging development activities in order to optimize processes.

Protracted social conflicts, as those in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, are based on deep rooted perceptions of identity and definitions of "the other". According to the theory of discursive conflict transformation, war is primarily a social phenomenon, which is legitimated by a discourse of identity defined in terms of exclusionist boundaries and structural ideas of the social relations i

In May 2004 the European Union enlarged from 15 to 25 member states and it was the biggest enlargement since the foundation. Two years earlier Poland, as one of the new member states, finished four years of accession negotiations with the EU. This study focus on the case of Poland and how the accession negotiations with EU were conducted. According to the theoretical framework of asymmetric negot