The last decades have been characterized by an ongoing globalization process. Borders and barriers for trade between countries have disappeared or decreased. As a consequence, national boundaries can not longer define the world of organizations The purpose of this study is, from a management perspective, to investigate and discuss if and how a manager’s role [...]
The Human Resource importance for learning and competence development within two organizations
The effect of globalization lately has shown the value in educating employees in competency development. The relevance of this globalization is the proficiency at which Human Resource work is conducted within an organization. Recent studies show that developing the competence level is in high demand in today’s society and therefore many companies have chosen to [...]
Motivation and Work -Investigation and Analysis of Motivation Factors at Work
Employees acting towards company goals and having a strong desire to remain in the organization are very important for the success of a company. In order to generate such organizational commitment of the employees, the knowledge about what motivates and satisfies them is essential. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyse [...]
How to Introduce and Manage Organizational Changes
Change, change, change… the speed within trade and industry has increased immensely over time and new products are introduced regularly. This demands an increased capability to manage changes within a company. When performing an organizational change, it is important to be aware of the culture within the company. The organization at Saab Aerosystems has a [...]
Human Resource Management in Project-Based Organisations: Challenges, Changes, and Capabilities
Projects, flexibility, cross-functional teams, and deadlines are buzzwords in today’s workplaces. Mainstream management rhetoric refers to the ideal ‘project worker’ as competent and knowledgeable, flexible, a team worker, and responsible for staying employable. Projects are the everyday work environment for these individuals. This thesis addresses human resource management (HRM) in project-based organizations. The aim is [...]
Executive Coaching as a Developmental Experience: A Framework and Measure of Coaching Dimensions
The widespread and rapidly growing practice of executive coaching (Berglas, 2002) has evolved as a practice outside of the context of any academic discipline. While the literature on executive coaching is voluminous, there has been no attempt to systematically outline and operationalize the important dimensions of coaching practic… Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Parameters of the [...]
How to motivate assembly line workers
The purpose of our master thesis was to investigate what motivates assembly line workers performing low-skill jobs in a small industrial laundry business. We wanted to see what factors determine and influence their motivation to work and if and how this motivation can be improved with respect to assembly line systems in general. The method [...]
Leadership styles and E-commerce adoption: An analysis of Thai food exporters
Being an effective leader in today business environment is a challenged task. The world has shifted to the digital era where social and business structures are rapidly changed. The trend of globalization forces all leaders to regularly learn more on what was changed and what is being changed. Today, companies that already adapt new business [...]
On-the-Job Training: The Case Study of Alfa Laval at the Ronneby Manufacturing Unit
Today’s dynamic world and globalization brought constant changes for organizations to perform their activities. These continued needs for individual and organizational development can be traced to numerous demands, competitiveness, increased productivity and employees’ development. The first thing that comes in the minds of the management is productivity. That’s why management of any firm is so [...]
Modern Human Capital Management
Despite of the success of Human Capital Management (HCM) in research it did not arrive yet in the HR departments of many companies. Numerous firms even have problems to set their strategic goals with focus on HR. The HR Balanced Scorecard approach could be a big opportunity as a help method to assist HCM entering [...]