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Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 151 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cultural diversity.
31. Off the Edge of the Map: A Study of Organizational Diversity as Identity Work
Sammanfattning : “Diversify or die” is a recurring and rather dramatic call for organizations to recruit, retain and manage a demographically diverse workforce, advocated by the business case for diversity, also known as diversity management philosophy. Diversity management places diverse social identities at the heart of organizational success and has gained much attention from management consultants and managers in North America and Europe. LÄS MER
32. Managing Quality in Cross-cultural Settings
Sammanfattning : As companies become multinational with subsidiaries in different countries and global customers, they face challenges in managing quality related to cultural diversity. During the past decades, cross-cultural quality management research has emerged, aiming to understand the link between culture and quality management, and to provide support for quality management in different cultural contexts. LÄS MER
33. Levelling vagueness : a study of cultural diversity in an international project group
Sammanfattning : Imagine one Brit, one Dutch, two North Americans, one Spaniard and three Swedes setting up a joint international research project. Their areas of expertise vary: sociology, labour law and organisational theory. The scene is taking place in a hotel conference room in Uppsala. The North Americans are tired from the long trip and the jet-lag. LÄS MER
34. Muslimsk skola, svenska villkor. Konflikt, identitet & förhandling
Sammanfattning : The study is about a conflict concerning a Muslim Independent School in Jönköping. Based on fieldwork carried out on the Muslim Independent School and one of the local authority´s comprehensive schools - which included fifteen interviews and a comprehensive collection of newspaper articles and reports - I have problemised the relationship between the different groups in the local community and who had the preferential right of intepretation with regard to school, upbringing and values. LÄS MER
35. Monitoring biodiversity in cultural landscapes: development of remote sensing- and GIS-based methods
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I explore the relationships between structural and compositional landscape properties, and species diversity, using remotely sensed data on a variety of spatial scales. The thesis shows that increased landscape heterogeneity, measured using environmental and spectral variables that were used both separately and combined, is generally positively related to plant species richness. LÄS MER
