Sökning: "civil servants"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 96 avhandlingar innehållade orden civil servants.

  1. 1. Identification and promotion of attitudes related to pro-environmental travel behaviour

    Författare :Maria Johansson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; pollution control; Environmental technology; travel behaviour; traffic restrictions; pro-environmental attitudes; politicians; computerised gaming simulation environmental knowledge; civil servants; children; adolescents; adults; Miljöteknik; kontroll av utsläpp; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : A reduction of the negative environmental impact caused by urban traffic will to a considerable extent depend on behavioural change. Assuming that attitudes partly guide behaviour, the general aim of the thesis was to increase the understanding of the underlying attitudes of daily travel behaviour and how attitudes related to pro-environmental choice of transport can be promoted. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Manager and civil servant : exploring actors' taken-for-granted assumptions in public administration

    Författare :Tom S. Karlsson; Karin Jonnergård; Gert Paulsson; Jonas Gerdin; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public Sector Reforms; Management; Civil Service; Taken-for-granted assumptions; Institutional Theory; Structuration Theory; Business administration; Företagsekonomi; Public Sector Reform; Management; Civil Service; Taken-for-granted Assumptions; Institutional Theory; Structuration Theory;

    Sammanfattning : Manager and Civil Servant is an exploration of actors' taken-for-granted assumptions that govern perceptions concerning how public administration should be undertaken within contemporary welfare states. It is argued that more than 30 years of continuous reforms directed towards public administration have caused dilemmas to arise. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Housing Decay and Maintenance : The Case of Public Housing in Tanzania

    Författare :Felician Komu; Stellan Lundström; Marja Elsinga; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Landscape architecture; Landskapsarkitektur; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : The dominant discourse in Tanzania is that home ownership is the most sustainable strategy towards solving housing problem. As a result, housing policy orientation has been towards promotion of home ownership through a land-housing linkage strategy that manifests in improvement of access to identified categories of people usually classified on resources constrained criterion. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Servants of Diplomacy : The Making of Swedish Diplomats, 1905-1995

    Författare :Nevra Biltekin; Bo Persson; Kirsti Niskanen; Lisa Öberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diplomats; bureaucratization; diplomacy; field theory; generalist; recruitment; in-house schooling; diplomatic masculinity; social class; diplomatic memoirs; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : From the dissolution of Sweden’s Union with Norway in 1905 until the country’s membership in the European Union in 1995, diplomats in Sweden underwent a number of reforms that aimed to create a professionally recruited and capable cadre of civil servants, serving Swedish diplomacy. The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the shaping of Swedish diplomats in the twentieth century. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Villkorat förtroende : Normer och rollförväntningar i relationen mellan politiker och tjänstemän i Regeringskansliet

    Författare :Cajsa Niemann; Göran Sundström; Rune Premfors; Patrik Hall; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political institutions; political elites; politicians; civil servants; core executives; government; government offices; state organisation; institutional change and stability; norms; roles; role expectations; trust; organisational theory; Sweden; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The relationship between politicians and civil servants is ambiguous and potentially problematic in democratic terms. The aim of the thesis is to examine this relationship in the Swedish core executive, Regeringskansliet. More specifically, the analysis emphasises the respective role expectations of the two groups when interacting with each other. LÄS MER