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1. 1. Performance Management, Rationality and Participation in Public Sector Organisation

   Författare :Geoffrey Heath; Elisabeth Berg; Jim Barry; Suzana Grubnic; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Communicative; instrumental and value rationality; accounting and performance management; public sector organisations; public management and governance; participation; deliberation and democracy; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis critically examines the role of performance management in public sector organisations. In particular, it explores how performance management relates to different concepts of rationality (instrumental, value and communicative), including issues around rationality and power, and the relationship between these concepts and various models of participation and democracy. LÄS MER

3. 2. Performance Management and Rationalityin Public Sector Organisations

   Författare :Geoffrey Heath; Elisabeth Berg; Jim Barry; John Chandler; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Instrumental rationality; communicative rationality; performance management; public sector organisations; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract and Keywords  The thesis concerns different conceptions of rationality and their implications for organisations, especially in the public sector. The focus is on performance management (as widely defined) within public sector organisations as a subject for exploring these issues. LÄS MER

4. 3. Addressing equality and diversity in the workplace through recruitment materials : an equality monitoring approach

   Författare :Amanda J. Heath; Jens Agerström; Magnus Carlsson; Ishbel McWha-Hermann; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; equality monitoring; equality diversity inclusion; job advertisements; organizational attraction; ethnicity; recruitment; diversity management; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) statements have been used as part of diversity management in human resources for some time and research suggests they are generally perceived positively and can increase organizational attraction in underrepresented groups, thus promoting diversity and inclusion. The main aim of this doctoral dissertation is to examine the effects of a particular diversity management practice called equality monitoring (EM) and investigate public perceptions of EM and effects on behaviour such as applications, intentions to pursue a job and organizational attraction. LÄS MER

5. 4. Social interaction and identification among adolescents in multilingual suburban Sweden : A study of institutional order and sociocultural change

   Författare :Charlotte Haglund; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Monica Heller; Annick Sjögren; Shirley Brice Heath; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interaction; identity; multilingualism; institutional order; social change; critical ethnography; school; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on an ethnographic fieldwork among a group of adolescents in and out of school in suburban Sweden. The adolescents share the diasporic experience of living outside of the countries or nations of origin, experiencing marginalization in relation to majority society and concurrently being part of global, national and local transformations and changes. LÄS MER

7. 5. Inequality in Educational Outcomes : How Aspirations, Performance, and Choice Shape School Careers in Sweden

   Författare :Frida Rudolphi; Jan O. Jonsson; Michael Gähler; Anthony Heath; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; achievement; aspirations; attainment; educational choice; ethnic inequality; performance; social origin; Sociology; sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines different aspects of educational inequalities, drawing on the notion that inequality in educational attainment depends on two separate mechanisms: that children from advantaged social backgrounds perform better at school (primary effects) and tend more than others to choose to continue in education given performance (secondary effects). Study I shows that the long-term decrease in social class inequality in the transition from compulsory to academic upper secondary education since the middle of the mid-20th century up to the late 1990s, seems to be related to both declining primary and secondary effects. LÄS MER