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6. Creating a Quality Management Culture : Focusing on Values and Leadership
Sammanfattning : When applied successfully, the QM initiatives TQM and Lean enhance an organization´s ability to meet and exceed the expectations of the customers as well as co-workers and other stakeholders. There are however also QM initiatives that fail and one reason for this is the organization’s inability to create a supportive culture, a culture that rests on a number of values which aim at improving the quality and thereby customer satisfaction. LÄS MER
7. Ordens kraft. Politiska eder i Sverige 1520-1718 : The force of words. Political oaths in Sweden 1520-1718
Sammanfattning : Political oaths were widespread in medieval times, but all over Europe their use dwindled in the early modern period, resulting in the institution being dismantled in many states. In previous research, this decay has been explained by pointing to the emergence of the state in this period, through processes such as bureaucratization, nationalization, and confessionalization, and, later, secularization. LÄS MER
8. "Who are you to tell us our history?" : kultur och religion i hawaiianers möte med amerikansk mission
Sammanfattning : The life and history of the Hawaiians has been documented ever since the contact with Western adventurers at the end of the 18th century. In connection with the arrival of American missionaries in 1820, these missionaries introduced and established a puritanical doctrine and method of communicating knowledge by way of the written word. LÄS MER
9. Bankmannen : en etnologisk studie av yrkesvardag och yrkesidentitet 1945-1995
Sammanfattning : The professional daily life of bank employees has drastically changed in many ways over the course of the period spanning from 1945 to 1995: computerization has affected the manner of working; a broader and more comprehensive assortment of services is now offered; the bank employees'corps has gone from being composed of two thirds men, to being made up of two thirds women; and changes in society have affected relations behind the banking counter as well as over it. The study focuses upon the manner in which bank employees experience their professional daily lives in light of these changes, but also in regards to their more permanent basic features. LÄS MER
10. En kapitalistisk anda : kulturella förändringar i 1100-talets Danmark
Sammanfattning : The Early Middle Ages, comprising the period ca. 1000-1250, is usually described as a dynamic and eventful time, when many spheres of society underwent radical changes. The aim of this dissertation is to link these processes together in an overall holistic description of medieval society. LÄS MER
