I debatten om coaching verserer det mange ulike synspunkter på hva coaching er og hva det skal være godt for. Coach-tittelen er ikke beskyttet, og ingen av sertifiseringene som i dag finnes er offentlig godkjente. Coaching er et av de store hurtigvoksende konsept. Stadig flere hevder at coaching er dokumentert virkningsfullt. Denne avhandlingen er et litteraturstudie hvor jeg ser på coaching i ...

Sammendrag av masteravhandlingen Coaching – nyttig for organisasjonen eller kun en hyggelig samtale? Denne masteravhandlingen handler om implementering av coaching som et lederutviklingsverktøy i et regionalt helseforetak med 12000 ansatte. Det regionale helseforetaket er paraplyorganisasjon for 4 helseforetak med fra 15oo til 6000 ansatte, med andre ord en stor organisasjon. De fire helseforetakene ...

Consociationalism and segmented cleavages. The case of Lebanon is about the political development of Lebanon. It is intended to be an exploration, as objective as possible, to the development of major cleavages of Lebanese society related to Lebanese consociationalism. The “science of experience” has been useful as a basis of this thesis, thus the thesis is based on a theoretical framework, exploring ...

Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, ...

A review of the literature concerning nomadic pastoralism reveals a prevalent assumption of a positive effect of labor inputs on pastoral production. However, studies that have tried to quantify the relationship between household labor availability and production are characterized by contradictory results where one reason may be related to the fact that nomadic pastoralists cooperate by sharing and ...

This master thesis is based on a fieldwork carried out in Tagbilaran, Bohol and Tacloban, Leyte in the Philippines the autumn of 2015. The Philippines is frequently exposed to natural disasters, and the inhabitants of the Philippines has developed local practices for coping, known as coping strategies, buffering mechanisms or coping mechanisms. This thesis describes and discusses these coping ...

I denne avhandlingen studerer, og redegjør jeg for fenomenet corporate branding. Det er en studie av hvorvidt man kan si at det finnes et definerbart organisasjonsfelt for corporate branding i Norge. Jeg har brukt W.W Powell og P.J. DiMaggio, samt W.R. Scotts kriterier for å identifisere et organisasjonsfelt. Samtidig har jeg undersøkt hva slags kunnskapsgrunnlag ulike aktører i feltet (fortrinnsvis ...

Corporatization implies disintegration of public authority, leading to not only structural but also cultural differentiation of government, transforming it into a fragmented and hybrid governance system consisting of an authority and multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous operators. This article addresses corporatization at the local government level in Norway, exploring if and how this change in ...

This thesis focuses on how Norwegian organisation can handle corruption across cultures, between Norway on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. In order to handle corruption one first has to map out the cultural environment one will be managing in. The majority of thesis is therefore tied to topic question 1: What is the type, localisation and institutionalisation of corruption in China ...

Internett har gitt enkeltaktører og interessegrupper et internasjonalt talerør og nye måter å rekruttere, organisere og mobilisere aktører over hele verden. Dette har ført til fremveksten av en ny type aktivisme; "cyberaktivisme" I oppgaven har jeg særlig sett nærmere på cyberaktivismeformene "cypherpunking" og "hacktivisme", representert ved varslernettstedet WikiLeaks og hacktivistnettverket ...