In this report, the HR development at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, initiated by the ideas Human Resource Transformation, is presented. The process is analysed from three perspectives: HRT, organisational development, and organisational learning. The study was performed through ethnographic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss aspects of responsibility in relation to organizational contexts, the main focus being responsibility for consequences we cannot reach. Responsibility is a major underpinning of business administration and management and also an aspect of...

In focus here are processes of discipline in work groups in human service organisations. We will describe and analyse disciplining processes among teachers in schools and warders in prisons, two different service organisations,which both aim at influencing there ”clients”, and none of them...

Rapporten är resultatet av ett uppdrag från Svenska ESF-rådet i Göteborg med den övergripande frågan: varför söker inte fler företagare stöd för sin kompetensutveckling? Svenska ESF-rådet har till uppgift att stimulera små och medelstora företag/arbetsplatser i deras...

The article reports on a study of the way people conceive the organizations in which they work, what characterizes their conceptions, or images, and how they evolve. Images of organization from a single work organization are described and analyzed in terms of space, time and causality. Managers'...