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Elin Skau, why did you choose Karlstad Business School?
- I chose it both because I come from Värmland but also because I heard very good things about the school and student life. The Business School has a super nice campus with good connections to the city centre.
What expectations did you have for the Human resource management and working life program - and were they met?
- I had the expectation of gaining a greater and broader understanding of working life and organizations.
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How long have you worked at Karlstad University?
“I started officially in December 2017. I arrived in September and worked here a bit before this position started in December. I really enjoy being here and I like the environment, both the natural environment and my workplace.”
What makes Karlstad University an attractive employer?
“I’d say there are two reasons. The first and most important aspect making this an attractive workplace is the work environment and the passion for research here.
After the recent hacker attacks in which the university's IT supplier Tietoevry, amongst others, was affected, it becomes clear how quickly organizations can become target of such actions. Meiko Jensen, lecturer in cybersecurity at computer science, helps us clarify the areas of hacking and cybersecurity.
Hi Meiko Jensen.
Forskning
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Working Life Science is the study of work at the levels of the individual, organisation, and society, centring on areas such as the organisation of work and its consequences, the development of the labour market and the meaning of work in our lives.
Working Life Science offers education at all university levels including the doctoral level and contract courses.
The proposal development step, also commonly referred to as the pre-award phase represents the beginning of the research project lifecycle, which includes drafting proposals, setting up collaborations, budgeting, compliance check, reviewing and submission. The Pre-award checklist and sections below provide support during the proposal development step.
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As of Autumn 2020, there was a new model in place for UPE’s courses for university teachers. We now offer more courses but each course is less comprehensive. It will also be up to the individual teacher and his/her supervisor to choose the courses that are most relevant in their particular case.
UPE’s mission is to provide excellent, relevant training and thus support teachers in doing their job.
RANGE OF COURSES
Below you can find short information about our courses.
2023
Abadzhiev, A., Sukhov, A., & Johnson, M. (2023). Re-orientation of incumbents towards a circular economy: A perspective on creative accumulation. Paper presented at the New Business Model Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 22-23 June. https://pubpub.maastrichtuniversitypress.nl/pub/dy1450ty/release/1?readingCollection=24aa8eeb
Ahlin, K. (2023).
Employees with continuous customer contact, frontline employees, play a key role in service innovation. By involving the frontline employees, management can create better conditions for attractive and realizable services.
2017-05-03
Centrum för genusforskning
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Here you will find CGF events for 2020!
Higher seminars
23 and 28 October on Zoom
The Politics and Intersections of Covid-19: Online Talk Series
Critical Perspectives from Gender Studies
The current global pandemic has brought with it many challenges. Most obviously, the costs are seen in the lives lost and the health, emotional, social, and economic challenges that many people face around the globe due to the pandemic.
Societal challenges require in-depth knowledge and enhanced competences. By building upon your bachelor degree with a further year or two of advanced level studies, you will increase your chances of finding an exciting profession and of pursuing an international career.
2024
Baldassarre, B., Calabretta, G., Karpen, I.O., Bocken, N. & Hultink, E.J. (2024). Responsible design thinking for sustainable development: Critical literature review, new conceptual framework, and research agenda. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05600-z
Caruelle, C., Shams, P., Gustafsson, A., & Lervik-Olsen, L. (2024).
Our choices as consumers are governed by various factors. At the restaurant one of them is the appearance of the person serving us - if the person has a look that is perceived as healthy, we choose the healthy options from the menu. These are the findings from a study made by researchers Poja Shams and Anders Gustafsson.
The health trend is growing and we are becoming increasingly aware of what kind of food we should consume to maintain good health.
Inga Narbutaité Aflaki
Inga Narbutaité Aflaki, PhD in Political Science, has a focus on innovative local and regional policy processes with an emphasis on human motivation, policy entrepreneurship and structural potentials. Currently she specializes in policies to support smart specialization and new forms of co-governance in civil society, especially policies that address social challenges such as immigrant integration.
Lotta Braunerhielm
Lotta Braunerhielm has a PhD in Human geography.
It is becoming increasingly common for employees to share the workplace with their colleagues in large open-plan office areas. In this way, companies and organizations want to save money, but also facilitate the interaction between the employees. However, a new study from Karlstad University shows the opposite.
2023
Edvardsson, B. & Tronvoll, B. (2023). New Service Development: Key concepts and performance drivers, in F. Gallouj, C. Gallouj, MC. Monnoyer, L. Rubalcaba (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Services, (pp. 375-378), Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
Echeverri, P. (2023). Retaining Identity in Services, in F. Gallouj, C. Gallouj, MC. Monnoyer, L. Rubalcaba (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Services, (pp. 312-313), Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
Enquist, B., & Sebahtu, S.P. (2023).
This text is meant to provide support to students who process personal data as part of independent projects/degree projects/essays (called “independent projects” below), but all students will benefit from the information provided in Part 1.
Aim of the text
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and complementing Swedish legislation require that all work with personal data should be done transparently, correctly and securely.
Forskning
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» IT, ekonomi och juridik
2024-03-15 New master courses: English for IT Professionals, Rules-as-Code, AI in Law
Half-pace courses for IT consultants. English for IT Professionals, 7,5hp, we will run jointly with the English department. The course Rules-as-Code Applications, 7,5hp, treats the ambition in public administration to automate the handling of routine matters.
... and professor at the University of Borås. You are studying customers and employees in an increasingly digitalized society. Why is this interesting?
"In recent years, there has been a great deal of focus on the opportunities that new digital solutions provide customers and companies. I think it is important also to problematise the use of new technology and highlight negative aspects.
2018-10-16
PhD Student Jana Huck studies patient and employee involvement during the refinement of ideas for improving the Swedish Public Healthcare Service.
The Swedish public healthcare sector is under immense pressure to innovate in order to adjust to major challenges. These challenges not only relate to a lack of resources and medical staff, but also to the demographic change towards an aging society and increasingly unhealthy society.
2018-10-25
How are power and gender reflected in the service encounter between customer and employee in service organisations, and what are the consequences on the work environment for the employee?
2017-09-29
The IT branch has a great need to recruit employees, and students on IT programmes therefore have good chances of finding attractive employment after finishing their studies. What is important to employees and how does that correspond to what the branch has to offer?
On 21 September, a little more than 100 IT students and around 20 business representatives met for the annual IT dinner of the Snits network that links industry and IT students.
2011-12-26
Maria åkesson defended her doctoral thesis "Role constellation in value co-creation" in Business Administration on December 15th at Karlstad University. Her thesis focuses on customer-employee role constellations during value co-creation.
Abstract
The contribution of the present thesis is describing and explaining how value is co-created by addressing customer-employee role constellations during service encounters.
