Tiedon jakaminen sosiaalisen median työkalujen avulla ICT-yrityksen tulosyksikön sisällä

Työssä on tutkittu ICT-yrityksessä ja sen Yritysasiakas-tulosyksikössä käytössä olevien sosiaalisen median työkalujen hyödyntämisen mahdollisuuksia ja haasteita yrityksen sisäisessä tiedonjakamisessa. Työssä on teorian ja kohdeorganisaatioon tehdyn web-kyselyn avulla selvitetty, mitä haasteita nykyisissä sosiaalisen median työkalujen käytössä on ja millä edellytyksillä sosiaalista mediaa voitaisiin hyödyntää nykyistä paremmin yrityksen sisäisessä tiedon jakamisessa ja toimintatapamuutoksissa. Tutkimuksen empiirinen osuus toteutettiin web-kyselytutkimuksena Yritysasiakas-tulosyksikön henkilöille kesäkuussa 2011. Web-kysely kohdistettiin 493 henkilölle, joista 138 (28 %) vastasi kyselyyn. Kokonaisuudessaan tutkimuksen tuloksina ilmeni, että sosiaalisen median työkalujen käytöstä yrityksen sisällä saadaan eniten hyötyä, kun ne on kytketty osaksi jokapäiväisiä työrutiineja ja prosesseja. Yrityskulttuurin tulee olla vahvasti yhteisöllinen ja organisaatiorakenteen mahdollisimman kevyt. Sosiaalisen median käyttö edellyttää avointa ja luottamuksellista ilmapiiriä, jossa annetaan myös aikaa sosiaalisessa mediassa käytäville keskusteluille. Käytettävien sosiaalisen median työkalujen määrä tulee olla mahdollisimman pieni. Sosiaalisen median käytön tavoitteiden ja ohjeistusten tulee olla selkeät. Tutkimustulosten perusteella kohdeorganisaation tulee ensin asettaa selkeät tavoitteet sosiaaliselle medialle ja sen työkalujen käytölle. Työkalujen pitää olla kytketty kiinteästi osaksi päivittäisiä toimintatapoja. Työkalujen nykyistä määrää pitää vähentää ja keskittää käyttö mahdollisesti yhteen työkaluun. Valitun työkalun ja sosiaalisen median käyttöä tulee kouluttaa ja kannustaa käyttäjiä sen käyttöön.

Solving Challenging Real-World Scheduling Problems

This work contains a series of studies on the optimization of three real-world scheduling problems, school timetabling, sports scheduling and staff scheduling. These challenging problems are solved to customer satisfaction using the proposed PEAST algorithm. The customer satisfaction refers to the fact that implementations of the algorithm are in industry use. The PEAST algorithm is a product of long-term research and development. The first version of it was introduced in 1998. This thesis is a result of a five-year development of the algorithm. One of the most valuable characteristics of the algorithm has proven to be the ability to solve a wide range of scheduling problems. It is likely that it can be tuned to tackle also a range of other combinatorial problems. The algorithm uses features from numerous different metaheuristics which is the main reason for its success. In addition, the implementation of the algorithm is fast enough for real-world use.

Making Sense of Shared Leadership. A case study of leadership processes and practices without formal leadership structure in the team context

Leadership is essential for the effectiveness of the teams and organizations they are part of. The challenges facing organizations today require an exhaustive review of the strategic role of leadership. In this context, it is necessary to explore new types of leadership capable of providing an effective response to new needs. The presentday situations, characterized by complexity and ambiguity, make it difficult for an external leader to perform all leadership functions successfully. Likewise, knowledge-based work requires providing professional groups with sufficient autonomy to perform leadership functions. This study focuses on shared leadership in the team context. Shared leadership is seen as an emergent team property resulting from the distribution of leadership influence across multiple team members. Shared leadership entails sharing power and influence broadly among the team members rather than centralizing it in the hands of a single individual who acts in the clear role of a leader. By identifying the team itself as a key source of influence, this study points to the relational nature of leadership as a social construct where leadership is seen as social process of relating processes that are co-constructed by several team members. Based on recent theoretical developments concerned with relational, practice-based and constructionist approaches to the study of leadership processes, this thesis proposes the study of leadership interactions, working processes and practices to focus on the construction of direction, alignment and commitment. During the research process, critical events, activities, working processes and practices of a case team have been examined and analyzed with the grounded theory –approach in the terms of shared leadership. There are a variety of components to this complex process and a multitude of factors that may influence the development of shared leadership. The study suggests that the development process of shared leadership is a common sense -making process and consists of four overlapping dimensions (individual, social, structural, and developmental) to work with as a team. For shared leadership to emerge, the members of the team must offer leadership services, and the team as a whole must be willing to rely on leadership by multiple team members. For these individual and collective behaviors to occur, the team members must believe that offering influence to and accepting it from fellow team members are welcome and constructive actions. Leadership emerges when people with differing world views use dialogue and collaborative learning to create spaces where a shared common purpose can be achieved while a diversity of perspectives is preserved and valued. This study also suggests that this process can be supported by different kinds of meaning-making and process tools. Leadership, then, does not reside in a person or in a role, but in the social system. The built framework integrates the different dimensions of shared leadership and describes their relationships. This way, the findings of this study can be seen as a contribution to the understanding of what constitutes essential aspects of shared leadership in the team context that can be of theoretical value in terms of advancing the adoption and development process of shared leadership. In the real world, teams and organizations can create conditions to foster and facilitate the process. We should encourage leaders and team members to approach leadership as a collective effort that the team can be prepared for, so that the response is rapid and efficient.

Influenza in children – Diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Background: The burden of influenza on children is substantial. Although mortality rates are low, the incidence of influenza is highest in children, among whom also complications are frequent. A more accurate recognition of influenza in children could enable the rational use of antiviral drugs and help to avoid unnecessary courses of antibiotics. Limited data exists on the efficacy of oseltamivir treatment and the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) in children. Aims and methods: We sought for signs and symptoms that could help clinicians to diagnose influenza on clinical grounds in a case-control study in children <13 years of age. We further assessed the feasibility of different diagnostics methods during the early stage of the illness in children aged 1-3 years. The efficacy of early oseltamivir treatment (started <24h from the onset of symptoms) was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in children 1-3 years of age, and the effectiveness of TIV to prevent laboratory-confirmed influenza was determined in a prospective, observational cohort study conducted among children aged 9 months to 3 years of age. Results: Fever was the only symptom predicting influenza in children. The sensitivity of conventionally used laboratory methods to detect influenza during the first 24h of illness was 92%. The sensitivity of the influenza rapid test in the same setting was 90% for influenza A and 25% for influenza B. Early oseltamivir treatment shortened the duration of the illness in children with influenza A by 3.5-4.0 days, but no efficacy was observed against influenza B. The effectiveness of TIV was 84% against the wellmatched influenza A, while no effectiveness against the mismatched influenza B was observed. Conclusions: Laboratory diagnostics are needed for a reliable diagnosis of influenza in children and were found sensitive already during the early stage of the illness. Early oseltamivir treatment was highly effective against influenza A, but no efficacy was seen against influenza B. TIV is effective also in young children if a good match between the vaccine and circulating strain is achieved.

Sähköverkkojen käytöntuki- ja käytönvalvontajärjestelmien käyttöönotto

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