Cette thèse permet de porter l'attention à quelques caractéristiques fondamentales de l'école catholique et de chercher dans quelle mesure sa navigation professionnelle permettrait de tirer la garantie de sa capacité de rénover le système de gestion et de mesure des performances, entre son pilotage des compétences et son renforcement stratégique de la qualité. Dans l'histoire de l'école catholique, plusieurs chercheurs ont présenté l'importance des défis qui l'interpellent et qui l'invitent à trouver des réponses adaptées non seulement au niveau des contenus des méthodes didactiques (choix de la pédagogie adaptée aux besoins des élèves) mais aussi au niveau du travail administratif. Dans la recherche, nous avons donc pris en considération ces réalités qui incitent l'école catholique d'une part à faire une adaptation de ses structures et de son mode d'agir, pour continuer à être une présence efficace et incisive dans le secteur éducatif tout en vivant sa vocation, et d'autre part. à mesurer sa performance globale et piloter ses décisions de façon professionnelle. Dans ce sens, nous avons innové « MAR_BEL S.M.D » (un système de gestion et de mesure de la performance globale d'une école catholique) pour proposer des structures de modélisation d'une école apprenante, qualifiante et en quête de professionnalisation d'une part, et d'autre part pour améliorer ses décisions stratégiques. En effet, ce système de modélisation et de décisions a permis à travers une enquête de vérifier les liens entre des concepts théoriques et des réalités professionnelles vécues dans un contexte complexe sur le territoire libanais. / This thesis makes it possible to pay the attention to some fundamental characteristics of the Catholic school and up to what point to seek its professional navigation would allow drawing the guarantee from its capacity to renovate the system of management and measurement of the performances, between its piloting of competences and its strategic reinforcement of quality. In the history of the Catholic school, several researchers had the importance of the challenges which defy it and which invite it to find answers adapted not only to the level of the contents of the didactic methods (choice of the pedagogy adapted the needs of the pupils) but also to the level of administrative work. In research, we thus took into account these realities which encourage the Catholic school on the one hand to make an adaptation of its structures and its mode to act, to continue to be an effective presence and incisor in the educational sector while living its vocation, and on the other hand, to measure its total performance and to control its decisions in a professional way. ln this direction, we innovated "MAR_BEL S.M.D" (system of management and measurement of the total performance of a Catholic school) to propose structures for the modeling of a learning school, qualifying and in search of professionalisation on the one hand, and on the other hand to improve its strategic decisions. lndeed, this system of modeling and decisions made it possible through an investigation to check the bonds between theoretical concepts and the professional realities lived in a complex context into the Lebanese territory .

The purpose of this study was to indentify collective skills and background that audit committee members must have in order to be effective. In addition, the study examined the extent of prevalence of each skill indentified, which can then be deduced into model to work out the right combination of audit members according to qualifications, experience and skills that they posses. The model can thus be used in selecting candidates to serve in audit committees. Two categories of samples selected from a list of the top 100 companies for 2008 to 2010 and a combined list of the bottom 20 companies for the 2005 to 2009 and the bottom 20 companies for 2010, compiled by Inet Bridge and published by Business Times, were used in the study. Profiles of audit committee members of companies selected in the samples, which were published in the annual reports of the respective companies in which they were serving as audit committee members were consolidated with those published on Bloomberg Business week website, http:investing.businessweek.com/research /stocks/people/ person, and thereafter summarized. The profiles indicated qualifications, professional background, business management experience and a list of companies that each member was serving or had served as a member of board of directors. Skills categories adopted in Audit Committee Institute (2006) were used in analysing expertise, experience and background of audit committee members, namely financial, business management, corporate director, legal and industry specific background. The variables were statistically tested using t-test and chi-square. The results of the study revealed that finance, corporate director and business management were necessary for an audit committee to function effectively. The study further found that legal and industry specific background were least considered skills in the composition of audit committees. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted