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Magister Legum - LLM

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Magister Legum - LLM / South Africa

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

This study consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 is a study of the motives and intent of Congress in creating a navy. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the operations conducted by the Marine Committee, Chapter 2 being devoted to its early operations and Chapter 3 to its later operations. Chapters 4 and 5 examine, in turn, the work of the Board of Admiralty and the Agency of Marine.

A escassa bibliografia acerca deste tema motivou-nos a desenvolver este estudo.Os objetivos foram: verificar o entendimento dos enfermeiros membros da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem (CEE) acerca do conceito de ética; investigar quais foram as dificuldades encontradas na implantação da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem; levantar como tem sido a atuação da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem, visando o cumprimento do seu papel e conhecer as estratégias utilizadas para o desenvolvimento do trabalho da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem. Tratou-se de uma abordagem qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva, realizada em quatro hospitais de um município do interior paulista. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 18 (dezoito) enfermeiras, membros da Comissão de Ética de Enfermagem nos respectivos hospitais. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista utilizando um roteiro norteador contendo questões abertas. A técnica utilizada para inferência sobre os resultados foi baseada na análise de conteúdo de Bardin (1977). Pudemos apreender que o perfil das entrevistadas não foi fator determinante para sua participação ou não, na fase de implantação da CEE. O conceito de ética foi manifestado sob vários aspectos, desde a forma em que se refere apenas ao ponto de vista da moral até uma somatória de valores individuais e sociais, imprescindíveis para o relacionamento interpessoal. As dificuldades apontadas para a implantação foram principalmente a falta de entendimento do regimento proposto pelo COREN-SP, mais especificamente do papel que a CEE teria que desempenhar, falta de tempo para participar das reuniões e o receio de alguns profissionais em participar da CEE, especialmente pela sua conotação punitiva. As estratégias utilizadas para a atuação acompanharam, de certa forma, o estágio de desenvolvimento em que cada Comissão se encontrava. Algumas se mostraram ainda incipientes, cumprindo o mínimo indispensável para justificar sua existência, outras investindo em parcerias intersetoriais a fim de mostrar sua importância. / The scarse bibliography about this theme motivated us to develop this study. The goals were: To check out the nurses members of Nursing Ethics Committee understanding about the concept of ethics, to investigate the likely difficulties found in the implantation of Nursing Ethics Committee, evaluate the acting of this Committee, aiming the meeting of its role and to know some strategies used to develop the Nursing Ethics Committee work. It is about a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive approach made in four hospitals in one county of São Paulo State. The Subjects of the research were 18 (eighteen) women nurses members of the Nursing Ethics Committee in these hospitals. The data were obtained through interviews using norms to be followed with open questions. The technique used to infer about the results was based in the Bardin Contents analysis (1977). We could learn that the interviewed ones´ profile was not a determining factor to their participation or not in the CEE implatation phase. The Ethics Concept was shown up under several aspects since the way in which, just the moral point of view was referred, until to the set of social and individual values fundamental to the interpersonal relationship. The difficulties pointed to the implantation were mainly the lack of understanding of the regiment proposed by COREN -SP , specifically the role that CEE would be supposed to play, lack of time to take part in the meetings, and some professionals´ fear of taking part of CEE specially by its punitive connotation. The strategies of action used follow in some way, the level of developing in which each committee was. Some appeared to be at the very beginning doing the minimal required to justify their existence, others investing in intersectorials partnerships to show their importance.

This thesis is a study of the development of investigatory select committees of the House of Commons during the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the period between 1960 and 1990. Synthesising existing analysis as well as presenting new evidence, it describes the early origins of such committees as an integral part of the work of the House, and then considers the House’s apparent loss of interest in select committees between 1920 and 1960. The thesis next discusses the reasons behind the introduction of new select committees in the mid-1960s, and traces further changes to committees during the 1970s. These developments are set in the political context of the period, and in particular the growth of backbench dissent in both major parties during the 1970s. The thesis then analyses the process by which departmentally-related select committees came to be established in 1979. Finally it assesses the quantitative and qualitative evidence about the activity and impact of the new departmental select committees in their first decade up to 1990, relating them closely to the political environment created by the government of Margaret Thatcher.