Inefficient operations management practices have proven to be the main cause of failure in the administration of any business empire. Operations managers are held in the apex of leadership in companies and by standards, the outcome of their management are expected to lead to the growth and success of the company. With the mismanagement of finances and human capital, it would be difficult for the company to achieve growth and success to meet the objectives of the company. The main purpose of this research was to do an exploratory study on the impacts of Operations Management on the growth of business, with a focus on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, specifically a hotel. The study aimed to identify why the concept “Operations Management” is important to the growth of businesses.The objective was to contribute knowledge to the field of finance and the business world.The population of this study comprised of 30 staffof LasVegas Hotels and Resort Abuja, Nigeria. The study employed the use of primary data using structured questionnaires open–ended and close – ended. The 30 questionnaires that were administered were all returned. The study employed the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) in the analysis of the data. The study found that operational controls, financial prudence, are the specific operations management skills that are responsible for the growth and the success of the company. Hence, operations management is fundamental to the growth and success of a business. The study concluded that operations management contributes to the growth of businesses in Nigeria.The study recommended that the operations management team should carry staff along in the day - to - day running of the business so that the staff can have sense of belonging. / <p>The major challenge with this research was time constraint. I started two weeks behind schedule, with the guide and encouragement from my supervisor, I was able to finish up successfully.</p>

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Using data from 584 individuals identifying themselves as married, the purpose of this study was to examine how personal and relational characteristics were linked to financial attitudes, knowledge, and capabilities and financial well-being using the family financial socialization framework (Gudmunson & Danes, 2011). Supporting the first two hypotheses, marital quality, materialism, age, and household income were found to directly predict financial prudence as a measure of financial attitudes, knowledge, and capabilities and to indirectly predict retirement savings rate as a measure of financial well-being. Financial prudence supported the first hypotheses as well by directly predicting retirement savings rate. Education also supported the first hypothesis, in that it directly predicted an individual's measure of financial prudence. In support of the third hypothesis, education was associated with retirement savings rate. Results suggest the importance of considering both financial and non-financial predictors of saving for retirement.

Thesis advisor: M Cathleen Kaveny / This dissertation examines the question of whether a politics of the common good remains possible within contemporary democratic societies, characterized by deep pluralism, division, and contention. To engage this question, it draws on the moral and theological framework of the Catholic common good tradition, and employs that framework to identify, analyze, and theorize a real, practical exemplar of common good politics: the democratic tradition of community organizing founded by Saul Alinsky. By placing these two traditions of practice and theory in sustained dialogue for the first time, this study contributes toward a new understanding of each, while developing an original constructive account of the “politics of the common good.” Chapter 1 introduces Catholic common good theory as a framework of ethical analysis and assesses its current state of development. It argues that while contemporary Catholic thinkers have articulated a rich moral vision of the common good, and reconceived it in democratic terms, they have struggled to adequately account for the role of power conflict in political life. Chapter 2 places the Catholic common good tradition in dialogue with the Alinsky tradition. Analyzing the life, work, and methodology of its controversial founder, Saul Alinsky, it traces his deep relationship to the Catholic church and shows how he sought to embody the Catholic tradition’s vision of the common good in democratic practice, while imbuing it with a greater degree of political realism and attentiveness to power. Chapter 3 offers a historical and ethical analysis of Alinsky-style community organizing as a practice and dynamically developing tradition of democratic politics. Drawing on Alasdair MacIntyre’s practice theory, it shows how organizing forms the moral virtues, practical skills, and political institutions needed to promote the common good in a democratic society. It also further articulates the Alinsky tradition’s historical and intellectual relationship to the Catholic tradition. Chapter 4 examines how community organizing exemplifies a democratic form of political prudence. Reconstructing Thomas Aquinas’s theory of prudence, and employing it to analyze two real case studies of organizing campaigns, it develops a constructive account of political prudence as the virtue that enables morally principled and pragmatically effective collective action for the common good in the public realm. Chapter 5 synthesizes the results of the preceding chapters. It argues that prudent political action, and not merely public deliberation, is the social process by which to promote the common good, social justice, and social solidarity in a democratic society. Integrating key insights from both the Catholic tradition and the Alinsky tradition, it clarifies the role of power conflict in the pursuit of the common good, and identifies further areas for theoretical development. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Si le principe de précaution a pour berceau la sphère environnementale, il s'est détaché de cette dernière pour assez vite investir le domaine de la santé humaine et acquérir une certaine autonomie. Son histoire reste très liée à la jurisprudence communautaire quant à sa définition et à son régime juridique. Si de nombreux pays l'ont plus ou moins bien inséré au sein de leurs droits nationaux, il occupe une place de choix en France depuis 2005 où, inscrit dans la Constitution grâce à la Charte de l'environnement, il est devenu une norme ayant le rang le plus élevé. Permettant de prendre des mesures de précaution quand une activité est susceptible de causer un dommage grave pour l'environnement et la santé humaine, il semble être la réponse la plus adaptée à l'impossibilité de consentir à l'incertitude de la science. C'est au niveau de la conception du médicament que la philosophie du principe de précaution se trouve le plus en harmonie. Afin de mieux le caractériser, le principe de précaution peut être rapproché de la notion de précaution qui est présente depuis la nuit des temps en santé. "Primum non nocere" est la règle de conduite des professionnels de santé. Le principe de précaution, qui est une sorte d'outils dans la gestion des risques hypothétiques, renferme deux obligations: une obligation d'évaluation du risque et une obligation de prévention. S'il est doté d'une fonction préventive face au risque incertain, il n'est pas dépourvu d'une mission réparatrice.Son régime juridique concerne tant le droit public que le droit privé, et les juges ne peuvent plus ignorer ce principe perçu comme une clé pour l'avenir. / If the principle of precaution has its roots in the sphere of the environment, it has more recently found relevance, indeed a certain independence, within the domain of human health. With regards to its definition and to its legal regime, its history remains closely linked to community jurisprudence. Many countries have, to a greater or lesser extent, included it within their national rights, and since the environmental Charter of 2005 it enjoys à "special place" in France, where it is now written into the Constitution and has become one of the mostly highly valued norms. When an activity could cause serious harm to the environment or to human health it would appear that the most suitable response, while not directly admitting to the uncertainty of science, would be to ensure that precautionary measures are taken. Philosophically, the principle of precaution finds itself most in harmony when applied to the development of new medicines. To characterise best the principle of precaution, it can be likened to the notion of precaution present in health care since time immemorial. "primum non nocere" is the first rule of health care professionals. The principle of precaution, a useful tool for the management of hypothetical risk, encompasses two imperatives: that of evaluating risk and that of prevention. If on the one hand it is charged with a preventive function in the face of uncertain risk, that is not to say that it is deprived on the other of a reparatory mission. Its legal regime concerns as well public law as private law, and judges can no longer ignore this principle, now seen as "a key for the future".

Dans un contexte de « mondialisation », les échanges entre cultures différentes favorisent une meilleure compréhension mutuelle entre les peuples du monde. Les correspondants de presse étrangers constituent des acteurs clés dans ce processus de médiation culturelle transnationale. Leur travail journalistique permet en effet à un public national de mieux connaître la culture dans laquelle ces correspondants sont immergés. Et par là contribuer à la compréhension culturelle entre le pays d’origine des correspondants et leur pays d’accueil. Notre recherche s’intéresse aux pratiques journalistiques des correspondants de presse français en Chine. Cet exemple permet de mettre en lumière des logiques de travail et des dispositifs de contrôle qui contraignent, directement ou indirectement, le travail de production de l’information. Nourries de nos enquêtes de terrain et d’approches théoriques, nos analyses permettent de montrer que les journalistes français présents en Chine constituent un microcosme social, à la fois relativement fermé sur lui-même et isolé de la société chinoise. Il s’agit le plus souvent de journalistes professionnels à la fois très diplômés et très expérimentés. Toutefois, en Chine, ils ne peuvent jamais exercer un « journalisme d’immersion » malgré leur présence sur place sur des durées relativement longues. Leur faible maîtrise du chinois opérationnel empêche une bonne partie des journalistes français de communiquer directement avec des Chinois. Ensuite, les conditions de réalisation de reportages subissent souvent des contraintes liées à la politique chinoise de régulation des journalistes étrangers en Chine. Enfin, leur accès aux sources d’information pèse également de manière décisive sur la production de l’information sur place. / In a context of globalisation, cultural exchanges foster and increase a mutual understanding between peoples and cultures, all around the world. Foreign correspondents are key players in the transnational process of cultural mediation. Indeed, their journalistic work helps a national audience to achieve a better understanding of the culture in which these correspondents are immersed, and thereby contributes to cultural understanding between their home country and the host country. Our research focuses on the journalistic practices of French correspondents in China, and highlights the logics of work and the control devices that influence, directly or indirectly, the production of information and, generally speaking, the journalistic practice of foreign correspondents. Based on our field studies and theoretical approaches, our analysis aims at demonstrating that French journalists in China constitute a social microcosm, relatively closed on itself and isolated from the Chinese society. They are often professionals both highly qualified and very experienced. However, they can never really have recourse to the method of "immersion journalism" despite long periods of presence in China. Lots of French journalists cannot directly communicate with the Chinese population, because of their insufficient knowledge of the everyday language. Then their working conditions often face constraints of the Chinese's regulation policy towards foreign journalists. Finally, their limited access to information sources also has a major impact on the process of information production in China.

Ethicsisoneofthekeytopics in Comenius'sworks. However, itispaidlittleattention these days. Theaimofthediploma thesis "TheConceptofVirtues in theWorkofJohn Amos Comenius"is to establish a clearstructureofComenius'sethics and to systematicallydescribe his concept and understandingofeachvirtue. The thesis outlinesthegroundsforComenius'sethicalthinking and givesreasonsforitsnecessity. Theworkdescribesthegoalsthatmoralbehaviourofindividuals and society shouldlead to, and explainsthenecessaryprerequisitesformoralbehaviour, especiallyprudence. Itfocuses on the term "virtue" according to theconceptofComenius. Closeattentionispaid to detailedcharacteristicsofparticularvirtues to befound in chosen prime works. Sixteenvirtues in total are dividedintotwocategories - thecategory "ethics" is a set ofvirtuesthatanindividualmaintains to himselfwhilethecategory "symbiotics" covers a set ofvirtuesmaintained in relationshipswithotherpeople. The thesis dealswiththeexpressionsofvirtues, theirpurpose, idealofhumanbehaviour, specificadvice on how to act, and oftenwithdescriptionofthecorrespondingvices. Keywords:virtue, vice, John Amos Comenius, prudence, individual, society, relationships, ethics

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / In the following thesis I have attempted to illustrate words of a hundred years ago with appropriate photographs of present-day remains of an era. The years covered in the major sections are 1831 to 1848; the subject is slavery and abolition in New England. The Liberator was the most renowned antislavery paper. Selections from it form the text of the major part of this thesis. Complete bound editions of The Liberator may be found in the Boston Public Library, Main Branch, Copley Square. With the permission of the Supervisor I was able to photograph portions of the paper.

[pt] No início do século XVI, a Península Itálica passava por uma série de conflitos - a calamità -, originados pela invasão de Carlos VIII, rei de França, ocorrida em 1494. Neste contexto de turbulência, emerge na cidade de Florença uma nova forma de pensar a política, da qual Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) foi um dos protagonistas; esta dissertação tem por objeto seu discurso político. Erigido com base em um procedimento analítico, o qual denomino método prudencial de análise da política, o discurso político de Guicciardini procura estabelecer mecanismos eficientes que visem à consolidação, em um contexto de corrupção, dos princípios do bom governo herdados da tradição - liberdade, harmonia civil, concórdia e justiça, consolidados pela condução virtuosa do estado. Diferentemente dos humanistas cívicos - seus predecessores -, o autor não se contentava com análises retóricas acerca destes temas gerais; para Guicciardini, era preciso definir procedimentos eficazes - o que fazia através da articulação entre discrezione, experiência prática e conhecimento das histórias antigas e modernas -, que incidissem para a realização do melhor governo possível. / [en] In the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Italian Peninsula went through a conflict series - the calamità - originated by the invasion of Carlos VIII, king of France, in 1494. In this turbulent context, emerges in the city of Florence a new way of thinking politics. Francesco Guicciardini (1483- 1540) was one of the protagonists of it; Francesco Guicciardini s political discourse is the goal of the present dissertation. Built based on an analytical procedure which I denominate prudential method of political analysis, Guicciardini s political discourse tries to establish efficient mechanisms viewing the consolidation of the principles of the good government inherited from the tradition - freedom, civil harmony, agreement, and justice though a virtuous conduction of the state - in a time of corruption. Differently from the civic humanists - his antecessors - the author was not satisfied with rhetorical analysis on the themes previously mentioned. To him, it was necessary to define efficient procedures - which he did through discrezione, practical experience and the knowledge of ancient and modern histories - which would help the effectiveness of the the best government possible.

Cette thèse a pour thème central l'étude du fonctionnement des accords d'assurance mutuelle et plus particulièrement de leur stabilité dans trois contextes différents.<br /><br />Le premier chapitre est consacré à l'analyse des conditions sous lesquelles un accord d'assurance mutuelle peut résister à l'émergence d'une compagnie privée. Modélisant les principales différences entre mutuelles et compagnies d'assurance, il complète la littérature existante en intégrant les choix d'investissement en capital des compagnies privées. Dans le cas d'agents exposés de manière homogène au risque, cette étude détermine l'unique choix optimal de la compagnie entrante ainsi que les conditions favorisant ou empêchant son apparition.<br /><br />L'impact sur les accords d'assurance mutuelle d'une possible hétérogénéité sur l'exposition au risque des agents est ensuite abordé dans le deuxième chapitre. Cette analyse permet de présenter l'asymétrie d'information comme une explication possible à l'échec<br />de l'hypothèse de marché complet observé par la littérature empirique. Elle contribue par ailleurs à préciser l'avantage comparatif que possède l'assurance mutuelle en termes d'information.<br /><br />Enfin, le troisième chapitre prolonge l'analyse des conséquences de l'hétérogénéité face au risque à travers l'étude de l'assurance de long terme. La modélisation de contrats d'assurance mutuelle dynamique permet d'appréhender l'impact de l'aléa moral sur la stabilité des contrats de long terme (face à l'assurance de court terme). L'examen de ces phénomènes met en évidence le rôle des préférences des agents, en termes de prudence et d'aversion au risque, sur la stabilité des contrats d'assurance mutuelle dynamique.