This thesis is devoted to management of construction contract and the thesis is divided into two parts – theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is focused on familiarizing with some concepts of project management, cost control, time management and risk management. At the end of the theoretical part, there are described types of construction of a family house. Practical part involves applying these principles on the example of the particular construction work contract. It also describes and analyzes organization of construction contract and together with risk management meets the appointed target. The desired output of theses is processing of necessary documents for the management of specific construction contract by house raising.

This thesis is concerned with developer project Rezidence Austerlitz in Slavkov u Brna realized by KALÁB company. It describes managing this project from buying the grounds to selling the real estate to clients. At the same time the thesis deals with the project's financing, time schedule and assesses market and construction risks. Part of the work is also analyzing the estate market which adverts to evolution of housing construction across the whole Czech Republic in the past ten years. Progress of real estate construction in Jihomoravský kraj is described in detail, including the progress of estate valuation.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of the building technology project of the structural work of industrial building belonging to CECHO company in Polnička. The industrial building consists of two building objects, shop floor and office building. The main aim of the thesis is to focus on the time and financial management of the construction, schedule, site equipment management including time schedule of establishment and removal of temporary site equipment objects and their rental costs, transport routes planning, proposal of main building equipment, oversized transport and technological regulations including inspection and test plans of quality. Last but not least, the thesis is also aimed at the itemized budget.

The thesis deals with the topic of building orders are how they are managed by contracting authority or client. It presents building order as a project, and describes the way in which this project is organized, prepared and implemented. It also highlights all the factors that have impact on how building orders are managed. And since the most important of these factors is construction costs, the thesis provides an analysis of one particular building order from this perspective, listing all the things that are involved in the construction costs and pointing out in what way. The accuracy of the expected costs is then compared with construction engineering price indicators.

This gradution thethis deals with and compares the basic concepts of construction project realization planning. The work is concertrated on the methods and procedures for planning time building structure and simultaneously are used on concrete practical of building structure.

Approche interdisciplinaire / La présente recherche adopte une approche interdisciplinaire. Elle s’appuie sur deux axes fondamentaux. Le premier instaure un dialogue entre une recherche théorique de type macrosociologique et une étude empirique réalisée selon les principes de la méthodologie de la théorisation enracinée (MTE). Le second conjugue les perspectives synchronique et diachronique, afin de mieux comprendre les deux principaux concepts à l’étude : l’éthos professionnel et la productivité. Depuis son avènement dans les années 1980, le néolibéralisme a instauré une manière spécifique d’être au monde et, plus particulièrement, un rapport au temps considéré comme une ressource rare qu’il faut utiliser de la manière la plus efficiente possible. À cause de ses accointances nouvelles avec l’État de droit, ce système économique impose dorénavant à la communauté juridique des préceptes, croissance illimitée et concurrence, qui sont en opposition avec ses valeurs traditionnelles axées sur le corporatisme. Afin de nourrir la croissance, la manière de penser typique des sciences économiques et managériales de type néolibéral établit une normativité centrée sur le concept de productivité. Celui-ci peut se résumer par l’injonction paradoxale suivante : produire toujours plus avec toujours moins de ressources. Le temps est l’une d’entre elles et, sous cette pression, il s’accélère et se densifie. Or, du côté des praticien·ne·s du droit, une résistance se crée, celle de l’éthos professionnel. Celui-ci ne s’oppose pas à la croissance, à la rentabilité, ni aux gains financiers; il impose simplement qu’ils ne se réalisent jamais aux dépens de la qualité du service. L’éthos professionnel défend néanmoins une culture du temps basée sur un modèle de pratique désuet qui confond la qualité du service avec la quantité d’heures de travail. Chez les praticien·ne·s du droit, la norme de la semaine socialement et juridiquement acceptable de travail est établie à 50 heures ou plus, si nécessaire… Dans un tel contexte, l’expansion de la normativité productiviste produit le phénomène suivant : chaque heure de travail s’intensifie jusqu’à égaler une heure de production, c’est-à-dire une heure facturée. Ce processus obéit à une équation mathématique et, en l’occurrence, il ne semble pas avoir de limite; c’est pourquoi on parle d’un temps abstrait, décroché du temps concret et fini des personnes. Tous ces gains de productivité n’ont aucun impact sur la norme établie par l’éthos : ils servent donc à nourrir et renforcer les velléités de croissance du système, ce qui le rend de plus en plus malsain. La thèse a permis de montrer que ce processus abstrait ne fait pas disparaitre la part des activités humaines qu’il ne parvient pas à saisir et à comptabiliser. Les personnes subissent donc à la fois la matérialité de leurs activités et les exigences abstraites de la productivité sans limites. Chez les femmes, l’éthos professionnel vient se greffer à un autre, préexistant, soit celui de la parentalité, et forme avec lui une synergie qui accentue encore les difficultés d’aménagement du temps. Chaque jour, les praticien·ne·s sont confronté·e·s à des dilemmes et doivent faire des compromis pour arriver à fonctionner. Conséquemment, ce phénomène construit de la souffrance qui, à la longue, menace la santé physique et psychologique des individus et, paradoxalement, jusqu’à la qualité même du service juridique que l’on prétend vouloir protéger. Afin de résister autant que possible à ces pressions contradictoires, le management offre un outil qu’il prétend tout-puissant et adaptable à toutes les circonstances de la vie : la gestion du temps. Les conclusions de la thèse relativisent cette toute-puissance et remettent en question le rôle apparemment neutre et bienfaisant de ces méthodes. Défaire ce nœud ne sera donc pas chose facile. Il faudra compter sur de bons arguments, des allié·e·s et le temps. Toutefois, le concept d’éthos, tout en permettant de mieux comprendre le phénomène à l’étude, permet aussi de dégager certaines pistes d’intervention. D’abord, il montre qu’il est possible d’agir sur lui, sans pour autant menacer les règles déontologiques rigoureuses que la profession s’est fixées. Ensuite, il indique que ce sont les premières expériences au sein d’un champ donné qui sont les plus déterminantes, ce qui ouvre la porte à des actions possibles de la part des facultés de droit et de l’École du Barreau. / This research takes an interdisciplinary approach. It is based on two fundamental axes. The first one establishes a dialogue between a theoretical research of macrosociological type and an empirical study carried out according to the principles of Grounded Theory. The second one combines synchronic and diachronic perspectives, in order to better understand the two main concepts under study: professional ethos and productivity. Since its advent in the 1980s, neoliberalism has established a specific way of being in the world and, more particularly, a relationship to time considered as a scarce resource that must be used in the most efficient way possible. Due to its new connections with the rule of law, this economic system now imposes precepts on the legal community, unlimited growth and competition, which are in opposition to its traditional values based on corporatism. In order to nurture growth, the way of thinking typical of neoliberal economics and management establishes a normativity centered on the concept of productivity. This can be summed up by the following paradoxical injunction: to produce always more with always less resources. Time is one of them and, under this pressure, it accelerates and becomes denser. However, on the side of legal practitioners, resistance is being created, that of the professional ethos. This is not opposed to growth, profitability or financial gain; it simply requires that they never come about at the expense of quality of service. The professional ethos nevertheless defends a culture of time based on an outdated practice model that confuses the quality of service with the quantity of work hours. Among legal practitioners, the norm for a socially and legally acceptable work week is 50 hours or more, if necessary ... In such a context, the expansion of productivist normativity produces the following phenomenon: each hour of work intensifies to equal one hour of production, that is to say one hour billed. This process obeys a mathematical equation witch, in this case, does not seem to have any limit; this is why we speak of an abstract time, detached from the concrete and finite time of people. All of these productivity gains have no impact on the standard set by the ethos, so they serve to nourish and strengthen the system’s growth aspirations, making it increasingly unhealthy. The thesis has shown that this abstract process does not eliminate the part of human activities that it fails to capture and account for. People therefore undergo both the materiality of their activities and the abstract demands of limitless productivity. In women, the professional ethos is grafted onto another, pre-existing one, that of parenthood, and forms with it a synergy which further accentuates the difficulties of planning time. Every day, practitioners are faced with dilemmas and must make compromises in order to function. Consequently, this phenomenon builds on suffering which, in the long run, threatens the physical and psychological health of individuals and, paradoxically, even the very quality of the legal service that it claims to want to protect. In order to resist these contradictory pressures as much as possible, management offers a tool that it claims to be all-powerful and adaptable to all life circumstances: time management. The conclusions of the thesis relativize this omnipotence and question the apparently neutral and beneficial role of these methods. Undoing this knot will not be easy. It will be necessary to find the right arguments, allies and time. However, the concept of ethos, while allowing a better understanding of the phenomenon under study, also makes it possible to identify certain avenues for intervention. First, it shows that it is possible to act on it, without threatening the rigorous ethical rules that the profession has set for itself. Then, he indicates that it is the first experiences within a field that are the most decisive, which opens the door to possible actions on the part of law faculties and the Quebec Bar School.

The ability to think critically is considered an essential skill of nursing graduates and competent nursing practice. Yet, the literature reports that teachers are having difficulty teaching for critical thinking and that critical thinking is lacking in new nursing graduates. This research study sought to identify barriers to the implementation of critical thinking teaching strategies by nursing faculty currently teaching in generic baccalaureate programs in Tennessee. Surveys were mailed to 262 nursing faculty; 194 were returned, and 175 were usable. Students' attitudes and expectations represented the single greatest barrier to the implementation of critical thinking teaching strategies, followed by time constraints and the perceived need to teach for content coverage. Recommendations to support and encourage faculty to teach for critical thinking are outlined.

This thesis paper addresses a problem of motivation that interaction designers experience when managing multiple design processes while keeping track of many design considerations. Once this issue is described at length, the paper focuses towards a possible solution in the form of a hybrid between creativity and productivity support tools: an accomplishment support tool. This tool is meant to support interaction designers in their experience with managing multiple processes.This paper does not suggest that interaction design is the only profession that suffers from the motivation issue that is described, nor does it deny that other professions could benefit from the use of such a tool. The paper merely attempts to narrow the issue down to one profession so that it may be addressed within the limits of the thesis project.The paper explores the need for such a tool by inspecting and analyzing current methods and digital applications used by interaction designers and mentions how this need is addressed with solutions based on relevant theories from diverse areas of interest. As defining qualities emerge from a combination of theoretical and practical research, case studies are described from a preparation perspective and then as experienced by workshop participants and interviewees.The case studies (which include workshops and prototype modules) are then reflected upon and discussed in terms of their impact on the overall goals of the thesis project. A final prototype in the form of a web application, IxD Companion, is then described through scenarios of use and assessed in the conclusion. Suggestion to future work on accomplishment support tools such as IxD Companion, as well as others, is provided at the end.

For 30 years researchers have studied Expressive Writing (EW) - writing emotionally about a trauma 3-5 times for 15-30 minutes, while controls (CW) objectively write about, most often, time management. Previous research has documented associations, in the trauma condition, between flexible use of pronouns and physical health, or between trauma writing and improvement of working memory (WM). The main aim of the current study was to see if there is a relation between flexible use of first-person pronoun singular (“I”) in EW and improved results on WM test, as well as on quality of life and self-reported illness. In an Internet study participants were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling and randomly divided on conditions. The final sample consisted of 10 participants each in EW and CW: 13 women, 6 men and 1 non-binary, 21-69 years, most of them well educated. Outcome measures were WM test (Automated version of Operation Span Task; AOSPAN), self-reported quality of life (Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life; BBQ) and self-reported illness (days of symptoms and restricted activities). JASP was used for the statistics. A measure of flexible use of the Swedish pronoun “jag” (“I”) was tested and found to associate with significant improvements in AOSPAN results only; unexpectedly within the whole sample. On condition one significant result was found: EW improved their quality of life. The increase in AOSPAN results is discussed, as well as writing instructions and baseline assessments. The small sample with self-reported health measures and online WM test limited the study. Replications of the results are needed. / I 30 år har forskare studerat Expressivt skrivande (EW) - att skriva känslomässigt om ett trauma 3-5 gånger à 15-30 minuter. Kontrollbetingelsen (CW) har ofta bestått av att objektivt beskriva sin tidsanvändning. Tidigare forskning har i traumabetingelsen påvisat samband mellan en flexibel användning av pronomen och fysisk hälsa, eller mellan traumaskrivande och förbättrade resultat på test av arbetsminne (WM). Huvudsyftet med den föreliggande studien var att se om det finns ett samband mellan en flexibel användning i EW av pronomenet första person singular (”jag”) och förbättrade resultat på arbetsminnestest, samt på livskvalitet och självrapporterad ohälsa. Tio deltagare vardera deltog i experiment- respektive kontrollgruppen: 13 kvinnor, 6 män och 1 icke-binär, 21-69 år; de flesta välutbildade. Deltagarna rekryterades genom bekvämlighets- och snöbollsurval och fördelades slumpvis till betingelserna. En internetstudie genomfördes, med utfallsmåtten arbetsminnestest (Automated version of Operation Span Task; AOSPAN), självskattad livskvalitet (Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life; BBQ), samt självskattad ohälsa (dagar med symptom respektive med begränsade aktiviteter). JASP användes för de statistiska analyserna. Ett mått för flexibel användning av det svenska pronomenet ”jag” testades och visade sig vara associerat med signifikanta förbättringar enbart av AOSPAN-resultatet, men förvånande nog inom hela urvalet. I övrigt hittades endast en skillnad mellan betingelserna, nämligen att experimentgruppen signifikant förbättrade sin självskattade livskvalitet. Ökningen av AOSPAN-resultaten diskuteras, liksom skrivinstruktioner och baslinjeskattningar. Studien begränsades av ett litet urval, självskattade hälsomått och nätbaserat arbetsminnestest. Replikationer av resultaten är nödvändiga.

This research aimed to investigate how life coaching influenced five female high school learners (aged 16 and 17 years old) at an independent school in Gauteng province. The learners attended four life-coaching sessions with an experienced and accredited life coach over a period of eight weeks. Data was collected from a literature review of previous research on life coaching and coaching in general, interviews with the learners both before and after the life coaching experience and from journal entries kept by the learners during the process. All learners learnt through the process and experienced positive changes in their lives. This included improved balance in their lives; improved time management, reduced stress and more positive mind-sets. They were able to set goals and achieve some success during the process. They expressed increased confidence in themselves and their abilities to overcome challenges in their lives and recommended life coaching for other learners. / Educational Management and Leadership / M. Ed. (Educational Management)