Governance is legal: requiring outside directors, board committees, etc, to counterbalance a dominant group chairman and make finances transparent.
Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.
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The report also said the board's former clerk and engineer, Dean Jackson-Johns, was involved in submitting proposals about his own pay to board committees.
And all these younger ones covered off all the YHOO board committees so the board would have not been impaired in performing its duties.
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In America the Securities and Exchange Commission now requires board nomination committees to explain their selection criteria.
Alternative long-term incentive vehicles rarely receive a fair hearing by board compensation committees, even if alternatives are better aligned with a company's long-term business needs and shareholder interests.
This is a serious task for board compensation committees, which, like their audit committee counterparts, will need to ensure their members have the skills to evaluate alternatives to traditional options and the independence to act on behalf of shareholders, not like rubber stamps for executives.
The relevant committees of the Supervisory Board, the General and Finance Committees, then addressed the plans and formulated a recommendation for the Supervisory Board to approve them at its next meeting.
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The demands on time are rising in particular because sub-committees of the board are being given more to do.
After a few months at Accenture, she recognized that the company could make a significant impact on the local community if more of its executives got involved with charities and non-profits through participation on the board of directors and strategic committees.
In a poll conducted in December 2003 by CFO Magazine, a sister publication of The Economist, more than 60% of the finance executives polled said they spent more time involved with their company's board of directors or audit committees after Enron.
He criticised the bill's proposed abolition of the Standards Board for England and local authority standards committees.
Ms Jarbawi has served the community as board member of several scientific and educational committees (GOs, NGOs and Private sector) at executive, advisory, and policy making level.
Specific options include giving shareholders a binding veto on board pay, changing the make-up of pay committees and making compensation, including pay ratios, more transparent.
Having most of the members of a company's board, as well as all the members of its audit, compensation and nominating committees, be truly independent is sound.
Big decisions were kicked up through a series of management committees and, eventually, across the Atlantic to the company's German board of management.
Even fewer women chair the board or audit committee, serve as financial experts, and only 12% of compensation committees have a female chair.
Having most of the members of a company's board of directors, as well as all members of its audit, compensation and nominating committees, be truly independent is sound.
He is active with the exchange, serving on the Comex board of governors for more than one and one-half decades, and he holds positions on numerous committees.
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