Corporate Governance
Clarifying and remaining aware of organisational ethos
- Biography of organisation (turning points & development phases)
- Stakeholder type (past/current/future, internal/external, primary/secondary)
- Stakeholder interests (rights, needs, intentions; vested/non-vested; short/long-term)
- Expressing interests as intentions (impulse, intention, action)
- Core task (what the organisation does)
- Core values (what guides the core task)
- Vision (overall long-term intention of the whole organisation)
- Accountability structure (linear/nested hierarchy, heterarchy, democracy)
- Democracy type (direct, representative, constitutional, evolutionary)
- Accountability functions (governance, management, implementation)
- Overall approach to decisions (individual/collective; voting/consensus)
- Overall approach to planning (short/long-term, freedom/responsibility)
- Overall approach to reviewing (self, peer, other, external, combination)
- Overall approach to handling concerns (internal, external)
