(Example for Illustrative Purposes Only)
Specific job outputs of the board, as an informed agent of the ownership, are those that ensure appropriate organizational performance.
Accordingly, the board has direct responsibility to create:
3.2.1 The link between the ownership and the operational organization.
3.2.2 Written governing policies that address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations.
Ends: Organizational products, impacts, benefits, outcomes, recipients, and their relative worth (what good for which recipients at what cost).
Executive Limitations: Constraints on executive authority that establish the prudence and ethics boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.
Governance Process: Specification of how the board conceives, carries out and monitors its own task.
Board-Management Delegation: How power is delegated and its proper use monitored; the CEO role, authority and accountability.
3.2.3 Assurance of successful organizational performance on Ends and Executive Limitations.
3.2.4 [If applicable, reference to any other decision areas excluded from CEO’s decision-making authority, i.e., assigned to the board].
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Credit for developing examples of policies consistent with Policy Governance principles is due to John Carver and Miriam Carver, the co-Authoritative Sources for Policy Governance.
Refer to: Reinventing Your Board: A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance. Co-authored with Miriam Carver. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997; 2nd edition, 2006.
