The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public … opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring … investigating the processual behaviours of boards. The work of four boards1 of micro and small-sized nonprofit organisations were …

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys … 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors.The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects … of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a …

In this thesis I investigate how boards of directors strategize, how they manage strategy and how context affects this … literature on the board’s role in strategy, our understanding of how boards address this role, particularly how boards interact … concern, especially from a practitioner perspective, that boards are overly focused on aspects of compliance at the expense of …

to the development of their benchmarking policy and processes. The focus on assessment ensured the project would explore … benchmarking of assessment processes made transparent the areas of improvement and areas of good practice in relation to assessment … standards. Outcomes included action plans for each university and a robust framework for benchmarking assessment. …

An item model serves as an explicit representation of the variables in an assessment task. An item model includes the …