Excellent discussion by Edward Hadas about using an Aristotelian perspective to consider this question that is so central to anyconsideration of corporate governance issues.(From Reuters – By Edward Hadas May 2, 2012) –
Month: May 2012
A Look at Hong Kong’s Corporate Governance Code, Regarding “Director Training”
Since Singapore has just set forth amendments to its Corporate Governance Code that are impressively well-refined and substantial, we thought we would look at some other Corporate Governance Codes (CG Codes) in Asia from the boardtraining perspective.
Singapore Revises Code of Corporate Governance, Strengthening Rules Requiring Director Training
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released its conclusions on the draft revised Singapore Code of Corporate Governance, strengthening its rules regarding training of all directors, and requirementsforindependent directors.
The recommendations of the Singapore CG Council on the topic of director training, and MAS' response, are as follows:
C. Director Training
New Paper Suggests that Effective Ethics Training is Integrated into Strategy, Stakeholder Relations
New Paper: Corporate Ethics Governance – The Role of Stakeholders in a Framework beyond Codes and Borders. Most interesting findings: 1) The findings in this study based on the foregoing combined stakeholder management theory and the theory of planned behaviour show that perceived stakeholder pressure and consciously recognised internal and external benefits have a significant […]
Hermes, VIP, 27 Funds File Proposal to Disapprove Deutsche Bank’s Supervisory Board (request for support)
[Posted by request of Hans-Martin Buhlmann, CEO of VIP]
Our firm VIP, a German shareholder advisory group, filed a shareholder counterproposal regarding agenda item 4 of the Deutsche Bank annual general meeting on 31st May: [Against] Approval of the discharge of the supervisory board.