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The Board Doctor Q&A: Understand the board's relationship to staff
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
board and administrator for administrators only
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1949-3215
pISSN - 1525-7878
DOI - 10.1002/ban.30028
Subject(s) - on board , executive board , executive director , management , public relations , psychology , editorial board , business , political science , engineering , computer science , library science , economics , aerospace engineering
Question: “As board members, a couple of us would like to attend staff meetings. We think it would be a terrific way to show the board is interested in the organization we govern. This idea stirs up quite a hornet's nest with the executive director, who says it is inappropriate for us to get involved directly with staff. Why shouldn't we do this?”