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What happens when a federation board adopts policy governance?
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.38620004702
Subject(s) - corporate governance , face (sociological concept) , public administration , league , political science , public relations , management , sociology , economics , social science , physics , astronomy
Most of the boards discussed in Board Leadership govern single, independent organizations. However, as John Carver pointed out in the May‐June 1996 issue (no. 25), Policy Governance applies as well to “families” of boards or federations in which multiple organizations own a single organization. When federations adopt Policy Governance, they wrestle with many of the same issues that single organizations do, but they also face some special challenges—challenges that are worthwhile to consider because they shed light on important aspects of implementing Policy Governance that are relevant to all boards. To gain insight into these challenges and ways in which federation boards can address them, Board Leadership spoke recently to Anne Dalton, director of governance and strategy development for the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. We first asked her to describe how the Association is structured and what led its board to adopt Policy Governance.