7.5 Board cultural dynamics Flashcards

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Richard Chait offers four types of board:

Describe “Type 1 - Orchestra”

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Highly cohesive boards but are susceptible to groupthink and deference to peers.

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Richard Chait offers four types of board:

Describe “Type 2 - Consultants”

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Board serves the organisations best interests but only do so in the context of board members adding values as individuals, not as a whole.

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Richard Chait offers four types of board:

Describe “Type 3 - Regulatory agency”.

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Board is focussed on compliance and voersight. This is a formal and bureauctratic board

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Richard Chait offers four types of board:

Describe “Type 4 - Lone rangers”

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The board culture is weaker as individual directors try to represent specific shareholder interests rather than acting collectively.

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Which researcher developed the “Bedrock of board culture” model?

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Richard Chait (2016)

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Pearce & Zahra (1991) offered four types of board. What are they?

(Clue - CSPP)

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1 Caretaker board
2 Statutory board
3 Proactive board
4 Participative board

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What are the four types of boud developed eby Richard Chait (2016)?

(Clue - OCRL)

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1 Orchestra
2 Consultants
3 Regulatory agency
4 Lone rangers

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Nadler offered a scale of five board models from least to most engaged:

P\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ board
C\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ board
E\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ board
I\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ board
O\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ board
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Passive
Certifying
Engaged
Interveneing
Operating
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Trust brings higher levels of psychological s_______, enabling a team to benefit from better levels of cognitive c______.

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safety

conflict

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What was the name of Steven Covey’s work on team trust?

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Speed of Trust (and the Team Trust Index)

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Steven Covey’s Team Trust Index splits team behavioural traits into which three categories?

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Competence traits
Character traits
Combined competence-character traits

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Dulewicz and Herbert (2004) indentify 16 tasks of the board in 4 areas.

What are the four areas?

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Accountability
Policy Formulation
Strategic Thinking
Supervising Management

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Garratt (1995) presented the idea of a “Learning Board”. What is this?

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A board that understands that learning is more than an annual (board evaluation) event and has a growth mindset.

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Tricker presented four board styles based on concern for board relationships versus concern for tasks of the board.

Which types of board has low concern for relationships and tasks?

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Rubberstamp Board

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Tricker presented four board styles based on concern for board relationships versus concern for tasks of the board.

Which types of board has high concern for board relationsips but low regard for board tasks?

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Country Club Board

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Tricker presented four board styles based on concern for board relationships versus concern for tasks of the board.

Which types of board has low concern for relatioships and high concern for board tasks?

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Representative Board

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Tricker presented four board styles based on concern for board relationships versus concern for tasks of the board.

Which types of board has high concern for relationships and tasks?

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The Professional Board