A New World Order for Non-profit Organisations
What Does Good Governance Look Like?
The Tsunami of Change of Individualised Care Funding – thriving in the new paradigm!
Merger Success Factors
An insight into proposed new system for Not-for-Profits
The Board and CEO Relationship
Self-Assessment of Board Performance: A Good Governance Practice Worthy of Research and Development
The Personal Liability of Director & Employees – Has it turned Governance on it’s head?
SCARFING to Sustainable Leadership
Quotas and Cultures to Support Board Diversity
Articles
A New World Order is emerging for all hospital and health, allied health, aged care, disability, mental health and education organisations. This New World Order is, in essence, a major paradigm shift of such proportions that normally in one’s lifetime one is most unlikely to see such strategic, structural and...
This topic is akin to the definition of hard-core pornography offered by Justice Potter Stewart: we cannot define it, but we ‘know it when we see it’. The high levels of governance and accountability required of both the private and public sectors in Australia are now being demanded in the...
Authors: Linda Hayes & Ken Leigh. The tsunami of change propelling individualised care and self-directed funding in health, aged care, mental health, community care, disability and other community services sector organisations is gathering momentum! Who will sink, swim or surf this wave? Thriving in this changing environment requires, firstly, understanding...
An Examination of the Australian Not-for-Profit Aged and Community Care Sector The major part of this article was drawn from the Masters in Business Research (with Honours) research dissertation of Indra Arunachalam, University of New England (2012) On the 20th of April 2012, the government announced its intend to deliver...
David Locke, Chief Adviser to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Implementation Taskforce, recently spoke at Russell Kennedy on the proposed new system for the not-for-profits sector. Some of the key issues arising from the adoption of a new system are outlined below. Start Date The registration of new charities...
The relationships between all stakeholders are essential to the overall health and wellbeing of an organisation. However, the relationship between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Board of Directors (Board) is the most crucial, and the state of this relationship has potentially the greatest influence on organisational success. For...
I would just like to say how much I’m looking forward to attending this year’s Better Boards Conference. It will be a great opportunity to discuss with you some of the latest ideas on nonprofit organization governance and leadership based on research that my colleague, Vic Murray and I have...
The law of directors’ personal liability for the acts of their corporation has changed its choreography over the years. Directors used to be like wallflowers and the law wasn’t much interested in asking them to dance. In the latter part of the 20th century, however, spurred by corporate excesses, there...
We need to be mindful about our brains… especially when we are looking to change the way we and others do things.The neuroscientists, and one in particular, have ‘discovered’ that there are core elements which either attract us to new ways of doing things or turn us away from them....
Authors: Erica Lewis & Ruth Pitt There’s lots of discussion around about quotas for women on corporate boards, and lots of questions about whether quotas are effective. At the YWCA, we have been operating with a quota for 20 years. But ours is not a quota for including women: all...